Content: The meeting totally denied the "two whatevers" policy, stopped the slogan of taking class struggle as the key link, established the ideological line of emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts, made a major decision to shift the focus of the work of the party and the state to economic construction and realize reform and opening up, put forward a sound socialist democracy and legal system, and solved a number of unjust, false and misjudged cases; The Third Plenary Session formed the second generation of collective leadership with Deng Xiaoping at the core.

Historical significance: The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee is a turning point with far-reaching influence in the history of the Party since the founding of the People's Republic of China. It destroyed the party's ideological, political and organizational lines. China has entered a new era of socialist modernization.