The August 7th meeting was an emergency meeting held by the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee in Hankou on August 7th, 1927 after the defeat of the first revolutionary civil war.

2. Background of the meeting

1On August 7th, 927, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China secretly held an emergency meeting in Hankou, Hubei Province-this was the "August 7th Meeting" with great turning point in the history of China.

The main purpose of this meeting is to sum up the experience and lessons of the failure of the Great Revolution and determine the policy of the future revolutionary struggle. Some Central Committee members, alternate Central Committee members, central organs, Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and local representatives attended the meeting, totaling 2 1 person. Luo Mingnaz, representative of the Comintern in China, attended the meeting. The meeting was presided over by Qu Qiubai and Li; Due to the extremely dangerous environment at that time, the meeting lasted only one day.

3. The significance of the meeting

The August 7th meeting was held at the critical moment of the China revolution. The meeting formally defined the policy of carrying out the agrarian revolution and armed uprising, and took leading peasants to carry out the autumn harvest uprising as the most important task of the party at present, so that the whole party was in no hurry in the face of white terror and pointed out the correct direction of revolutionary struggle in the future. In particular, Mao Zedong put forward at the meeting that "we should know that political power comes from the barrel of a gun", which made great contributions to saving the Party and the revolution. From then on, the China Revolution began a historic transformation from the failure of the Great Revolution to the rise of the Agrarian Revolutionary War.

The August 7th meeting was an emergency meeting held by the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee in Hankou on August 7th, 1927 after the defeat of the first revolutionary civil war. The August 7th meeting is of great significance in the history of our Party. It pointed out a new way out for China, which was confused in thought and disorganized at that time, and made great contributions to saving the Party and the revolution. Due to the lack of attention to prevent the growing "Left" sentiment, it later developed into a harmful "Left" mistake.

The August 7th meeting was held at the critical moment of the China revolution. The meeting formally defined the policy of carrying out agrarian revolution and armed uprising, and took leading the peasant autumn harvest uprising as the most important task of the party at present. Thus, the whole party was unhurried in the face of white terror, pointed out the correct direction of revolutionary struggle in the future, and made great contributions to saving the party and the revolution. From then on, the China Revolution began a historic transformation from the failure of the Great Revolution to the rise of the Agrarian Revolutionary War.