１９７８年末的中共中央政治局会议，确立了邓小平的核心领导地位。之后，中央多次召开会议，进行了组织调整，到１９８１年的十一届六中全会，以邓小平为核心的第二代中央领导集体正式形成。尽管这个集体的成员在后来有若干变化，但以邓小平为核心的格局一直保持下来，从而保证了改革开放和社会主义现代化建设的顺利进行。 The meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee in late 1978 established Deng Xiaoping’s core leadership. Afterwards, the Central Committee held several meetings and conducted organizational adjustments. By the 6th Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee in 1981, the second-generation central leadership collective with Deng Xiaoping as its core was officially formed. Although there were some changes in the collective membership later, the pattern of Deng Xiaoping at the core remained unchanged, thus ensuring the smooth progress of the reform and opening up as well as the socialist modernization drive.