[Shanghai CNSK Group Share] Resolution of the CPC Central Committee on the Party’s Major Achievements and Historical Experiences in its Hundred Years of Struggle

​Resolution of the CPC Central Committee on the Party’s Centennial Struggle

Major Achievements and Historical Experiences

(Adopted at the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th

Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on November 11, 2021)

Preface

Since its founding in 1921, the Communist Party of China has always taken the pursuit of happiness for the Chinese people and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation as its original mission, always adhered to the communist ideal and socialist beliefs, united and led the people of all ethnic groups in the country to strive for national independence, people's liberation and the realization of national prosperity and people's happiness. It has gone through a glorious journey of 100 years.

Over the past 100 years, the Party has led the people to fight bloody battles and persevere, creating the great achievements of the new democratic revolution; relying on self-reliance and striving for strength, creating the great achievements of socialist revolution and construction; emancipating the mind and forging ahead, creating the great achievements of reform and opening up and socialist modernization; self-confidence and self-reliance, keeping the right path and innovation, creating the great achievements of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. The Party and the people have struggled for a hundred years and written the most magnificent epic in the thousands of years of history of the Chinese nation.

Summarizing the major achievements and historical experience of the Party's century-long struggle is necessary to embark on a new journey of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way under the historical conditions of the Party's centenary, and to uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era; it is necessary to enhance political awareness, awareness of the overall situation, core awareness, and awareness of alignment, and to strengthen confidence in the path, theory, system, and culture, to firmly safeguard Comrade Xi Jinping's core position in the Party Central Committee and the core position of the whole Party, to firmly safeguard the authority and centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, and to ensure that the whole Party moves forward in unison; it is necessary to promote the Party's self-revolution, improve the Party's ability to struggle and respond to risks and challenges, to maintain the vitality of the Party, and to unite and lead the people of all ethnic groups in the country to continue to struggle for the realization of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The whole Party must adhere to the materialist view of history and the correct view of Party history, and see clearly from the Party's century-long struggle why we were able to succeed in the past and how we can continue to succeed in the future, so as to more firmly and consciously practice the original mission and better uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era.

The "Resolution on Certain Historical Issues" adopted by the Seventh Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee of the Party in 1945 and the "Resolution on Certain Historical Issues of the Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China" adopted by the Sixth Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party in 1981 summarized the major historical events and important lessons of the Party in a realistic manner, unified the thinking and actions of the whole Party at a major historical juncture, and played an important leading role in promoting the cause of the Party and the people. Their basic expositions and conclusions are still applicable today.

1. Winning the Great Victory of the New Democratic Revolution

During the New Democratic Revolution, the main tasks facing the Party were to oppose imperialism, feudalism, and bureaucratic capitalism, strive for national independence and people's liberation, and create fundamental social conditions for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

The Chinese nation is an ancient and great nation in the world. It has created a splendid civilization that has lasted for more than 5,000 years and has made indelible contributions to the progress of human civilization. After the Opium War in 1840, due to the invasion of Western powers and the corruption of feudal rule, China gradually became a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. The country was humiliated, the people suffered, and the civilization was covered in dust. The Chinese nation suffered unprecedented disasters. In order to save the nation from peril, the Chinese people rose up in resistance, and people of lofty ideals fought and shouted, and carried out a heroic struggle. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, the Westernization Movement, the Reform Movement of 1898, and the Boxer Movement followed one after another, and various plans to save the country were introduced in turn, but all ended in failure. The Revolution of 1911 led by Mr. Sun Yat-sen overthrew the monarchy that had ruled China for thousands of years, but failed to change the semi-colonial and semi-feudal social nature of China and the tragic fate of the Chinese people. China urgently needs new ideas to lead the national salvation movement and new organizations to gather revolutionary forces.

The October Revolution brought Marxism-Leninism to China with a single gunshot. The May Fourth Movement promoted the spread of Marxism in China. In the great awakening of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation, and in the close combination of Marxism-Leninism and the Chinese workers' movement, the Communist Party of China came into being in July 1921. The birth of the Communist Party of China was a great event that opened up the world, and the face of the Chinese revolution has been completely changed since then.

The Party deeply realized that the main contradictions in modern Chinese society are the contradictions between imperialism and the Chinese nation, and the contradictions between feudalism and the masses of the people. To realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, we must carry out the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal struggle.

At the beginning of the founding of the Party and during the Great Revolution, the Party formulated the democratic revolution program, launched the workers' movement, the youth movement, the peasant movement, and the women's movement, promoted and helped the reorganization of the Kuomintang and the establishment of the National Revolutionary Army, led the great anti-imperialist and anti-feudal struggle across the country, and set off a climax of the Great Revolution. In 1927, the reactionary group within the Kuomintang betrayed the revolution and brutally massacred the Communists and revolutionary people. Because the rightist ideas represented by Chen Duxiu in the Party developed into rightist opportunist errors and dominated the leading organs of the Party, the Party and the people could not organize effective resistance, resulting in the Great Revolution suffering a disastrous defeat under the sudden attack of a powerful enemy.

During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, the Party realized from the cruel reality that without revolutionary armed forces, it would be impossible to defeat the armed counter-revolutionaries, win the victory of the Chinese revolution, and change the destiny of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation. It is necessary to oppose the armed counter-revolutionaries with armed revolution. The Nanchang Uprising fired the first shot of armed resistance against the Kuomintang reactionaries, marking the beginning of the Chinese Communist Party's independent leadership of the revolutionary war, the creation of the people's army, and the armed seizure of power. The August 7th Conference determined the policy of implementing land revolution and armed uprising. The Party led the Autumn Harvest Uprising, the Guangzhou Uprising and many other uprisings in various regions, but most of these uprisings failed due to the disparity in strength between the enemy and us. Facts have proved that under the objective conditions at that time, it was impossible for the Chinese Communists to achieve victory in the revolution across the country by first occupying the central cities as the October Revolution in Russia did. The Party urgently needed to find a revolutionary path suitable for China's national conditions.

The shift from attacking large cities to marching into the countryside was a new starting point of decisive significance for the Chinese revolution. Comrade Mao Zedong led the army and the people to establish the first rural revolutionary base in Jinggangshan, and the Party led the people to fight against local tyrants and divide the land. The Gutian Conference established the principle of building the Party with ideology and building the army with politics. As the struggle developed, the Party established the Central Revolutionary Base and bases such as Xiang-Hubei-Xi, Hai-Lufeng, Hubei-Henan-Anhui, Qiongya, Fujian-Zhejiang-Jiangxi, Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi, Hunan-Jiangxi, Zuoyoujiang, Sichuan-Shaanxi, Shaanxi-Gansu, Hunan-Hubei-Sichuan-Guizhou. The Party also developed the Party and other revolutionary organizations in the white areas under the rule of the Kuomintang and carried out mass revolutionary struggles. However, due to Wang Ming's "left" dogmatism's erroneous leadership within the Party, the Central Revolutionary Base Area's fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign failed, and the Red Army had to make a strategic shift and moved to northern Shaanxi after an arduous and arduous Long March. The mistakes of the "left" line caused great losses to the revolutionary base areas and the revolutionary forces in the white areas.

In January 1935, the Central Political Bureau held the Zunyi Conference during the Long March, which in fact established Comrade Mao Zedong's leadership position in the Party Central Committee and the Red Army, began to establish the leadership position of the correct Marxist line represented by Comrade Mao Zedong in the Party Central Committee, and began to form the first generation of the Party's central leadership collective with Comrade Mao Zedong as the core, opening a new stage for the Party to independently solve the practical problems of the Chinese revolution, saving the Party, the Red Army, and the Chinese revolution at the most critical moment, and later enabling the Party to defeat Zhang Guotao's separatism, successfully complete the Long March, and open up a new situation for the Chinese revolution. This is a vital turning point in the history of the Party.

During the Anti-Japanese War, after the September 18th Incident, the Sino-Japanese national contradiction gradually surpassed the domestic class contradiction and rose to become the main contradiction. At a time when Japanese imperialism was stepping up its aggression against my country and the national crisis was unprecedentedly serious, the Party took the lead in raising the banner of armed resistance against Japan, carrying out extensive anti-Japanese and national salvation movements, and promoting the peaceful resolution of the Xi'an Incident, which played a major historical role in promoting the KMT-CPC cooperation and unity in the anti-Japanese war. After the July 7 Incident, the Party implemented the correct policy of the anti-Japanese national united front, adhered to the line of comprehensive resistance, proposed and implemented the strategic general policy of protracted war and a complete set of strategies and tactics of the people's war, opened up a vast battlefield behind enemy lines and anti-Japanese bases, led the Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces and other people's anti-Japanese armed forces to fight bravely, and became the mainstay of the entire nation's anti-Japanese war until the final victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. This was the first time in modern times that the Chinese people's national liberation struggle against foreign invasions achieved complete victory, and it was also an important part of the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War.

During the War of Liberation, in the face of the all-out civil war brazenly launched by the Kuomintang reactionaries, the Party led the army and the people to gradually shift from active defense to strategic offense, winning the Liaoshen, Huaihai, Pingjin and Crossing the Yangtze River Campaigns, marching victoriously to the Central South, Northwest and Southwest, annihilating the Kuomintang reactionary army of 8 million, overthrowing the Kuomintang reactionary government, and overthrowing the three mountains of imperialism, feudalism and bureaucratic capitalism. With the support of the people, the people's army led by the Party fought a desperate struggle with the vicious enemy with indomitable heroism and established historical merits for winning the victory of the new democratic revolution.

In the revolutionary struggle, the Chinese Communists, with Comrade Mao Zedong as the main representative, combined the basic principles of Marxism-Leninism with the specific reality of China, made a theoretical summary of a series of original experiences accumulated through arduous exploration and great sacrifice, opened up the correct revolutionary road of encircling the cities from the countryside and seizing power by force, founded Mao Zedong Thought, and pointed out the correct direction for winning the victory of the new democratic revolution.

In the revolutionary struggle, the Party carried forward the great Party-building spirit of upholding truth, sticking to ideals, practicing the original aspiration, fulfilling the mission, not fearing sacrifice, fighting bravely, being loyal to the Party, and not failing the people, implemented and promoted the great project of Party building, put forward the principle of focusing on building the Party ideologically, adhered to democratic centralism, adhered to the three excellent styles of linking theory with practice, keeping close contact with the masses, and criticism and self-criticism, formed the three magic weapons of united front, armed struggle, and Party building, and worked hard to build a nationwide, broad-based, ideologically, politically, and organizationally completely consolidated Marxist party. The Party began to carry out rectification throughout the Party in 1942, and this Marxist ideological education movement has achieved great results. The Party formulated the "Resolution on Certain Historical Issues" to achieve a consensus among the whole Party on the basic issues of the Chinese revolution. The Seventh National Congress of the Party formulated the correct line, principles, and policies for the establishment of a new democratic new China, so that the whole Party achieved unprecedented unity and solidarity in ideology, politics, and organization.

After 28 years of bloody struggle, the Party led the people, and with the active cooperation of various democratic parties and non-party democrats, the People's Republic of China was declared established on October 1, 1949, achieving national independence and people's liberation, completely ending the history of the old China's semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, completely ending the history of a very small number of exploiters ruling the vast majority of working people, and completely ending the situation of the old China in a state of disunity. The unequal treaties imposed on China by the great powers and all the privileges of imperialism in China were completely abolished, and China achieved a great leap from thousands of years of feudal autocratic politics to people's democracy. It also greatly changed the world's political landscape and inspired the struggle of oppressed nations and oppressed peoples around the world for liberation.

Practice has fully demonstrated that history and the people have chosen the Communist Party of China. Without the leadership of the Communist Party of China, national independence and people's liberation would be impossible to achieve. The Communist Party of China and the Chinese people solemnly declared to the world with heroic and tenacious struggle that the Chinese people have stood up from now on, and the era when the Chinese nation was at the mercy of others and suffered from bullying is gone forever. China's development has opened a new era since then.

II. Completing the Socialist Revolution and Promoting Socialist Construction

During the period of socialist revolution and construction, the main tasks facing the Party were to achieve the transition from New Democracy to socialism, carry out socialist revolution, promote socialist construction, and lay the fundamental political premise and institutional foundation for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

After the founding of New China, the Party led the people to overcome a series of severe challenges in politics, economy, and military, eliminated the remnant armed forces and bandits of the Kuomintang reactionaries, peacefully liberated Tibet, and achieved complete reunification of the mainland of the motherland; stabilized prices, unified financial work, completed land reform, carried out democratic reforms in all aspects of society, implemented equal rights for men and women, suppressed counter-revolutionaries, launched the "Three Antis" and "Five Antis" movements, and washed away the muddy water left by the old society, giving the society a new look. The Chinese People's Volunteers crossed the Yalu River with great vigor and courage, fought shoulder to shoulder with the Korean people and army, defeated the powerful enemy armed to the teeth, demonstrated the national prestige and military prestige, demonstrated the spirit of the Chinese people, won the great victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, defended the security of New China, and demonstrated the great power status of New China. New China has gained a firm foothold in the complex domestic and international environment.

The Party led the establishment and consolidation of the state power of the people's democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance, creating conditions for the rapid development of the country. In 1949, the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference formulated the Common Program of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. In 1953, the Party formally proposed the general line for the transition period, that is, to gradually realize the socialist industrialization of the country and the socialist transformation of agriculture, handicrafts and capitalist industry and commerce over a fairly long period of time. In 1954, the First Session of the First National People's Congress was held and the Constitution of the People's Republic of China was adopted. In 1956, my country basically completed the socialist transformation of the private ownership of the means of production, basically realized the public ownership of the means of production and distribution according to work, and established a socialist economic system. The Party led the establishment of the people's congress system, the multi-party cooperation and political consultation system led by the Communist Party of China, and the system of regional ethnic autonomy, providing institutional guarantees for the people to be masters of the country. The Party led the realization and consolidation of the great unity of the people of all ethnic groups in the country, formed and developed socialist ethnic relations of equality and mutual assistance among all ethnic groups, realized and consolidated the great unity of the workers, peasants, intellectuals and other strata of the people in the country, and strengthened and expanded the broad united front. The establishment of the socialist system has laid an important foundation for all progress and development in my country.

Based on the situation after the basic completion of my country's socialist transformation, the Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed that the main contradiction in China is no longer the contradiction between the working class and the bourgeoisie, but the contradiction between the people's need for rapid economic and cultural development and the current situation where the economy and culture cannot meet the people's needs. The main task of the people across the country is to concentrate on developing social productivity, realizing national industrialization, and gradually meeting the people's growing material and cultural needs. The Party proposed to strive to gradually build my country into a socialist power with modern agriculture, modern industry, modern national defense and modern science and technology, and lead the people to carry out comprehensive and large-scale socialist construction. After implementing several five-year plans, my country has established an independent and relatively complete industrial system and national economic system, agricultural production conditions have changed significantly, and education, science, culture, health and sports have made great progress. "Two bombs and one satellite" and other cutting-edge defense technologies have made continuous breakthroughs, and the defense industry has gradually developed from scratch. The People's Liberation Army has been strengthened and improved, and has developed from a single army to a synthetic army including the navy, air force and other technical arms, providing a strong backing for consolidating the new people's regime, establishing China's status as a great power, and safeguarding the dignity of the Chinese nation.

The Party adheres to an independent and peaceful foreign policy, advocates and adheres to the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, firmly safeguards national independence, sovereignty and dignity, supports and assists the liberation of oppressed nations in the world, the construction of newly independent countries and the just struggle of people of all countries, opposes imperialism, hegemonism, colonialism and racism, and completely puts an end to the humiliating diplomacy of old China. The Party adjusts its diplomatic strategy in light of the situation, promotes the restoration of all legitimate rights of my country in the United Nations, opens up a new situation in foreign affairs, and promotes the formation of a pattern in which the international community adheres to the one-China principle. The Party puts forward the strategy of dividing the world into three parts and makes a solemn commitment that China will never seek hegemony, winning respect and praise from the international community, especially the vast developing countries.

The Party fully anticipated the new challenges faced by ruling the country. As early as the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the Party, held on the eve of the national victory of the War of Liberation, it proposed to the whole Party that it must continue to maintain a humble, prudent, non-arrogant and non-impulsive style, and must continue to maintain a style of hard work. After the founding of New China, the Party focused on raising major issues of Party building under the conditions of ruling the country, strengthening Party building and consolidating Party leadership in terms of ideology, organization and style. The Party strengthened theoretical learning and knowledge training for cadres, improved the Party's leadership level, and required the whole Party, especially senior Party cadres, to enhance their awareness of maintaining the Party's unity and solidarity. The Party carried out rectification and rectification, strengthened intra-Party education, rectified grassroots Party organizations, improved the conditions of Party members, and opposed bureaucracy, commandism, and corruption and waste. The Party was highly vigilant and focused on preventing Party members and cadres from becoming corrupt and degenerate, and resolutely punished corruption. These important measures have enhanced the purity of the Party and the unity of the whole Party, strengthened the Party's ties with the people, and accumulated initial experience in building a ruling party.

During this period, Comrade Mao Zedong proposed to "combine the basic principles of Marxism-Leninism with China's specific reality for the second time". The Chinese Communists, with Comrade Mao Zedong as the main representative, enriched and developed Mao Zedong Thought in light of the new reality and put forward a series of important ideas on socialist construction, including that socialist society is a very long historical stage, strictly distinguishing and correctly handling contradictions between enemies and ourselves and contradictions among the people, correctly handling the ten major relationships in my country's socialist construction, taking a path of industrialization suitable for my country's national conditions, respecting the law of value, implementing the principle of "long-term coexistence and mutual supervision" in the relationship between the Party and democratic parties, and implementing the principle of "letting a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend" in scientific and cultural work. These original theoretical achievements still have important guiding significance.

Mao Zedong Thought is the creative application and development of Marxism-Leninism in China. It is the correct theoretical principles and experience summary of China's revolution and construction that has been proven by practice. It is the first historic leap in the sinicization of Marxism. The living soul of Mao Zedong Thought is the standpoint, viewpoint and method that runs through all its components, which are reflected in the three basic aspects of seeking truth from facts, the mass line and independence, and provide scientific guidance for the development of the cause of the Party and the people.

Unfortunately, the correct line formed at the Eighth National Congress of the Party was not fully adhered to, and mistakes such as the "Great Leap Forward" movement and the people's commune movement appeared successively, and the anti-rightist struggle was also seriously expanded. Faced with the severe and complex external environment at that time, the Party was extremely concerned about the consolidation of the socialist regime and made many efforts to this end. However, Comrade Mao Zedong's mistakes in the theory and practice of class struggle in socialist society became more and more serious, and the Party Central Committee failed to correct these mistakes in time. Comrade Mao Zedong made a completely wrong assessment of the class situation in my country at that time and the political situation of the Party and the country, and launched and led the "Cultural Revolution". The two counter-revolutionary groups of Lin Biao and Jiang Qing took advantage of Comrade Mao Zedong's mistakes and carried out a large number of criminal activities that harmed the country and the people, causing a decade of civil strife, causing the Party, the country, and the people to suffer the most serious setbacks and losses since the founding of New China, and the lessons were extremely painful. In October 1976, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee implemented the will of the Party and the people and resolutely smashed the "Gang of Four", ending the disaster of the "Cultural Revolution".

From the founding of the People's Republic of China to the eve of reform and opening up, the Party led the people to complete the socialist revolution, eliminate all exploitative systems, and achieve the most extensive and profound social changes in the history of the Chinese nation, and achieved a great leap for a poor and populous Eastern country to stride into a socialist society. In the process of exploration, although it experienced serious twists and turns, the original theoretical achievements and great achievements made by the Party in the socialist revolution and construction provided valuable experience, theoretical preparation, and material foundation for the creation of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new historical period.

The Communist Party of China and the Chinese people solemnly declared to the world with heroic and tenacious struggle that the Chinese people are not only good at destroying an old world, but also good at building a new world. Only socialism can save China and only socialism can develop China.

III. Carrying out reform and opening up and socialist modernization

In the new period of reform and opening up and socialist modernization, the main task facing the Party is to continue to explore the correct path of building socialism in China, liberate and develop social productive forces, enable the people to get rid of poverty and become rich as soon as possible, and provide a new and dynamic institutional guarantee and material conditions for rapid development for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

After the end of the "Cultural Revolution", at the critical historical juncture where the Party and the country were facing a difficult situation, the Party deeply realized that only reform and opening up was the only way out, otherwise our modernization and socialist cause would be ruined. In December 1978, the Party held the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, decisively ended the "class struggle as the key link", realized the strategic shift of the Party and the country's work center, opened a new period of reform and opening up and socialist modernization, and realized a great turning point with far-reaching significance in the history of the Party since the founding of New China. The Party made a major decision to completely negate the "Cultural Revolution". For more than 40 years, the Party has always adhered to the line, principles and policies established at this plenary session.

After the Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee, the Chinese Communists, with Comrade Deng Xiaoping as the main representative, united and led the whole Party and the people of all ethnic groups in the country to deeply summarize the positive and negative experiences since the founding of New China. Focusing on the fundamental question of what is socialism and how to build socialism, drawing on the historical experience of world socialism, they created Deng Xiaoping Theory, emancipated their minds, sought truth from facts, and made the historic decision to shift the focus of the Party and the country's work to economic construction and implement reform and opening up. They profoundly revealed the essence of socialism, established the basic line of the primary stage of socialism, and clearly proposed to take our own path and build socialism with Chinese characteristics. They scientifically answered a series of basic questions about building socialism with Chinese characteristics, formulated a development strategy of basically realizing socialist modernization in three steps by the middle of the 21st century, and successfully created socialism with Chinese characteristics.

After the Fourth Plenary Session of the 13th CPC Central Committee, the Chinese Communists, with Comrade Jiang Zemin as the main representative, united and led the whole Party and the people of all ethnic groups in the country, adhered to the Party's basic theory and basic line, deepened the understanding of what socialism is, how to build socialism, what kind of party to build, and how to build the Party, formed the important thought of "Three Represents", defended socialism with Chinese characteristics in the face of severe tests when the domestic and international situation was very complicated and world socialism encountered serious twists and turns, established the reform goals and basic framework of the socialist market economic system, established the basic economic system of public ownership as the main body and the common development of multiple ownership economies in the primary stage of socialism, and the distribution system of distribution according to work as the main body and multiple distribution methods coexisting, created a new situation of comprehensive reform and opening up, promoted the new great project of Party building, and successfully pushed socialism with Chinese characteristics into the 21st century.

After the 16th CPC National Congress, the Chinese Communists, with Comrade Hu Jintao as the main representative, united and led the whole Party and the people of all ethnic groups in the country to promote innovation in practice, theory and system in the process of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, deeply understood and answered major questions such as what kind of development to achieve and how to develop under the new situation, formed the Scientific Outlook on Development, seized the important strategic opportunity period, concentrated on construction, and devoted themselves to development. They emphasized the people-oriented, comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable development, focused on guaranteeing and improving people's livelihood, promoting social fairness and justice, and promoting the Party's governance capacity and advanced nature. They successfully adhered to and developed socialism with Chinese characteristics under the new situation.

In order to promote reform and opening up, the Party re-established the Marxist ideological line, political line and organizational line, thoroughly negated the erroneous policy of "two whatevers", and correctly evaluated Comrade Mao Zedong's historical status and the scientific system of Mao Zedong Thought. The Party clearly stated that the main contradiction in our society is the contradiction between the people's growing material and cultural needs and the backward social production. Solving this main contradiction is our central task, and put forward the goal of a moderately prosperous society. The Party restored and formulated a series of correct policies in all aspects of its work and adjusted the national economy. The Party led the comprehensive rectification of the ideological, political, and organizational fields, and redressed unjust, false, and wrong cases on a large scale and adjusted social relations. The Party formulated the "Resolution on Certain Historical Issues of the Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China", marking the successful completion of the rectification of the Party's guiding ideology.

The Party deeply realized that in order to create a new situation in reform and opening up and socialist modernization, it is necessary to lead the development of the cause with theoretical innovation. Comrade Deng Xiaoping pointed out that if a party, a country, and a nation proceed from books, have rigid thinking, and superstition prevails, then it cannot move forward, its vitality will stop, and the party and the country will perish. The Party led and supported the great discussion on the standard of truth, adhered to and developed Marxism based on new practices and the characteristics of the times, and scientifically answered a series of basic questions such as the development path, development stage, fundamental tasks, development momentum, development strategy, political guarantee, national reunification, diplomacy and international strategy, leadership and reliance on forces for building socialism with Chinese characteristics, formed a theoretical system of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and achieved a new leap in the sinicization of Marxism.

The 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th National Congresses of the Communist Party of my country have consistently made comprehensive arrangements for promoting reform and opening up and socialist modernization in accordance with the development and changes of the international and domestic situation and based on the new requirements for China's development, and have held many plenary sessions of the Central Committee to study and arrange major reform, development and stability work. my country's reform has taken the lead in breaking through the implementation of the household contract responsibility system in rural areas, gradually shifting to urban economic system reform and rolling it out in an all-round way, establishing the reform direction of the socialist market economy, giving full play to the fundamental role of the market in resource allocation to a greater extent and in a wider range, and adhering to and improving the basic economic system and distribution system. The Party has resolutely promoted economic system reform, while carrying out system reforms in various fields such as politics, culture, and society, promoting reforms in the Party building system, and constantly forming and developing systems and mechanisms that are in line with the national conditions of contemporary China and full of vitality. The Party has established opening up to the outside world as a basic national policy, from establishing special economic zones such as Shenzhen, developing and opening up Pudong, promoting the opening up of coastal, border, riverside and inland central cities to joining the World Trade Organization, from "bringing in" to "going out", making full use of both international and domestic markets and resources. Through continuous reform and opening up, my country has achieved a historic transformation from a highly centralized planned economic system to a vibrant socialist market economic system, and from a closed and semi-closed to an all-round open economy.

In order to accelerate the advancement of socialist modernization, the Party has led the people in economic construction, political construction, cultural construction, and social construction, and has achieved a series of major achievements. The Party insists on taking economic construction as the center, insisting that development is the hard truth, proposing that science and technology are the primary productive force, implementing major strategies such as rejuvenating the country through science and education, sustainable development, and strengthening the country through talents, promoting the development of the western region, revitalizing old industrial bases such as the Northeast, promoting the rise of the central region, supporting the eastern region to take the lead in development, promoting coordinated development of urban and rural areas and regions, promoting the reform and development of state-owned enterprises, encouraging and supporting the development of non-public economy, accelerating the transformation of economic development methods, strengthening ecological and environmental protection, promoting sustained and rapid economic development, and significantly improving comprehensive national strength. The Party insists on the organic unity of the Party's leadership, the people's mastery of the country, and the rule of law, developing socialist democracy, building socialist political civilization, actively and steadily advancing political system reform, insisting on combining the rule of law with the rule of virtue, formulating a new constitution, building a socialist rule of law country, forming a socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics, respecting and protecting human rights, and consolidating and developing the broadest patriotic united front. The Party strengthens education on ideals and beliefs, promotes the construction of the socialist core value system, builds socialist spiritual civilization, develops advanced socialist culture, and promotes the great development and prosperity of socialist culture. The Party accelerates the promotion of social construction with the improvement of people's livelihood as the focus, improves people's lives, abolishes agricultural taxes, and continuously promotes education, income, medical care, old-age care, and housing, and promotes social harmony and stability. The Party puts forward the overall goal of building a strong modernized regular revolutionary army, puts the basis of military struggle preparation on winning local wars under information conditions, promotes military reforms with Chinese characteristics, and takes the road of elite troops with Chinese characteristics.

Faced with the ever-changing international situation, the Party unswervingly adheres to the Four Cardinal Principles, resolutely eliminates all kinds of interference, and calmly responds to a series of risks and tests related to the overall situation of my country's reform, development and stability. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Soviet Union disintegrated and Eastern Europe changed dramatically. Due to the support and instigation of anti-communist and anti-socialist hostile forces in the world, the international macroclimate and domestic microclimate led to serious political turmoil in my country at the turn of spring and summer in 1989. Relying on the people, the Party and the government clearly opposed unrest, defended the socialist state power, and safeguarded the fundamental interests of the people. The Party led the people to successfully respond to economic risks such as the Asian financial crisis and the international financial crisis, successfully host the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, overcome natural disasters such as severe floods in the Yangtze River, Nenjiang River and Songhua River basins, the Wenchuan earthquake, and the SARS epidemic, demonstrating the Party's ability to resist risks and manage complex situations.

The Party regards the completion of the great cause of national reunification as a historical mission and has made unremitting efforts to this end. Comrade Deng Xiaoping creatively proposed the scientific concept of "one country, two systems", opening up a new way to achieve national reunification in a peaceful way. After arduous work and struggle, the Chinese government successively resumed the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and Macao, washing away the century-old humiliation of the Chinese nation. After Hong Kong and Macao returned to the motherland, the central government strictly followed the Constitution and the Basic Law of the Special Administrative Region to maintain the long-term prosperity and stability of Hong Kong and Macao. The Party grasped the overall situation of resolving the Taiwan issue, established the basic policy of "peaceful reunification, one country, two systems", promoted the two sides of the Taiwan Strait to reach the "1992 Consensus" that embodies the one-China principle, promoted cross-strait consultations and negotiations, achieved comprehensive, direct and two-way "three links", and opened up cross-strait political party exchanges. Formulated the Anti-Secession Law, resolutely curbed the "Taiwan independence" forces, promoted the reunification of the motherland, and effectively thwarted various plots to create "two Chinas", "one China and one Taiwan", and "Taiwan independence".

The Party scientifically judged the characteristics of the times and the international situation, and proposed that peace and development are the themes of the current era. The Party adheres to the diplomatic policy purpose of maintaining world peace and promoting common development, adjusts relations with major powers, develops good-neighborly and friendly relations with neighboring countries, deepens friendly cooperation with the vast number of developing countries, actively participates in international and regional affairs, and establishes a new pattern of all-round and multi-level foreign relations. The Party actively promotes the multipolarization of the world and the democratization of international relations, promotes economic globalization in a direction conducive to common prosperity, resolutely opposes hegemony and power politics, firmly safeguards the interests of the vast number of developing countries, promotes the establishment of a fair and reasonable new international political and economic order, and promotes lasting world peace and common prosperity.

The Party has always emphasized that governing the country must first govern the Party, and governing the Party must be strict, focusing on Party building, and creating and promoting a new great project of Party building. The Party has formulated a number of guidelines on intra-Party political life, improved democratic centralism, promoted intra-Party democracy, and normalized intra-Party political life; carried out party rectification in a planned and step-by-step manner, and focused on solving the problems of impure thoughts, impure work styles, and impure organizations within the Party; strengthened the construction of the cadre team in accordance with the principles of revolutionization, rejuvenation, knowledge, and specialization, vigorously selected young and middle-aged cadres, and promoted the replacement of old and new cadres. The Party has focused on solving the two major historical issues of improving the Party's leadership and governance level and improving the ability to resist corruption and prevent degeneration and resist risks. With the construction of governance capacity and advanced nature as the main line, it has successively made decisions on major issues such as strengthening the Party's ties with the people, strengthening and improving the Party's work style, and strengthening the Party's governance capacity. It has organized concentrated learning and education activities such as "studying, political, and upright" education, "Three Represents" important thought learning and education activities, maintaining the advanced nature of Communist Party members, and learning and practicing the Scientific Outlook on Development. The Party has raised the construction of Party conduct and clean government and the fight against corruption to a level that concerns the survival of the Party and the country, and promoted the construction of a system to punish and prevent corruption.

On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up, the Party Central Committee held a grand celebration meeting. Comrade Xi Jinping delivered an important speech, comprehensively summarizing the great achievements and valuable experiences of 40 years of reform and opening up, emphasizing that reform and opening up is a great awakening of the Party and a great revolution in the history of development of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation, and issued a great call to carry out reform and opening up to the end. The great achievements of reform and opening up and socialist modernization have attracted worldwide attention. my country has achieved a historic breakthrough from a relatively backward productivity to a leap into the world's second largest economy, and has achieved a historic leap from insufficient food and clothing to a generally well-off life and towards a well-off life in all respects, and has promoted the great leap of the Chinese nation from standing up to becoming rich.

The Communist Party of China and the Chinese people have solemnly declared to the world with heroic and tenacious struggle that reform and opening up is the key move that determines the future and destiny of contemporary China, and the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics is the correct path to guide China's development and prosperity. China has made great strides to catch up with the times.

IV. Create a new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era. The main tasks facing the Party are to achieve the first centenary goal, start a new journey to achieve the second centenary goal, and continue to move forward towards the grand goal of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has comprehensively grasped the overall strategic situation of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the great changes in the world that have not been seen in a century. It emphasizes that the new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics is an era of inheriting the past and ushering in the future, continuing to win the great victory of socialism with Chinese characteristics under new historical conditions, an era of decisive victory in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and then building a socialist modern power in all respects, an era of unity and struggle of all ethnic groups in the country, constantly creating a better life, and gradually realizing common prosperity for all people, an era in which all Chinese people work together to strive to realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and an era in which my country continues to make greater contributions to mankind. The new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics is a new historical orientation for my country's development.

The Chinese Communists, with Comrade Xi Jinping as their main representative, have insisted on combining the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific reality and with China's fine traditional culture, and have adhered to Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thought of "Three Represents" and the Scientific Outlook on Development. They have profoundly summarized and fully utilized the historical experience since the founding of the Party and, starting from the new reality, have created Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. They have made it clear that the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics is the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the greatest advantage of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics is the leadership of the Communist Party of China, and the Communist Party of China is the highest political leadership force. The whole Party must strengthen the "four consciousnesses", strengthen the "four self-confidences", and achieve the "two safeguards"; they have made it clear that the overall task of upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics is to achieve socialist modernization and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. On the basis of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, we will build a prosperous, strong, democratic, civilized, harmonious and beautiful modern socialist country in two steps by the middle of this century, and promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization; they have made it clear that the main contradiction in our society in the new era is the contradiction between the people's ever-growing needs for a better life and the unbalanced and inadequate development. We must adhere to the people-centered development philosophy, develop full-process people's democracy, and promote the all-round development of people and the common prosperity of all people to achieve more obvious and substantial progress; they have made it clear that the overall layout of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics is economic construction, political construction, cultural construction, social construction, The five-in-one ecological civilization construction has a strategic layout of comprehensively building a modern socialist country, comprehensively deepening reform, comprehensively governing the country according to law, and comprehensively and strictly governing the Party; it is clear that the overall goal of comprehensively deepening reform is to improve and develop the socialist system with Chinese characteristics and promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities; it is clear that the overall goal of comprehensively promoting the rule of law is to build a socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics and a socialist rule of law country; it is clear that we must adhere to and improve the socialist basic economic system, give the market a decisive role in resource allocation, better play the role of the government, grasp the new development stage, implement the new development concept of innovation, coordination, greenness, openness and sharing, and accelerate the construction of a domestic circulation as the main body and domestic and international dual The new development pattern of mutual promotion of cycles, promoting high-quality development, and coordinating development and security; clarifying that the Party’s goal of strengthening the military in the new era is to build a people’s army that obeys the Party’s command, can win battles, and has a good style, and to build the people’s army into a world-class army; clarifying that China’s major power diplomacy with Chinese characteristics must serve national rejuvenation, promote human progress, promote the construction of a new type of international relations, and promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind; clarifying the strategic policy of comprehensively and strictly governing the Party, proposing the general requirements for Party building in the new era, comprehensively advancing the Party’s political construction, ideological construction, organizational construction, style construction, and discipline construction, integrating institutional construction, deepening the anti-corruption struggle, implementing the political responsibility of governing the Party, and leading the great social revolution with a great self-revolution. These strategic ideas and innovative concepts are major achievements of the Party’s deepening understanding of the laws of building socialism with Chinese characteristics and theoretical innovation.

Comrade Xi Jinping has conducted profound thinking and scientific judgment on a series of major theoretical and practical issues related to the development of the cause of the Party and the country in the new era. He has put forward a series of original new concepts, new ideas and new strategies for governing the country and managing the government on major contemporary issues such as what kind of socialism with Chinese characteristics should be upheld and developed in the new era, how to uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics, what kind of socialist modern power should be built, how to build a socialist modern power, what kind of long-term ruling Marxist party should be built, and how to build a long-term ruling Marxist party. He is the main founder of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is contemporary Chinese Marxism, Marxism of the 21st century, and the essence of the Chinese culture and Chinese spirit. It has achieved a new leap in the sinicization of Marxism. The Party has established Comrade Xi Jinping as the core of the Central Committee of the Party and the core of the whole Party, and established the guiding position of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, which reflects the common aspirations of the whole Party, the whole army and the people of all ethnic groups in the country. It is of decisive significance to the development of the cause of the Party and the country in the new era and to the historical process of promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Since the reform and opening up, the cause of the Party and the country has made major achievements, laying a solid foundation and creating favorable conditions for the development of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. At the same time, the Party is clearly aware that changes in the external environment have brought about many new risks and challenges, and that domestic reform, development and stability are facing many deep-seated contradictions and problems that have not been resolved for a long time, as well as some new contradictions and problems. The once lax and soft management of the Party has led to the spread of negative corruption within the Party and serious problems in the political ecology, damage to the relationship between the Party, the people, cadres and the masses, weakening the Party's creativity, cohesion and combat effectiveness, and the Party's governance of the country is facing major tests.

The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, with great historical initiative, great political courage and strong sense of responsibility, has coordinated the domestic and international situations, implemented the Party's basic theory, basic line and basic strategy, and taken charge of the great struggle, great project, great cause and great dream. It has adhered to the general tone of work of seeking progress while maintaining stability, issued a series of major policies and guidelines, launched a series of major measures, promoted a series of major tasks, overcome a series of major risks and challenges, solved many long-standing problems that have not been solved, and accomplished many major things that have been wanted to be done but not done in the past, and promoted the Party and the country to achieve historic achievements and historic changes.

(I) In upholding the overall leadership of the Party

After the reform and opening up, the Party has made continuous efforts to strengthen and improve the Party's leadership, providing a fundamental political guarantee for the development of the Party and the country. At the same time, there are also many problems in the Party that are vague about upholding the Party's leadership and weak in action, and there are many problems in implementing the weakening, virtualization, dilution and marginalization of the Party's leadership, especially the poor implementation of the major decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee. Some have adopted the policy of having policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom, or even said one thing and meant another and acted on their own. The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as its core has clearly stated that the Party's leadership is the foundation and lifeline of the Party and the country, and the interests and destiny of the people of all ethnic groups in the country. The whole Party must consciously maintain a high degree of unity with the Party Central Committee in terms of ideology, politics and actions, improve the level of scientific, democratic and law-based governance, improve the ability to set the direction, plan the overall situation, formulate policies and promote reforms, and ensure that the Party's leadership core role of taking overall control and coordinating all parties is fully played.

The Party has clearly stated that the Party's leadership is comprehensive, systematic and holistic, and ensuring the unity of the Party is the life of the Party; the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee is the highest principle of the Party's leadership, and strengthening and maintaining the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee is the common political responsibility of the whole Party. To uphold the Party's leadership, we must first be clear about politics and ensure that the whole Party obeys the Central Committee. The Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee adopted a number of guidelines on intra-Party political life under the new situation, and the Party Central Committee issued a number of regulations on the Central Political Bureau to strengthen and maintain the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, strictly enforce the Party's political discipline and political rules, prevent and oppose individualism, decentralization, liberalism, parochialism, and good-personism, develop a positive and healthy intra-Party political culture, and promote the creation of a good political ecology with clear and upright atmosphere. The Party Central Committee requires leading Party cadres to improve their political judgment, political understanding, and political execution, to have the "big things of the country" in mind, to be loyal to the Party, to obey the Party's command, and to fulfill their duties for the Party. The Party has improved the Party's leadership system, and improved the Party's leadership over the National People's Congress, the government, the CPPCC, the supervisory organs, the judicial organs, the procuratorate, the armed forces, people's organizations, enterprises and institutions, grassroots mass autonomous organizations, and social organizations, to ensure that the Party plays a leading role in various organizations. The Party adheres to democratic centralism, establishes and improves the Party's leadership system for major work, strengthens the functions and roles of the Party Central Committee's decision-making, deliberation and coordination agencies, improves the mechanism for promoting the implementation of major decisions of the Party Central Committee, strictly implements the system of reporting to the Party Central Committee, strengthens political supervision, deepens political inspections, investigates and punishes problems that violate the Party's line, principles, and policies and undermine the Party's centralized and unified leadership, eliminates "two-faced people", and ensures that the whole Party maintains a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee in political stance, political direction, political principles, and political path.

Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the authority and centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee have been effectively guaranteed, the CPC leadership system has been continuously improved, the CPC leadership style has become more scientific, the whole CPC has become more unified in thought, more united in politics, and more consistent in action, and the CPC's political leadership, ideological guidance, mass organization, and social appeal have been significantly enhanced.

(II) In comprehensively and strictly governing the CPC

After the reform and opening up, the CPC has insisted on governing the CPC and governing the CPC strictly, and has achieved remarkable results in promoting the CPC's construction. At the same time, due to the problems of ineffective governance and lax governance of the CPC, some CPC members and cadres have experienced a serious crisis in their political beliefs, some places and departments have an unhealthy atmosphere in selecting and employing people, formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism, and extravagance are prevalent, and the idea of ​​privilege and the phenomenon of privilege are relatively common. In particular, some have engaged in nepotism and excluded dissidents, some have formed gangs and cliques, some have made anonymous accusations and spread rumors, some have bought people's hearts and minds and swayed votes, some have made promises of official positions and celebrated, some have acted on their own and acted in a hypocritical manner, and some have been stubborn and made irresponsible comments on the central government. Political and economic issues are intertwined, and the degree of corruption is shocking. These "seven problems" have seriously affected the image and prestige of the Party, seriously damaged the relationship between the Party and the masses, and caused strong dissatisfaction and indignation among the majority of Party members, cadres, and the masses. Comrade Xi Jinping emphasized that the key to doing China's affairs lies in the Party, and the key lies in the Party's self-management and comprehensive and strict governance of the Party. We must take strengthening the Party's long-term governance capacity, advanced nature and purity as the main line, take the Party's political construction as the overall guide, take firm ideals, beliefs and purposes as the foundation, and take mobilizing the enthusiasm, initiative and creativity of the whole Party as the focus, constantly improve the quality of Party building, and build the Party into a Marxist ruling party that always walks in the forefront of the times, is wholeheartedly supported by the people, is brave in self-revolution, can withstand all kinds of storms and tests, and is full of vitality. The Party, with the clarity and determination of always being on the road, adheres to the main tone of strictness, highlights the "key minority", implements the main responsibility and supervision responsibility, strengthens supervision, discipline and accountability, and runs through all aspects of Party building. The Party Central Committee held a meeting on Party building work in various fields and made powerful arrangements to promote the overall progress of Party building.

The Party Central Committee emphasized that our Party comes from the people, is rooted in the people, and serves the people. Once it is separated from the masses, it will lose its vitality. Comprehensive and strict governance of the Party must start with the style of work that the people strongly reflect. The Party Central Committee broke the problem by formulating and implementing the eight central regulations, insisting on starting from the Central Political Bureau and leading cadres, and improving work style from top to bottom. The Political Bureau of the Central Committee holds a democratic life meeting every year to listen to reports on the implementation of the eight regulations and conduct criticism and self-criticism. The Party Central Committee has carried forward the spirit of nailing down the problem, persisted in correcting the "four tendencies", opposed the idea of ​​privilege and the phenomenon of privilege, and severely stopped the unhealthy tendencies such as giving gifts with public funds, eating and drinking with public funds, traveling with public funds, and extravagance and waste, solved the outstanding problems that the masses strongly reflected and harmed the interests of the masses, promoted the reduction of burdens at the grassroots level, advocated thrift and opposed extravagance and waste, stopped some unhealthy tendencies that were considered impossible to stop in the past, and corrected some stubborn diseases that had not been eliminated for many years, which brought a new look to the party style, political style and social atmosphere.

The Party has always emphasized that the whole party must be firm in ideals and beliefs, strict in organizational system, and strict in discipline and rules. The belief in Marxism, the lofty ideal of communism, and the common ideal of socialism with Chinese characteristics are the spiritual pillars and political souls of the Chinese Communists, and are also the ideological basis for maintaining the unity of the Party. The Party Central Committee emphasized that ideals and beliefs are the spiritual "calcium" of Communists. If Communists do not have ideals and beliefs, they will be "calcium deficient" in spirit and will suffer from "rickets", which will inevitably lead to political degeneration, economic greed, moral depravity, and corruption in life. The Party insists on building the Party with ideology and governing the Party with systems, and has successively carried out the Party's mass line education and practice activities, the special education of "strictly cultivating oneself, strictly using power, strictly disciplining oneself, being practical in planning, starting a business, and being a person", the study and education of "learning the Party Constitution and Party regulations, learning a series of speeches, and being a qualified Party member", the theme education of "not forgetting the original intention, keeping the mission in mind", and the study and education of Party history, etc., to arm the whole Party with the Party's innovative theories, promote the construction of a learning party, educate and guide the majority of Party members, cadres, and especially leading cadres to rectify the source of thought, consolidate the foundation, build a solid foundation of faith, replenish spiritual calcium, steer the ideological rudder, maintain the political character of Communists, and stand up the spiritual backbone of Communists. The Party has proposed and implemented the Party's organizational line in the new era, clarified the standards for good cadres in the new era who are firm in conviction, serve the people, work diligently and pragmatically, dare to take responsibility, and are honest and upright, highlighted the requirements for political quality, established a correct orientation for personnel selection, adhered to the principle of both ability and political integrity, with morality as the first priority, adhered to the principle of selecting people from all corners of the country and appointing people on the basis of merit, adhered to the principle of putting the cause first and being fair and upright, adhered to not only votes, not only scores, not only GDP, not only age, and not "sea promotion" or "sea selection", strengthened the leadership and gatekeeping role of the Party organization, and corrected the unhealthy trends in the selection and appointment of personnel. The Party requires leading cadres at all levels to solve the "master switch" problem of world outlook, outlook on life, and values, cherish power, manage power well, use power prudently, consciously accept supervision from all sides, and always think about sharing the worries of the Party, contributing to the country, and benefiting the people. The Party adheres to the principle of the Party managing talents, implements more active, more open, and more effective talent policies, deeply implements the strategy of strengthening the country with talents in the new era, accelerates the construction of important talent centers and innovation highlands in the world, and gathers talents from all over the world and uses them. The Party has continuously improved its organizational system, focused on improving organizational strength, strengthened the political and organizational functions of the Party organizations, established a clear orientation of focusing on the grassroots, and promoted full coverage of the Party organizations and Party work. The Party insists on stricter discipline than law, and the integration of discipline and law enforcement, makes good use of the "four forms" of supervision and discipline, strengthens political and organizational discipline, and promotes the comprehensive strictness of all disciplines. The Party insists on governing the Party according to regulations, strictly abides by the Party Constitution, forms a relatively complete system of Party regulations, strictly implements the system, and significantly improves the scientific, institutionalized, and standardized level of Party building.

The Party Central Committee emphasizes that corruption is the biggest threat to the Party's long-term rule, and anti-corruption is a major political struggle that cannot be lost and must not be lost. If we do not offend hundreds of thousands of corrupt elements, we will offend 1.4 billion people. We must put power in the cage of the system, set power, regulate power, restrict power, and supervise power in accordance with discipline and law. The Party insists on advancing the integration of not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt, and makes efforts in punishment and deterrence, institutional constraints, and raising awareness to ensure that the power granted by the Party and the people is always used to seek happiness for the people. Adhere to no forbidden zones, full coverage, and zero tolerance, adhere to heavy containment, strong high pressure, and long-term deterrence, adhere to investigating both bribery and bribery, insist on investigating all cases and punishing corruption, with the determination to cure the disease with strong medicine and severe punishment, and with the courage to scrape the bone to cure the poison and cut off the arm of a strong man, unswervingly "fight tigers", "swat flies", and "hunt foxes". Resolutely rectify corruption problems around the masses, carry out in-depth international pursuit and recovery of stolen assets, and eliminate all corrupt elements. The party focuses on corruption cases intertwined with political and economic issues, prevents the formation of interest groups within the party, and investigates and punishes serious violations of discipline and law such as Zhou Yongkang, Bo Xilai, Sun Zhengcai, and Ling Jihua. The party leads the improvement of the party and state supervision system, promotes the establishment of the National Supervision Commission and local supervision committees at all levels, builds a pattern of top-down and bottom-up inspections, builds a mechanism dominated by intra-party supervision and coordinated supervision of various types, and strengthens the restriction and supervision of the exercise of power.

Since the 18th CPC National Congress, through resolute struggle, the political guidance and political guarantee role of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party has been fully exerted, the Party's ability to purify itself, improve itself, innovate itself and improve itself has been significantly enhanced, the loose and soft situation of Party governance has been fundamentally reversed, the anti-corruption struggle has achieved an overwhelming victory and has been fully consolidated, the serious hidden dangers within the Party, the country and the army have been eliminated, and the Party has become stronger in revolutionary forging.

(III) In economic construction

After the reform and opening up, the Party has focused on economic construction, led the people to work hard, created a miracle of rapid economic development, and greatly increased the country's economic strength. At the same time, due to the one-sided pursuit of speed and scale and extensive development methods in some places and departments, coupled with the continued downturn in the world economy after the international financial crisis, economic structural and institutional contradictions have continued to accumulate, and the problems of unbalanced, uncoordinated and unsustainable development are very prominent. The Party Central Committee proposed that my country's economic development has entered a new normal, and has shifted from a high-speed growth stage to a high-quality development stage. It is facing a complex situation of "three stages overlapping" of growth rate shifting period, structural adjustment pain period, and digestion period of previous stimulus policies. The traditional development model is unsustainable. The Party Central Committee emphasized that implementing the new development concept is a profound change that concerns the overall development of our country. We cannot simply judge success by the GDP growth rate. We must achieve high-quality development with innovation as the primary driving force, coordination as an endogenous feature, green as a universal form, openness as the only way, and sharing as the fundamental purpose, and promote changes in the quality, efficiency, and driving force of economic development.

The Party strengthens strategic planning and unified leadership over economic work, and improves the system and mechanism for the Party to lead economic work. The Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, the 19th CPC National Congress, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee, and all previous Central Economic Work Conferences have made concentrated arrangements for my country's development, and made major decisions such as adhering to the theme of high-quality development, focusing on supply-side structural reform, building a modern economic system, grasping the strategic basis of expanding domestic demand, and fighting the three major battles of preventing and defusing major risks, targeted poverty alleviation, and pollution prevention and control. The Party unswervingly consolidates and develops the public economy, unswervingly encourages, supports, and guides the development of the non-public economy, supports the strengthening, optimization, and expansion of state-owned capital and state-owned enterprises, establishes a modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics, and enhances the competitiveness, innovation, control, influence, and risk resistance of the state-owned economy; builds a close and clean relationship between government and business, and promotes the healthy development of the non-public economy and the healthy growth of non-public economic personnel. The Party insists on implementing the innovation-driven development strategy, takes scientific and technological self-reliance as the strategic support for national development, improves the new national system, strengthens the national strategic scientific and technological strength, strengthens basic research, promotes key core technology research and independent innovation, strengthens the creation, protection and application of intellectual property rights, and accelerates the construction of an innovative country and a world science and technology power. We will fully implement supply-side structural reform, promote the elimination of overcapacity, inventory, leverage, cost reduction, and short board filling, implement the requirements of consolidation, enhancement, improvement, and smooth flow, promote the construction of a manufacturing power, accelerate the development of a modern industrial system, strengthen the real economy, and develop the digital economy. We will improve macroeconomic governance, innovate macroeconomic control ideas and methods, enhance the autonomy of macroeconomic policies, implement active fiscal policies and prudent monetary policies, adhere to the promotion of streamlining administration and delegating power, combining regulation and supervision, and optimizing services, ensure food security, energy and resource security, and industrial chain and supply chain security, adhere to finance serving the real economy, comprehensively strengthen financial supervision, prevent and resolve risks in the economic and financial fields, strengthen market supervision and anti-monopoly regulations, prevent the disorderly expansion of capital, maintain market order, stimulate the vitality of various market entities, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, and protect the rights and interests of workers and consumers. The Party implements the regional coordinated development strategy, promotes the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin, builds Xiongan New Area with high standards and high quality, promotes the formation of a new pattern of western development, promotes new breakthroughs in the revitalization of the Northeast, promotes high-quality development in the central region, encourages the eastern region to accelerate modernization, and supports the improvement of production and living conditions in old revolutionary areas, ethnic areas, border areas, and poverty-stricken areas. Promote new urbanization with people as the core, and strengthen urban planning, construction, and management. The Party has always regarded solving the "three rural issues" as the top priority of the work of the whole Party, implemented the rural revitalization strategy, accelerated the modernization of agriculture and rural areas, insisted on storing grain in the land and storing grain in technology, implemented the strictest arable land protection system, promoted the self-reliance and self-improvement of seed industry science and technology, and the independent control of seed sources, to ensure that the Chinese people's rice bowl is firmly in their own hands.

Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the balance, coordination and sustainability of my country's economic development have been significantly enhanced, the GDP has exceeded one trillion yuan, the per capita GDP has exceeded ten thousand dollars, the national economic strength, scientific and technological strength, and comprehensive national strength have leaped to a new level, and my country's economy has embarked on a path of development with higher quality, more efficiency, more fairness, more sustainability and more security.

(IV) In comprehensively deepening reform and opening up

Since the Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee, my country's reform and opening up has gone through a magnificent journey and achieved remarkable achievements. With the development of practice, some deep-seated institutional and mechanism problems and barriers of solidified interests have become increasingly apparent, and reform has entered a critical period and deep waters. The CPC Central Committee has deeply realized that there is no end to the development of practice, the emancipation of the mind, and the reform and opening up. There is only a progress tense in reform, not a completion tense. There is no way out for stagnation and regression. We must promote comprehensive and in-depth reform with greater political courage and wisdom, dare to tackle tough problems, dare to wade through dangerous shoals, highlight institutional construction, pay attention to the relevance and coupling of reform, and promote reform with real guns and real swords to effectively eliminate the drawbacks of various institutional mechanisms.

The Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee made arrangements for the reform of the economic system, political system, cultural system, social system, ecological civilization system, national defense and military reforms, and the reform of the party building system, and determined the overall goal, strategic focus, priority, main direction, working mechanism, promotion method, timetable, and roadmap for comprehensively deepening reform. The Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee was epoch-making, opening a new era of reform and opening up and socialist modernization. The Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee was also epoch-making, realizing the transformation of reform from local exploration and breaking through the ice to system integration and comprehensive deepening, creating a new situation for my country's reform and opening up.

The Party adheres to the correct direction of reform, takes promoting social fairness and justice and improving people's well-being as the starting point and foothold, highlights problem orientation, focuses on further emancipating the mind, liberating and developing social productivity, liberating and enhancing social vitality, strengthens top-level design and overall planning, enhances the systematic, holistic, and coordinated nature of reform, stimulates the people's pioneering spirit, and promotes the reform of important areas and key links to go practical and in-depth. The Party has promoted reforms in an all-round way, with breakthroughs at multiple points, steady and in-depth progress. From laying the foundation and building the platform, to comprehensively advancing and accumulating momentum, to system integration and efficient coordination, the basic institutional framework in various fields has been basically established, and many fields have achieved historic changes, systematic reshaping and overall reconstruction.

The Party Central Committee has a deep understanding that openness brings progress, while closure will inevitably lag behind; in order to win advantages, initiative and the future, my country's development must conform to economic globalization, rely on my country's super-large-scale market advantages, and implement a more proactive and active opening-up strategy. my country insists on extensive consultation, joint construction and sharing, promotes high-quality development of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road", promotes a large number of cooperation projects related to the economic development and improvement of people's livelihood of countries along the route, builds a road of peace, prosperity, openness, greenness, innovation and civilization, and makes the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" a popular international public product and international cooperation platform in the world today. my country insists on promoting mutual promotion of domestic and foreign opening-up, better combining "bringing in" and "going out", promoting trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, building a global network of high-standard free trade zones, building free trade pilot zones and Hainan Free Trade Port, promoting institutional opening-up in terms of rules, regulations, management, standards, etc., forming a larger scope, wider fields, and deeper level of opening-up, building a mutually beneficial, win-win, diversified, balanced, safe and efficient open economic system, and constantly enhancing my country's new advantages in international economic cooperation and competition.

Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the Party has continuously promoted the comprehensive deepening of reform to advance in breadth and depth, the socialist system with Chinese characteristics has become more mature and more established, the modernization level of the national governance system and governance capacity has been continuously improved, and the cause of the Party and the country has been rejuvenated with new vitality.

(V) In political construction

After reform and opening up, the Party has led the people to adhere to the path of socialist political development with Chinese characteristics, develop socialist democracy, and make significant progress. The Party has deeply realized from the successes and failures of domestic and foreign political development that to strengthen confidence in the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, we must first strengthen confidence in the socialist political system with Chinese characteristics, build socialist democracy, and develop socialist political civilization. We must make the socialist political system with Chinese characteristics deeply rooted in the soil of Chinese society. Copying and pasting the political systems of other countries will not work, and may even ruin the future and destiny of the country. We must adhere to the organic unity of the Party's leadership, the people's mastery of their own affairs, and the rule of law, actively develop the whole process of people's democracy, improve the comprehensive, extensive, and organically connected system of people's mastery of their own affairs, build diverse, smooth, and orderly democratic channels, enrich democratic forms, expand the orderly political participation of the people at all levels and in all fields, so that all aspects of the system and national governance can better reflect the will of the people, safeguard the rights and interests of the people, and stimulate the creativity of the people. We must be vigilant and guard against the erosion of Western political thoughts such as so-called "constitutionalism", multi-party rotation in power, and "three powers".

The Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee, with an eye on the Party's long-term governance and the country's long-term stability, made an overall plan for upholding and improving the socialist system with Chinese characteristics and promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, and made key arrangements for upholding and improving the fundamental, basic and important systems that support the socialist system with Chinese characteristics. The CPC Central Committee stressed that it is necessary to uphold the people's dominant position and ensure that the people implement democratic elections, democratic consultations, democratic decision-making, democratic management and democratic supervision in accordance with the law. The Party upholds and improves the people's congress system, supports and guarantees the people's exercise of state power through the people's congresses, supports and guarantees the people's congresses to exercise their legislative, supervisory, decision-making and appointment and removal powers in accordance with the law, resolutely investigates and punishes cases of vote-buying and election bribery, safeguards the authority and dignity of the people's congress system, and gives full play to the fundamental political system of the people's congress system. The Party upholds and improves the multi-party cooperation and political consultation system under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, improves the system of special supervision of the central committees of democratic parties on the implementation of major decisions and arrangements, and directly makes suggestions to the CPC Central Committee, strengthens the institutional construction of special consultation institutions of the CPPCC, promotes the extensive and multi-level institutional development of socialist consultative democracy, and forms a consultative democracy system with Chinese characteristics. The Party persists in consolidating grassroots political power, improving grassroots democratic systems, improving the system of public service, and safeguarding the people's right to know, participate, express, and supervise. In accordance with the principles of upholding the Party's overall leadership, putting the people at the center, optimizing coordination and efficiency, and upholding the rule of law in an all-round way, the Party and state institutions reform is comprehensively deepened, and the functions of the Party and state institutions are systematically and holistically reconstructed. The Party persists in and improves the system of regional ethnic autonomy, unswervingly follows the correct path of solving ethnic issues with Chinese characteristics, insists on building a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation as the main line of the Party's ethnic work, establishes the Party's strategy for governing Tibet and Xinjiang in the new era, consolidates and develops socialist ethnic relations of equality, unity, mutual assistance, and harmony, and promotes the common struggle, prosperity, and development of all ethnic groups. The Party persists in the Party's basic principles for religious work, adheres to the direction of sinicization of our country's religions, and actively guides religions to adapt to socialist society. The Party improves the overall united front work pattern, strives to seek the greatest common divisor, draws the largest concentric circle, and gathers the tremendous power to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The Party promotes reform and innovation in mass work around enhancing political, advanced, and mass nature, and better plays the role of people's groups and mass organizations such as trade unions, the Communist Youth League, and the Women's Federation. We promote the comprehensive development of human rights with the protection of people's right to survival and development as the primary priority.

Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the institutionalization, standardization and proceduralization of my country's socialist democratic politics have been comprehensively promoted, the superiority of the socialist political system with Chinese characteristics has been better exerted, and the lively, stable and united political situation has been consolidated and developed.

(VI) On the comprehensive rule of law

After the reform and opening up, the Party has adhered to the rule of law and continuously promoted the construction of socialist rule of law. At the same time, there are serious problems such as non-compliance with laws, lax law enforcement, judicial injustice and failure to investigate violations of law. Judicial corruption occurs from time to time. Some law enforcement and judicial personnel bend the law for personal gain and even act as umbrellas for criminals, which seriously damages the authority of the rule of law and seriously affects social fairness and justice. The Party has a deep understanding that power is a "double-edged sword". The exercise of power in accordance with laws and regulations can benefit the people, while the exercise of power in violation of laws and regulations will inevitably harm the country and the people. The Party Central Committee emphasizes that the rule of law will prosper the country, and the rule of law will decline and the country will be in chaos; the comprehensive rule of law is the essential requirement and important guarantee of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and it is a profound revolution in state governance; adhering to the rule of law must first adhere to the rule of law, and adhering to the rule of law must first adhere to the rule of law. We must adhere to the path of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics, implement the theory of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics, adhere to the joint promotion of ruling the country by law, ruling the country by law, and administering the country by law, adhere to the integrated construction of a country ruled by law, a government ruled by law, and a society ruled by law, and comprehensively enhance the awareness and ability of the whole society to respect, learn, abide by, and use the law.

The Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee and the Central Conference on Comprehensively Promoting the Rule of Law in All Respects conducted special studies on the issue of comprehensively promoting the rule of law in all respects, made top-level designs and major arrangements for scientific legislation, strict law enforcement, fair justice, and law-abiding by all people, and comprehensively promoted the construction of the legal norms system, the rule of law implementation system, the rule of law supervision system, the rule of law guarantee system, and the party's internal regulations system.

The Party emphasizes that the broadest and deepest foundation for comprehensively promoting the rule of law is the people. It is necessary to implement the embodiment of the people's interests, reflect the people's wishes, safeguard the people's rights and interests, and enhance the people's well-being in all areas and throughout the process of comprehensively promoting the rule of law in all respects, safeguard and promote social fairness and justice, and strive to let the people feel fairness and justice in every legal system, every law enforcement decision, and every judicial case. The Party has led the improvement of the system and mechanism to ensure the full implementation of the Constitution, established the constitutional oath system, promoted the spirit of socialist rule of law, improved the ability of state institutions to perform their duties in accordance with the law, improved the ability of leading cadres at all levels to use legal thinking and legal methods to solve problems and promote development, and enhanced the rule of law awareness of the whole society. Through the constitutional amendment, the Civil Code, Foreign Investment Law, National Security Law, Supervision Law and other laws were formulated, and the Legislative Law, National Defense Law, Environmental Protection Law and other laws were amended. Legislation in key areas, emerging areas and foreign-related areas was strengthened, and the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics with the Constitution as the core was accelerated. The Party has led the deepening of judicial system reform with judicial responsibility as the focus, promoted the comprehensive deepening of reform in the political and legal fields, strengthened supervision and restriction on law enforcement and judicial activities, carried out education and rectification of the political and legal teams, corrected unjust and wrong cases in accordance with the law, severely punished corruption in law enforcement and judicial activities, and ensured that law enforcement and judicial activities are fair, honest, efficient and authoritative.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics has been continuously improved, and the construction of a rule of law in China has taken solid steps. The role of the rule of law in consolidating the foundation, stabilizing expectations and benefiting the long-term has been further exerted, and the Party’s ability to lead and govern the country by legal means has been significantly enhanced.

(VII) In cultural construction

After the reform and opening up, the Party insisted on grasping both material and spiritual civilizations, promoting the prosperity and development of socialist culture, inspiring the national spirit and consolidating national strength. At the same time, erroneous thoughts such as materialism, hedonism, extreme individualism and historical nihilism appear from time to time, and there are many chaotic online public opinions. Some leading cadres have vague political positions and lack of fighting spirit, which seriously affect people's thoughts and social public opinion environment. The Party accurately grasps the trend of mutual stimulation of thoughts and cultures around the world and profound changes in social thoughts and concepts in my country. It emphasizes that ideological work is the work of establishing the heart of the country and the soul of the nation. Cultural confidence is a more basic, broader and deeper confidence. It is the most basic, profound and lasting force in the development of a country and a nation. Without a high degree of cultural confidence and cultural prosperity, there will be no great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. We must adhere to the people-centered work orientation, raise the banner, gather the people's hearts, cultivate new people, promote culture, and display the image, firmly grasp the leadership of ideological work, build a socialist ideology with strong cohesion and leadership, build a socialist cultural power, stimulate the vitality of cultural innovation and creativity of the whole nation, better build the Chinese spirit, Chinese values, and Chinese strength, and consolidate the common ideological foundation for the unity and struggle of the whole party and the people of all ethnic groups in the country.

The Party has focused on solving the problem of weakening the Party's leadership in the field of ideology, building and breaking at the same time, and clearing the turbidity and promoting the clear. It has made arrangements for many directional and strategic issues in the field of ideology, established and adhered to the fundamental system of Marxism's guiding position in the field of ideology, improved the responsibility system for ideological work, and promoted the whole party to grasp the propaganda and ideological work, to be responsible for the territory, to be responsible for the territory, to fulfill the territory, to dare to grasp and manage, to dare to fight, and to clearly oppose and resist various wrong views. The Party strengthened propaganda and ideological work by rectifying the source, held a national propaganda and ideological work conference, held seminars on literary and artistic work, the Party's news and public opinion work, network security and informatization work, philosophy and social sciences work, and a national college ideological and political work conference, clarified the principled position on a series of fundamental issues, clarified the theoretical right and wrong, corrected the work orientation, and the upward and positive trend in the field of ideology and culture continued to develop. Promote the use of the Party's innovative theory to arm the whole Party, educate the people, and guide practice, deepen the research and construction of Marxist theory, and promote the construction of a discipline system, academic system, and discourse system of philosophy and social sciences with Chinese characteristics. Attach great importance to the construction and innovation of communication means, promote the development of media integration, and improve the communication, guidance, influence, and credibility of news and public opinion. The Party Central Committee clearly stated that if you can't pass the Internet, you can't pass the long-term governance. The Party attaches great importance to the Internet as the main position, main battlefield, and forefront of ideological struggle, improves the leadership and management system of the Internet, insists on managing and governing the Internet according to law, and creates a clear cyberspace.

The Party insists on guiding cultural construction with socialist core values, pays attention to cultivating the soul with advanced socialist culture, revolutionary culture, and excellent traditional Chinese culture, widely carries out propaganda and education on socialism with Chinese characteristics and the Chinese dream, promotes the normalization and institutionalization of education on ideals and beliefs, improves the ideological and political work system, establishes and improves the system of commendation for party and state meritorious service and honor, establishes Martyrs' Day, deepens the creation of mass spiritual civilization, builds a new era civilization practice center, and promotes the construction of a great learning country. The Party promotes the study of party history, the history of New China, the history of reform and opening up, and the history of socialist development. It has built the Exhibition Hall of the History of the Communist Party of China, carried out activities to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up, and the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, and the 70th anniversary of the Chinese People's Volunteers' overseas operations to resist the United States and aid Korea, etc., which effectively demonstrates the party's heart and the people's heart, the national prestige and the military prestige, and sings the main theme and promotes positive energy in the whole society. The Party insists on putting social benefits first and unifying social benefits with economic benefits, promoting the comprehensive development of cultural undertakings and cultural industries, prospering literary and artistic creation, and improving the public cultural service system, providing more and better spiritual food for the people.

The Party Central Committee emphasized that the excellent traditional Chinese culture is the outstanding advantage of the Chinese nation and the foundation for us to stand firm in the world cultural upheaval. We must inherit and promote it in light of the new era. We have implemented the inheritance and development project of the excellent traditional Chinese culture, promoted the creative transformation and innovative development of the excellent traditional Chinese culture, enhanced the awareness of cultural relics protection in the whole society, and increased the protection of cultural heritage. We have accelerated the construction of international communication capabilities, told the Chinese story and the story of the Communist Party of China to the world, spread the voice of China, promoted the exchange and mutual learning of human civilizations, and significantly improved the country's cultural soft power and the influence of Chinese culture.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of my country, the situation in the ideological field of our country has undergone an overall and fundamental change, the cultural confidence of the whole party and the people of all ethnic groups in the country has been significantly enhanced, and the cohesion and centripetal force of the whole society have been greatly enhanced, providing a strong ideological guarantee and strong spiritual power for creating a new situation for the cause of the party and the country in the new era.

(VIII) In social construction

After reform and opening up, the lives of our people have improved significantly, and social governance has improved significantly. At the same time, with the development of the times and social progress, people's yearning for a better life has become stronger, and their requirements for democracy, rule of law, fairness, justice, security, and environment have increased day by day. The Party Central Committee emphasized that the people's yearning for a better life is our goal, improving people's livelihood is the essential requirement for us to uphold the Party's principle of serving the public and governing for the people, and letting the people live a good life is the starting point and end point of all our work. Filling the gaps in people's livelihood security and solving the urgent problems of the people are urgent tasks of social construction. We must strengthen social construction with the focus on protecting and improving people's livelihood, do our best, act within our means, do one thing after another, and work year after year. We must continue to work hard to ensure that children have education, students have education, workers have income, the sick have medical care, the elderly have support, the homeless have housing, and the weak have support, strengthen and innovate social governance, and make people's sense of gain, happiness, and security more substantial, more secure, and more sustainable.

The Party deeply understands that whether a country is well-off or not depends on its people; poverty alleviation is the bottom line task of building a well-off society in an all-round way. Only by winning the battle against poverty can we ensure the building of a well-off society in an all-round way and achieve the first centenary goal; we must take extraordinary measures with greater determination, more precise ideas and more powerful measures to implement the poverty alleviation project. The Party insists on targeted poverty alleviation, establishes the work goals of ensuring food and clothing, compulsory education, basic medical care and housing security, implements the "military order" responsibility system, mobilizes the whole party, the whole country and the whole society to work together and fight with all our strength to overcome the toughest and solve the most difficult problems, organize and implement the largest and most powerful poverty alleviation battle in human history, and form a great spirit of poverty alleviation. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, all 832 impoverished counties in the country have been lifted out of poverty, all 128,000 impoverished villages have been removed from the list, nearly 100 million rural poor people have been lifted out of poverty, and the poverty reduction goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development have been achieved ten years ahead of schedule, historically solving the problem of absolute poverty and creating a miracle in the history of human poverty reduction.

In 2020, faced with the sudden outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, the CPC Central Committee made decisive decisions and responded calmly, putting people and life first, and put forward the general requirements of firm confidence, solidarity, scientific prevention and control, and precise policy implementation. It launched a people's war, a total war, and a blocking war against the epidemic, carefully deployed the defense of Wuhan and Hubei, and mobilized the whole country to carry out an unprecedented life rescue. It was cautious and persistent in "preventing imported cases from outside and rebounding from within", and insisted on coordinating epidemic prevention and control with economic and social development, protecting the lives and health of the people to the greatest extent. It was the first in the world to control the epidemic, resume work and production, and restore economic and social development. The fight against the epidemic has achieved major strategic results and forged a great anti-epidemic spirit.

In order to protect and improve people's livelihood, the Party has launched a series of major measures in income distribution, employment, education, social security, medical care, housing security, etc. in accordance with the idea of ​​adhering to the bottom line, highlighting key points, improving systems, and guiding expectations. It has focused on strengthening the construction of inclusive, basic, and bottom-up livelihood, and promoting the equalization of basic public services. We strive to build an income distribution system that reflects efficiency and promotes fairness, regulate excessive income, ban illegal income, increase the income of low-income people, steadily expand the middle-income group, and promote the formation of an olive-shaped distribution pattern. The growth of residents' income is basically synchronized with economic growth, and the growth rate of rural residents' income is faster than that of urban residents. Implement employment-first policies to promote more full and higher-quality employment. Fully implement the Party's education policy, give priority to the development of education, clarify that the fundamental task of education is to cultivate morality and cultivate socialist builders and successors with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics and labor, deepen education and teaching reform and innovation, promote fairness and improve quality, promote the balanced development of compulsory education and urban-rural integration, comprehensively promote the education and teaching of the national common language, standardize off-campus training institutions, actively develop vocational education, promote the connotation-oriented development of higher education, promote the construction of an education power, and run education that satisfies the people. my country has built the world's largest social security system, with 1.2 billion people having basic pension insurance and 1.36 billion people having basic medical insurance. We will comprehensively promote the construction of a healthy China, adhere to the principle of prevention first, deepen the reform of the medical and health system, guide the focus of medical and health work to shift downward and resources to the lower levels, promptly promote the improvement of the system and mechanism for major epidemic prevention and control, improve the national public health emergency management system, promote the inheritance and innovative development of traditional Chinese medicine, and improve the public health service system throughout urban and rural areas. We will accelerate the construction of a strong sports country, widely carry out national fitness activities, and vigorously promote the Chinese sports spirit. We will strengthen research on population development strategies, actively respond to population aging, accelerate the construction of a pension service system, adjust and optimize the birth policy, and promote long-term balanced population development. We will focus on the construction of family education and family traditions, and protect the rights and interests of women and children. We will accelerate the development of the cause of the disabled. We will adhere to the positioning that houses are for living, not for speculation, accelerate the establishment of a housing system with multiple suppliers, multiple channels of guarantee, and both rental and purchase, increase investment in the construction of affordable housing, and significantly improve the housing conditions of urban and rural residents.

The Party focuses on long-term stability of the country and people's peaceful and happy life, building a safer China at a higher level, improving the social governance system, and improving the urban and rural grassroots governance system that combines self-governance, rule of law, and moral governance under the leadership of the Party organization, pushing the focus of social governance to the grassroots, building a social governance system of co-construction, co-governance, and sharing, and building a social governance community where everyone is responsible, everyone fulfills their responsibilities, and everyone enjoys. Strengthen disaster prevention, mitigation, relief, and work safety, and strengthen the national emergency management system and capacity building. Adhere to and develop the "Fengqiao Experience" in the new era, adhere to systematic governance, governance according to law, comprehensive governance, and source governance, improve the petition system, improve the comprehensive mechanism for multi-dimensional prevention, mediation, and resolution of social contradictions and disputes, strengthen comprehensive social security governance, carry out special struggles to eliminate gangsters and evil forces, resolutely punish party members and cadres who indulge, shelter, or even act as umbrellas for gangsters and evil forces, and prevent and combat violent terrorism, new types of cybercrime, and transnational crime.

Since the 18th CPC National Congress, my country's social construction has been comprehensively strengthened, people's lives have been improved in all aspects, and the level of social governance, legalization, intelligence and specialization has been greatly improved. A good situation has been developed in which people live and work in peace and contentment and society is stable and orderly, and the miracle of long-term social stability has been continued.

(IX) In the construction of ecological civilization

After the reform and opening up, the Party has attached increasing importance to the protection of the ecological environment. At the same time, the construction of ecological civilization is still an obvious shortcoming. Problems such as tightening resource and environmental constraints and ecosystem degradation are becoming more and more prominent. In particular, various types of environmental pollution and ecological damage are on the rise, which have become a wound to the country and a pain to people's livelihood. If we do not reverse the trend of ecological environment deterioration, we will pay an extremely heavy price. The CPC Central Committee emphasized that the construction of ecological civilization is a fundamental plan for the sustainable development of the Chinese nation. Protecting the ecological environment is to protect productivity, and improving the ecological environment is to develop productivity. We will never sacrifice the environment in exchange for temporary economic growth. We must adhere to the concept that green mountains and clear waters are gold and silver mountains, adhere to the integrated protection and systematic management of mountains, waters, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands and sands, protect the ecological environment like protecting our eyes, treat the ecological environment like treating our lives, and more consciously promote green development, circular development, and low-carbon development, and adhere to the path of civilized development with production development, affluent life, and good ecology.

The Party has made comprehensive efforts in ideology, law, system, organization, and style, strengthened ecological environmental protection in all directions, all regions, and throughout the process, promoted the demarcation of ecological protection red lines, environmental quality bottom lines, and resource utilization upper lines, and carried out a series of fundamental, pioneering, and long-term work. Party organizations implement the main functional area strategy, establish and improve the natural resource asset property rights system, the land space development and protection system, the ecological civilization construction target evaluation and assessment system and the accountability system, the ecological compensation system, the river and lake chief system, the forest chief system, the environmental protection "Party and government joint responsibility" and "one post, two responsibilities" system, and formulate and revise relevant laws and regulations. We will optimize the pattern of land space development and protection, establish a natural conservation area system with national parks as the main body, continue to carry out large-scale land greening actions, strengthen the ecological protection and systematic management of major rivers, important lakes, wetlands and coastal zones, increase the protection and restoration of ecosystems, strengthen biodiversity protection, and promote the formation of a spatial pattern, industrial structure, production mode and lifestyle that saves resources and protects the environment. The Party leadership strives to win the battle against pollution, implements the three major action plans for air, water and soil pollution prevention and control, fights the battle to protect blue skies, clear waters and clean land, carries out rural human settlement environment improvement, and completely bans the import of "foreign garbage". We will carry out central ecological and environmental protection inspections, resolutely investigate and deal with a number of major typical cases that damage the ecological environment, and solve a number of prominent environmental problems that the people strongly reflect. my country actively participates in global environmental and climate governance, and has made a solemn commitment to strive to achieve carbon peak by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060, reflecting the responsibility of a responsible major country.

Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the CPC Central Committee has made unprecedented efforts to promote ecological civilization. The awareness and initiative of the whole Party and the whole country in promoting green development have been significantly enhanced. The construction of a beautiful China has taken major steps, and my country's ecological environment protection has undergone historic, turning point and overall changes.

(X) In national defense and military construction

After the reform and opening up, the level of revolution, modernization and regularization of the people's army has been continuously improved, and the national defense strength has been increasingly strengthened, providing a reliable security guarantee for the country's reform, development and stability. The CPC Central Committee emphasized that a strong country must have a strong army, and a strong army can ensure national security. It is necessary to build a strong national defense and a strong people's army that is commensurate with my country's international status and consistent with national security and development interests.

The Party has proposed the goal of strengthening the military in the new era, established the military strategic policy in the new era, formulated a new "three-step" strategy for the modernization of national defense and the military to achieve the goal of the centenary of the founding of the army by 2027, basically realize the modernization of national defense and the army by 2035, and fully build a world-class army by the middle of this century, and promoted the political construction of the army, reform and strengthening of the army, strengthening of the army by science and technology, strengthening of the army by talents, and governing the army according to law, accelerating the modernization of military theory, modernization of military organizational forms, modernization of military personnel, and modernization of weapons and equipment, accelerating the integrated development of mechanization, informatization, and intelligence, comprehensively strengthening training and preparation, and adhering to the path of strengthening the army with Chinese characteristics.

To build a strong people's army, the first thing is to unswervingly adhere to the fundamental principle and system of the party's absolute leadership over the people's army, adhere to the highest leadership and command of the people's army belongs to the Party Central Committee and the Central Military Commission, and comprehensively and thoroughly implement the responsibility system of the chairman of the Military Commission. There was a period when the problem of weakening the party's leadership in the people's army was prominent. If it is not thoroughly resolved, it will not only affect the combat effectiveness, but also concern the important political principle of the party commanding the gun. The CPC Central Committee and the Central Military Commission have vigorously enforced strict discipline in the army, made decisive decisions to rectify the political discipline of the People's Army, held a political work conference for the whole army in Gutian, made arrangements for political army building in the new era, restored and carried forward the glorious traditions and fine style of our party and army, promoted political training in the spirit of rectification, comprehensively strengthened the party's leadership and party building in the army, deepened the party's style and clean government construction and anti-corruption struggle in the army, resolutely investigated and dealt with serious violations of discipline and law such as Guo Boxiong, Xu Caihou, Fang Fenghui, and Zhang Yang, and thoroughly eliminated their pernicious influence, and promoted the fundamental improvement of the political ecology of the People's Army.

The Party proposed the strategy of reform and strengthening the army, led the most extensive and profound national defense and military reform since the founding of New China, reconstructed the leadership and command system of the People's Army, the modern military force system, and the military policy system, reduced the number of active personnel by 300,000, and formed a new pattern of the CMC managing the overall situation, the theater command focusing on combat, and the service focusing on construction. In the face of the new world military revolution, we implemented the strategy of strengthening the army with science and technology, built an innovative people's army, built a strong modern logistics, and made significant progress in national defense science and technology and weapons and equipment construction. Implement the strategy of strengthening the military with talents, establish the military education policy of the new era, clarify the standards for good military cadres, promote the construction of a three-in-one new military talent training system, cultivate revolutionary soldiers of the new era with soul, ability, blood, and morality, and forge a strong force with iron faith, iron conviction, iron discipline, and iron responsibility. Implement the strategy of governing the army according to law, build a military legal system with Chinese characteristics, and accelerate the fundamental transformation of the way of governing the army. Promote the construction of a military honor system.

The Party has put forward the mission and tasks of the people's army in the new era, innovated military strategic guidance, adjusted and optimized the military strategic layout, and strengthened the strategic functions of the people's army in shaping the situation, controlling crises, containing wars, and winning wars. The People's Army has firmly grasped the only fundamental standard of combat effectiveness, the fundamental direction of being able to fight and win battles, strengthened strategic forces and new-domain and new-type combat forces, strengthened the joint combat command system and capacity building, vigorously corrected the "peacetime ills", vigorously carried out practical military training, built a strong and stable modern border, sea and air defense, firmly and flexibly carried out military struggle, effectively responded to external military provocations, deterred "Taiwan independence" separatist activities, and carried out major tasks such as border defense struggle, maritime rights protection, counter-terrorism and stability maintenance, emergency rescue and disaster relief, epidemic prevention and control, peacekeeping and escort, humanitarian rescue and international military cooperation.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, under the strong leadership of the Party, the People's Army has achieved an overall revolutionary reshaping, reorganized its ranks and set out again, and its national defense and economic strength have been simultaneously improved. The construction of an integrated national strategic system and capabilities has been accelerated, and a sound management and guarantee system for retired soldiers has been established. National defense mobilization has become more efficient, and the unity between the military, government, and civilians has been further consolidated. The People's Army has resolutely fulfilled its mission and tasks in the new era, and has defended the sovereignty, security, and development interests of the country with a tenacious fighting spirit and practical actions.

(XI) On maintaining national security

After reform and opening up, the Party attached great importance to correctly handling the relationship between reform, development and stability, and regarded maintaining national security and social stability as a basic task of the Party and the country, creating a good security environment for reform and opening up and socialist modernization. Entering the new era, my country faces a more severe national security situation, with unprecedented external pressure, traditional security threats and non-traditional security threats intertwined, and "black swan" and "gray rhino" incidents occurring from time to time. Compared with the requirements of the situation and tasks, my country's ability to maintain national security is insufficient, its ability to deal with various major risks is not strong, and its overall coordination mechanism for maintaining national security is not sound. The Party Central Committee emphasized that peace and prosperity are the most basic and common wishes of the people. We must adhere to the bottom line thinking, be prepared for danger in times of peace, and put national interests first. We must take people's security as the purpose, political security as the foundation, economic security as the basis, military, science and technology, culture, and social security as the guarantee, and promote international security as the support. We must coordinate development and security, coordinate opening up and security, coordinate traditional security and non-traditional security, coordinate our own security and common security, and coordinate maintaining national security and shaping national security.

Comrade Xi Jinping stressed that ensuring national security is the top priority and put forward a comprehensive national security concept, covering many fields such as politics, military, territory, economy, culture, society, science and technology, network, ecology, resources, nuclear, overseas interests, space, deep sea, polar regions, and biology. He required the whole party to strengthen the spirit of struggle, improve the ability to struggle, and implement the leadership and work responsibilities of preventing and resolving various risks. The Party Central Committee deeply realized that in the face of various external blockades, suppression, disruptions, and subversion activities, it is necessary to carry forward the spirit of not believing in evil and not fearing ghosts, and fight to the end with all forces that attempt to subvert the leadership of the Communist Party of my country and our country's socialist system, and attempt to delay or even block the process of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Blindly giving in can only be exchanged for bullying that is getting more and more aggressive, and compromise can only lead to more humiliating situations.

The Party has focused on promoting the construction of the national security system and capabilities, established the Central National Security Commission, improved the centralized, unified, efficient and authoritative national security leadership system, improved the national security legal system, strategic system and policy system, and established a national security work coordination mechanism and emergency management mechanism. The Party has integrated safe development into the entire process of national development in all fields, paid attention to preventing and defusing major risks that affect my country's modernization process, firmly safeguarded the security of the state power, system and ideology, strengthened national security publicity and education and national defense education for all, consolidated the people's defense line of national security, promoted the development of border areas and enriched the people, stabilized and consolidated the border areas, strictly prevented and severely cracked down on the infiltration, sabotage, subversion and secession activities of hostile forces, withstood and countered external extreme suppression and containment, carried out struggles involving Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang, Tibet and the sea, accelerated the construction of a maritime power, and effectively safeguarded national security.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, national security has been comprehensively strengthened, withstood the test of risks and challenges from politics, economy, ideology and nature, and provided a strong guarantee for the prosperity and long-term stability of the Party and the country.

(XII) In upholding "one country, two systems" and promoting the reunification of the motherland

After returning to the motherland, Hong Kong and Macao were re-incorporated into the national governance system and embarked on a broad road of complementary advantages and common development with the mainland of the motherland. The practice of "one country, two systems" has achieved universally recognized success. At the same time, for a period of time, affected by various complex internal and external factors, "anti-China and Hong Kong chaos" activities were rampant, and the situation in Hong Kong was once grim. The Party Central Committee emphasized that it is necessary to fully, accurately and unswervingly implement the "one country, two systems" policy, adhere to and improve the "one country, two systems" system, adhere to the rule of law in Hong Kong and Macao, safeguard the constitutional order of the Special Administrative Region determined by the Constitution and the Basic Law, implement the central government's comprehensive jurisdiction over the Special Administrative Region, and firmly implement "patriots governing Hong Kong" and "patriots governing Macao".

The Party Central Committee, judging the situation, made major decisions to improve the central government's comprehensive jurisdiction over the Special Administrative Region in accordance with the Constitution and the Basic Law, and improve the relevant systems and mechanisms for the implementation of the Constitution and the Basic Law in the Special Administrative Region, promote the establishment and improvement of the legal system and enforcement mechanism for safeguarding national security in the Special Administrative Region, formulate the "Hong Kong Special Administrative Region National Security Law of the People's Republic of China", improve the electoral system of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, implement the principle of "patriots governing Hong Kong", and support the Special Administrative Region to improve the oath system for public officials. The Central People's Government established the Office for Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in accordance with the law, and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region established the National Security Commission in accordance with the law. The Central Government firmly supports the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in stopping violence and chaos and restoring order in accordance with the law, supports the Chief Executive and the Special Administrative Region Government in governing according to the law, resolutely prevents and curbs external forces from interfering in the affairs of Hong Kong and Macao, and severely cracks down on secession, subversion, infiltration and sabotage activities. We fully support Hong Kong and Macao to better integrate into the overall development of the country, build the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area with high quality, support Hong Kong and Macao in developing their economies and improving people's livelihood, and enhance the national consciousness and patriotism of Hong Kong and Macao compatriots. This series of measures to address both the symptoms and the root causes have promoted the major turning point from chaos to order in the Hong Kong situation, and laid a solid foundation for promoting the rule of law in Hong Kong and Macao and promoting the steady and long-term practice of "one country, two systems".

Solving the Taiwan issue and achieving the complete reunification of the motherland is the Party's unswerving historical mission, the common aspiration of all Chinese people, and the inevitable requirement for realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The Party grasps the changes in the times of cross-strait relations, enriches and develops the theory of national reunification and the principles and policies on Taiwan, and promotes the development of cross-strait relations in the right direction. Comrade Xi Jinping put forward a series of important concepts and major policy propositions on Taiwan work, forming the Party's overall strategy for solving the Taiwan issue in the new era. We have promoted the realization of the first meeting between the leaders of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait since 1949 and direct dialogue and communication between the leaders of the two sides. The Party upholds the concept of "the two sides of the Taiwan Strait are one family", promotes the peaceful development of cross-strait relations, and has issued a series of policies that benefit the vast majority of Taiwan compatriots to strengthen cross-strait economic and cultural exchanges and cooperation. Since 2016, the Taiwan authorities have stepped up their "Taiwan independence" separatist activities, which has seriously impacted the momentum of peaceful development of cross-strait relations. We adhere to the one-China principle and the "1992 Consensus", firmly oppose "Taiwan independence" separatist activities, firmly oppose external interference, and firmly grasp the dominant power and initiative in cross-strait relations. The time and momentum for the complete reunification of the motherland are always on our side.

Practice has proved that with the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China, the strong support of the great motherland, and the concerted efforts of people of all ethnic groups across the country, including compatriots in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Macao Special Administrative Region and Taiwan, the long-term prosperity and stability of Hong Kong and Macao will surely be maintained, and the complete reunification of the motherland will surely be achieved.

(XIII) In diplomatic work

After reform and opening up, the Party has adhered to an independent and peaceful foreign policy, created a good external environment for my country's development, and made significant contributions to the cause of human progress. Entering a new era, the international balance of power has undergone profound adjustments. Unilateralism, protectionism, hegemonism, and power politics have increased their threats to world peace and development. Anti-globalization thoughts have risen, and the world has entered a period of turbulence and change. The Party Central Committee emphasized that in the face of a complex and severe international situation and unprecedented external risks and challenges, it is necessary to coordinate the domestic and international situations, improve the Party's leadership system and mechanism for foreign affairs, strengthen the top-level design of foreign affairs, make strategic plans for China's major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics, promote the construction of a new type of international relations, promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, promote the common values ​​of peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy, and freedom for all mankind, and lead the trend of human progress.

The Party grasps the overall situation of diplomatic work in the new era, closely follows the main line of serving national rejuvenation and promoting human progress, holds high the banner of peace, development, cooperation and win-win, promotes and improves the all-round, multi-level and three-dimensional diplomatic layout, and actively develops global partnerships. We manage relations between major powers and promote coordination and cooperation among major powers. In accordance with the concept of amity, sincerity, mutual benefit and inclusiveness and the neighborhood diplomacy policy of being friendly and partnering with neighbors, we deepen relations with neighboring countries, stabilize the strategic support of the neighborhood, and build a community of shared future for the neighborhood. Adhering to the correct view of justice and interests and the concept of real amity, sincerity and honesty, we strengthen solidarity and cooperation with the vast number of developing countries, and achieve full coverage of the overall cooperation mechanism. The Party maintains regular contact with more than 500 political parties and political organizations in the world, and deepens exchanges and cooperation between political parties. Adapting to the new situation of the increasing expansion of "going out", we have continuously improved the overseas interests protection system and effectively responded to a series of overseas interests risks and challenges.

my country actively participates in the reform and construction of the global governance system, safeguards the international system with the United Nations at its core, the international order based on international law, and the basic norms of international relations based on the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, safeguards and practices true multilateralism, firmly opposes unilateralism, protectionism, hegemonism, and power politics, and actively promotes economic globalization in a more open, inclusive, equitable, balanced, and win-win direction. my country constructively participates in the political settlement of international and regional hot issues, and plays an active role in climate change, poverty reduction, counter-terrorism, cyber security, and maintaining regional security. my country has carried out international cooperation to fight the COVID-19 epidemic, launched the largest global emergency humanitarian action since the founding of the People's Republic of China, provided material assistance, medical support, vaccine assistance, and cooperation to many countries, especially developing countries, and demonstrated the image of a responsible major country.

After continuous efforts, China's diplomacy with Chinese characteristics has been comprehensively promoted, and building a community with a shared future for mankind has become a clear banner leading the trend of the times and the direction of human progress. my country's diplomacy has opened up new situations in the great changes in the world and turned crises into opportunities in the chaos of the world. my country's international influence, appeal, and shaping power have been significantly enhanced.

In short, since the 18th CPC National Congress, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has led the whole Party, the whole army and the people of all ethnic groups in the country to forge ahead, and the goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects has been achieved as scheduled. The cause of the Party and the country has achieved historic achievements and undergone historic changes, demonstrating the strong vitality of socialism with Chinese characteristics. The hearts of the Party, the army and the people have unprecedentedly united and inspired, providing a more perfect institutional guarantee, a more solid material foundation and a more proactive spiritual force for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The Communist Party of China and the Chinese people have solemnly declared to the world with heroic and tenacious struggle that the Chinese nation has ushered in a great leap from standing up, getting rich to becoming strong.

V. The historical significance of the 100-year struggle of the Communist Party of China

Over the past 100 years, the Party has always fulfilled its original mission, united and led the people of all ethnic groups in the country to paint a magnificent picture in the history of human development, and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has shown an unprecedented bright prospect.

(I) The Party's 100-year struggle has fundamentally changed the future and destiny of the Chinese people. Since modern times, the Chinese people have been deeply oppressed by the three mountains and insulted by Western powers as the "sick man of East Asia." Over the past 100 years, the Party has led the people through magnificent and great struggles. The Chinese people have completely gotten rid of the fate of being bullied, oppressed and enslaved, and have become the masters of the country, society and their own destiny. People's democracy has continued to develop, more than 1.4 billion people have achieved a well-off life in an all-round way, and the Chinese people's yearning for a better life has continued to become a reality. Today, the Chinese people are more confident, self-reliant and self-reliant, and have greatly enhanced their ambition, backbone and confidence. The powerful energy accumulated in the course of history has fully erupted, and they have radiated an unprecedented spirit of historical initiative and historical creation. They are confidently writing the great history of China's development in the new era.

(II) The Party's century-long struggle has opened up the correct path to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Since modern times, the Chinese nation, which has created a splendid civilization, has encountered a deep crisis that civilization is difficult to continue, and what is presented to the world is a scene of decline and decay. Over the past 100 years, the Party has led the people to work tirelessly and make continuous progress, and has successfully opened up the correct path to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. China has gone from being fragmented and scattered to being highly unified and united, from being poor and weak to being well-off and prosperous, from being passively beaten and bullied to being independent and confident. In just a few decades, China has completed the industrialization process that took developed countries hundreds of years to go through, creating two miracles: rapid economic development and long-term social stability. Today, the Chinese nation shows the world a thriving atmosphere and stands tall in the east of the world.

(III) The Party’s century-long struggle has demonstrated the strong vitality of Marxism. Marxism reveals the laws of human social development and is the scientific truth for understanding and transforming the world. At the same time, upholding and developing Marxism requires extremely arduous and challenging efforts from Marxists all over the world, from theory to practice. Over the past 100 years, the Party has insisted on writing Marxism on its banner, constantly promoting the sinicization and modernization of Marxism, absorbing all the excellent civilization achievements created by mankind with a broad mind, and guiding the great practice with the scientific theory of the sinicization of Marxism. The scientific nature and truthfulness of Marxism have been fully tested in China, the people-oriented nature and practicality of Marxism have been fully implemented in China, and the openness and timeliness of Marxism have been fully demonstrated in China. The continuous success of Marxism's sinicization and modernization has made Marxism present itself to the world in a new image, and has brought about a major transformation in favor of socialism in the historical evolution and competition between the two ideologies and social systems of socialism and capitalism around the world.

(IV) The Party's century-long struggle has profoundly influenced the course of world history. The cause of the Party and the people is an important part of the cause of human progress. Over the past 100 years, the Party has not only worked for the happiness of the Chinese people and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, but also worked for the progress of mankind and the world, and has profoundly changed the trend and pattern of world development with its unremitting struggle. The Party has led the people to successfully embark on the path of Chinese-style modernization, created a new form of human civilization, expanded the path for developing countries to modernize, and provided a new choice for those countries and nations in the world that want to accelerate development and maintain their independence. The Party has promoted the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, contributed Chinese wisdom, Chinese solutions, and Chinese strength to solving major human problems and building a world of lasting peace, universal security, common prosperity, openness, inclusiveness, cleanliness, and beauty, and has become an important force in promoting human development and progress.

(V) The Party's century-long struggle has forged the Communist Party of China, which is at the forefront of the times. When the Party was founded, it had only more than 50 members. Today, it has become the world's largest ruling party with more than 95 million members, leading a country with a population of more than 1.4 billion and with great global influence. Over the past 100 years, the Party has adhered to its nature and purpose, adhered to its ideals and beliefs, adhered to its original mission, and dared to reform itself. In the struggle between life and death and hard work, it has withstood various risks and tests, made great sacrifices, and tempered a distinct political character, formed a spiritual spectrum with the great spirit of party building as the source, maintained the party's advanced nature and purity, and continuously improved its governing ability and leadership level. It is leading the Chinese people on the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics and moving irreversibly towards the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. It is worthy of being a great, glorious and correct party.

VI. Historical experience of the Communist Party of China's 100 years of struggle

Over the past 100 years, the Party has led the people in great struggles, made breakthroughs in progress, rose up in setbacks, improved from summing up, and accumulated valuable historical experience.

(I) Adhere to the leadership of the Party. The Communist Party of China is the core force leading our cause. The reason why the Chinese people and the Chinese nation have been able to reverse their historical destiny since modern times and achieve today's great achievements is fundamentally due to the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China. History and reality have proved that without the Communist Party of China, there would be no new China and no great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. To govern our country, the largest political party in the world and the most populous country, we must uphold the overall leadership of the Party, especially the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, adhere to democratic centralism, and ensure that the Party always takes overall control and coordinates all parties. As long as we unswervingly uphold the overall leadership of the Party, resolutely safeguard the core of the Party and the authority of the Party Central Committee, give full play to the political advantages of the Party's leadership, and implement the Party's leadership in all areas, aspects and links of the Party and the country's cause, we will be able to ensure that the whole Party, the whole army and the people of all ethnic groups in the country will unite and move forward.

(II) Adhere to the supremacy of the people. The Party's roots, blood and strength are in the people. The people are the greatest confidence of the Party in governing and rejuvenating the country. The people's will is the greatest politics, and justice is the strongest force. The Party's greatest political advantage is to keep close contact with the masses, and the greatest danger after the Party comes to power is to be separated from the masses. The Party represents the fundamental interests of the vast majority of the Chinese people, does not have any special interests of its own, and never represents the interests of any interest group, any powerful group, or any privileged class. This is the fundamental reason why the Party is invincible. As long as we always adhere to the fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, adhere to the party's mass line, always bear in mind that the country belongs to the people and the people belong to the country, adhere to everything for the people and rely on the people, adhere to governing for the people and relying on the people, adhere to development for the people, development relies on the people, and the fruits of development are shared by the people, and unswervingly follow the path of common prosperity for all the people, we will surely be able to lead the people to win new and greater victories in socialism with Chinese characteristics. Any attempt to separate and oppose the Communist Party of China from the Chinese people will never succeed.

(III) Adhere to theoretical innovation. Marxism is the fundamental guiding ideology for us to establish the party and the country and to strengthen the party and the country. Marxist theory is not a dogma but a guide to action. It must develop with the development of practice. It must be Chinese to take root and localized to be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The reason why the Party can lead the people to complete the arduous tasks that other political forces in China cannot accomplish through repeated exploration, setbacks and exploration is that it insists on emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts, keeping pace with the times, seeking truth and being pragmatic, insisting on combining the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific reality and with the excellent traditional Chinese culture, insisting that practice is the only criterion for testing truth, insisting on starting from reality, and promptly answering the questions of the times and the people, and constantly promoting the sinicization and modernization of Marxism. Comrade Xi Jinping pointed out that the great social changes in contemporary China are not a simple continuation of the master version of my country's history and culture, nor a simple application of the templates envisioned by the classical writers of Marxism, nor a reprint of the socialist practices of other countries, nor a replica of foreign modernization development. As long as we have the courage to continuously promote theoretical innovation in combination with new practices and are good at using new theories to guide new practices, we will surely be able to make Marxism show a stronger and more convincing truth power on the land of China.

(IV) Insist on independence and self-reliance. Independence and self-reliance are the soul of the Chinese national spirit and an important principle for us to establish the Party and the country. Taking our own path is the historical conclusion drawn by the Party's century-long struggle. The Party has always insisted on independence and self-reliance to open up the road of progress, insisted on putting the development of the country and the nation on the basis of its own strength, and insisted that Chinese affairs must be advocated and handled by the Chinese people themselves. In human history, no nation or country can achieve strength and rejuvenation by relying on external forces, copying foreign models, and following others step by step. The result of doing so is either inevitable failure or inevitable becoming a vassal of others. As long as we insist on independence and self-reliance, humbly learn from and draw on the useful experience of foreign countries, and strengthen our national self-esteem and self-confidence, and do not believe in evil or fear oppression, we will definitely be able to firmly grasp the destiny of China's development and progress in our own hands.

(V) Adhere to the Chinese path. Direction determines the path, and the path determines the destiny. In its century-long struggle, the Party has always insisted on starting from my country's national conditions and exploring and forming a correct path that conforms to China's reality. The path of socialism with Chinese characteristics is a broad road to create a better life for the people and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Standing on the land of China, inheriting Chinese civilization, and taking the correct path that conforms to China's national conditions, the Party and the people will have an extremely broad stage, an extremely profound historical heritage, and an extremely strong determination to move forward. As long as we neither take the old path of closed-door and rigid development nor the evil path of changing flags and banners, and unswervingly follow the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, we will surely be able to build our country into a prosperous, democratic, civilized, harmonious and beautiful socialist modern power.

(Six) Adhere to the world in mind. The way of the great road is for the public. The Party has always paid attention to the future and destiny of mankind with a global perspective, correctly understood and handled the relationship with the outside world from the great trend of human development, the great pattern of world changes, and the great history of China's development, adhered to openness, not closed-door, adhered to mutual benefit and win-win, not zero-sum game, adhered to justice, and stood on the right side of history and on the side of human progress. As long as we adhere to the path of peaceful development, develop ourselves by maintaining world peace and maintain world peace through our own development, and advance hand in hand with all progressive forces in the world, without relying on others, plundering others, and never seeking hegemony, we will surely continue to contribute wisdom and strength to the progress of human civilization, and together with the people of all countries in the world, push the wheel of history forward towards a bright future.

(VII) Adhere to pioneering and innovation. Innovation is an inexhaustible driving force for the development and progress of a country and a nation. The greater the cause, the more difficulties and obstacles it is filled with, the more hard work and pioneering and innovation it requires. The Party has led the people to overcome difficulties, seek up and down, strive to explore, and forge ahead, constantly promoting theoretical innovation, practical innovation, institutional innovation, cultural innovation and other aspects of innovation, dare to be the first in the world, and have taken a path that no predecessors have taken. No difficulties and obstacles can stop the pace of the Party and the people. As long as we follow the trend of the times, respond to the demands of the people, have the courage to promote reform, accurately identify changes, respond scientifically, and actively seek changes, never become rigid or stagnant, we will surely be able to create more amazing miracles in the world.

(VIII) Adhere to the courage to struggle. The courage to struggle and the courage to win are the invincible and powerful spiritual forces of the Party and the people. All the achievements made by the Party and the people did not fall from the sky or were bestowed by others, but were achieved through continuous struggle. The Party was born in internal and external troubles, grew up in hardships, and grew stronger in overcoming difficulties. For the people, the country, the nation, and for ideals and beliefs, no matter how powerful the enemy is, how difficult the road is, or how severe the challenge is, the Party will never be afraid, never retreat, not afraid of sacrifice, and will never give up. As long as we grasp the historical characteristics of the new great struggle, seize and make good use of historical opportunities, take the initiative, fight proactively, carry forward the spirit of struggle, enhance the ability to struggle, and unite the will and strength of the whole Party and the people of the whole country, we will surely be able to overcome all foreseeable and unforeseen risks and challenges.

(IX) Adhere to the united front. Unity is strength. Establishing the broadest united front is an important magic weapon for the Party to defeat the enemy and win victory, and it is also an important magic weapon for the Party to govern and prosper the country. The Party has always adhered to great unity and great unity, united all forces that can be united, mobilized all positive factors that can be mobilized, promoted harmony among political parties, ethnic groups, religions, classes, and compatriots at home and abroad, and gathered the strength for common struggle to the greatest extent. As long as we continue to consolidate and develop the great unity of all ethnic groups, the great unity of the whole people, and the great unity of all Chinese people, forge a strong sense of community of the Chinese nation, and form a vivid situation in which all Chinese people at home and abroad think and work together, we will surely be able to gather the great power to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

(10) Adhere to self-revolution. The courage to self-revolution is a significant feature that distinguishes the Communist Party of China from other political parties. The spirit of self-revolution is a strong support for the Party to maintain its youthful vitality. Advanced Marxist political parties are not born, but are tempered in continuous self-revolution. The secret of the Party's vitality after a century of vicissitudes is that it always adheres to the truth and corrects its mistakes. The greatness of the Party does not lie in not making mistakes, but in never hiding its illnesses, actively carrying out criticism and self-criticism, daring to face problems, and daring to self-revolution. As long as we continue to eliminate all factors that undermine the party's advanced nature and purity, and continue to eliminate all viruses that erode the party's healthy body, we will be able to ensure that the party will not degenerate, change color, or change taste, and ensure that the party will always be a strong leadership core in the historical process of upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era.

The above ten aspects are valuable experiences accumulated through long-term practice and spiritual wealth created by the party and the people. They must be cherished, adhered to for a long time, and continuously enriched and developed in the practice of the new era.

VII. The Communist Party of China in the New Era

Don't forget your original intention, and you will always be there. The Communist Party of China is determined to achieve the great cause of the Chinese nation for thousands of years, and it is in its prime for a hundred years. In the past hundred years, the party has handed in an excellent answer to the people and history. Now, the party unites and leads the Chinese people to embark on a new road to achieve the second centenary goal. The times are the test-setters, we are the test-takers, and the people are the test-graders. We must continue to get good grades and show new atmosphere and new actions on the new journey in the new era.

The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China made a strategic arrangement to advance the realization of the second centenary goal in two stages. From 2020 to 2035, we will basically realize socialist modernization, and from 2035 to the middle of this century, we will build our country into a socialist modern power. By then, our material civilization, political civilization, spiritual civilization, social civilization, and ecological civilization will be comprehensively improved, the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity will be realized, and we will become a country with leading comprehensive national strength and international influence. The common prosperity of all people will be basically realized, our people will enjoy a happier and healthier life, and the Chinese nation will stand tall among the nations of the world with a more vigorous attitude.

Today, we are closer, more confident and more capable of achieving the goal of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation than at any time in history. At the same time, the whole party must clearly realize that the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is by no means easy to achieve, and there are still various predictable and unpredictable risks and challenges on the road ahead; we must clearly realize that our country is still in and will remain in the primary stage of socialism for a long time, our country is still the world's largest developing country, and the main social contradiction is the contradiction between the people's growing needs for a better life and unbalanced and inadequate development. The whole Party must bear in mind the fundamental question of what the Communist Party of China is and what it wants to do, grasp the general trend of historical development, strengthen ideals and beliefs, bear in mind the original aspiration and mission, always be modest and prudent, not arrogant or impetuous, and work hard, inspire the power of forging ahead from the great victory, learn historical lessons from detours and setbacks, not be afraid of any risks, not be confused by any interference, and never make subversive mistakes on fundamental issues. With the perseverance of sticking to the green mountains and not letting go, we will strive to achieve the established goals, and with the soberness of a journey of a hundred miles, we will unremittingly promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

The whole Party must adhere to Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thought of "Three Represents", and the Scientific Outlook on Development, comprehensively implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, observe the times, grasp the times, and lead the times with the standpoint, viewpoint, and method of Marxism, and constantly deepen the understanding of the laws of the Communist Party's governance, the laws of socialist construction, and the laws of human social development. We must adhere to the Party's basic theory, basic line, and basic strategy, strengthen the "four consciousnesses", strengthen the "four self-confidences", and achieve the "two safeguards". We must adhere to the system concept, coordinate the promotion of the "five-in-one" overall layout, coordinate the promotion of the "four comprehensive" strategic layout, and base ourselves on the new development stage, implement the new development concept, build a new development pattern, and promote high-quality development. We must comprehensively deepen reform and opening up, promote common prosperity, promote scientific and technological self-reliance, develop people's democracy throughout the process, ensure that the people are the masters of the country, adhere to the comprehensive rule of law, adhere to the socialist core value system, adhere to the protection and improvement of people's livelihood in development, adhere to the harmonious coexistence of man and nature, coordinate development and security, accelerate the modernization of national defense and the army, and jointly promote the prosperity of the people, the prosperity of the country, and the beauty of China.

The whole Party must always maintain flesh-and-blood ties with the people, stand firm on the people's position, adhere to the people's dominant position, respect the people's pioneering spirit, practice the people-centered development thinking, maintain social fairness and justice, focus on solving the problems of unbalanced and inadequate development and the urgent and difficult problems of the people, and continuously realize, maintain, and develop the fundamental interests of the vast majority of the people, unite and lead the people of all ethnic groups in the country to continuously strive for a better life.

The whole Party must bear in mind that we are born in hardship and die in comfort, always have long-term considerations and be vigilant in times of peace, continue to promote the new great project of Party building in the new era, adhere to comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, unswervingly promote the Party's work style and clean government and the fight against corruption, bravely face the test of long-term governance, reform and opening up, market economy, and external environment faced by the Party, and resolutely overcome the dangers of spiritual slackness, insufficient ability, separation from the masses, and negative corruption. We must maintain the heroic spirit of moving forward the more difficult and dangerous it is, dare to fight and be good at fighting, open roads when encountering mountains and build bridges when encountering water, and do not be overwhelmed by difficulties and pressure, so as to push the ship of socialism with Chinese characteristics to break through the waves and move forward.

The development of the Party and the people's cause requires generations of Chinese Communists to continue to struggle, and we must grasp the fundamental plan of having successors. We must persist in educating people with Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, unite people with the ideals and beliefs of the Party, cultivate people with the core socialist values, inspire people with the historical mission of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and cultivate a large number of successors who can shoulder the heavy responsibility of the times. We must continuously cultivate and select high-quality professional cadres, especially outstanding young cadres, who are both morally and professionally qualified, loyal, clean and responsible. We must educate and guide the majority of party members and cadres to consciously become firm believers and faithful practitioners of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, bear in mind the truth that empty talk will ruin the country and hard work will make it prosperous, establish a sense of home and country that will not disappoint the people, pursue a lofty ideological realm, and enhance strong responsibility. We must continuously absorb advanced elements from all aspects, especially outstanding young people, into the party, educate and guide young party members to always take the party’s flag as their flag, the party’s direction as their direction, and the party’s will as their will, continue the party’s red bloodline, carry forward the party’s fine traditions, and experience the wind and rain, see the world, strengthen their muscles and bones, and grow their talents in the struggle. We must continuously cultivate and create outstanding talents who are patriotic, dedicated, and innovative, truly love talents, carefully cultivate talents, and use talents carefully, and gather outstanding talents from all aspects to the great struggle of the party and the people.

The Party Central Committee calls on the whole Party, the whole army and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, fully implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, vigorously carry forward the great spirit of party building, remember yesterday's suffering and glory, live up to today's mission and responsibility, live up to tomorrow's great dream, learn from history, create the future, work hard, and move forward courageously to achieve the second centenary goal and realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. We firmly believe that the Communist Party of China and the Chinese people, who have won great victories and glory in the past 100 years, will surely win greater victories and glory on the new journey in the new era!

Source: Xinhua News Agency