diff --git a/packages/dash-core-components/CHANGELOG.md b/packages/dash-core-components/CHANGELOG.md
index 8671b06261..223db20f3c 100644
--- a/packages/dash-core-components/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/packages/dash-core-components/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
+## [UNRELEASED]
+### Fixed
+- [#903](https://github.com/plotly/dash-core-components/pull/903) - part of fixing dash import bug https://github.com/plotly/dash/issues/1143
+
 ## [1.14.1] - 2020-12-09
 ### Updated
 - [#898](https://github.com/plotly/dash-core-components/pull/898)
diff --git a/packages/dash-core-components/dash_core_components_base/__init__.py b/packages/dash-core-components/dash_core_components_base/__init__.py
index a16ba8ac97..a236a451c4 100644
--- a/packages/dash-core-components/dash_core_components_base/__init__.py
+++ b/packages/dash-core-components/dash_core_components_base/__init__.py
@@ -14,19 +14,11 @@
 __version__ = package['version']
 
 # Module imports trigger a dash.development import, need to check this first
-if not hasattr(_dash, 'development'):
+if not hasattr(_dash, '__plotly_dash') and not hasattr(_dash, 'development'):
     print("Dash was not successfully imported. Make sure you don't have a file "
           "named \n'dash.py' in your current directory.", file=_sys.stderr)
     _sys.exit(1)
 
-# Must update to dash>=0.23.1 to use this version of dash-core-components
-if not hasattr(_dash.development.base_component, '_explicitize_args'):
-    print("Please update the `dash` module to >= 0.23.1 to use this "
-          "version of dash_core_components.\n"
-          "You are using version {:s}".format(_dash.version.__version__),
-          file=_sys.stderr)
-    _sys.exit(1)
-
 from ._imports_ import *  # noqa: F401, F403
 from ._imports_ import __all__  # noqa: E402