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四項基本原則 四项基本原则 [Si4 xiang4 Ji1 ben3 Yuan2 ze2] /the Four Cardinal Principles enunciated by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平[Deng4 Xiao3 ping2] in 1979: to uphold the socialist road, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the leadership of the CCP, and Maoism and Marxism-Leninism/Reference definitions and teaching material have separate provenance.
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