邓小平站在“毛泽东的肩上”看问题和处理问题,完整、准确地认识毛泽东探索“走自己的道路”的成功与失误,努力去解决毛泽东没有解决好的问题。邓小平探索“走自己的道路”的历史性贡献在于,他既继承毛泽东又发展和超越了毛泽东,开辟了中国特色社会主义道路,并开创了中国特色社会主义理论。邓小平为后世树立了将马克思主义与具体实际相结合来解决新问题和正确处理继承与发展关系的典范。 Standing on the shoulder of Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping looked at the problems and dealt with them. He fully and accurately understood the successes and failures of Mao Zedong’s exploration of “walking on his own path,” and worked hard to solve Mao’s unresolved problems. Deng Xiaoping’s historical contribution to exploring “taking his own path” lies in that while he inherited Mao Zedong and developed and surpassed Mao Zedong, he opened up the road to socialism with Chinese characteristics and started the theory of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Deng Xiaoping set a model for future generations to combine Marxism with concrete reality to solve new problems and properly handle the relationship between succession and development.