This year is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, on February 20, the Party Central Committee held a mobilization meeting for the study and education of party history, and General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered an important speech pointing out that the centenary of our party is a hundred years of dedication to practicing the original mission, a hundred years of laying the foundation of the yanlu blue wisp, and a hundred years of creating brilliant and opening up the future. Looking back at the road of struggle in the past and the road of endeavor ahead, we must study and sum up the party's history well, and do a good job in inheriting and carrying forward the party's successful experience.
Today, the WeChat public account of the Association for Science and Technology has set up a special column on party history study, and continues to push the characters and stories in party history, so please pay attention to it.
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Beijing Jingxi Hotel was built in 1964.
Many years have passed, and most of the hotel's conference rooms have been renovated and renovated, except for one that remains in its original form.
What is the special commemorative significance of this meeting room? The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, which has a historical turning point, was held here.
It was a warm and cold time. The celebratory gongs and drums after the smashing of the "Gang of Four" announced the end of a decade of civil unrest. However, it is not an easy task to eliminate the serious political and ideological confusion caused by the Cultural Revolution in a short period of time. The most conspicuous obstacle to correcting this confusion was the "two whatevers" put forward and promoted at that time, that is, "we will resolutely safeguard all policy decisions made by Chairman Mao, and we will unswervingly follow all Of Chairman Mao's instructions." In theory, the "two whatevers" violate the basic tenets of Marxism and the party's basic line of seeking truth from facts, and in practice, they have set up obstacles for upholding the truth and correcting mistakes in the new situation. How can we break the old ideological shackles, get out of the shadow of the "Cultural Revolution", and find a new path for development?
The Third Plenary Session of the Tenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held in July 1977 decided to reinstate Deng Xiaoping as vice chairman of the CPC Central Committee, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, vice premier of the State Council, and chief of the general staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
People expect Deng Xiaoping's comeback to bring about new changes in China. At this time, Deng Xiaoping and his comrades-in-arms were calmly thinking and looking for a breakthrough to correct the chaos.
On May 10, 1978, theoretical dynamics, an internal journal of the Central Party School, published an article entitled "Practice is the Only Criterion for Testing Truth", which was approved by Hu Yaobang; on May 11, Guangming Ribao published it as a special commentator, and Xinhua News Agency forwarded it to the whole country. Subsequently, the People's Daily and the People's Liberation Army Daily reprinted the full text. The 5,000-plus-word article sparked a nationwide debate about the standard of truth.
At the critical moment, Deng Xiaoping gave timely and powerful support.
In November 1978, the Central Work Conference was held at the Jingxi Hotel in Beijing. On November 12, Chen Yun, who has always had little to say, proposed a major event other than the original topic of the meeting during the discussion of the Northeast Group. He said: Cadres and the masses have concerns about whether the party can be stable and united; some issues with great influence or wide coverage need to be considered and decided by the central authorities.
Chen Yun's speech "One stone stirs up a thousand layers of waves" caused a strong response from the participants. The opinions of the delegates gushed out like a tidal wave breaking through the floodgates.
On November 25, the Politburo of the CPC Central Committee made a decision to rehabilitate the Tiananmen Square incident and the case of the "Bo Yibo and other 61-person traitor group" and other wrongful cases, resolving a number of major historical problems.
These three 16-page white sheets were outlines of speeches written by Deng Xiaoping himself, and it was very rare to write such a long outline in Deng Xiaoping's work habits. This alone is enough to see the weight of this speech in Deng Xiaoping's heart.
According to this outline, on December 13, Deng Xiaoping made an important speech entitled "Emancipating the Mind, Seeking Truth from Facts, Uniting as One and Looking Forward" at the closing session of the Central Work Conference.
"If a party, a country, and a nation proceed from the basics, if their thinking is rigid and superstitions prevail, then they will not be able to advance, their vitality will cease, and they will perish the party and the country. If reforms are not carried out now, our cause of modernization and socialism will be buried. ”
Deng Xiaoping's speech actually became the keynote report of the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
On December 18, 1978, Beijing ushered in a rare heavy snowfall, a milestone day, and the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held in this conference room that still remains as it is.
The plenum broke through the serious shackles of the long-standing "Left" mistakes and completely negated the erroneous policy of "two whatevers," marking the end of the situation in which the work of the party and the state was advancing in a wandering manner after the smashing of the "Gang of Four." The plenum re-established the Marxist ideological, political, and organizational lines, and realized a great turning point of far-reaching significance in the history of the party since the founding of New China.
China, pressed the "fast forward button" again.
Shortly after the conclusion of the Third Plenum of the Eleventh Central Committee, it was New Year's Day in 1979. On this day, Deng Xiaoping appeared on the cover of Time magazine as the person of the year, commenting that Deng Xiaoping opened the door of the "Central Country" to the world, which is a magnificent and unique feat in human history!
Beginning with the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the curtain has been drawn on reform, opening up, and the creation of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and Deng Xiaoping Theory has gradually taken shape and developed. The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has entered the annals of glorious history as a great turning point.
Source: People's Daily News
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