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- The Beidaihe Conference of 1958 (Chinese: 北戴河会议; Wade–Giles: Peitaiho Conference) was an enlarged meeting held by the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee from August 17 to 30 1958. It also involved a conference of provincial industrial secretaries and other relevant local leaders from the 25th to the 31st. The conference was held in Beidaihe District, a seaside retreat for the CCP in Qinhuangdao City, Hebei province. In 1953, the CCP Central Committee formed the summer office system (Chinese: 暑期办公制度). Beidaihe is regarded as the summer capital of China, because almost all the important conferences of the CCP Central Committee in summer were convened here from 1953 to 1965. The major topics of the Beidaihe Conference in 1958 were the national economic plan in 1959, current problems of industrial and agricultural production, and rural work. The conference adopted a whole series of critical documents, including the Communique of the conference, the Resolution of Establishing People's Communes in Rural Areas, the Directive on Launching Socialist and Communist Education Campaign, and so on. In the conference, the CCP raised the 1958 steel production target to 10.7 million tons and the grain target to 350 million tons. By 1959, they planned to produce 30 million tons of steel and 500 million tons of grain. Meanwhile, the conference called for a mass movement to increase industrial production and supported building people's communes nationwide. It led the Great Leap Forward to reach its culmination in the next two months. (en)
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