Deng Xiaoping Theory

After the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the CPC, which was held in Beijing, December 18-22, 1978, Chinese Communists, with Deng Xiaoping as their chief representative, reviewed their positive and negative experiences in building socialism since the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949, freed their minds, sought truth from facts, shifted the focus of the whole Party’s work onto economic development, and adopted the policy of reform and opening up, thereby ushering in a new era in socialist development. Over time, they established the guideline, principles and policies for building socialism with Chinese characteristics, which clarified basic issues concerning the building, consolidation and development of socialism in China.

In his report to the 14th CPC National Congress held in October 1992, Jiang Zemin summarized the main contents of the theory of building socialism with Chinese characteristics in nine aspects, and he said that the principal theorist was Deng Xiaoping.

At the 15th CPC National Congress held in October 1997,the same year when Deng passed away,

the theory initiated by Deng Xiaoping on building socialism with Chinese characteristics was named Deng Xiaoping Theory, and designated, together with Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought, as the banner and guiding thought of the CPC.

鄧小平理論

黨的十一屆三中全會（1978年12月18日至22日在北京召開）以來，以鄧小平同志為主要代表的中國共產黨人，總結中華人民共和國建立以來正反兩方面的經驗教訓，解放思想，實事求是，實現全黨工作中心向經濟建設的轉移，實行改革開放，開辟了社會主義事業發展的新時期，逐步形成了建設中國特色社會主義的路線、方針、政策，闡明了在中國建設社會主義、鞏固和發展社會主義的基本問題。1992年10月，江澤民在黨的十四大的報告中，進一步將中國特色社會主義的主要內容歸納為九個方面，并強調這個理論的創立者是鄧小平。1997年鄧小平逝世后，同年10月召開的黨的十五大，將鄧小平關于建設有中國特色社會主義的理論定名為鄧小平理論，并將其作為黨的旗幟，同馬克思列寧主義、毛澤東思想并列為黨的指導思想。