1981年11月,在中宣部举办的省、市、自治区党报总编辑新闻工作研讨班上,江泽民和李瑞环同志分别作了长篇重要讲话。他们以马克思主义毛泽东思想为指南,本着总结过去、思考未来的精神,回顾总结了党的新闻工作几十年、近十年、特别是1989年春夏之交动乱、暴乱中的经验教训,回答和解决了党的新闻工作一系列带有根本性的重大理论问题和现实问题,明确了党的新闻工作的性质、地位、作用,基本方针,根本任务,拨正了新闻改革 In November 1981, at the seminar on press work of the chief editors and chief editors of provinces, cities and autonomous regions held by the Central Propaganda Department, Jiang Zemin and Comrade Li Ruihuan made lengthy and important speeches respectively. In the spirit of summing up the past and thinking about the future, they used the Marxist Mao Tse-tung’s thought as a guide and reviewed and summarized the experiences and lessons of the party’s news work in recent decades, particularly the disturbances and riots in the spring and summer of 1989, Answered and resolved a series of fundamental and major theoretical and practical problems in the Party’s news work, clarified the nature, status, role, basic principles and basic tasks of the Party’s news work and rectified the news reform