第十四次全国统战工作会议期间,邓小平听取了会议情况汇报并不时插话,提出了许多对新时期统一战线发展具有深远影响的重要思想。“新时期统一战线,可以称为社会主义劳动者和爱国者的联盟。爱国者的范围是很宽广的,包括蒋经国在内,只要台湾归回祖国,他就做了爱国的事。现在可以提第三次国共合作。……现在最大的统一战问题,是台湾归回祖国、实现祖国统一问题。” During the fourteenth session of the National United Front Work Conference, Deng Xiaoping listened to the reports of the meeting and interfered from time to time, putting forward many important ideas that have a far-reaching impact on the development of the united front in the new period. “The united front in the new era can be called an alliance of socialist laborers and patriots.” The Patriots range is very broad. As long as Taiwan returns to the motherland, including Chiang Ching-kuo, he has done something patriotic. The third cooperation between the KMT and the CPC .... The biggest issue of the United Front now is the return of Taiwan to the motherland and the reunification of the motherland.