On this day, 52 years ago, August 24, 1973 (July 26, 1973, the 10th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held. The Tenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held in Beijing from August 24 to 28, 1973. There were 1249 representatives attending the meeting, representing 28 million party members across the country. The conference was presided over by Mao Zedong and adopted the political report drafted under Mao Zedong's chairmanship, Wang Hongwen's report on amending the Party Constitution and the Constitution of the Communist Party of China, and elected 195 Central Committee members and 124 alternate Central Committee members. Some time-tested veteran comrades who were excluded and cracked down on and persecuted during the "Cultural Revolution", such as Deng Xiaoping, Wang Jiaxiang, Ulanfu, Li Jingquan, Tan Zhenlin, Liao Chengzhi, etc., were elected as members of the Central Committee. However, a group of ambitious people, speculators, and gang backbone members were also elected to the Central Committee. The congress criticized the crimes of Lin Biao's counter-revolutionary clique, but still "adhered to the theory of continuing revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat" and confirmed that "the political and organizational lines of the Ninth National Congress are correct." The provisions on Lin Biao as the successor were deleted from the revised "General Outline" of the Party Constitution, but the guidelines for the "Cultural Revolution" remained unchanged. At the First Plenary Session of the Tenth Central Committee held on August 30, Wang Hongwen and Kang Sheng were elected as vice chairmen of the Central Committee, and Zhang Chunqiao was elected as a member of the Political Bureau. Jiang Qing, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan and Wang Hongwen formed the "Gang of Four" in the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. The conference did not correct the "left-leaning" mistake of the Ninth National Congress of the CPC Central Committee, but instead strengthened the power of the Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary clique. In August 1973, the Tenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held. Chairman of the Central Committee Mao Zedong, Vice Chairman Zhou Enlai, Wang Hongwen, Kang Sheng, Ye Jianying and Li Desheng; There are 9 members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, whose strokes according to their surnames are: Mao Zedong, Wang Hongwen, Ye Jianying, Zhu De, Li Desheng, Zhang Chunqiao, Zhou Enlai, Kang Sheng, and Dong Biwu. The main positions of the newly elected Standing Committee of the Political Bureau: Wang Hongwen: Member of the Office Meeting of the Central Military Commission Ye Jianying: Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission and Member of the Office Meeting of the Central Military Commission (presiding); Minister of National Defense Li Desheng: Member of the Office Meeting of the Central Military Commission and Commander of the Shenyang Military Region; Zhu De: Zhang Chunqiao, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress: Member of the Office Meeting of the Central Military Commission, Director of the General Political Department, First Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, and Director of the Municipal Revolutionary Committee Dong Biwu: Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. Deng Xiaoping, Vice Premier of the State Council and Chief of the General Staff, who returned to power in March 1973, became member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Vice Chairman of the CPC Central Committee, and Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission. He approved the resignation of Li Desheng, then commander of the Shenyang Military Region, as vice chairman of the CPC Central Committee and member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. request. In this way, the number of members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau increased and decreased, and the number remained nine. Zhou Enlai delivered a political report on behalf of the Ninth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China at the Tenth National Congress. Deng Yingchao and Deng Xiaoping were on the rostrum of the Tenth National Congress. Jiang Qing and Zhang Chunqiao were on the rostrum of the Tenth National Congress. After the meeting, Jiang Qing, Zhang Chunqiao, Wang Hongwen, and Yao Wenyuan became the "Gang of Four". Mao Zedong was already old and frail when the 10th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held. After the closing ceremony of the conference, Mao Zedong could not stand for a while. Zhou Enlai announced to the conference: Please leave first, and the chairman watched everyone leave