Chairman Mao was after all a principal founder of the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Republic of China. In evaluating his merits and mistakes, we hold that his mistakes were only secondary. What he did for the Chinese people can never be erased. In our hearts we Chinese will always cherish him as a founder of our Party and our state.

Let some people get rich first.

According to Marx, socialism is the first stage of communism and it covers a very long historical period in which we must practise the principle "to each according to his work" and combine the interests of the state, the collective and the individual, for only thus can we arouse people's enthusiasm for labour and develop socialist production.

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

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

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

Black cat, white cat, what does it matter as long as the cat catches mice?