Under the leadership of Comrade Deng Xiaoping and with the support of proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation, the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China broke through the long-term "Left" serious error bondage, criticized the wrong policy of "two whatevers" and clearly pointed out that Mao Zedong Thought's scientific system must be mastered completely and accurately.
The plenary session spoke highly of the discussion on the standard of truth, re-established the ideological, political and organizational lines of Marxism, and made a strategic decision to shift the focus of the work of the party and the state to socialist modernization and implement reform and opening up. This is a historic choice for the fate of the party and the country.
It is precisely because the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party fundamentally broke through the serious shackles of long-term "Left" errors, corrected the Party's guiding ideology, and re-established the Party's correct Marxist line that we began the great practice of reform and opening up.
The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China opened the road to Socialism with Chinese characteristics and formed the system of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Theory, which made the Chinese nation undergo great changes, got rid of poverty, bid farewell to backwardness, strode to catch up with the trend of the times and ushered in a bright future of great rejuvenation.
If the birth of the new China in 1949 and the establishment of the socialist system in 1956 opened a new era in the history of China, then the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party held in 1978 realized a great turning point with far-reaching significance in the history of our Party since the founding of New China and opened a new era of reform, opening up and socialist development.
The great significance and far-reaching influence of the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee have been and are being fully manifested with the development of the great practice of reform and opening up, and will run through the whole process of building Socialism with Chinese characteristics.
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Key words of the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee:
1, emancipate the mind.
At the closing ceremony of the 1978 Central Working Conference, Deng Xiaoping made an important speech entitled "Emancipating the Mind, Seeking Truth from Facts, Uniting as One and Looking Forward". Deng Xiaoping said in his speech, "Emancipate your mind, use your head, seek truth from facts, unite as one, and look ahead, and the first thing is to emancipate your mind.
Only by emancipating the mind can we correctly solve the problems left over from history and a series of new problems under the guidance of Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought, correctly reform the relations of production and superstructure that are incompatible with the rapid development of productive forces, and determine the specific roads, principles, methods and measures to realize the four modernizations according to the actual situation of our country. "
2. Shift the focus of work.
The communiqué of the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party pointed out that it is time to adapt to the development of the domestic and international situation, quickly and decisively end the nationwide mass movement to expose and criticize Lin Biao and the Gang of Four, and shift the focus of the work of the whole party and the attention of the people of the whole country to socialist modernization.
3. Discussion on the standard of truth.
1978 May 1 1 Sunday, Guangming Daily published a special commentator's article "Practice is the only criterion for testing truth". The article points out that the criterion for testing truth can only be social practice, and the unity of theory and practice is one of the most basic principles of Marxism, and any theory must be constantly tested by practice.
This article aroused strong repercussions in the whole party, and at the same time it was criticized and accused by some people, which triggered a national discussion on the standard of truth. The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China spoke highly of the statement that practice is the sole criterion for testing truth, which is of far-reaching historical significance for promoting the comrades of the whole party and the people of the whole country to emancipate their minds and correct their ideological line.
4. Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
In order to improve the party's democratic centralism, improve the party's rules and regulations, and enforce the party's discipline, the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party decided to set up the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. The meeting held that the state should have national laws and the party should have party rules and party laws. All party member and Party cadres and those who abide by Party discipline are the minimum requirements for restoring the normal political life of the Party and the country. Leading cadres at all levels of the Party must take the lead in strictly observing Party discipline.
The plenary session elected the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection with Comrade Chen Yun as its first secretary. This is an important measure to ensure the implementation of the party's political line. The fundamental task of the Commission for Discipline Inspection is to safeguard party rules and discipline and effectively improve the party style.
5. Four cardinal principles.
At the retreat of the Party's theoretical work held in 1979, Deng Xiaoping delivered an important speech, stressing the need to adhere to the Four Cardinal Principles. He pointed out that to realize the four modernizations in China, we must adhere to the four cardinal principles ideologically and politically. This is the fundamental prerequisite for realizing the four modernizations.
The four cardinal principles are: we must adhere to the socialist road; Must adhere to the dictatorship of the proletariat; Must adhere to the leadership of the * * * production party; We must adhere to Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought. These four cardinal principles have long been adhered to by our party.
6. central document no.1.
1 98265438+1October1day, the central government approved the minutes of the national rural work conference, which is the first "central document No.1" on the issue of agriculture, countryside and farmers. The document broke through the traditional system of "three-level ownership, taking teams as units" and affirmed that various production responsibility systems such as household production quotas are socialist collectives.
According to the document, "it reflects the strong desire of hundreds of millions of farmers to develop socialist agriculture according to the actual situation in rural areas of China." "No matter what form it takes, as long as the masses don't ask for change, don't change." From 1982 to 1986, the central government issued policies and measures related to rural reform in the form of "No.1 document" for five consecutive years.
7. Building socialism with China characteristics.
On September 1982 and 1 day, in the opening speech of the 12th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Deng Xiaoping first put forward the brand-new proposition of "building socialism with China characteristics". He pointed out: "Our modernization must proceed from the reality of China. Whether it is revolution or construction, we should pay attention to learning and drawing lessons from foreign experience.
However, copying the experience and model of other countries will never succeed. In this regard, we have learned many lessons. Combining the universal truth of Marxism with the concrete reality of our country, taking our own road and building socialism with China characteristics is the basic conclusion we have drawn from summing up our long-term historical experience. "
8. Historical resolutions.
1981The Sixth Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee held on June 27-29 deliberated and adopted the Resolution on Several Historical Issues of the Party since the Founding of the People's Republic of China, referred to as the Historical Resolution.
The resolution summarizes and evaluates the major historical events of the Party since the founding of New China, especially the "Cultural Revolution", the merits and demerits of Mao Zedong, the basic content and guiding significance of Mao Zedong Thought. The plenary session and the Resolution adopted by it completed the task of bringing order out of chaos under the guiding ideology of China's * * * production party.
9. Well-off society.
On March 2 1979, Deng Xiaoping put forward the concept of "four modernizations in Chinese style" when meeting with foreign guests. On February 6th, 65438+, when meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira, Deng Xiaoping put forward the concept of "well-off society".
He said: "The four modernizations we want to achieve are Chinese-style. Our concept of modernization is not a modern concept like yours, but a' well-off family'. "
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