Let some people get rich first.

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

We must make a clear distinction between the nature of Chairman Mao's mistakes and the crimes of Lin Biao and the Gang of Four. For most of his life, Chairman Mao did very good things. Many times he saved the Party and the state from crisis. Without him the Chinese people would, at the very least, have spent much more time groping in the dark.

When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.

For a leader to pick his own successor is a feudal practice.

Any capitalism is superior to feudalism.

Absorbing foreign capital and technology and even allowing foreigners to construct plants in China can only play a complementary role to our effort to develop the productive forces in a socialist society. Of course, this will bring some decadent capitalist influences into China. We are aware of this possibility; it's nothing to be afraid of.