Completely negate the "two whatevers" and redefine the ideological line of emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts.

② Politically

Stop using the slogan of "class struggle as the key link" and make a great decision to shift the focus of the party and the state to economic construction and implement reform and opening up.

③ Organizationally

Form a collective leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Deng Xiaoping at the core.

meaning

The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee is a far-reaching turning point in the history of the Party since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Confusing the party's ideological, political and organizational lines is the beginning of reform and opening up.

Since then, the history of China has entered a new period of socialist modernization.

The third plenary session of the 11th Central Committee of China * * * Production Party was held in Beijing from June 1978 to February 18 to 22. Present at the meeting were 169 Central Committee members and 1 12 alternate Central Committee members. Responsible persons of relevant central and local departments attended the meeting as nonvoting delegates.

The central topic of the plenary session is to discuss shifting the focus of the whole party's work to socialist modernization. Before this plenary session, a 36-day central working conference was held. At this Central Working Conference, many revolutionaries and leading cadres of the older generation criticized the mistakes made in the Party's leadership work in the past two years after the end of the "Cultural Revolution", and put forward positive suggestions for shifting the focus of the Party's work to major economic and political decisions and restoring and carrying forward the Party's fine traditions.

Deng Xiaoping made an important speech entitled "Emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts, uniting and looking forward to the future" at the closing ceremony of the conference. This Central Working Conference made full preparations for the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee. Deng Xiaoping's speech actually became the theme report of the Third Plenary Session.

The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee ended the situation that the Party's work was delayed for two years after the downfall of the Gang of Four, and achieved a great turning point in the Party's history since the founding of the People's Republic of China. This great turning point is overall and fundamental, which is embodied in the following main aspects:

1, the plenary session has confused the ideological line.

The plenary session disrupted the political line.

The plenary session disrupted the organizational line.

4. The plenary session began to systematically clean up major historical rights and wrongs and set things right.

5. The plenary session restored the party's tradition of democratic centralism.