The Eighth Plenary Session of the Thirteenth CPC Central Committee was held in Beijing from November 25 to 29, 1991. At this session the "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Further Strengthening Agriculture and Work in Rural Areas" was adopted. The Central Committee declared that the basic policies for the countryside that had been formulated since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee were correct and that great achievements had been scored in the rural reform. The Central Committee stressed the need to maintain the responsibility system, the main form of which was the household contract linking remuneration to output, to improve the system of unified management combined with independent management and to deepen the rural reform. It also approved the "Resolution on the Convening of the Fourteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China".