Chinese-style modernization is socialist modernization led by the Communist Party of China

Chinese-style modernization is socialist modernization led by the Communist Party of China*

Xi Jinping

The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly pointed out: "Chinese-style modernization is socialist modernization under the leadership of the Communist Party of China." "This is a characterization of Chinese-style modernization, and it is the management of the general and fundamental management. Why emphasize the party's leadership in China's modernization? This is because the party's leadership has a direct bearing on the fundamental direction, future and destiny of Chinese-style modernization, and ultimately success or failure.

On February 2023, 2, a seminar for new members, alternate members and major leading cadres at the provincial and ministerial levels to study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and the spirit of the 7th National Congress of the Party was held at the Central Party School (National Academy of Administration). Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, delivered an important speech at the opening ceremony. Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Xueren/Photo

Party leadership determines the fundamental nature of Chinese-style modernization. The party's nature, purpose, original mission, beliefs, and policy propositions determine that Chinese-style modernization is socialist modernization and not some other modernization. Our party has always held high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, adhered to the basic principles of scientific socialism, and constantly endowed it with distinctive Chinese characteristics and connotations of the times, unswervingly followed the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and ensured the smooth advancement of Chinese-style modernization on the right track. Our party persists in taking Marxism as the fundamental guiding ideology, constantly deepens its understanding of the laws governing the Communist Party, socialist construction, and the development of human society, constantly opens up a new realm of the Sinicization of Marxism, and provides scientific guidance for Chinese-style modernization. Our party adheres to and improves the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, continuously promotes the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, and forms a complete set of institutional systems including the fundamental, basic and important systems of socialism with Chinese characteristics, providing a strong institutional guarantee for the steady progress of Chinese-style modernization. Our party adheres to and develops socialist culture with Chinese characteristics, stimulates the vitality of cultural innovation and creativity of the whole nation, and provides strong spiritual force for Chinese-style modernization. It can be said that only by unswervingly adhering to the party's leadership can Chinese-style modernization have a bright future and prosper; Otherwise, Chinese-style modernization will deviate from course, lose its soul, and even make subversive mistakes.

The leadership of the Party ensures that the Chinese-style modernization is anchored and the goal is stable and far-reaching. Our party has always adhered to its original mission, determined to seek happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation, insisted on unifying lofty ideals with phased goals, and once the goal is determined, it will firmly grasp the green mountain and not relax, continue to struggle, struggle hard, and struggle unremittingly. Since the reform and opening up, our goal of building a modern socialist country has been gradual and consistent, and has been continuously enriched and improved with the development of practice. On the basis of summarizing the practical achievements and experience of reform and opening up and the new era, the 2035th National Congress of the Communist Party of China more clearly drew the goals and requirements of China's development by <>, and scientifically drew a grand blueprint for building a modern and powerful socialist country in an all-round way and comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. From these historical processes, we can clearly see that building a modern socialist country is the consistent goal of our party, which has been relayed from generation to generation, and has continuously achieved brilliant achievements that have attracted worldwide attention and are in the annals of history.

From May 2023 to 5, 11, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, inspected Hebei and presided over a symposium on in-depth promotion of the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei. This is the afternoon of the 12th, Xi Jinping inspected the wharf of the Huanghua Port Coal Port Area in Cangzhou City. Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Xueren/Photo

The party's leadership has stimulated a strong impetus for building Chinese-style modernization. Reform and opening up is a key move that determines the fate of contemporary China, and also determines the success or failure of Chinese-style modernization. After the reform and opening up, our party, with the great historical initiative, has continuously changed the incompatible aspects between production relations and productive forces, and between the superstructure and economic base, continuously promoted structural reform in various fields, formed and developed institutional mechanisms that conform to contemporary China's national conditions and are full of vitality, so that the vitality of all labor, knowledge, technology, management and capital can burst out in a competitive manner, and all sources of creating social wealth can fully flow. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, our Party has comprehensively deepened reform with great political courage, highlighted problem-orientation, dared to break into deep waters, dared to gnaw hard bones, dared to wade into dangerous shoals, dared to face new contradictions and new challenges, broke through the shackles of ideology and concepts, broke through the barriers of solidifying interests, resolutely eliminated the shortcomings of various systems and mechanisms, and carried out reform from partial exploration and ice-breaking breakthrough to system integration and comprehensive deepening, and achieved historic changes, systematic remodeling and overall reconstruction in many fields, injecting an inexhaustible source of power into Chinese-style modernization.

The party's leadership has gathered the majestic force for building Chinese-style modernization. Our party deeply understands that Chinese-style modernization is the cause of hundreds of millions of people, and the people are the main body of Chinese-style modernization, and we must closely rely on the people, respect the people's creative spirit, and pool the wisdom and strength of all the people in order to promote the continuous development of Chinese-style modernization. We adhere to the party's mass line, think about problems, make decisions, and do things, pay attention to keeping the pulse of the people, respond to the people's concerns, embody the people's aspirations, and enhance the people's well-being, and strive to ensure that the party's theories, lines, principles, and policies are wholeheartedly supported by the masses. We adhere to the people's yearning for a better life as the goal, adhere to the people-centered development thinking, focus on ensuring and improving people's livelihood, focus on solving people's urgent problems and worries, and let the achievements of Chinese-style modernization benefit all the people more and more equitably. Our party develops people's democracy in the whole process, expands democratic channels, enriches democratic forms, expands the people's orderly political participation, ensures that the people manage state affairs, economic and cultural undertakings, and social affairs through various channels and forms in accordance with the law, and enthusiastically plunges into the modernization drive with the spirit of masters. Our party inspires, inspires and inspires people with the beautiful vision of Chinese-style modernization, effectively promotes the harmony of relations between political parties, ethnic groups, religions, classes, and compatriots at home and abroad, promotes the unity and struggle of the sons and daughters of China at home and abroad, and unite the majestic power of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way.

※This is part of General Secretary Xi Jinping's speech on February 2023, 2 at the seminar for new members, alternate members and key leading cadres at the provincial and ministerial levels to study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and the spirit of the 7th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.