Mao’s China · TURNING POINT ·
9th National Congress of the CCP (1969)
On the Mao’s China map as “The Ninth Party Congress”
1–24 Apr 1969 — The congress that closes the Cultural Revolution’s first phase writes Lin Biao into the Party constitution as Mao’s “close comrade-in-arms and successor”. Nearly half of the new Central Committee wears uniform. The army had become the government.
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- Down to the Countryside Movement (chapter 10 of Mao’s China)
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- The People’s Republic under Mao, 1949–1976
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