Later Spring and Early Summer 

   In face of the political turmoil in Beijing and other cities, the Party and the government took a clear-cut stand against the disturbance and put down the counter-revolutionary rebellions with the trust and support of the people, which safeguarded China’s socialist state power, served the fundamental interests of the Chinese people and ensured the smooth progress of the drive for the reform and opening up and socialist modernization. In the address to officers at the rank of general and above in command of the troops enforcing the martial laws in Beijing on June 9, Deng Xiaoping proclaimed that the outbreak of the disturbance in Beijing was determined by both the international environment and the domestic environment and that the basic lines, principles, policies and strategies formulated at the 3rd Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee should be unswervingly carried out.

May 16

Deng Xiaoping met with Mikhail Gorbachev, president of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, which marked the normalization of the Sino-Soviet relations.

June 16

   During the talk with other leading members of the CPC Central Committee, Deng Xiaoping pointed out that a collective leadership must have a core; without a core, no leadership could be strong enough. He also stressed that the Party and the government should carry out the reform and opening up with greater daring while moving swiftly to punish corruption.

June 23–24

   The 4th Plenary Session of the 13th CPC Central Committee adopted the Report on the Mistakes Committed by Comrade Zhao Ziyang in the Course of the Anti-Party, Anti-Socialism Disturbances and elected Jiang Zemin general secretary of the CPC Central Committee. On June 24, Jiang Zemin pointed out at the Session that on the most basic issues of the line and basic policies the CPC had followed since the 3rd Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee, two points should be made clear: one was to implement them firmly and unswervingly, and the other was to implement them entirety and consistently.

October 30

   The Communist Youth League of China and the China Youth Development Foundation announced the implementation of Project Hope by raising money from society and establishing the fund to subsidize young dropouts in poverty-stricken areas whose families were too poor to afford their education.

October

   The Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee put forward 10 opinions on the work of Tibet, which pointed out the direction for the construction and development of Tibet.

November 6–9

   The 5th Plenary Session of the 13th CPC Central Committee accepted Deng Xiaoping’s resignation from the position of chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission and appointed Jiang Zemin to take over the position.

December 30 

   The CPC Central Committee formulated the Guidelines on Upholding and Improving the System of Multiparty Cooperation and Political Consultation under the Leadership of the CPC, which made clear that the system was a basic political system of China, and that “long-term coexistence, mutual oversight, sincerity and the sharing of both good and bad times” was the principle for the cooperation between the CPC and other political parties.

From:Chronicle of the People's Republic of China(October 1949—September 2019), edited by The Institute of Party History and Literature of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, PP.136-139.