Summary of Ten Years

During the enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held in Shanghai on June 18, 1960, Mao Zedong wrote an outline summary of the socialist revolution and socialist construction in the ten years after the founding of New China in two hours. It was included in the Manuscripts of Mao Zedong Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China, Volume 9..

This article was written in the period of "The Great Leap Forward". It contains some correct universal principles, which played a positive role at that time, but also has great historical limitations. It mainly affirms the general line, "The Great Leap Forward" and the people's commune, affirms the wrong criticism of Peng Dehuai, and shows that the guiding ideology of “Left” and its harm are still unknown.

At the Hangzhou Conference in November 1959, Mao Zedong began to sum up the ten years' experience after the founding of New China.

The enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Shanghai, in order to comprehensively reduce the planned targets, needs to combine history and reality, theory and practice, from the perspective of summing up historical experience, to solve the problem of the high-level understanding within the Party.

Mao Zedong thought that the time was ripe and wrote the important document "Summary of Ten Years". It is concluded that in the first eight years of China's socialist revolution and construction road, we copied the experience of foreign countries, and began to find a suitable route for China since 1956 when the ten major relations were put forward.

The conclusion is that our Party has a great blindness to the revolution and construction in the socialist period, and there is a great undeniable inevitable kingdom. It is necessary to investigate and study in the second decade to find out the inherent laws to make use of them to serve the socialist revolution and construction. The conclusion emphasizes striving for initiative.

Mao Zedong pointed out that the initiative is an extremely important thing. The initiative comes from seeking truth from facts and from the real reflection of the objective situation in people's minds, that is, people's dialectical understanding of the objective world. China's socialist revolution and socialist construction in the past ten years is such a process.