China Daily brings you 'sixth plenums' in past 35 years

7. The sixth plenary session of the 12th Central Committee of the CPC

Dates: Sept 28, 1986

Decision adopted: Resolution on the guiding principles for building a socialist society with advanced culture and ideology

The resolution was expected to exert a tremendous and far-reaching influence on China's effort to speed up material as well as cultural and ideological development, to promote all-round reform and opening-up to the outside world, and to build socialism with Chinese characteristics.