Editing Four Cardinal Principles (section)

{{Short description|Doctrine of Deng Xiaoping}}
[[File:Silk Road 1992 (4367437041) Market in Xinjiang, 1992.jpg|thumb|Slogan of "Four Cardinal Principles" in a market in [[Xinjiang]], 1992.]]
{{Politics of China |expanded =  Ideology  }}

The '''Four Cardinal Principles''' ({{zh|s=四项基本原则|p=Sì-xiàng Jīběn Yuánzé|c=}}) were stated by [[Deng Xiaoping]] in March 1979 at a [[Theory Conference, January-April 1979|conference]] of the [[Chinese Communist Party]] (CCP), during the early phase of the [[Reform and opening up|Reform and Opening-up]] period, and are the four issues for which debate was not allowed within the [[People's Republic of China]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Shambaugh |first1=David |url=https://archive.org/details/modernchinesesta0000unse |title=The Modern Chinese State |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |year=2000 |isbn=9780521776035 |page=184 |author-link=David Shambaugh}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Deng |first=Xiaoping |author-link=Deng Xiaoping |date= |title=UPHOLD THE FOUR CARDINAL PRINCIPLES (excerpts) |url=http://academics.wellesley.edu/Polisci/wj/China/Deng/principles.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220901045747/http://academics.wellesley.edu/Polisci/wj/China/Deng/principles.htm |archive-date=1 September 2022 |access-date=2021-01-10 |website=[[Wellesley College]]}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=June 22, 2011 |orig-date=March 1979 |title='Four Cardinal Principles' |url=http://www.china.org.cn/china/CPC_90_anniversary/2011-06/22/content_22838756.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331213225/http://www.china.org.cn/china/CPC_90_anniversary/2011-06/22/content_22838756.htm |archive-date=2022-03-31 |access-date=2021-01-10 |website=[[China Internet Information Center]]}}</ref> The Four Cardinal Principles were one of Deng's Two Basic Points, the other of which was the Chinese economic reform.<ref>{{Cite news |last=MacFarquhar |first=Roderick |author-link=Roderick MacFarquhar |title=Deng's Last Campaign |language=en |journal=[[New York Review of Books]] |url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1992/12/17/dengs-last-campaign/ |access-date=2021-01-15 |issn=0028-7504}}</ref>