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The Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee in 1978 is a milestone in Chinese social development. From then on, Chinese people begun to discover their own cultural confidence in the voluntary opening-up. Although this kind of “discovery” had some uncertainty, doubts and hesitations in the beginning, its basic direction has been ensured and has gradually become the common view of Chinese people.
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Fu, C., Cao, W. (2019). An Exploration of the Vigorous Growth of Urban Squares. In: An Urban History of China. China Connections. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8211-6_13
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