Background of reform and opening up

Economic background: Economically, as of 1978, although China's gross national product reached 362.4 billion yuan, more than double the171600 million yuan in 1965, the average annual growth rate reached 6.8%, and an independent and complete industrial system was established.

However, the people are still poor, and their technology is relatively backward. Moreover, after the Cultural Revolution, there was a certain degree of ruling crisis and trust crisis in China.

Political background: the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China's Resolution on Some Historical Issues since the Founding of the People's Republic of China reviews the history of 28 years before the founding of the People's Republic of China, and makes a basic estimation and evaluation of the seven-year socialist transformation and the ten-year comprehensive socialist construction in the 30 years after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Extended data:

Reform and opening up is one of the two basic points of the basic line of the * * * production party in the primary stage of socialism in China. The general principles and policies on socialist modernization since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee are the road to strengthening the country and the source of vitality for the development and progress of the party and the country.

Reform, that is, internal reform, is to consciously adjust and reform the incompatible aspects and connections between production relations and productivity, superstructure and economic base on the premise of adhering to the socialist system, promote the development of productivity and all-round progress of various undertakings, and better realize the fundamental interests of the broad masses of the people.

Opening, that is, opening to the outside world, is an inevitable choice to speed up China's modernization, conforms to the characteristics of the times and the general trend of world development, and is a basic national policy that must be adhered to for a long time.