Third plenary session of the 11th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
The third plenary session of the 11th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was a meeting of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party held at the Jingxi Hotel in Beijing, China, from December 18 to December 22, 1978. The conference marked the beginning of the reform and opening up policy, and is widely seen as the moment when Deng Xiaoping became paramount leader of China replacing Chairman Hua Guofeng, who remained nominal Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party until 1981.