Chapter 50 Section 4 Appointment and Dismissal after the Third Plenary Session of the CPC Central Committee

On December 25, 1978, the third day after the Third Plenary Session of the Central Committee, a meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee was held, and it was decided to appoint Hu Yaobang as the Secretary-General of the Central Committee and the head of the Central Propaganda Department.Hu Yaobang was removed from the position of head of the Organization Department of the Central Committee, but his position as vice president of the Central Party School was not mentioned in the decision of the Politburo. While appointing Hu Yaobang as the secretary-general of the Central Committee, Hu Qiaomu and Yao Yilin were also appointed as the deputy secretary-generals of the Central Committee.Hu Qiaomu concurrently served as Director of the Office of the Editorial Committee of Chairman Mao Zedong's Works, Yao Yilin concurrently served as Director of the General Office of the Central Committee, Song Renqiong as Director of the Organization Department of the Central Committee, Feng Wenbin as the First Deputy Director of the General Office of the Central Committee; Director, Director of the Central Security Bureau, Secretary of the Party Committee, Political Commissar and Secretary of the Party Committee of the 8341 Army, Director of the Office of the Editorial Committee of Chairman Mao's Works, Secretary of the Party Committee-full-time Vice Chairman of the Party Central Committee and member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee.These are all suggestions put forward by various subgroups of the Central Working Conference (including the Northwest Group), and they were actually approved by Hua Guofeng, Ye Jianying, Deng Xiaoping, Li Xiannian and others.Such issues do not need to be discussed and decided at the Third Plenary Session, but a formal decision was made at the Politburo meeting held after the Third Plenary Session to supplement the new Politburo members, so the party central organization appeared with a new look up.

The changes in the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee and the members of the Politburo all reflect the policy of "only entering and leaving", but the spirit of the Central Work Conference and the Third Plenary Session can be implemented and implemented in terms of numbers and real power.