The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee is considered to have fundamentally broken through the long-term "Left" mistakes and the "Two Whats", re-established the Party's Marxist line, and determined the guiding principle of "emancipating the mind, using your head, seeking truth from facts and looking forward with unity", thus shifting the guiding ideology of the Central Committee from class struggle to economic construction.
1978 The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the China Producer Party held in February was a great turning point with far-reaching significance in the history of China. The plenary session seriously and comprehensively corrected the "Left" mistakes in and before the "Cultural Revolution", set things right from the guiding ideology, redefined the Marxist ideological and political line and organizational line, and determined the new guiding principles for the development of the national economy. So that China's national economy can develop along a new and correct road.
The plenary session resolutely criticized the wrong policy of "two whatevers" and fully affirmed the necessity of mastering Mao Zedong Thought's scientific system completely and accurately; He spoke highly of the discussion on the standard of truth, and determined the guiding principles of emancipating the mind, using our brains, seeking truth from facts and looking forward in unity. The plenary session resolutely decided not to use the slogan of "taking class struggle as the key link", which is no longer applicable to the realistic socialist society, and made a strategic decision to shift the focus of the whole party's work from 65438 to the socialist modernization in 0979. The plenary session focused on the task of developing socialist democracy and strengthening the socialist legal system; Reviewed and solved a number of major unjust, false and misjudged cases in the history of the party and the merits and demerits of some important leaders. All these decisions are of great historical significance in China's politics, economy and thought.