According to Wu Lengxi's book Ten Years of Debate, Mao Zedong convened a meeting of the Central Secretariat on March 17, 2007 to discuss the report. Mao Zedong said that Khrushchev's opposition to Stalin's secret report, on the one hand, uncovered the lid, which is good, on the other hand, shocked the world. Uncovering the lid shows that Stalin and the Soviet Union are not without mistakes, and political parties in various countries can act according to their own conditions and not be superstitious. Not only were the parties caught off guard, but even the Soviet side was unprepared for the sudden attack. It is wrong not to discuss such a big matter and such an important international figure with the parties in various countries. Facts have also proved that there are chaos all over the world. This is China's initial and most authoritative evaluation of Khrushchev's secret report at the 20th CPSU Congress.

Historical facts have proved that although the secret report revealed the shortcomings of Stalin's personality cult and the Soviet model, it was helpful to promote countries to explore the socialist development path suitable for their own national conditions in a certain sense, but the actual results had a serious negative impact. The key lies in the sloppy way of putting forward Stalin's question and the one-sided evaluation of Stalin's merits and demerits. CPSU threw out Stalin's question, did not make sufficient ideological and organizational preparations, and the confusion, scope and speed of communication exceeded people's acceptance, and lacked comprehensive explanation and education afterwards. In this case, it goes without saying that there will be serious sequelae.