Chapter 26 Article 7 Hu Yaobang at the Central Working Conference

The life of an average attendee like me at the Central Work Conference, except for attending the four conferences, is all in its own group meetings.Except for going to Deng Xiaoping's house for business a few times, I never asked for leave, and went to the meeting room of the Northwest Group on time every day.At the meeting, I listened carefully to other people's speeches, took notes, observed and thought.I think that a description of the meeting of the Northwest Group will help to increase readers' sense of the meeting. The first group meeting of the Northwest Group was held on the afternoon of November 11, the second day after the opening.During the period from the morning of November 19th, only November 14th had no meeting. There was no meeting on November 20th and 21st. During the meeting on the morning of November 22, Wang Feng conveyed the spirit of the Standing Committee's briefings by the conveners on the afternoon and evening of the 21st.It seems that the reason for not having a group meeting on the 21st is that there is a report meeting, and everyone wants to hear what the Standing Committee has to say before speaking.Immediately after three days of group meetings, the whole group attended the third meeting and listened to Hua Guofeng's speech.On the 23rd and 24th, the group spent two afternoons discussing the amendments to the "Regulations on the Work of Rural People's Communes" that the Standing Committee had arranged for Li Dengying, Wang Huide, and Yang Xiguang to prepare a few days ago. It took a long time to discuss the revisions.After completing this task, we discussed the written comments on the draft "Decision on Accelerating Agricultural Development" prepared by Hu Yaobang, Wang Renzhong and myself.Everyone thinks that the material we drafted is acceptable, and there is no need to revise it, so it will be reported to the Central Committee.

After the meeting on November 25, at the group meeting on the morning of the 26th, everyone expressed their satisfaction with Hua Guofeng's speech at the meeting, and on the morning of the 26th, Jiang Yizhen was the first to name and criticize Wang Dongxing, and in the afternoon Yang Xiguang and I criticized by name again Wang Dongxing. On November 28, Wang Feng conveyed the situation of the Standing Committee's hearing on November 27. The meeting lasted until December 7. The Northwest Group put forward 12 suggestions in the name of the whole group, including adding nine members of the Central Committee, three members of the Politburo, and a vice-chairman of the Party Central Committee and a member of the Standing Committee. Everyone signed. On December 11, Wang Feng conveyed: The Politburo held a meeting to discuss the twelve suggestions of the Northwest Group and similar suggestions put forward by other groups.What Wang Feng said was agreed by the Politburo, presumably the members of the Politburo held a meeting before this.This supplementary list was decided through the Politburo.

On December 12, the list of candidates for the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection was discussed. On December 13, the "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Adjusting the Price of Agricultural Products" was discussed, and it was decided in the Northwest Group that Yao Yilin would give an explanation. The closing meeting was held on December 13, and the three members of the Standing Committee gave speeches. On the 14th, the Northwest Group held a meeting to discuss the speech at the closing meeting on the 13th and Wang Dongxing's written review speech, and wrote a comprehensive briefing of the Northwest Group, which was discussed and revised at the meeting, and signed by the four conveners.It was also on this day that Hua Guofeng wrote "printing and distributing to the meeting comrades" on the comprehensive briefing of the Northwest Group.

There were 35 people included in the group list of the Northwest Group, and all 34 of them actively spoke. Only Ji Dengkui did not speak except for speaking once in the group meeting and introducing the documents he was responsible for drafting.And I don't know why, it seems that he rarely attends the meeting.Someone at the meeting criticized him by name.It seems that he was not there when he made this criticism.No one in the group speeches mentioned the review of him, and there was no confrontation with him at the meeting.Others speak more or less.There were 2 people who spoke more than 10 times, 8 people who spoke 7-9 times, 15 people who spoke 4-6 times, and 9 people who spoke less than 3 times.The number of people speaking 6 times is the largest.In addition, there were two collective statements of the whole group.

The whole group has people who do local work, those who do military work, some who do departmental work, and some of us do theoretical work and news work.Participating in such a meeting, I can learn a lot about the situation.Unexpectedly, several military representatives who participated in our group were very familiar with the situation in our theoretical circles, and they had a lot of common language when talking. Our northwest group has a characteristic, that is, there are no people who have ever stood on the standpoint of "two whatevers", which is different from the other five groups, especially the situation of the southwest group.Therefore, our group is offering opinions to people in other groups, and it is easy to express our opinions unanimously.