Jan 16, 1980: Deng Xiaoping makes a speech entitled "the current situation and tasks"
On Jan 16, 1980 Deng Xiaoping made a speech entitled "the current situation and tasks" at the staff meeting held by the CPC Central Committee, addressing the four premises of realizing the four modernizations: first, there must be a firm and consistent political line; second, a political stability and unity; third, there must be an entrepreneurial spirit of hard struggle; fourth, there must have cadres stick to the socialist road, with professional knowledge and ability.
Zhu De, born in Yilong County of Sichuan Province in 1886 and passed away in 1976, is a great Marxist, proletarian revolutionary, statesman and military strategist.
A native of Le Zhi, in Southwest China's Sichuan Province, and awarded by the People's Republic of China the military rank of marshal; Served as the country's Vice Premier (1954-1972) and Foreign Minister (1958-1972)