In 1938, Dimitrov, General Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, met with Wang Jiaxiang and Ren Bishi, stating that Mao Zedong should be supported as the leader of the Chinese Communist Party. After returning to China the same year, Wang Jiaxiang relayed this message around the time of the Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee.
In June 1935 the Central Red Army and the Fourth Front Army joined forces at Maogong, the Lianghekou Conference set the strategy of advancing northward, after which Zhang Guotao held his troops idle and eventually went south to establish a separate central committee.
In Ruijin, Jiangxi, Deng Xiaoping was labeled a Maoist for supporting Mao Zedong's line, subjected to struggle sessions and removed from his post. His wife, Jin Weiying, not only denounced him but also remarried Li Weihan, who had denounced him.
The CCP launched the Fujian Incident in the Jiangxi Soviet Area, using the excuse of the "AB Tuan" to brutally purge the Jiangxi local faction and the 20th Red Army, resulting in the execution of two to three thousand people.