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BEIJING, Aug. 22, (Xinhuanet) -- The creative ideas of late leader Deng Xiaoping and the policies he put forward have provided a strong theoretical guidance to the continuous development of the cause of the Party and people, top Party leader Hu Jintao said here Sunday.
At a grand gathering to commemorate Deng's birth
centenary, Hu,general secretary of the Communist Part of China Central Committee
and state president, paid high tribute to the late leader.
He said that Deng, with his great political courage
and creative ideas, had developed Marxism and brought the socialist cause with
Chinese characteristics into a new stage.
"The most distinctive feature of Comrade Deng
Xiaoping's scientific world outlook is emancipating the mind and seeking truth
from facts," Hu said.
Stressing that practice is the sole criterion of
truth, Deng was a master in summing up new experience, putting forward new
proposals and opening up new roads from the latest practices and under new
situation, said Hu.
With his deep understanding of Marxism and great
political foresight, Deng for the first time gave a systematic answer on how to
build, consolidate and further develop socialism in an economically and
culturally backward country like China and gave acomplete definition of
socialism in the preliminary stage.
Hu listed some of Deng's outstanding theoretical
creations suchas concentrating on development, allowing some regions and people
to get rich first so they can help others for common prosperity, and planning
and the market are only means of economic development rather than the symbols of
socialism and capitalism.
Deng was also credited by Hu for advocating the
household responsibility system in agricultural production, the reform of the
Party and government's leadership system and the abolition of the life-long
tenure system of cadres, and the scientific idea of "one country, two systems"
for settling the issues of Taiwan, HongKong and Macao. Enditem
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