While the new leaders have modified Mao's worst policies, they still maintain a determination to retain socialism, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the leading role of the Communist Party and Marxism- Leninism-Mao Tse-tung Thought.
北平的新領導階層雖然放棄了毛澤東最壞的一些政策，但是他們仍然執著「四個堅持」。