13th National Congress of the Communist Party of China

13th National Congress of the Communist Party of China
The exterior of the Great Hall of the People
Traditional Chinese	中國共產黨第十三次全國代表大會
Simplified Chinese	中国共产党第十三次全国代表大会
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng Dìshísāncì Quánguó Dàibiǎo Dàhuì
Abbreviation
Chinese	十三大
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Shísān Dà

The 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing from 25 October to 1 November 1987. It was attended by 1,936 delegates representing more than 46 party members and included 200 foreign journalists who were invited to attend the opening and closing ceremonies. In addition, the Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and the CPPCC National Committee, representatives from the National Federation of industry and commerce, non-party people, ethnic minorities and religious people were invited to this congress as audience. The congress reaffirmed the correctness of the policy of reforms and the Open Door that was adopted during the Third Plenum of the 11th Congress in December 1978. It also saw the rejuvenation of the party leadership as veterans from the Long March retired and was replaced by younger and better educated technocrats.

The agenda for the Congress was as follows:

(1) To review and adopt the report of the 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

(2) To review the report made by the Advisory Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

(3)To review the report made by Commission of Discipline Inspection of the Central Committee.

(4) To adopt the recommend amendments to the Constitution of the Communist Party of China.

(5) Election of the 13th CPC Central Committee, the CPC Central Committee Advisory Committee and the CPC Central Committee for Discipline Inspection Commission.

Deng Xiaoping personally orchestrated the retirement of more than 90 party elders who were critics of market-oriented reforms adopted in the process of his Four Modernizations. The elders included Peng Chen, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress; Chen Yun, leading party economist; Hu Qiaomu, harsh critic of bourgeois liberalism and Li Xiannian, the President of the PRC. Deng himself relinquished all of his positions except his chairmanship of the Military Commission through a special party constitutional amendment.