In China, we are considering ways of resolving our problems by improving our institutions.

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

Whatever sentence is passed on the Gang of Four won't be excessive. They brought harm to millions upon millions of people.

Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.

It is Chairman Mao who should be held primarily responsible for the Great Leap Forward. But it didn't take him long - just a few months - to recognize his mistake, and he did so before the rest of us and proposed corrections. And in 1962, when because of some other factors those corrections had not been fully carried out, he made a self-criticism. But the lessons were not fully drawn, and as a result the "Cultural Revolution" erupted.

In the past there were too many portraits of Chairman Mao in China. They were hung everywhere. That was not proper and it didn't really show respect for Chairman Mao.

Cross the river by feeling for stones under one's feet.