The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh CPC Central Committee was held in Beijing from December 18 to 22, 1978. The central topic was to discuss shifting the focus of the whole Party’s work to socialist modernization. A strategic decision was made to shift the focus of the whole Party’s work to socialist modernization and implement Reform and Opening-up from 1979. Attending the session were 169 Central Committee members and 112 alternate members. Persons responsible for relevant central and local departments attended the session as nonvoting delegates. The session turned out to be fruitful. In terms of economic construction, a series of new major measures were proposed to adjust the imbalanced national economy and reform the excessively centralized economic management system. The correct ideological line of the Communist Party of China was re-established. The wrong policy of “two whatevers” was criticized, the need to master and apply the scientific system of Mao Zedong Thought completely and accurately was fully affirmed, the debate on the standard of truth won high praise, and the guiding principle of emancipating the mind, setting the wits to work, seeking truth from facts, and looking forward with unity was determined…
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