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The Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee, held in December 1978, formed the CPC leadership with Deng Xiaoping at the core |
October 1976–December 1978
Toward a Historic Turn
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Farmers of 18 households from Xiaogang Village, Anhui Province, signed a secret agreement with their thumb prints on November 24, 1978, to divide the land of local communes into household plots in return for delivering fixed output quotas to the government. This gave farmers incentives that had been dampened in the planned economy |
December 1978–August 1982
Initiation of Reform and Opening Up
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