邓小平的改革开放思想,是马克思主义生产力理论、社会基本矛盾原理、世界历史理论等在社会主义初级阶段的应用、发展和创新,尤其在吸收和借鉴资本主义文明成果方面有突破性发展,为历史唯物主义和科学社会主义理论增添了新的内容,在马克思主义发展史上作出了自己新的贡献。 Deng Xiaoping’s thinking on reform and opening up is the application, development and innovation of the Marxist theory on productive forces, the principle of fundamental social contradictions and the theory of world history in the primary stage of socialism. In particular, it has made breakthroughs in the development of the capitalist civilization by absorbing and borrowing from it, Materialism and scientific socialism have added new content and made new contributions in the history of the development of Marxism.