LPRP CC meetings[edit]

2nd Plenary Session (1974)
3rd Plenary Session (October 1975) - confirmed a policy after the war that Laos would advance to socialism without going through the stage of capitalist development.
4th Plenary Session (December 1976)
4th Plenary Session (February 1977)
7th Plenary Session (November 1979) - "the party decided to introduce some principles of a market economy. At the plenum, Kaysone acknowledged that the transition to socialism was a long process and as Laos was still in an initial stage, the party could not abolish capitalism and the private economy in one day"
8th Plenary Session (January 1981)

3rd Plenary Session (1984)
6th Plenary Session (10–27 August 1984)
7th Plenary Session (24 December 1984 – 1 January 1985)
10th Plenary Session (15–31 May 1986)
11th Plenary Session (30 September – 7 November 1986) International Communist Affairs 219 Arthur J Dommen. Discussed foreign affairs. Communique "maintained that there is a new development in the relations betweenthe USSR and China and considered it an important contribution to the defense of peace and international security

2nd Plenary Session (30 November 1986) - "At some time in the past, they did not have the courage to speak frankly about the facts, difficulties and shortcomings of their works to the people but they were trying to speak about only achievement and victory. That is not a scientific way of thinking and it is wrong. … speaking in accordance with fact is new thinking"
3rd Plenary Session (January 1987)
4th Plenary Session (January 1988)
5th Plenary Session (June 1988)
8th Plenary Session (November 1989)
9th Plenary Session (17–24 January 1991)
10th Enlarged Plenary Session (3–19 January 1991)

2nd Plenary Session (22–30 May 1991) - Restructuring the Party leadership, financial and currency problems and the 1991 state budget.
4th Plenary Session (5–15 December 1991)
5th Plenary Session (September 1992)
6th Plenary Session (10–18 February 1993) - " a new goal of graduating from the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) through economic development was set"
9th Plenary Session (12–23 September 1994)
10th Plenary Session (29 March – 1 April 1995)
11th Plenary Session (4–16 September 1995)

4th Plenary Session (April 1997) - "leaders intently discussed problems, particularly related to disparity between the haves and have-nots and between urban and rural areas"
5th Plenary Session (7–18 September 1998) - "LAOS: A Million Elephants, A Million Tourists?"
6th PLenary Session (9–18 February 1999)

3rd Plenary Session (10–19 September 2001)
9th/10th Plenary Session (14–18 March 2005) "Discussion held on the National Socioeconomic Development Plan, actual operation of the budget plan in the first half of the year, the plan for the second half of the year, the first draft of the political report to be submitted at the Eighth Party Congress, and revision of the party rules."
10th/11th Plenary Session (5–10 November 2005) "Discussion was conducted on the Sixth Five-Year Plan for 2006–10.- Vice Governor of the Bank of Lao PDR Phouphet assumed office as the acting governor.."