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degeneracy among officials, and responded to corruption with firm
punishment. These important measures strengthened the integrity of the

Party and the solidarity of all Party members, built closer ties between the
Party and the people, and accumulated essential starting experience for
building a governing party.

During this period, Comrade Mao Zedong proposed a second round of
efforts to integrate the basic tenets of Marxism-Leninism with China’s realities.
Chinese communists, with Comrade Mao Zedong as their chief representative,
enriched and developed Mao Zedong Thought by taking stock of new

realities, and put forward a series of important theories for socialist
construction. These included recognizing that socialist society was a long
historical period; strictly differentiating between two types of contradictions,
namely those between the people and the enemy and those among the people,

and properly dealing with these contradictions; handling the ten major
relationships in China’s socialist construction appropriately; finding a path to
industrialization suited to China’s realities; respecting the law of value;
implementing the principle of long-term coexistence and mutual oversight

between the Communist Party and other political parties; and applying the
principle of letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of
thought contend to scientific and cultural work. These creative theoretical
achievements maintain important guiding significance to this day.

Mao Zedong Thought represents a creative application and advancement
of Marxism-Leninism in China. It is a summation of theories, principles, and

experience on China’s revolution and construction that has been proven
correct through practice, and its establishment marked the first historic step in
adapting Marxism to the Chinese context. The living soul of Mao Zedong
Thought is the positions, viewpoints, and methods embodied in its
constituent parts, which are reflected in three basic points—seeking truth

from facts, following the mass line, and staying independent. These have
provided sound guidance for developing the cause of the Party and the
people.

Regrettably, the correct line adopted at the Party’s Eighth National
Congress was not fully upheld. Mistakes were made such as the Great Leap
Forward and the people’s commune movement, and the scope of the struggle

against Rightists was also made far too broad. Confronted with a grave and
complex external environment at the time, the Party was extremely concerned
about consolidating China’s socialist state power, and made a wide range of
efforts in this regard. However, Comrade Mao Zedong’s theoretical and

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