Because the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee completely denied the "two whatevers" and re-established the ideological line of emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts; Stop using the slogan of "taking class struggle as the key link" and make great determination to shift the focus of the party and the state to economic construction and implement reform and opening up; The meeting formed the collective leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Deng Xiaoping at the core. Confusing the party's ideological, political and organizational lines is the beginning of reform and opening up.

The great socialist reform and opening up was kicked off by this meeting; Taking this meeting as a starting point, it has opened up a new road to building Socialism with Chinese characteristics; Deng Xiaoping Theory, as a Marxist ideology in contemporary China, developed and gradually formed around this conference.

Extended data

The third plenary session of the 11th Central Committee of China was held in Beijing from June 1978 to February 18 to 22. Present at the meeting were 169 Central Committee members and 1 12 alternate Central Committee members. Responsible persons of relevant central and local departments attended the meeting as nonvoting delegates.

The plenary session decided that in view of the smooth progress of the work of the Central Committee since the Second Plenary Session, the national mass movement to expose and criticize Lin Biao and the Gang of Four has basically been successfully completed, and the focus of the whole party's work should be shifted from 1979 to socialist modernization. The plenary session discussed the international situation and diplomatic work and held that the foreign policy of the party and the government was correct and successful.

The plenary session discussed the problem of accelerating agricultural production and the arrangement of the national economic plans for the two years 1979 and 1980, and adopted the corresponding documents in principle.