August 7th Meeting was an emergency meeting held by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee in Hankou on August 7th, 1927. It was a crucial moment for the future and destiny of the Party and the revolutionary cause after the failure of the first revolutionary civil war.

The meeting criticized and corrected Chen Duxiu's right opportunism mistake, revoked his position in the Party, elected a new temporary the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, and determined the general policy of agrarian revolution and armed struggle.

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The August 7th meeting was an important meeting in the history of China's * * * production party. After the China Revolution suffered serious setbacks, it summed up the lessons of failure, ended the rule of Chen Duxiu's right capitulationism in the CPC Central Committee, and determined the party's struggle policy of leading armed riots and carrying out agrarian revolution in rural areas.

This meeting has played an important role in saving the crisis caused by the failure of the Great Revolution and realizing the strategic transformation of the Party. The August 7th meeting was an important turning point in the history of our Party, which resolutely corrected and ended Chen Duxiu's right opportunism mistake at the critical juncture of the China revolution. The central leading bodies have been reorganized.

Determined the general policy of agrarian revolution and armed resistance against Kuomintang reactionaries, and decided to mobilize farmers to hold autumn harvest riots. Since then, the China Revolution has entered the period of the Second Revolutionary Civil War. The August 7th meeting is of great historical significance, but it also has shortcomings. It only attaches importance to anti-Rightism, but ignores the prevention of "Left", which makes the "Left" sentiment grow in the Party. This is a profound experience and lesson.

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