[Explanation] In the depths of Taihang Mountain in Pingshan County, Hebei Province, there is a small village called Xibaipo. From May 1948 to March 1949, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China stayed here for 10 months.

In the northwest corner of the former compound of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Xibaipo, there is an ordinary adobe house. From March 5 to 13, 1949, the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was held here. In an adobe house of square meters.

  [Concurrent] Shi Jinping, Deputy Director of Research Department of Xibaipo Memorial Hall

  After the victory of the Liaoshen, Huaihai, and Pingjin battles, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China considered in Xibaipo that it would enter Beijing to establish a new China. Therefore, before entering Beijing, it decided to convene the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the Party, the core content of the meeting. What is it to determine? It is to determine that the focus of the party's work has shifted from the countryside to the cities.

  [Commentary] According to Zhao Di, the lecturer of the Xibaipo Memorial Hall, 34 members of the Central Committee, 19 alternate members of the Central Committee, and 11 people attended the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

Many representatives came back from various liberated areas and battlefields all over the country.

Entering the venue, there are photos of Mao Zedong and Zhu De hanging on the front wall, and bright Chinese Communist Party flags on both walls.

The rostrum is an old long table, the square tables on both sides of the rostrum are recording tables, covered with white tablecloths, and there are four old sofas in front of the rostrum.

  [Concurrent] Zhao Di, the lecturer of the Mission Department of Xibaipo Memorial Hall 

  This house is a large group room of the central agency. It was temporarily rebuilt before the meeting. The layout of the meeting place is very simple. There were not so many benches like these in the past. Many delegates need to borrow benches from the villagers’ homes and move in during the meeting. go.

  [Explanation] At the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee, Mao Zedong presided over the meeting and delivered the "Report at the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China". This policy; explains the need for the party’s work focus to shift from the countryside to the city in the face of national victory; stipulates the party’s basic policies in politics, economy, and diplomacy in the new era.

Mao Zedong pointed out in the report that "to win the country's victory, this is only the first step in the Long March," and he issued an exhortation of "two musts" to the whole party.

  [Concurrent] Shi Jinping, Deputy Director of Research Department of Xibaipo Memorial Hall

  After entering Beijing, our Communist Party of China will transform from a revolutionary party to a ruling party. What should we do to (capacity) strengthen our party’s self-construction, so in the tenth part of the report of the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the Party, (Mao Zedong) He warned the whole party that we must keep comrades in a humble, cautious, arrogant, and non-irritable style, and must keep comrades in a style of arduous struggle.

Then this means that after entering Beijing, the Communist Party of China must strengthen its own construction, make good preparations for long-term governance and governance in the future, and break away from the cyclical law of history.

  [Explanation] According to Shi Jinping, on the last day of the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee, based on Mao Zedong’s proposal, the meeting passed six specific regulations: no birthday; no gifts; less toasts; less clapping; Comrades and Ma, En, Lie, Spinley.

  [Concurrent] Shi Jinping, Deputy Director of Research Department of Xibaipo Memorial Hall

  What is the great significance of it (six regulations)? Now we know that our party has also put forward eight regulations. In fact, it is to warn everyone that our party must strictly demand itself when we do anything on the way to governance. , We have to stand up, we have to discipline ourselves, we have to do better.

  [Explanation] On March 23, 1949, Mao Zedong led the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to leave Xibaipo for Peiping, embarking on the road of "rushing for the exam" in power.

Today, Xibaipo Memorial Hall receives four or five million visitors every year. Before the site of the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee, revisiting the party oath, keeping in mind the "two musts", has become the most anticipated thing for party members who come to visit Xibaipo.

  [Concurrent] Shi Jinping, Deputy Director of Research Department of Xibaipo Memorial Hall

  When leaving Xibaipo, Chairman Mao Zedong and Comrade Zhou Enlai said that they would go to Beijing to "rush for the exam", so on the way to "rush for the exam", we must remember what Chairman Mao Zedong put forward when he entered Beijing in front of a huge victory. "Two Musts", the spirit of "quick exam" put forward.

  Reporter Ai Guangde reports from Shijiazhuang, Hebei

Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]