1976 10 smashed the gang of four in one fell swoop and saved the party and the country from danger. However, the political, ideological, organizational and economic chaos left over from the "Cultural Revolution" is still extremely serious, and the right and wrong of the Party's guiding ideology has not been well clarified. The broad masses of cadres and the masses strongly demand that the wrong theories, principles and policies of the "Cultural Revolution" be corrected and that the situation of civil strife in the past ten years be completely reversed.

The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party opened a new historical period of reform and opening up. At the beginning of reviewing and summarizing the great historical process of reform and opening up in the new period for 29 years, the report of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China made such an incisive summary with broad historical background and profound ideological content. Looking back at the history before and after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party, we can deepen our understanding of this point from the combination of theory and practice.

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From 1976 to 1978, China entered the symbol of a new historical period-the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party.

The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China fundamentally broke through the serious shackles of long-term "Left" errors, and clearly pointed out that we must master Mao Zedong Thought's scientific system 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.

Comrade Deng Xiaoping delivered a famous speech "Emancipating the Mind, Seeking Truth from Facts, and Looking Forward with Unity" at the Central Working Conference held before the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party.

The important conclusion in the speech about "a party, a country and a nation, if everything starts from its roots, its ideology is rigid and superstition prevails, then it can't move forward, its vitality will stop and its party and country will perish".

Phoenix Net-The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party opened a new historical period of reform and opening up.