He ended the ideo-logical primacy of "class struggle," promoting instead economic reform and opening to the outside world, to lift the PRC out of poverty and salvage the CCP regime from the brink of collapse.
他撇開了「階級鬥爭為綱」的意識形態，推行了「改革開放」的經濟路線，扭轉「一窮二白」的貧困局面，並從而挽救了中共政權的崩潰危機。