What is the policy put forward by the Ninth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Party?

The Ninth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee put forward the eight-character policy of "adjusting, consolidating, enriching and improving" the national economy. The meeting decided to concentrate on strengthening the agricultural front and strive for a comprehensive balance, so that the proportion between agriculture, light industry and heavy industry, between the production of means of production and the production of means of consumption, and between accumulation and consumption tends to be coordinated, so that national construction and people's lives can be arranged as a whole.

The meeting decided to thoroughly implement the Emergency Instruction Letter on the Current Policies of Rural People's Communes issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in June 1960+0 1 and carry out the rectification movement.

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The Ninth Session of the Eighth Central Committee heard and discussed the report of the Moscow State and Workers' Conference 10/960165438 in October, and adopted corresponding resolutions, expressing satisfaction with the work of the China delegation headed by Liu Shaoqi during the Moscow Conference. The meeting approved the Political Bureau of the Central Committee's decision in September 1960 to set up six central bureaus to strengthen the leadership of the party committees of provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions.

Call on the whole party to vigorously carry out investigations, proceed from reality in everything and make 196 1 a year of seeking truth from facts. This meeting is the key to restoring the party's fine tradition of seeking truth from facts and correcting the mistakes of the Great Leap Forward.

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