The Ningdu Conference was a meeting of the Communist Party of China

Communist Party of China

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 (CPC) held in the Banshan Ancestral Hall (榜山祠) in the village of Xiaoyuan (小源), Ningdu County

Ningdu County

Ningdu County is a county, under the jurisdiction of Ganzhou, in Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China.The village of Xiaoyuan in Ningdu County was the site of the 1932 Ningdu Conference of the Communist Party of China during which Mao Zedong was removed from his leadership positions....

, Jiangxi Province. The meeting took place in early October 1932 (possibly October 3-8Stuart R. Schram (ed.): The Pre-Marxist Period, 1912-1920, Volume 1, M.E. Sharpe, 1997, page 58), shortly after the successful repulsion of the Nationalists'

Kuomintang

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 third encirclement campaign against the Jiangxi Soviet

Third Encirclement Campaign against Jiangxi Soviet

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 by the communist forces.

The conference led to a shift in the tactics of the People's Liberation Army

People's Liberation Army

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 from guerrilla warfare to mobile, conventional tactics. Along with this shift in tactics, the conference resulted in Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong

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's removal from his leadership positions. He was replaced as commissar of the army by Zhou Enlai

Zhou Enlai

Zhou Enlai was the first Premier of the People's Republic of China, serving from October 1949 until his death in January 1976...

. Mao was not restored to central leadership until the Zunyi Conference

Zunyi Conference

The Zunyi Conference was a meeting of the Communist Party of China in January of 1935 during the Long March. This meeting involved a power struggle between the leadership of Bo Gu and Otto Braun and the opposition led by Mao Zedong. The result was that Mao left the meeting in position to take...

 during the Long March

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(in January 1935).