A basic principle of China's socialist construction. The reform includes economic system reform (transforming a highly centralized planned economy system into a socialist market economy system) and political system reform (developing democracy, strengthening the legal system, separating government from enterprises, streamlining institutions, improving democratic supervision system, and maintaining stability and unity).

1978 In February, China began to implement the policy of internal reform and opening to the outside world at the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee. China's domestic reform began in the countryside. On June 1978 1 1, Xiaogang village, Fengyang county, Anhui province, implemented the household contract responsibility system of "dividing fields into households and assuming sole responsibility for profits and losses", which opened the curtain of domestic reform in China. In cities, the right of independent management of state-owned enterprises has been significantly improved.

Legal basis: the Sixth Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Chinese Production Party.

Article 1 The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee is a future-oriented meeting. Specifically, it re-established the Marxist ideological line of seeking truth from facts, watered down the slogan of "taking class struggle as the key link" which is not applicable to the current socialist society, and decided to shift the focus of the whole party's work to socialist modernization.

Article 2 The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee is a meeting to create the future. The plenary session clearly pointed out that the historical task of the party in the new period is to build China into a powerful socialist modernization country, which has opened the prelude to socialist reform and opening up.

Article 3 Since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, the people of China have entered a new era of reform, opening up and socialist modernization. Since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, the CPC Central Committee with Deng Xiaoping at the core has gradually opened up the road of building Socialism with Chinese characteristics. Over the past 40 years, the people of China have made remarkable achievements along this road. This meeting kicked off the socialist reform and opening up in China. 1978 12 China has embarked on the road of reform and opening up.