Final Assessment:

• Suppose you have been invited to give a lecture

on “Chinese History” to graduate students in
your hometown for 20 minutes…
• Requirements: a title chosen for the talk; a
screen recording of your speech; and your slides.
• Please send these documents to
liyang@shisu.edu.cn by June 30th.
XIII.1970s: Reform and Opening-up
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1. Great Cultural Revolution
1966.5-1976.10
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
无产阶级文化大革命
四人帮 GANG OF FOUR
 四旧 FOUR OLDS

old custom old habits old culture old ideas

feudal capitalist revisionist

Great Sino-
Cold
Leap Soviet
War
Forward Split
social Mao’s
frenzy role
上山下乡 DOWN TO THE COUNTRYSIDE MOVEMENT
 2. 1970s: The Reform and Opening-up

• Third Plenary Session of the • Deng Xiaoping was the chief

Eleventh Central Committee of designer of China’s reform and
CPC opening-up.
• China transformed the traditional planned economic
system into a socialist market economic system.
• The reform of the political system and the reform of the
economic system were basically carried out
simultaneously.
• By the mid-1980s, reforms in various fields such as
science and technology, education, and culture began
taking place
• 14 coastal port cities

• economic open zones

By 1993, open cities had

spread all over the
country, and China had
entered a new era of
reform and opening-up
3. Diplomatic “Opening-up”

January 29th, 1979

2. “One Country, Two Systems”

Under the premise of

one China, the main body
of the country implements
the socialist system, while
Hong Kong, Macao, and
Taiwan maintain the
capitalist system that has
been around for a long
time.