1, Practice of Reform and Opening-up: 1978, China began the process of reform and opening-up, aiming at solving economic backwardness and social problems. Deng Xiaoping served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and became the core leader of reform and opening up. Through practical experience, Deng Xiaoping gradually summed up a series of policies, principles and ideas to provide guidance for the development of China.
2. Understanding the importance of practice: Deng Xiaoping emphasized the importance and decisive role of practice. He believes that only through practice can we test the scientificity and effectiveness of truth. In the process of reform and opening up, Deng Xiaoping always pays attention to practice, constantly sums up experience from practice, corrects mistakes and puts forward new theoretical viewpoints.
3. Put forward the slogan of "emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts": Deng Xiaoping put forward the slogan of "emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts", which is one of his basic requirements and guiding principles for China's socialist modernization. He stressed that party member cadres should abandon dogmatism and metaphysical thinking, persist in taking practical problems as the starting point and seek practical solutions.
4. Deng Xiaoping's southern talk: 1984, Deng Xiaoping put forward a series of important ideas and viewpoints in his southern talk, which laid the foundation for Deng Xiaoping Theory. The Southern Talk emphasizes taking economic construction as the party's center, advocating the development of social productive forces and reform and opening up, and upholding the four cardinal principles (upholding the leadership of the Party, upholding the people's democratic dictatorship, upholding the leadership of the * * * production party, upholding Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought).
5. The gradual formation of Deng Xiaoping Theory: In the process of reform and opening up, Deng Xiaoping constantly summed up experience and put forward new theoretical viewpoints. He emphasized the basic national conditions in the primary stage of socialism, put forward the idea that "development is the last word", advocated the combination of market economy and socialism, emphasized reform and innovation, and put forward a series of important theoretical viewpoints and policy measures.