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the basic tenets of Marxism-Leninism and following the path suited to China’s

specific conditions as chosen by the Chinese people, China’s socialist cause will
ultimately be victorious.
With Comrade Mao Zedong as their chief representative, Chinese Communists

developed Mao Zedong Thought by combining the basic tenets of
Marxism-Leninism with the actual practice of the Chinese revolution. Mao Zedong

Thought is the application and development of Marxism-Leninism in China; it is a
body of theoretical principles and a summary of experiences, proven correct in
practice, relating to China’s revolution and construction; and it is a crystallization
of the collective wisdom of the Communist Party of China. Under the guidance of

Mao Zedong Thought, the Communist Party of China led the Chinese people of all
ethnic groups in the long revolutionary struggle against imperialism, feudalism,

and bureaucratic capitalism, securing victory in 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, the Communist Party of China successfully
led the people in carrying out socialist transformation, completing the transition

from New Democracy to socialism, establishing the basic socialist system, and
developing a socialist economy, politics, and culture.

After the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the
Communist Party of China, Chinese Communists, with Comrade Deng Xiaoping
as their chief representative, analyzed both positive and negative experience

gained since the founding of the People’s Republic, emancipated the mind, and
sought truth from facts. They shifted the focus of the whole Party’s work onto

economic development and introduced reform and opening up, thereby ushering
in a new era of development in socialism; they gradually formulated the line,
principles, and policies for building socialism with Chinese characteristics, brought
clarity to basic questions on building, consolidating, and developing socialism in

China, and thus established Deng Xiaoping Theory. Deng Xiaoping Theory is the
product of combining Marxism-Leninism’s basic tenets with practice in

contemporary China and the particular features of the era; it is a continuation and
development of Mao Zedong Thought under new historical conditions; it
represents a new stage for the development of Marxism in China; it is the Marxism

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