(ANSA) - BEIJING, NOVEMBER 16 - Xi Jinping expresses a very heavy criticism of Mao Zedong in the 'historical resolution' approved by the Plenum of the CCP last week and published today regarding the "errors" attributed to the Great Helmsman, which produced "a large number of criminal activities "on the occasion of the decade of the Cultural Revolution, among the most controversial hyperiods of the People's Republic.
While defining Mao's thinking and the application of Marxism-Leninism to Chinese reality as "correct", "unfortunately the correct line formed by the VIII Party Congress" held in 1956 "could not be fully respected", causing "errors".
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