Anti-bourgeois liberalization

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Anti-bourgeois liberalization (simplified Chinese: 反对资产阶级自由化; traditional Chinese: 反對資產階級自由化; pinyin: fǎnduì zīchǎn jiējí zìyóuhuà) as a political slogan of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), it was proposed by Deng Xiaoping and others in the early 1980s. As a political movement against "bourgeois liberalization", it started at the CCP Congress held in Beijing in September 1986. The Sixth Plenary Session of the Twelfth Central Committee of the CCP was officially launched in early 1987.^[1][2][3]

At the end of 1986, the outbreak of the 1986 Chinese student demonstrations forced the reformist General Secretary of the CCP, Hu Yaobang, to resign in early 1987. With the support of Deng Xiaoping, conservative figures Deng Liqun and Hu Qiaomu of the CCP took advantage of the trend. They launched an anti-asset campaign in early 1987—the class liberalization movement.^[2][4][5][6] However, the move was later opposed by Zhao Ziyang, acting general secretary of the CCP Central Committee and then Premier of the State Council of China. Zhao Ziyang believed that Deng Liqun and others used the anti-liberalization movement to oppose and deny reform and opening up and used this to convince Deng Xiaoping that the campaign gradually ended in mid-1987.^[3][6][5][4]