What are the principles put forward by the Ninth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Party?

The Ninth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee put forward the eight-character policy of "adjusting, consolidating, enriching and improving" the national economy. The meeting decided to concentrate on strengthening the agricultural front and strive for a comprehensive balance, so that the proportion between agriculture, light industry and heavy industry, between the production of means of production and the production of means of consumption, and between accumulation and consumption tends to be coordinated, so that national construction and people's lives can be arranged as a whole.

The meeting approved the Political Bureau of the Central Committee's decision in September 1960 to set up six central bureaus to strengthen the leadership of the party committees of provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions.

Extended data:

The Ninth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee held that, in view of the serious natural disasters in agricultural production for two consecutive years, the whole country must concentrate on strengthening the agricultural front in 196 1, implement the policy that the national economy is based on agriculture, and the whole party and the whole people develop agriculture and grain, strengthen the support of all walks of life to agriculture, and do their best to strive for a good harvest in agricultural production.

In rural areas, it is necessary to further consolidate people's communes, implement people's communes and rural economic policies, effectively arrange members' lives, help members tide over the difficulties brought about by natural disasters, and make preparations for increasing agricultural production this year.

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