The September Meeting
From September 8 to 13, 1948, the CPC Central Committee held an enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau in Xibaipo Village, its temporary seat in Hebei Province. This was known as the September Meeting.
This meeting had the largest attendance of any since the Japanese surrender. The meeting examined the past work of the Party and set the tasks for the period ahead.
Mao Zedong delivered a report on the international situation, the Party's strategic tasks, the nature of the future government, the unification of finances, and intra-Party democracy and discipline. He said, "Our goal is to overthrow the KMT. Our army will continue to advance, our production will continue to increase, and we will reinforce our discipline. We will transition from guerrilla warfare to regular warfare, increase our forces to five million, wipe out 500 regular enemy brigades and defeat the KMT within five years."
The meeting set the following goals:
?to destroy the reactionary rule of imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism;
?to build a people's democratic dictatorship led by the proletariat and based on the worker-peasant alliance with participating bourgeoisie democrats;
?to adopt the system of people's congress based on democratic centralism, rather than the parliamentary system of the bourgeoisie;
?to develop a new-democratic economy, which should not be named "new capitalism" because the economy would be dominated by the state-run sector; and
?to transition from the new-democratic economy to a socialist economy.
The meeting had made a full military, political and organizational preparation for completely defeating the KMT reactionary regime and winning a nationwide victory.
九月會議
1948年9月8日至13日，中共中央在河北省平山縣西柏坡村召開了政治局擴大會議，即九月會議，這是自抗戰勝利以來到會人數最多的一次中央會議。
會議的任務是總結檢查過去時期黨的工作，規定今后時期黨的任務和奮斗目標。毛澤東在會上作了重要報告，報告就國際形勢、戰略任務、政權性質、財政統一以及發展黨內民主和加強紀律等八個問題作了深刻論述。毛澤東提出：我們的戰略方針是打倒國民黨。戰略任務是軍隊向前進，生產長一寸，加強紀律性，由游擊戰爭過渡到正規戰爭，建軍五百萬，殲敵正規軍五百個旅，五年左右根本上打倒國民黨。
會議明確提出，打倒帝國主義、封建主義和官僚資本主義的反動專政，建立無產階級領導的、以工農聯盟為基礎的、還有資產階級民主分子參加的人民民主專政；政治制度采用民主集中制的人民代表會議制度，而不采用資產階級議會制；關于社會經濟，叫“新資本主義”不妥，整個國民經濟還是新民主主義經濟，起決定作用的是國營經濟；要努力發展國家經濟，由發展新民主主義經濟過渡到社會主義。
九月會議，為從根本上打倒國民黨的反動統治，奪取全國的偉大勝利，在軍事上、政治上、組織上作了充分準備。
