邓小平理论是全党全国人民进行社会主义现代化建设的指导思想。从三次考验可以正确理解邓小平理论的指导意义 :七十年代末期 ,转变工作重心 ,坚持以经济建设为中心 ;八十年代末九十年代初 ,拔正改革方向 ,坚持社会主义市场经济体制目标 ;九七年春至九八年夏 ,经受政治、经济、自然等考验 ,继往开来 ,坚持了中国特色社会主义道路。实践证明 ,邓小平理论是指导中国社会主义现代化建设取得成功的正确理论 ,能够正确解决社会主义的前途与命运问题 Deng Xiaoping Theory is the Guiding Ideology of All People in the Party in Carrying out the Socialist Modernization. From the three tests, we can correctly understand the guiding significance of Deng Xiaoping Theory. In the late seventies, we shifted the focus of our work and adhered to economic construction as the central task. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, we took the direction of reform and adhered to the objective of a socialist market economic system. From the spring of 1997 to the summer of 1998, under the test of politics, economy and nature, it has carried forward the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Practice has proved that Deng Xiaoping Theory is the correct theory that guides the successful construction of China’s socialist modernization and can correctly solve the issue of the future and destiny of socialism