In the Jiangxi soviet, the Party’s leftist leadership removed Deng Xiaoping from his posts for supporting Mao Zedong’s line. After the Cultural Revolution began in 1966, he lost all his leading posts. He was restored as vice premier in March 1973. In April 1976, he was again removed from all posts. In July 1977, the Third Plenum of the Tenth Central Committee restored his former posts in the Party, the state and the army.
In 1985, according to The Paper, he described himself as “a man who has gone down three times and come up three times.”