The Comparative Study Of Mao Zedong And Deng Xiaoping's Creative Thinking

This essay consists of a preface and three main sections.The aims and significance of the comparative study of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping's creative thinking are described in the preface. The study reveals the sources of creative thinking of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, broadens the vision and deepens into the study of Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory, and enlightens people to develop their creative thinking to become the qualified personnel with new ideas in the new era.In the first section, the essay illustrates Mao Zedong and Deng Xiao ping's main manifestation and function in creative thinking. Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping were rich in creative thinking, mainly in tendentiousness, imagination, indirect and converse thinking, and dimensional thinking. Mao Zedong's tendentious thinking helped open up a Revolutionary Road of "First the rural area, then the urban area"; Deng Xiaoping's tendentious thinking helped answer the questions of " What is socialism, and how to build socialism". Mao Zedong's imaginative thinking helped draw an outline of prospects of the new democratic republic; Deng Xiaoping's imaginative thinking brought out a blueprint for the national reconstruction of socialist modernization Mao Zedong's tendentious thinking worked effectively in winning the great victory of socialist transformation; Deng Xiaoping's tendentious thinking has won great success of evolutionary reformation. Mao Zedong's converse thinking helped think out an effective remedy for Chinese revolution; Deng Xiaoping's converse thinking played an important role in realizing the radical transformation from planning economy to market economy. Mao Zedong's dimensional thinking worked successfully in making a primary and effective exploration of socialist reconstruction with Chinese characteristics; Deng Xiaoping's dimensional thinking led to form all-round reform.In the second section, the essay makes a systematic compare between Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping's creative thinking. It believes that they both haveingenious agreements and demonstrate the characteristics of different ages. The identical characteristics are mainly in the following areas: 1. Aims and purposes are the same: for the benefits of china and Chinese people. 2. The processes of forming are the same: based on the constant practice of Marxism in China. 3. Approaches are the same: value practice and people. 4. Characteristics of thinking are the same: looking at things dialectically, critically, and with flexibility and creativity. 5. Winning great success: the realization of the two leaps in the combination of Marxism with Chinese practicalities, which have become the milestones of the developments of Marxism. The distinct points: 1. Formed in different ages. The former was formed in the age of war and revolution, the latter in peace and development. 2. The basis of practice was different. The former was on the practice of revolution, the latter on the reforming and opening to the outside world, and the practice of socialist modernization. 3. Different subjects. The former mainly concentrated on the independence of the nation and liberation of the people in the semi-feudal and semi-colonial society, and how to construct and strengthen socialism; while the latter, on the realization of a rich, strong and prosperous nation, a well-to-do life of people. 4. The focuses are different. The former demonstrated on thinking vertically, the latter on horizontally, with global strategic significance. 5. Stability. Sometimes, the former was not so stable, the latter, unstable. 6. Individual characteristics. The former with more elements of romanticism, the latter, more practical; the former mainly on military area, the latter on economic development; the former with more manners of "strategist", the latter "designer"; the former " movable", the latter "stable"; the former, historically looking back, the latter, designing the future; the fo er, based on home force, the latter, opening to the outside world.In the third section, the practical sig...