The 7th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party was convened April 23 - June 11, 1945, in Yan'an, Shaanxi.

It took place near the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War during a period of uneasy truce between the Kuomintang and Communist parties, with each maintaining their headquarters in different regions of China.

[1] During the 7th National Congress, Mao Zedong delivered his April 1945 report On the Coalition Government which expanded on the principles of New Democracy he had formulated in his earlier essay On New Democracy.

[2]: 29 During the Congress, Mao described the Communist Party's guerilla warfare as "sparrow tactics":[3]: 171 In the early phase of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, our prowess was like that of a little finger.

Even though sparrows are opportunists that follow food, even though they are little, when you add them up, they amount to 910,000 strong.