Editing Ten Major Relationships (section)

[[File:The book cover of the bilingual version of On The Ten Major Relationships..jpg|thumb|The book cover of the bilingual version of On the Ten Major Relationships published as a single volume.]]
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'''On the Ten Major Relationships''' ({{zh|s=论十大关系|t=論十大關係|p=lùn shídà guānxì}}) is a speech by [[Mao Zedong]] which outlines how the [[People's Republic of China]] would construct [[socialism]] different from the model of development undertaken by the [[Soviet Union]]. It was delivered by Mao during an enlarged session of a [[Politburo of the Communist Party of China|Politburo]] meeting of the [[Communist Party of China|Chinese Communist Party]] on April 25, 1956, and further elaborated in the 7th Supreme State Conference on May 2 the same year.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.gov.cn/test/2009-08/26/content_1401631.htm|title=新中国档案：毛泽东发表《论十大关系》|date=2009-08-26|website=中国政府网|access-date=2017-12-13}}</ref>

In official account, the speech is celebrated as the landmark of the search for an alternative mode of socialist development that fit the specific conditions in China and it also marks the beginning of [[Sino-Soviet split|Mao's denouncement of the Soviet Union]] in the late 1950s.<ref name=":5" /> In fewer than 13,000 words in Chinese (10,000 in English translation), Mao stressed that China had to avoid repeating "certain defects and errors that occurred in the course of their [the Soviet Union] building socialism."<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_51.htm|title=On the Ten Major Relationships|last=Mao|first=Zedong|date=April 25, 1956|website=Marxists Internet Archive}}</ref> Covered in the speech are the economic, social, political, and ethnical aspects of building socialism in China. Mao further charted a strategy of forming alliance and splitting enemies in international sphere.

The speech was made in front of the party secretaries of various provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities, and was subsequently circulated among the middle and top cadres for political study.<ref name=":0" /> It was not published until after Mao's death in September 1976.