After smashing the “Gang of Four”, the Communist Party of China restored its ideological line of seeking truth from facts, corrected the “Cultural Revolution”, and as a result completely reversed the serious situation caused by the ten-year civil strife, and realized a series of major shifts of the focus of work to the socialist modernization. The “Rectification to Restore Order” lasted from October 1976 to September 1982, the period from the smashing of the “Gang of Four” to the convening of the Twelfth CPC National Congress. It can be divided into two periods by the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh CPC Central Committee in December 1978…
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