From April 23 to June 11, 1945, the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China was convened in Yan’an. The Party’s political line adopted at the congress was to boldly mobilize the masses and expand the people’s forces so that, under the leadership of the Party, they would defeat the Japanese aggressors and build a new China. Shown here is the site of the congress. In July 1937, the Japanese imperialists launched an all-out war of aggression against China. In the ensuing eight years of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Chinese Communist Party held high the banner of national unity and armed resistance against Japan, and stood in the forefront of the struggle for national liberation from beginning to end.