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1978–1985 — Reform-Launch Endpoints and Policy Anchors

A. 1978 Third Plenum — the reform-and-opening launch (Dec 18–22, 1978)

(a) Canonical facts

  1. December 18–22, 1978 — Third Plenary Session of the 11th CCP Central Committee, Beijing. The session criticized the erroneous “Two Whatevers” （两个凡是） approach, endorsed the discussion on practice being the sole criterion for testing truth, and “resolutely abandoned the use of the slogan — ‘grasp class struggle as the key link’” （阶级斗争为纲）. [STRONG — official party-history retrospective, en.theorychina.org.cn]
  2. Communique (adopted December 22, 1978). It stated that “large-scale turbulent class struggles of a mass character have in the main come to an end,” declared the Party’s focus going forward to be socialist modernization (through the Four Modernizations), and called for changes in economic management. [STRONG — communique text via secondary mirror; page copy seen]
  3. Theme-setting report. Deng Xiaoping’s December 13, 1978 speech 《解放思想，实事求是，团结一致向前看》 (“Emancipate the Mind, Seek Truth from Facts, and Unite as One in Looking to the Future”), delivered at the close of the Central Work Conference (Nov 10 – Dec 15, 1978), served as the plenum’s theme report. The May 11, 1978 Guangming Daily article “Practice Is the Sole Criterion of Testing Truth” （实践是检验真理的唯一标准） is the intellectual precondition. [STRONG — official retrospective]
  4. Verdict reversals. The plenum cancelled erroneous Central Committee documents on the “counter-attack against the right-deviationist wind” （反击右倾翻案风） and the 1976 Tiananmen events, and corrected conclusions on Peng Dehuai (彭德怀), Tao Zhu (陶铸), Bo Yibo (薄一波), Yang Shangkun (杨尚昆). The Nov 21, 1978 Central Work Conference verdict on the April 5, 1976 Tiananmen incident (“completely revolutionary” 完全是革命行动) was confirmed at this plenum. [VERIFIED for the Nov 21 date (RH-D6); STRONG for the plenum’s confirmations]
  5. Organizational decisions. Established the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (100 members) with Chen Yun as first secretary; elected Chen Yun an additional vice-chairman of the Central Committee and Deng Yingchao, Hu Yaobang, and Wang Zhen additional Politburo members. [STRONG — communique text]
  6. Agricultural decision (draft). The plenum distributed for discussion and trial use the draft Decision on accelerating agricultural development （关于加快农业发展若干问题的决定（草案）) and the draft commune work regulations. Not duplicated here — covered in the HRS evidence file (`1979-1981-household-responsibility-debate.md`), which records that the draft barred household contracting (不许包产到户). [STRONG — cross-reference]

(b) Official PRC position (as evidenced in contemporaneous official acts)

  • Shift of the Party’s and the country’s work focus to socialist modernization and the launch of reform and opening up to the outside world — the communique’s stated “historic decision.” [STRONG]
  • Liu Shaoqi’s theory (under socialism, mass class struggle came to an end; develop relations of production to follow the growth of productive forces) openly endorsed; Mao’s theory of continued revolution under socialism abandoned in practice. [STRONG — communique summary]
  • End of the Mao and Hua personality cults in plenum practice: criticism of issuing personal “instructions” and avoidance of the titles “Chairman Mao” / “Chairman Hua.” [ATTRIBUTED — scholarly summary of the communique; the communique wording was not line-verified in this pass]

(c) Contemporaneous democratic response

  • Democracy Wall, Xidan, Beijing (late 1978 – 1979). Beginning November 1978, big-character posters calling for democracy, freedom, and human rights appeared on a wall on Xidan Street, later known as Democracy Wall. [STRONG — multiple accounts]
  • December 5, 1978 — Wei Jingsheng (魏京生) posted 《第五个现代化》 (“The Fifth Modernization”). The poster called on the Party to add democracy to the Four Modernizations (industry, agriculture, national defense, science and technology), arguing: “Democracy is our only choice…. Without democracy, society will become stagnant and economic growth will face insurmountable obstacles.” Wei signed it with his real name and address; it addressed Deng Xiaoping by name. [STRONG for the date, venue, authorship, and core demand — Journal of International Affairs interview with Wei; chinesepen.org; corroborated by encyclopedia accounts]
  • Wei was arrested on March 29, 1979 (per the Journal of International Affairs interview) and sentenced; he served fourteen-and-a-half years, was released in 1993, detained again in 1994, and deported to the United States in 1997. [ATTRIBUTED — interview account; the sentence length and exact arrest date are single-lineage]

(g) Analytical inference (labeled)

  • The plenum’s reform-launch decision and the Democracy Wall episode were simultaneous but not coordinated: the plenum’s official documents contain no mention of Wei Jingsheng or the posters, and Wei’s poster explicitly demanded political democracy the plenum did not promise. Treating the wall movement as part of the official reform program would be unsupported. [INFERENCE — evidence-graded]

B. 1982 Constitution — adoption anchors (December 4, 1982)

(a) Canonical facts

  1. December 4, 1982 — Constitution adopted. At the fourth plenary meeting of the Fifth Session of the Fifth National People’s Congress, the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China was adopted by secret ballot; it contained 138 articles in four chapters and became effective immediately upon adoption. [VERIFIED — contemporaneous Peking Review (Beijing Review) account, Dec 13, 1982 issue; corroborated by the official NPC English text preamble]
  2. November 26, 1982 — Peng Zhen reported on the constitutional revision to the NPC session; deputies then held panel discussions and raised amendments; the account reports that people throughout the country took part in discussions of the draft and opinions from all quarters were canvassed — “such extensive democracy practically has no precedent.” [VERIFIED for the Nov 26 report date — Peking Review account; the “no precedent” characterization is the contemporary official framing, not an independent finding]
  3. Content anchors (as reported at adoption): the Four Cardinal Principles （四项基本原则： socialist road, people’s democratic dictatorship, CCP leadership, Marxism-Leninism–Mao Zedong Thought) incorporated into the preamble; experiences since the founding of the PRC, “particularly since the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Party Central Committee,” confirmed in legal form; the NPC’s powers strengthened and the Presidency （国家主席） restored (abolished in the 1975 and 1978 Constitutions). [STRONG — Peking Review account + official text structure]
  4. Succession of constitutions: 1954 (first), 1975, 1978, 1982 (current; amended 1988, 1993, 1999, 2004, 2018). The 1982 text inherited more from the 1954 Constitution than from its two immediate predecessors. [STRONG — official chronology + scholarly summary]
  5. December 4 is now observed in the PRC as Constitution Day （国家宪法日， established 2014). [VERIFIED — official sources; contextual note only]

(b) Official PRC position (as evidenced at adoption)

  • The constitution affirms, in legal form, the post-Third-Plenum line; the Four Cardinal Principles are presented as the guarantee that socialist construction advances “along the correct road.” [VERIFIED — Peking Review account]
  • At the 30th anniversary (Dec 4, 2012 commemoration), the official line traces the current constitution back through the 1949 CPPCC Common Program and the 1954 Constitution as affirmations of the CCP-led revolution. [VERIFIED — NPC English record of the Dec 4, 2012 speech]

(f) Later outcome evidence

  • Zhang Xuezhong’s August 2013 call to “honour the 1982 Constitution” (“a real rule of law, one to which even the party is accountable”) — and his subsequent suspension on Aug 25, 2013 — is covered in the family and is not re-researched here; cross-reference only.
  • The 2018 term-limit amendment and related constitutional-evolution items are likewise covered elsewhere; not duplicated here.

C. 1984 Decision on economic structural reform (October 20, 1984)

(a) Canonical facts

  1. October 20, 1984 — 《中共中央关于经济体制改革的决定》 (Decision of the Central Committee on Reform of the Economic Structure) adopted at the Third Plenary Session of the 12th Central Committee, after six days of preliminary discussion and “some indications of disagreement.” [STRONG for the date and title — scholarly/retrospective consensus; the “six days of preliminary discussion and indications of disagreement” is ATTRIBUTED to the contemporary Marxism Today (Dec 1984) account]
  2. Core formula: the socialist economy is “a planned commodity economy” （有计划的商品经济）; the document is “careful to assert that ‘ours is on the whole a planned economy… not a market economy.’” [ATTRIBUTED — contemporary Marxism Today account; the decision’s authorized text was not inspected in this pass]
  3. Significance marker: the decision moved the focus of reform from the countryside to the cities and enterprises. [STRONG — party-history retrospective consensus]
  4. Companion reform discussions, second half of 1984: ministries discussed financial-system and wage-management reform proposals — expanding professional banks’ autonomy over lending (deposits-linked credit quotas), and expanding enterprises’ wage-distribution autonomy with wage totals floating against economic results. The base-year gaming effect (1984 loan and wage bases inflated in anticipation of 1985 targets) is documented in scholarly retrospectives: 1984 bank loans rose 28.9% over 1983, with December alone accounting for 48.4% of the annual increase; the wage bill rose 19%, with Q4 bonus payments more than doubling year-on-year; Q4 currency issuance rose 164% year-on-year. [ATTRIBUTED — Shanghai Party History (上海党史与党建, Apr 2018) retrospective with footnoted data; the underlying statistical originals were not inspected]
  5. May 1984 — “Ten Regulations” （国务院关于进一步扩大国营工业企业自主权的暂行规定）: the State Council stipulated planned vs. non-planned production components and allowed above-quota output to be sold at floating/negotiated prices (within ±20% of state prices). [STRONG — scholarly paper citing the regulation]

(b) Official PRC position (as evidenced in the 1984 decision)

  • Public ownership remains predominant; planning (mandatory, guideline, and extra-plan tiers) is retained; the state keeps powers to appoint enterprise managers, tax income, and open/close enterprises — while operating power is to rest with managers with workforce participation. [ATTRIBUTED — Marxism Today account]
  • Party-history framing: the decision opened “reform of the cities,” the second stage of the reform drive after rural reform. [STRONG — retrospective consensus]

(c) Named dissident-scholar position

  • No named dissident or reform-scholar position on the 1984 Decision itself was verified in this pass. The decision’s internal disagreements are noted only in a contemporary Western journalistic account; their content remains UNRESOLVED. Gap recorded — see Primary-Source Targets.

D. 1985 price and wage reform discussions

(a) Canonical facts

  1. February 1985 — formal establishment of the dual-track price system. The State Price Administration and the State Material Administration jointly cancelled the 20% limit on negotiated/floating prices, formally putting the dual pricing system in place (state-set plan prices alongside market/floating prices). [STRONG — scholarly paper (Jinglian 1987 lineage), citing the joint action]
  2. March 1985 — State Council abolished price control of above-quota producer goods, considered formal acceptance of dual-track reform. [STRONG — ANU Press historical chapter]
  3. April 1985 — cautious price-reform steps. The 1985 price reform used price subsidies (物价补贴) to achieve long-deferred price readjustments; the subsidies in turn created substantial fiscal pressure that fed inflation. From February to October 1985 the State Council held four consecutive governors’ conferences, imposing dual-tight fiscal and credit policies and controlling credit and wage/bonus issuance. [ATTRIBUTED — Shanghai Party History retrospective]
  4. 1985 — grain procurement reform. Beginning with the 1984 harvest cycle, the state stopped sending down “unified” （统购） and “assigned” （派购） procurement quotas (except for specified items) and shifted to contract procurement （合同定购） negotiated before sowing; for grain and cotton, 30% of contract grain was purchased at the former unified-procurement price and 70% at the former above-quota bonus price, with surplus beyond contract freely marketable. In 1985 the government announced the elimination of mandatory production and procurement of agricultural products. The budgetary pressure is quantified: farm-purchase and urban price subsidies absorbed roughly 14% of state revenue in 1985. [STRONG for the contract-procurement mechanics — Cambridge Journal of Economics 1986 contemporary paper; ATTRIBUTED for the 14% figure — DCS 2006 via Free Library review; the exact central document announcing the elimination is UNRESOLVED — see Primary-Source Targets]
  5. Wage reform, 1985 — wage-performance link. Alongside bonuses and piece rates (reintroduced 1979), the State Council issued 1985 tax regulations on the wage-performance link: SOEs that opted to link wages to economic efficiency paid a wage adjustment tax （工资调节税） when wages exceeded the planned wage bill by more than 7% (State Council document SC 3 July 1985(a)). [STRONG — scholarly working paper (HKUST, Holz) citing the SC document; the document original was not inspected]
  6. 1985 — enterprise wage reform exploration begins. The wage-total-linked-to-economic-results （工资总额同经济效益挂钩） pilot expansion started in 1985; by end-1987 it covered 3,147 approved enterprises and 10.59 million workers (25% of large/medium SOEs, 28.7% of their workforce). [ATTRIBUTED — finance-ministry retrospective (《中国财政》 1988) via zgcznet scan]
  7. 1984–85 macro-control sequence. Central discovery of the credit/wage base-gaming problem in mid-November 1984 → emergency notices capping infrastructure investment and wage/bonus payouts (1984 new-currency target 18 billion yuan, not to be breached) → 1985 anti-inflation measures. Full-year 1984 currency issuance rose 49.5% year-on-year (262.3 billion yuan increase), breaching plan. [ATTRIBUTED — Shanghai Party History retrospective; figures single-lineage, graded with methodology caution]

(b) Official PRC position (as evidenced in 1985 acts)

  • Dual-track pricing as a “bridge” between direct control and indirect control: plan obligations must be fulfilled at plan prices before any market-track activity. [STRONG — scholarly consensus on the mechanism]
  • The 1985 governors’-conference sequence shows the leadership prioritizing inflation control and treating reform steps as subordinate to macro stability when the two conflicted. [ATTRIBUTED — retrospective account]

(c) Named dissident-scholar / civil-society positions

  • No named dissident or civil-society position on the 1985 price/wage reforms was verified in this pass. 1980s reform-economist internal debates (e.g., the young-economists’ conferences) were not sourced to a citable record in this pass. Gap recorded — see Primary-Source Targets.

(g) Analytical inference (labeled)

  • The dual-track system was not created by design but grew out of incremental relaxations beginning 1979 (Sichuan SOE autonomy experiment); it “represented a halfway move from the plan toward the market.” Scholarly literature notes a serious downside: the plan/market price gap created systematic corruption opportunities, which undermined popular support for reform. [ATTRIBUTED inference — Byrd/Qian/Roland literature via the bc.edu working paper]

E. 1992 southern tour （南巡 / 南方谈话） — re-anchoring endpoint

(a) Canonical facts — itinerary endpoints (resolves batch register item C-9-1)

  1. January 18, 1992 — tour begins. Deng Xiaoping (aged 87), accompanied by family (including his wife Zhuo Lin, four of five children, grandchildren) and his longtime secretary Wang Ruilin, left Beijing by train; the first stops were the Wuchang District of Wuhan (Hubei) and Changsha (Hunan). [STRONG — Wikipedia account with academic citations; corroborated by the podcast transcript source]
  2. January 19–29, 1992 — Guangdong. Deng visited Shenzhen, Zhuhai, and Guangzhou (including Zhongshan and Shunde in the Pearl River Delta circuit per one account). [STRONG]
  3. Late January — Jiangxi. A brief stay in Jiangxi province (the train stopped briefly at Yingtan). [ATTRIBUTED — podcast transcript source]
  4. January 31, 1992 — Shanghai, the last major stop; Deng spent the 1992 Chinese New Year in Shanghai, visiting new development zones; on February 18 (Lantern Festival) he visited Nanjing Road and the No. 1 Department Store. [STRONG]
  5. Return to Beijing — date CONFLICTING: one scholarly paper (Suisheng Zhao, 1993) reports return by plane on February 20 via brief stops in Nanjing (Jiangsu) and Anhui; the conventional span given in most accounts (including the official State Council Information Office chronology) is January 18 – February 21, 1992. The Feb 20 vs. Feb 21 end date is therefore CONFLICTING; the Jan 18 start and the full station list are STRONG.
  6. Deng held no formal Party or government position during the tour — he had resigned as Chairman of the Central Military Commission in November 1989 (5th Plenum of the 13th CC) — but remained the paramount political figure. [VERIFIED — multiple sources]
  7. Context — the 1991 “Huangfu Ping” (皇甫平) commentaries. Beginning spring 1991, Shanghai’s Liberation Daily published a series under the Huangfu Ping byline promoting further economic reform, gaining local support; Beijing-based outlets (Qiushi, Guangming Daily) responded by questioning whether China was following a capitalist or socialist path. [STRONG — corroborated accounts; a dedicated source packet on the commentaries remains a registered open item, not duplicated here]

(b) The talks — publication and content

  1. Talks title: 《在武昌、深圳、珠海、上海等地的谈话要点》 (“Main Points of Talks in Wuchang, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Shanghai and Other Places”). [STRONG — academic citations to the authorized collection]
  2. Publication sequence, 1992: On March 26, 1992 the Shenzhen Special Zone Daily published a full report on Deng’s visit listing the main points; Wenhui Bao reprinted it March 28; Xinhua relayed it March 30; on March 31 CCTV broadcast an unscheduled documentary and People’s Daily published the two-month-old on-the-spot report 《东方风来满眼春》 (“The East Wind Brings Spring All Around”), followed by nearly a dozen national papers. [STRONG — Zhao 1993 scholarly paper citing contemporary press]
  3. Content (as compiled in the authorized collection): The essence of socialism is “liberating productive forces, developing productive forces, eliminating exploitation, eliminating polarization, and finally achieving common prosperity” （社会主义的本质，是解放生产力，发展生产力，消灭剥削，消除两极分化，最终达到共同富裕）; the “three favorables” （三个有利于） as the test for judging “socialist” vs. “capitalist” (whether it is conducive to developing the productive forces of a socialist society, to enhancing the comprehensive strength of the socialist state, and to raising the people’s living standards); “development is the hard truth” （发展才是硬道理）; “science and technology are the primary productive forces” （科学技术是第一生产力）; reform is also the liberation of productive forces; warning against “left”-ism; seizing the opportunity to accelerate development (“don’t miss the opportunity”); the Pudong development remark （浦东开发晚了 — “Pudong’s development came late”). [ATTRIBUTED — 2012 academic paper citing 《邓小平文选》 vol. 3, pp. 370–383; the authorized volume text itself was not inspected in this pass]
  4. February 1992 — the CPC Central Committee issued a circular on studying the main points of the talks. [ATTRIBUTED — scholarly thesis citation]
  5. June 9, 1992 — Jiang Zemin’s Central Party School speech endorsing the talks, completing their incorporation into the Party line. [PROBABLE — carried from the register; not independently re-verified in this pass]

(c) Official PRC position (as evidenced in contemporaneous acts)

  • The State Council Information Office chronology (2022) presents the talks as “the maturing of Deng Xiaoping Theory,” answering “what is socialism and how to build socialism,” and inspiring “the second round of China’s reform and opening up.” [VERIFIED as the official framing — english.scio.gov.cn]
  • The talks reiterated “one central task and two basic points” （一个中心、两个基本点） and the socialist path with distinctive Chinese features, targeting public misgivings about the “socialist vs. capitalist” question. [STRONG — official chronology]

(d) Policy outcomes — 14th Party Congress anchoring

  1. October 12–18, 1992 — 14th National Congress of the CPC, Beijing (1,989 full delegates, 46 special delegates, representing over 51 million Party members). [STRONG — multiple accounts]
  2. Jiang Zemin’s political report 《加快改革开放和现代化建设步伐，夺取有中国特色社会主义事业的更大胜利》 formally adopted “socialist market economy” （社会主义市场经济） as the goal of economic structural reform — “an enrichment and development of the theory of building socialism with Chinese characteristics.” [STRONG — contemporary wire report (PTI, Oct 30, 1992) + scholarly accounts]
  3. Institutional/personnel outcomes: the Central Advisory Commission was abolished (not re-established), retiring the conservative elders’ institutional base; Zhu Rongji — who had won Deng’s favor during the Shanghai leg of the tour — was elevated to the Politburo Standing Committee as the de facto economic policymaker; the new Central Committee was 46.7% new faces with an average age of 56.3. [ATTRIBUTED — explanatory-history account and contemporary wire report; personnel-motivation claims are interpretive]
  4. The Congress also wrote Deng Xiaoping’s theory of building socialism with Chinese characteristics into the Party constitution as a guiding ideology. [STRONG]

(e) Named dissident-scholar position

  • **Fang Lizhi (Nov 10, 2011, New York Review of Books review of Ezra Vogel’s Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China):** “What about ‘reform,’ that other key word in Deng’s policy? Many observers have noted that ‘no reform of the political system’ has been an unbending principle from the Deng era to the present. The persistence of Party dictatorship, in turn, colors all the other aspects of what Deng called ‘reform.’” [VERIFIED as Fang’s stated position — quoted via the factsanddetails compilation citing the NYRB piece; the original review page was not opened in this pass]
  • Du Daozheng (interview, HNN): reporting on Zhao Ziyang’s post-1992 taped recollections, Du states that on political reform “Hu [Yaobang] and Zhao were far ahead of Deng. History will prove that Deng was wrong. Hu and Zhao were right. Deng was wavering on political reform.” [ATTRIBUTED — interview account; Du’s characterization, not an independent documentary record]
  • Workers’ Liberty (2014 retrospective, dissenting-left assessment): Deng’s 1992 southern-coastal tour is described as his “last campaign for reforms”; the retrospective argues Deng’s project “bought more time for a dying monster of a system” and that each phase of economic opening multiplied cadre corruption. [ATTRIBUTED — partisan retrospective; included as a named position, not as fact]

(f) International institution position

  • Post-1989 sanctions context: after 1989, the United States and the European Union imposed arms embargoes, and the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank stopped issuing loans to China. [ATTRIBUTED — encyclopedia account; specific sanction measures not itemized in this pass]
  • The southern tour is widely credited (including in the Gale/Countries of the World and Their Leaders yearbook, 2009) with reassuring foreign investors and relaunching the market-oriented opening that underpinned the 1990s investment wave. [ATTRIBUTED]
  • The World Bank’s first loan to Deng’s China supported higher education (per Vogel’s account cited in the Fang Lizhi review) — illustrating the Bank’s early engagement with the reform program. [ATTRIBUTED]

(g) Analytical inference (labeled)

  • The southern tour functioned as an extra-institutional policy intervention: unable to move the post-1989 Jiang–Li Peng leadership and the conservative elders through central channels (Deng held no formal office; Chen Yun’s influence had expanded after 1989), Deng built support through provincial allies and sympathetic military figures, and the 14th Congress then codified the victory. [ATTRIBUTED inference — Suisheng Zhao 1993 scholarly analysis]
  • No position of the Free China Movement on the southern tour or on any 1978–85 anchor is recorded in this file. None was found in the prior corpus; none is assumed.

Primary-Source Targets (for the acquisition area)

  1. 《在武昌、深圳、珠海、上海等地的谈话要点》 — the talks’ full authorized text as first officially released (publication date of the authorized full text, and whether the Wenxuan vol. 3 version differs from the March 1992 press compilations) | early 1992 / CPC Central / authorized 1993 in 《邓小平文选》第3卷 | needed to resolve ATTRIBUTED quotations and the Feb 20/21 endpoint conflict | known citation: academic paper citing vol. 3 pp. 370–383 | affects E(b)3, E(a)5
  2. Third Plenum communique （十一届三中全会公报） original full text, adopted Dec 22, 1978 | issuing: 11th CC | needed to verify ATTRIBUTED characterizations (e.g., “Chairman Mao/Chairman Hua” title avoidance) | known mirror: prolewiki English text (seen) | affects A(a)2, A(b)
  3. 1982 Constitution revision drafting records, incl. Peng Zhen’s Nov 26, 1982 report text and the public-consultation compilation | 1980–82 / Constitution Revision Committee / NPC | needed for the drafting-process claim and deputies’ panel-discussion content | known citation: Peking Review Dec 13, 1982 report | affects B(a)2
  4. 《中共中央关于经济体制改革的决定》 authorized full text + 3rd Plenum of the 12th CC discussion records (the “six days of preliminary discussion” and reported disagreements) | Oct 1984 / 12th CC | needed to resolve the “planned commodity economy” formulation wording and internal-disagreement content | known citation: Marxism Today Dec 1984 contemporary account | affects C(a)1–2, C(c)
  5. 1985 wage-reform provisions — State Council 1985 wage adjustment tax regulations （工资调节税； SC 3 July 1985(a)) original + the enterprise wage-total/economic-results link pilot documents | 1985 / State Council | needed to verify the 7% threshold and pilot scope; the wage anchor is currently single-scholarly-lineage | known citation: Holz (HKUST) working paper; 《中国财政》 1988 retrospective | affects D(a)5–6
  6. The 1985 central document announcing elimination of mandatory agricultural production and procurement （废除统购统销/派购 central directive) | 1985 / State Council or Central Committee | needed to verify the exact document behind the “elimination of mandatory procurement” announcement | known citation: Free Library/DCS 2006 review | affects D(a)4

Terminal state: COMPLETE-EVIDENCE-FAMILY — 6 Primary-Source Targets registered; scope skip recorded for the 1989 NPC emergency-session call note (1989 archive area). 8 gap-targeted external searches performed (southern-tour itinerary, talks publication, 14th Congress market-economy formulation, 1984 Decision, 1982 Constitution adoption, 1985 price/wage reforms, Third Plenum communique, dissident-scholar positions, Democracy Wall grounding). Corrections caught during research: (1) the batch register’s C-9-1 “endpoints UNRESOLVED” is now resolved as Jan 18 start + full station list STRONG, with only the final return date (Feb 20 vs. Feb 21) remaining CONFLICTING; (2) the “Jan 18 – Feb 21” span is confirmed as the conventional/official span via the SCIO chronology. Unresolved items: Feb 20/21 return-date conflict; exact authorized-publication date of the full talks text; internal content of 1984 Decision disagreements; exact 1985 procurement-elimination directive; 1980s reform-economist internal debate records; no named civil-society position on the 1985 price/wage reforms.