The ten-year Cultural Revolution was formally repudiated and defined as a period of "internal chaos" by the 3rd Plenum of the CPC's 11th National Party Congress Central Committee, and is widely termed a "disaster."
這場長達十年的所謂「文化大革命」，已被中共十一屆三中全會正式否定，定性為一場「內亂」，而被廣泛地稱為「浩劫」。