7th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party

The 7th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party was convened from April 23 to June 11, 1945, in Yan'an, Shaanxi. It took place near the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War during a period of uneasy truce between the Kuomintang and Communist parties, with each maintaining their headquarters in different regions of China. It was preceded by the 6th National Congress and followed by the 8th National Congress.

Discussions and reports

During the 7th National Congress, Mao Zedong delivered his April 1945 report On the Coalition Government which expanded on the principles of New Democracy he had formulated in his earlier essay On New Democracy.
During the Congress, Mao described the Chinese Communist Party's guerilla warfare as "sparrow tactics":
Mao also used the fable of The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains in a speech. The foolish old man and his sons are engaged in the seemingly impossible task of removing two mountains, but the gods are touched by their resoluteness and have the mountains carried away. In Mao's speech, he contended:
Mao's re-telling of The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains was later included in the Three Constantly Read Articles and Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong, in which it is the only text reproduced in its entirety rather than excerpted.

Other

The Party passed its 1945 constitution at the 7th National Congress. The 1945 constitution was the first to incorporate Mao Zedong Thought, which it incorporated into the preamble.
The "five great secretaries in the Central Secretariat" were elected by the Central Committee.
The ''White-Haired Girl'' was first performed in April 1945 in Yan'an as a tribute to the Seventh National Congress.