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EVERYONE HAD A CHANCE TO CLEAR HIS OR
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BE STRUGGLED AGAINST HER NAME.
EVEN THOSE WHO HAD BEEN DEALT WITH ACCORDING TO PARTY DISCIPLINE STILL RETAINED THEIR RIGHTS AS CITIZENS AND THEIR CONTRIBUTION AS INTELLECTUALS WAS STILL WELCOMED.
LI YAN SAID THAT HE HEARD THAT FANG LIZHI HAD HIMSELF AUMITTED THAT HE DESERVED HIS EXPULSION FROM THE PARTY. HE HAD SAID WRONG THINGS AND THAT AS A RESULT THE STUDENTS CREATED CHAOS., DEMOCRACY COULD NOT BE DISCUSSED UNDER THOSE CONDITIONS.
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6. THE POLICIES OF REFORM AND OPENING TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD WERE A PART OF THE PARTY LINE.
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THE PARTY LINE WAS THE SUPREME EXPRESSION OF THE PARTY'S PURPOSE AND WILL. OF LINE, GUIDING PRINCIPLE AND POLICY, LINE WAS THE HIGHEST.
FOR PARTY MEMBERS, THE PARTY LINE FORMED THEIR HIGHEST IDEAL.
NOT TO IMPLEMENT THE PARTY LINE WAS TO VIOLATE THE HIGHEST DUTY
OF PARTY MEMBERS.
NOT TO IMPLEMENT ECONOMIC MODERNISATION AND REFORM IN ACCORDANCE WITH PARTY AND STATE POLICY WAS NOT SIMPLY TO MAKE MISTAKES IN ON'S WORK BUT TO VIOLATE THE MOST BINDING OF ALL OBLIGATIONS ON PARTY MEMBERS TO CARRY OUT THE PARTY LINE.
THEREFORE THERE WOULD BE NO CHANGE IN REFORM OR OPENING TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD.
THE LEADERSHIP WAS NOW CONSIDERING HOW TO DEEPEN ECONOMIC REFORM,
E.G. STUDYING HOW TO DIFFERENTIATE OWNERSHIP FROM THE (RIGHTS 10) OPERATION.
THE FORTHCOMING NPC PLENUM WOULD DEVOTE MUCH OF ITS WORK TO ECONOMIC REFORM.
NO MISTAKES IN THE FIELD OF ECONOMIC REFORM AND OPENING TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD WOULD BE LABELLED AS BOURGEOIS LIBERALISM.
BECAUSE EVERYONE LACKED EXPERIENCE IN THIS AREA, EXTENSIVE DISCUSSION WOULD BE ALLOWED,
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