1月15日至17日，中共中央在遵义举行政治局扩大会议，史称遵义会议。会议集中全力解决当时具有决定意义的军事和组织问题。张闻天、毛泽东、王稼祥尖锐地批评了博古、李德在第五次反“围剿”中实行单纯防御、在战略转移中实行逃跑主义的错误。与会者多数同意张闻天、毛泽东等人的意见。会议增选毛泽东为中央政治局常委，委托张闻天起草《中央关于反对敌人五次“围剿”的总结的决议》。会后不久，在向云南扎西地区转进途中，中央政治局常委决定由张闻天代替博古负总的责任。中央政治局通过遵义会议决议，并及时在全军传达、贯彻。3月中旬，成立由毛泽东、周恩来、王稼祥组成的三人小组，负责全军的军事行动。
From January 15 to 17 the CPC Central Committee held an enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau in Zunyi, historically known as the Zunyi Meeting, focusing on addressing the decisive military and organizational issues of the time. Zhang Wentian, Mao Zedong, and Wang Jiaxiang sharply criticized the errors of Bo Gu and Braun, specifically the purely defensive posture adopted during the fifth campaign against the enemy’s encirclement and suppression, as well as the flightism during the strategic shift. The majority of attendees agreed with the views of Zhang, Mao, and others. The Political Bureau elected Mao Zedong to its Standing Committee and assigned Zhang Wentian to draft a resolution evaluating the fifth campaign against encirclement and suppression for the Central Committee. Not long after this meeting, during a march to the Zhaxi region, Yunnan Province, the Standing Committee arranged for Zhang Wentian to take over the helm of the Party in place of Bo Gu. The Political Bureau adopted the resolution of the Zunyi Meeting and promptly transmitted and implemented it throughout the army. In mid-March, it set up a three-member group composed of Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, and Wang Jiaxiang to take command of all the Red Army’s military operations.
遵义会议是党的历史上一个生死攸关的转折点。这次会议在红军第五次反“围剿”失败和长征初期严重受挫的历史关头召开，事实上确立了毛泽东同志在党中央和红军的领导地位，开始确立以毛泽东同志为主要代表的马克思主义正确路线在党中央的领导地位，开始形成以毛泽东同志为核心的第一代中央领导集体，开启了党独立自主解决中国革命实际问题新阶段，在最危急关头挽救了党、挽救了红军、挽救了中国革命，并且在这以后使党能够战胜张国焘的分裂主义，胜利完成长征，打开中国革命新局面。遵义会议的鲜明特点是坚持真理、修正错误，确立党中央的正确领导，创造性地制定和实施符合中国革命特点的战略策略。
The Zunyi Meeting was a pivotal moment in the Party’s history. Held at a historical juncture following the Red Army’s defeat in its fifth campaign against the KMT’s encirclement and suppression, and in the wake of the serious setbacks in the early period of the Long March, the meeting de facto established Mao Zedong as leader of the CPC Central Committee and the Red Army. It also opened the way for the correct Marxist line adopted by the CPC Central Committee with Mao Zedong as its main representative, as the first generation of central collective leadership with Mao at its core was beginning to take shape. The meeting set the stage for the Party to independently solve the practical problems of the Chinese revolution and saved the Party, the Red Army, and the Chinese revolution at the most precarious moment. After this, it enabled the CPC to triumph over Zhang Guotao’s splittism and complete the Long March, ushering in a new phase in the Chinese revolution. The meeting was defined by its determination to champion the truth, correct mistakes, and establish the right leadership of the Party Central Committee. It also emphasized the creative formulation and implementation of strategies and policies tailored to the characteristics of the Chinese revolution.
