1962年初召开的七千人大会,初步总结了1958年“大跃进”以来的经验教训。在这次会议上,充分发扬了民主,开展了批评和自我批评,对如何坚持和发展党内民主生活进行了反思和探索,并正式提出了“党内生活会”的概念。在会上,邓小平和刘少奇提出了建立党内生活会的主张,得到毛泽东的赞同。 The 7,000 people convention held in early 1962 initially summed up the lessons learned since the Great Leap Forward in 1958. At this meeting, democracy was fully developed, criticism and self-criticism were carried out, the ways of insisting on and developing inner-party democratic life were rethought and explored, and the concept of “life within the party” was formally put forward. At the meeting, Deng Xiaoping and Liu Shaoqi put forward the idea of ​​establishing a party life meeting, which was endorsed by Mao Zedong.