The Lushan Conference (simplified Chinese: 庐山会议; traditional Chinese: 廬山會議; pinyin: Lúshān Huìyì), officially the 8th Plenum of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, began on July 2, 1959 and was an informal discussion about the Great Leap Forward. The conference's name is derived from the meeting place, a resort on Mount Lu in the district of the same name in Jiangxi Province, southeastern China.
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