Minutes of the [First] National Congress of the
Chinese Guomindang

(Session 11, January 25, 1924, 10:00 Α.Μ.)

No. 133 Dai Jitao:¹ I would like to call your attention to the so-called procedures, by which I mean those that have already been decided by the Central
Executive Committee. The most important point of the entire report is the last
paragraph at the end of the conclusion of the review.² Please pay attention to the
whole text.

No. 39 Mao Zedong: May I suggest that the chairman³ put the entire text of the
conclusion of the review to a vote?

Chairman: Are there any objections to our voting on the entire text of the
conclusion of the review? (All said, "No.")

Chairman: Let all those who are in favor of the entire text of the conclusions to
the reviews raise their hands. (Majority.) It is so resolved.

This text has been translated from the same source as that dated January 20, 1924.
1. Dai Jitao (1891-1949), zi Chuanxian, hao Tianchou, was a native of Sichuan. He
studied law in Japan and while there founded the Chinese Students' Association. On his return
to China he joined the Tongmenghui and was active in opposition to the Qing. He became Sun
Yatsen's personal secretary in September 1912 and held that position until Sun's death in
1925. Dai disapproved of the Guomindang-Communist alliance and was at first unwilling to
attend the January 1924 Congress. He was nonetheless elected to the Central Executive Committee and the Central Political Council, and also became head of the party's Propaganda
Department. In May 1924 he was named director of the Huangpu (Whampoa) Military
Academy, but only held this post for a few months. After Sun's death he was outspokenly
anti-Communist.
2. The matter under discussion at this time was the report of the Review Committee on
Propaganda regarding the problem of publication and propaganda. The conclusion to this
report presumably contained concrete policy recommendations. The debate before Dai
Jitao and Mao intervened had turned on whether or not duifu should be replaced by the
slightly less forceful term of yingfu to convey the idea of "responding" to Chinese and
foreign criticisms of the Guomindang. It was no doubt impatience with such linguistic
hairsplitting that provoked Mao's proposal that the congress come to the point, and vote.
3. This session was chaired by Hu Hanmin. On Hu, see below, the note to the session
of January 28.