进入20世纪90年代的中国，在关系全局的经济体制改革目标上，遇到了一个必须跨越的思想障碍，这就是怎样看待“计划”与“市场”的关系。一段时间里，人们议论纷纷，争议不断，但现实已经不容许中国继续在争论中等待。改革迈不出新的步伐，我们将坐失发展机遇，如何加快探索突破困局？这道难题，摆在以江泽民同志为核心的第三代中央领导集体面前。
As China entered the 1990s, it confronted a mental obstacle that had to be overcome regarding the goal of economic restructuring that bore on the overall situation: how to view the relationship between planning and the market. For a time debate raged without end, but reality no longer permitted China to keep waiting amid the arguments. If reform could not take new steps, the country would miss its development opportunities. How could the deadlock be broken quickly? This difficult problem confronted the third generation of the Party's central collective leadership with Comrade Jiang Zemin at its core.
