党的十五大在高度评价邓小平理论的历史地位时指出:“邓小平理论坚持科学社会主义理论和实践的基本成果,抓住‘什么是社会主义、怎样建设社会主义’这个根本问题,深刻地揭示社会主义的本质,把对社会主义的认识提高到新的科学水平。新时期的思想解放,关键就是在这个根本问题上的思想解放。……二十年的历史性转变,就是逐渐搞清楚这个问题的进程。这个进程,还将在今 While highly appraising the historical status of Deng Xiaoping Theory, the 15th CPC National Congress pointed out: "Deng Xiaoping Theory insists on the basic achievements of the theory and practice of scientific socialism and grasps the fundamental issue of what is socialism and how to build socialism and profoundly reveals The essence of socialism raised the awareness of socialism to a new scientific level. The key to emancipating the mind in the new period is the emancipation of the mind on this fundamental question .... The two decades of historic change have gradually come to understand this The process of the problem, this process, will be here as well