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representative, created Mao Zedong Thought by integrating the basic tenets of

Marxism-Leninism with the concrete practice of the Chinese revolution. Mao
Zedong Thought is Marxism-Leninism applied and developed in China; it
consists of a body of theoretical principles concerning the revolution and

construction in China and a summary of experience therein, both of which
have been proved correct by practice; it represents the crystallized, collective

wisdom of the Communist Party of China. Under the guidance of Mao Zedong
Thought, the Communist Party of China led the people of all ethnic groups in
their prolonged revolutionary struggle against imperialism, feudalism and

bureaucrat-capitalism, winning victory for the new-democratic revolution and
founding the People’s Republic of China, a people’s democratic dictatorship.

After the founding of the People’s Republic, it led them in carrying out
socialist transformation, completing the transition from New Democracy to
socialism, establishing the basic system of socialism and developing socialism

economically, politically and culturally.
After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Party Central Committee,
the Chinese Communists, with Comrade Deng Xiaoping as the chief

representative, summed up their experience, both positive and negative,
emancipated their minds, sought truth from facts, shifted the focus of the work
of the whole Party onto economic development and carried out reform and

opening to the outside world, ushering in a new era of development in the
cause of socialism, gradually formulating the line, principles and policies

concerning the building of socialism with Chinese characteristics and
expounding the basic questions concerning the building, consolidating and
developing of socialism in China, and thus founding Deng Xiaoping Theory.

Deng Xiaoping Theory is the outcome of the integration of the basic tenets of
Marxism-Leninism with the practice of contemporary China and the features

of the times, a continuation and development of Mao Zedong Thought under
new historical conditions; it represents a new period of development of
Marxism in China, it is Marxism of contemporary China and it is the

crystallized, collective wisdom of the Communist Party of China. It is guiding

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