Significance: A program on the reform of prices and wages was taken, urging the
State Council to put
inflation under strict control.
4th Plenary Session
Date: June 23–24, 1989
Location: Beijing
Significance: The meeting was held after the suppression of the
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.
Li Peng delivered a report strongly criticizing Zhao Ziyang for his attitude during the "anti-party, anti-socialist turmoil": he was accused of "passive attitude toward the
Four Cardinal Principles" and the "oppose bourgeois liberalization policy", and neglecting "party building, the spiritual civilization construction and ideological and political work". He was thus removed from his capacities of General Secretary, Politburo Standing Committee member, Politburo member and Central Military Commission first vice-chairman, with Jiang Zemin filling his posts as General Secretary and Politburo Standing Committee member. Building on Deng's view that "development is the absolute principle," Jiang Zemin and the
third generation of leaders stated, "Development is the Party's top priority in governing and rejuvenating the country."[2]: 49
5th Plenary Session
Date: November 6–9, 1989
Location: Beijing
Significance: Deng Xiaoping resigned as Chairman of the Central Military Commission, and Jiang Zemin took over the post.
Yang Shangkun was appointed CMC first vice-chairman.
6th Plenary Session
Date: March 9–12, 1990
Location: Beijing
Significance: In the official communique, the economic reform was exalted, but the growth of "bureaucracy, subjectivism, formalisticism, passivity and corruption" was denounced as well.
7th Plenary Session
Date: December 25–30, 1990
Location: Beijing
Significance: A decision on the "Program of the National Economy and Society Development Decade" and guidelines for the 8th Five-Year Plan were adopted.
8th Plenary Session
Date: November 25–29, 1991
Location: Beijing
Significance: A decision to enforce family household management of land was taken, in order to secure a bigger output of grain production.
^"第十三届中央委员会第二次全体会议公报" [Communiqué of the Second Plenary Session of the Thirteenth Central Committee]. "People's Daily Online". 1988-03-19 – via 全会审议通过了中央政治局提出,并经党内外广泛协商,拟向七届全国人大推荐的国家机构领导人员人选名单和拟向七届全国政协推荐的全国政协领导人员人选名单。全会决定,将上述两个名单分别向七届全国人大一次会议主席团和七届全国政协一次会议主席团推荐。.