关键词: 中国共产党, 社会主义, 过渡时期, 党的八大

Abstract: Before and after the founding of the Peoples Republic of China, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) approached the issue of socialist transition by applying a comprehensive criterion that integrated relations of production with productive forces. It set the goal of transitioning to socialism as the establishment of a socialist society and planned to accomplish this transition over a considerable period of time. After the 8th CPC National Congress announced that the socialist system was basically established, Mao Zedong and other Party leaders believed that the transition period had not yet ended, and took the continued completion of the general tasks of the transition period as the starting point to understand and guide socialist construction. Amid complex domestic and international dynamics, the CPC increasingly prioritized issues of production relations during socialist construction. This manifested in the phased replacement of the “transition to socialism” with the “transition to communism”, as the notion of a distinct “socialist transition period” gradually faded from official discourse. The Partys exploration of the socialist transition period provides valuable historical insights for understanding the stages of societal development.

Key words: the Communist Party of China, socialism, transition period, the 8th National Congress of the Communist Party of China