Chapter 3: How Did the CPC Keep the People's Support Despite Its Mistakes?

The CPC not only has experience in leading the Chinese revolution, construction and reform, but also has learned lessons from its past serious mistakes, which caused great losses to the party, state and nation.

The serious mistakes mainly refer to those committed during the period from 1957 to 1976, when the Cultural Revolution ended.

In Deng Xiaoping's words, the CPC had engaged in the "Left" practice for 20 years. He said that during the whole of two decades, the income of peasants and workers increased very little, and their living standards were very low. Productivity did not develop much.

But the CPC did not lose the support of the people because of its mistakes. As the saying goes, "To err is human; to forgive, divine."

The Chinese people are always tolerant of those who make mistakes for the first time. They are more concerned about the causes of mistakes and what kind of attitudes and behavior are adopted after making mistakes.

They will not blot out achievements and deny history just because of mistakes. The CPC's awareness and practice of responsibility, truly sharing weal and woe with the masses, and its responsible attitude, speech and action, showing that it has the courage to face and correct mistakes, won the understanding and support of the broad masses of the people.