Chapter 36 The starting point of China's peaceful development path is Deng Xiaoping Theory

The "China's path of peaceful development" we talk about today refers specifically to the all-round peaceful development from the end of the 1970s to the middle of this century, when China has basically realized modernization from a political power to an economic power, and has become a medium-level developed country. strategic path.The starting point of this path is Deng Xiaoping Theory, which is to build socialism with Chinese characteristics, which is the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party. In the third 28 years, in the first 11 years, Deng Xiaoping took the helm for us and stood at the front line.In 13 years, Jiang Zemin took over, and the third generation of leadership collectively surfaced.In the next four years, Hu Jintao succeeded as General Secretary to build a well-off society in an all-round way and create a new situation in the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.From "three benefits" to "three represents" and then to the scientific outlook on development, it deeply reflects our party's passing on the torch and continuing the past.

In fact, "China's path of peaceful development" is also related to the many disasters and disasters in modern China.Because we are well aware of the abhorrence of power and the value of peace, we must first maintain national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and second, realize national development and modernization in a peaceful and civilized manner. It is the deepest driving force and the most lofty goal of the unremitting struggle of generations of Chinese people. Although for a century and a half, batches of people with lofty ideals have drawn blueprints and made explorations for China's development, including Lin Zexu's smoking ban, Hong Xiuquan's "Tianchao Tianmu System", Zuo Zongtang and Zhang Zhidong's Westernization Movement , Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao's Hundred Days Reform, Sun Yat-sen's 1911 Revolution, and Song Jiaoren's "democratic politics", but in the end they failed to bring prosperity and prosperity to China. China is still bullied by foreign powers, poor and weak.Later, the Chinese Communist Party led the Chinese people to carry out a great revolution that transformed semi-colonial and semi-feudal China into a new socialist China.However, China has truly embarked on the development path of peaceful rise because the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party brought order out of chaos and achieved three changes: First, a major change in ideological line, that is, from dogmatism and personality cult to emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts.The second is a major change in the political line, from class struggle as the key link to economic construction as the center.At the same time, we have shifted from sticking to the rules and closing ourselves off to reform and opening up.The third is a major change in the organizational line, which is to rehabilitate unjust, false and wrongly convicted cases, and restore the reputation of more than 3 million cadres who have been unfairly treated in previous political campaigns since the founding of the People's Republic of China.Only in this way has the enthusiasm of the people of the whole country been mobilized, and they have regained their strength. Under the leadership of our party, they will work hard, work together, and actively explore the road to the rise of contemporary China centered on economic construction and adhering to reform and opening up.

One of Deng Xiaoping's most inspiring quotes is: "As long as socialism in China does not fall, socialism will always stand in the world." The premise of what he said was "three benefits", that is, "adhere to the line, principles, and policies since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party", "adhere to 'one center, two basic points'", that is, "basic The line must be governed for a hundred years, and it cannot be shaken."Therefore, in January and February 1992, he delivered a speech in the South, emphasizing that: "Whether China's development line established by the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee can be sustained depends on everyone's efforts, especially education. Descendants."

Deng Xiaoping clearly called the line since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee the development line, which is a very important proposition.This proposition is of course what the people are happy with, expect, and support. The 28-year development route and 28-year reform and opening up have brought profound changes to our country.China's transformation from a closed economy to the world's most attractive investment destination is unprecedented in human history.China's GDP has grown at a rate of over 9% for more than 20 consecutive years. In addition to breakthrough economic development, rapid and steady growth, people's lives have also been greatly improved.

The latest data show that the five countries or regions with the highest real salary growth this year are all in Asia, and China ranks third. This is one of the reasons why China’s outbound tourism has grown rapidly and it has become Asia’s largest source of tourists. A few years ago, you wrote an article called "Calling for Innovative Talents", which said throughout the article that "the torrent of economic globalization and the information network revolution is bound to continuously wash away all kinds of man-made obstacles to the growth of talents".You also wrote enthusiastically: "The vigorous vitality of the growth of galloping talents will surely turn into a majestic force that promotes a new leap in productivity in our country and the world."

Economic globalization and the information network revolution have broadened people's horizons, greatly increased their knowledge, greatly expanded their horizons, stimulated people's creativity, and created social wealth, providing greater possibilities in both subjective and objective aspects.More compound talents with scientific and technological connotations, artistic temperament, economic and trade talents, and foreign language talents are more good at constantly coordinating the relationship between tradition and reality, history and future, science and humanities, theory and practice, and individuals and society. Collaborative talents who resolve conflicts and work together to deal with various severe challenges may pack their backpacks and travel the world, playing a role freely and comfortably in the world economic life.

These are the achievements of reform and opening up. Yes, these aspects are all brought about by the reform and opening up, all brought about by the leadership of the party, all brought about by the development line, and all brought about by the third 28 years.We are grateful for drinking water.We should thank Deng Xiaoping.He is the core of our party's second-generation leadership collective.He is the chief architect of China's reform, opening up and modernization drive.He made the first major contribution to China's reform, opening up and modernization drive, and made immortal feats.Without his theory, without the third 28 years, it would be impossible for contemporary China to achieve such great achievements in its development, and it would be impossible to obtain all-round development and progress in material, spiritual, economic, political, cultural, and social aspects.

On the 10th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping's Southern Talks, I met his elder brother Deng Ken in Shenzhen.I asked Duncan, what do you think of your eldest brother's Southern talk.Duncan said, the same question was asked by my elder brother 10 years ago.It turned out that on the morning of July 12, 1992, Deng Ken and his wife went to visit his elder brother together, and the two talked about the present from the past.Deng Xiaoping asked specifically what he thought of his southern talk.Deng Ken's answer was, I don't want to be your younger brother, but as an ordinary member of the Communist Party of China, I want to say a word to you, a sentence from the bottom of my heart, this sentence is: China's reform and opening up cannot do without you. Southern talk.Deng Xiaoping said, what I said was to ensure that our country will have long-term peace and stability after the mourning of us old people.We have to educate future generations to achieve the goal of communism, and we have to go through the stage of socialism, and this stage is very long.The ideal of communism is great, but it will take a long historical period to achieve it.Socialism is lovely, and it is worth fighting for it.This is also a struggle for communism.

For the long-term stability of our country, and for the development line established by the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee to be maintained for 100 years, Deng Xiaoping, at the age of 89, personally directed and edited the third volume of "Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping".This is the political explanation left by Deng Xiaoping. This explanation is: "If you don't adhere to socialism, don't reform and open up, don't develop the economy, and don't improve people's lives, you can only die." This explanation is: "The right can ruin socialism, 'Left' can also destroy socialism. China must be vigilant against the right, but mainly to prevent 'left'." This explanation is: "Whether the development line of China established by the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee can be persisted depends on the It depends on everyone's efforts, especially the education of future generations." It is precisely because Deng Xiaoping has contributed a development theory, a development line, and solved a development problem to our party and our nation, so I wrote an article "On Deng Xiaoping's Thoughts on China's Development summarizes the "eight theories", that is, the theory of development opportunity, the theory of development strategy, the theory of development stages, the theory of development motivation, the theory of development model, the theory of development acceleration, the theory of development conditions and the theory of development coordination.I think China is developing itself.The world is re-understanding China.As long as we correctly understand and grasp Deng Xiaoping's thoughts on China's development, work hard, overcome all difficulties, and innovate, then a China that is peaceful, stable, prosperous, democratic, civilized, developed, and harmonious will surely be able to stand in the east of the world. Rise boldly and stand firm.