Zunyi Conference

Zunyi Conference
Site of the meeting in Zunyi
Traditional Chinese遵義會議
Simplified Chinese遵义会议
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZūnyì huìyì
[tswə́nî xwêɪî]
Gwoyeu RomatzyhTzuenyih hueyyih
Wade–GilesTsun-i hui-i

The Zunyi Conference (simplified Chinese: 遵义会议; traditional Chinese: 遵義會議; pinyin: Zūnyì huìyì) was a meeting of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in January 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 over military command and become the leader of the Communist Party. The conference was completely unacknowledged until the 1950s and still no detailed descriptions were available until the fiftieth anniversary in 1985.