The convening of the Third Plenum of the Eleventh Party a historic turning point with the realization of

Xinhua Beijing October 2 Xinhua December 18, 1978 to 22, the party's Third Plenum in Beijing Jingxi Hotel. This is the Whither China faces a major historical juncture, the CPC Central Committee held an important meeting.

Plenary session before the November 10 to December 15, the CPC Central Committee held in Beijing, which lasted 36 days of the central work meeting. Meeting was attended by all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, military regions and the central departments responsible comrades, as well as some in central and local authorities and the armed forces served in key leadership positions in the old comrades, a total of 219 of them. The Central Work Conference that is scheduled to discuss economic issues.

At the central work conference, Chen Yun in his speech proposed that affect the stability and unity should first solve the major problems left by history. His remarks drew a strong reaction comrades attending the meeting. In Chen Yun, a group of old comrades, led by the meeting giving full play to democracy within the Party, it is emancipating the mind, freely expressed their opinions on the "Cultural Revolution" two years after the end of the work of the party's mistakes appear pertinent criticism of the shift the focus of the party's work in economic and political aspects of major policy decisions, the Party's fine traditions and promote the recovery and so on, put forward positive proposals.

The afternoon of December 13, Deng Xiaoping made the closing session of the Central Work Conference, entitled "emancipate the mind, united in looking forward" an important speech. For the whole party was facing several pressing issues, he stressed four aspects: First, emancipating the mind is the current major political issue. Only emancipate the mind, seek truth from facts, proceed from reality in everything, theory with practice, can correctly solve the problems inherited from the past to solve a series of new problems can be successfully carried out the socialist modernization drive, the party's Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought Theory it be possible to develop smoothly. Second, democracy is an important condition for emancipating the mind. In the past a fairly long period of time, there is no real practice of democratic centralism. To leave the talk focused on democracy, democracy and too little. In order to protect the people's democracy, we must strengthen the rule of law, we must make democracy institutionalized and legalized. Third, dealing with issues left over from history is to look ahead. Meeting to resolve a number of problems inherited from the past to correct a number of major cases of injustice is aimed at looking ahead, in order to smoothly shift the focus of the party's work. Comrade Mao Zedong set the long-term revolutionary struggle of the great feats will never be indelible. There is no outstanding leadership of Comrade Mao Zedong, the Chinese revolution is great potential that has yet to win, our party is still in the bitter struggle against the darkness. Fourth, study new situations and solve new problems. According to China's actual conditions to determine the specific path to achieve the four modernizations, guidelines and measures to correct land reform are incompatible with the rapid development of productive forces and production relations and the superstructure. In economic policy, to allow some areas and enterprises, as part of the workers and peasants, due to hard work while the income of the first big success with more and living a good first up, influence and lead other regions, other units of the people to learn from them so that the entire national economy continues to move forward the development of wave-like manner, so that people of all nationalities can be relatively quickly become more affluent.

Deng Xiaoping's important speech, asking and answering a turning point in history, the party faced a series of fundamental problems, made clear the party's main task in the future and the way forward for the upcoming Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh established guidelines, has actually become the subject of the report of the Third Plenum of the Eleventh has become a new road opened a new period, and create a declaration of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

At the Central Work Conference was well-prepared, based on the party to convene the Third Plenum. 169 people attended the plenary session of the Central Committee, alternate members, 112.