Deng Xiaoping's Southern Tour Talks

Between January 18 and February 21, 1992, the 88-year-old Deng Xiaoping conducted a tour of south China, visiting Wuchang, Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Shanghai and gave a series of talks, collectively known as the "Southern Tour Talks." He expressed his deepest hopes for the cause of the Party and the people, a strong sense of political and strategic issues, and an acute awareness of potential dangers.

On March 26, Shenzhen Special Zone Daily published a full report on Deng's visit to the city, and listed the main points of his comments during the tour. Deng's talks reiterated the need to firmly adhere to the Party's guideline of "one central task and two basic points" and the socialist path with distinctive Chinese features, to seize the opportunity of the moment to accelerate reform and opening up, and to concentrate on economic development. He also elaborated on what socialism is and the essence of socialism.

Targeting the misgivings existing among the people, Deng reviewed the experience and lessons from China's reform and opening up over the previous 14 years, and emphasized the importance of deeper reform and faster development. He also offered new ideas and new approaches regarding major theoretical and practical issues, and answered a number of questions that had troubled officials and the general public for quite some time. His talks were deemed of political value to the whole Party and the entire nation.

These talks represented the maturing of Deng Xiaoping Theory, and inspired the second round of China's reform and opening up. They provided timely answers to the questions of "what is socialism and how to build socialism." They effectively freed people's minds, and reaffirmed their faith in socialism. Hailed as a milestone in building Chinese socialism, they boosted China's economic reform and social progress in the 1990s, and their influence has extended into the 21st century.

鄧小平南方談話

1992年1月18日至2月21日，鄧小平以88歲的高齡，憑著對(duì)中國(guó)共產(chǎn)黨和中國(guó)人民偉大事業(yè)的深切期待，以強(qiáng)烈的政治意識(shí)、戰(zhàn)略意識(shí)和憂患意識(shí)，先后赴武昌、深圳、珠海和上海等地視察并發(fā)表一系列重要講話，通稱(chēng)“南方談話”。

1992年3月26日，《深圳特區(qū)報(bào)》率先發(fā)表《東方風(fēng)來(lái)滿眼春——鄧小平同志在深圳紀(jì)實(shí)》的重大社論報(bào)道，并集中闡述鄧小平南方談話的要點(diǎn)內(nèi)容。談話重點(diǎn)解決了堅(jiān)定不移地貫徹執(zhí)行黨的“一個(gè)中心，兩個(gè)基本點(diǎn)”的基本路線、堅(jiān)持走有中國(guó)特色社會(huì)主義道路、抓住有利時(shí)機(jī)加快改革開(kāi)放的步伐、集中精力把經(jīng)濟(jì)建設(shè)搞上去和什么是社會(huì)主義及社會(huì)主義的本質(zhì)等問(wèn)題。“南方談話”針對(duì)人們思想中普遍存在的疑慮，重申深化改革、加速發(fā)展的必要性和重要性，并從中國(guó)實(shí)際出發(fā)，站在時(shí)代的高度，深刻總結(jié)十多年改革開(kāi)放的經(jīng)驗(yàn)教訓(xùn)，在一系列重大的理論和實(shí)踐問(wèn)題上提出新觀點(diǎn)、講出新思路，回答了多年來(lái)困擾和束縛干部群眾思想的許多重大認(rèn)識(shí)問(wèn)題，是給全黨和全國(guó)人民的一份最寶貴的政治囑托。

“南方談話”的發(fā)表標(biāo)志著鄧小平理論的成熟，也標(biāo)志著中國(guó)改革開(kāi)放第二次浪潮的掀起和中國(guó)改革進(jìn)入新階段。這一系列重要講話及時(shí)深刻地回答了中國(guó)改革開(kāi)放中“什么是社會(huì)主義，怎樣建設(shè)社會(huì)主義”的重大問(wèn)題，極大地解放了人們的思想并堅(jiān)定了人們對(duì)社會(huì)主義的信念，極大地推動(dòng)了中國(guó)改革開(kāi)放的進(jìn)程，是建設(shè)有中國(guó)特色社會(huì)主義道路上的一座里程碑?！澳戏秸勗挕辈粌H對(duì)中國(guó)20世紀(jì)90年代的經(jīng)濟(jì)改革與社會(huì)進(jìn)步起到關(guān)鍵性推動(dòng)作用，對(duì)21世紀(jì)中國(guó)的改革與發(fā)展同樣產(chǎn)生著不可估量的推動(dòng)作用。