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4. THESE REMARKS WERE AMPLIFIED IN THE OTHER TWO SPEECHES. HE TOLD THE SCIENTISTS THAT CHINA WOULD NOT OPPOSE BOURGEOIS LIBERALISATION AT THE EXPENSE OF DEMOCRATISATION AND THAT THERE SHOULD BE A BUILD UP OF DEMOCRACY UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY, SO THAT THE CHINESE PEOPOLE COULD ENJOY MORE DEMOCRACY AND GREATER EASE OF MIND. HIS SPEECH TO THE CHINESE PEOPLE'S CONSULTATIVE CONFERENCE MEETING READS RATHER LIKE A PRACTICE RUN FOR HIS GOVERNMENT WORK REPORT TO THE FORTHCOMING SESSION OF THE NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS. ZHAO STATED THAT THE CURRENT ECONOMIC SIUATION WAS GOOD AND THAT REFORM HAD HELPED SOLVE A NUMBER OF LONG STANDING PROBLEMS. NATURALLY MANY REMAINED, SUCH AS PRICES, BUT ONE SHOULD LOOK AT THE OVERALL SITUATION WHICH WAS ENCOURAGING”
HE DISMISSED LAST YEAR'S STUDENT PROBLEMS ON THE GROUNDS THAT THEY AFFECTED ONLY A MINORITY AND THAT THE TROUBLE WAS NOW OVER.IT SHOULD NOT HAPPEN AGAIN AND THE PARTY SHOULD GIVE A CLEAR CUT STATEMENT THAT BOIURGEOIS LIBERALISATION WOULD NOT. AGAIN BE ALLOWED TO RUN UNCHECKED SO AS TO ENDANGER MOIDERNISATION. HE THEN STATED CLEARLY AND DELIBERATELY THAT THE STRUGGLE WOULD NOT TAKE PLACE OUTSIDE THE PARTY (SEMI-COLON) ITS LIMITS WOULD BE CLEARLY DEFINED (SEMI-COLON) IT WOULD NOT AFFECT ECONOMIC REFORMS (SUCH AS. EXPERIMENTS WITH DIVORCING THE OWNERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS, ENLIVENING MIDDLE AND LARGE SCALE ENTERPRISES, DEVELOPING A MARKET IN THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION, OPENING CAPITAL MARKETS AND SO ON) (SEMI-COLON) WOR WOULD IT AFFECT REFORM OIF THE POLITICAL SYSTEM, WHICH WAS STILL UNDER DISCUSSION, POLICY TOWARDS INTELLECTUALS, NORMAL EVERYDAY LIFE OF CITIZENS, OR UNITED FRONT WORK AND THE i POLICY OF ONE COUNTRY, TWO SYSTEMS''.
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5. ZHAO MUST HAVE DELIBERATELY CHOSEN TO DELIVER THESE REMARKS TO BOTH PARTY AND NON-PARTY AUDIENCES TO REINFORCE THE UNIVERSALITY OF HIS MESSAGE. IN A SIMILAR WAY HE WAS ACCOMPAINED BY LEADERS FROM ACROSS THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM (YANG SHANKUN YU QIULI, HU QIAOMU, HU QILI AND DENG LIQUIN) WHEN HE SPOKE TO THE PROPAGANDA DIRECTORS, UNDERLINING BOTH THE UNITY OF THE LEADERSHIP AND THE FACT THAT THEY ALL HAVE TO LISTEN TO HIM. THESE SPEECHES AMOUNT TO AN IMPRESSIVE PERFORMANCE BY ZHAO, SHOWING HIM DEALING CONFIDENTLY AND COMPETENTLY WITH TODAY'S PROBLEMS, WITHOUT INCIDENTALLY THE NEED TO REPLY TOO HEAVILY ON DENG XIAOPING. THE REFORMERS MAY NOT YET BE OUT OF THE WOOD, BUT ZHAO IS GIVING A GOOD IMPRESSION OF KNOWING WHERE HE IS GOING, WHICH SHOULD FURTHER STRENGTHEN THE RESOLVE OF THOSE WHOSE FAITH WAS SOMEWHAT SHAKEN BY THE EVENTS OF JANUARY.
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