Deng Xiaoping’s Innovation in the Practice and Theory of the Ideological and Political Education in the New Period

Deng Xiaoping's theory of ideological and political education has distinct Chinese and time characteristics and is the fundamental principle and action guidance for China’s socialist reform and development in the new period. Deng’s theory emphasizes that the ideological and political education should be strengthened rather than weakened and should serve the Party’s central task, that the most important means to reinforce and improve the party’s leadership is to strengthen such education, and that the strengthening of such education relies on the improvement and innovation of the education’s methods and style.