The Site of Gutian Conference is at
the foot of Bijia Mountain, Caimeiling, Gutian Village in Shanghang County of
Fujian Province.
The Site of Gutian Conference was originally
Liaojia Ancestral Temple built at the end of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). The
site was once the location of the Hesheng Primary School after the Republic
China (1912-1949) was founded. It was a group of brick-and-wood structure
consisting of the front and back halls and the wing rooms. Out of the temple,
there is a well on the left and a parade platform for the Red Army on the right.
Behind the temple, there are tall firs and cypresses. The back hall, which used
to be the schoolhouse for the higher grades, was where the Gutian Conference was
held. Now the rostrum, the conference logo, the Party flag, the portraits of
Marx and Lenin, the seats for the delegates are restored. In the left wing room,
there was the office of Mao Zedong during the conference. Near the site there
are some exhibition halls for the conference.
In December 1929, the Chinese Workers' and
Peasants' Red Army held the ninth Congress of the
Communist Party which summarized the
experiences for building the Party and the army ever since the Nanchang
Uprising. The article Rectifying the Wrong Thoughts of the Party Members
drafted by Mao Zedong was passed in the conference, which was the famous
resolution of Gutian Conference. The resolution stipulated the basic principles
for building the Party and the army, making Gutian Conference an important
conference in the history of the Chinese Communist
Party.