Explore the original intention and mission from "Red Star Shines on China": from common prosperity to helping the world

Author: Li Qingsi (School of International Relations, National Development Institute, Chinese min University); Bai Xiaomeng (Major in International Relations, University of Melbourne)

To understand today's China, we must understand the Chinese Communist Party. Standing at the time node of the founding of the cpc in the past hundred years, reviewing the development process of the CPC along the way, from the arduous struggle and sacrifice of the early communists to the stubborn standing in the internal and external troubles in the early days of the founding of New China, to the firmness and courage to face doubts in the early days of reform and opening up, and then to the unity and self-confidence under the unprecedented major changes in the past century, the world has been changing for a hundred years, but the CPC has always been able to constantly update and improve itself to cope with various changes and challenges. The key is the unchanging original intention and mission.

There is a book that was once the only book about the Chinese Communist Party, which allowed the world to read the goals and beliefs of the Chinese Communist Party for the first time. At that time, China and even the whole world, the Chinese Communist Party and the Soviet regime had long been drowned in rumors and speculations, and Edgar Snow used the journalist's truth-seeking faith and the courage of an adventurer to embark on the long road of westward travel and wrote the extremely famous "Red Star Shines on China". In reading carefully, we may be able to understand where the red genes that have been circulating for a hundred years in the Chinese Communist Party come from and how they thrive.

Do not copy the theory: Chinese characteristics are the only way to develop socialism

As for China, the most populous socialist country, whenever our Party implements different economic policies and political measures at different stages according to time and place, there will always be people who question: Is China still unswervingly taking the socialist road? When innovative policies such as reform and opening up, one country, two systems, and so on are proposed, some people will also question whether our path is pure. In fact, from the very beginning of its establishment of the base areas, the Communist Party of China has always had "Chinese characteristics." At every important historical juncture in the process of the CPC's leadership of revolutionary exploration, the changes and choices of "Chinese characteristics" can turn the tide of the tide. At the time of the base area in northern Shaanxi, the Chinese Communists already had such a clear understanding that these experiences and lessons are still engraved in China's development process all the time, reminding the Chinese Communist Party to focus on the land under its feet, and whether the people's livelihood has been effectively improved is the only answer to the evaluation of the papers.

The policy is timely and the goal is unswerving. The chapter "The Red Star in the Northwest" clearly records the question of the original intention: the ultimate aim of the Chinese Communists is to build a truly complete socialist state in accordance with Marxist-Leninist theory. The founding of the People's Republic of China marked a stage victory in the goal of the Chinese Communists. It is easy to fight the world, but it is difficult to defend the world. Just as Comrade Mao Zedong said on his way from Xibaipo to Beijing: Today is the day to enter Beijing to catch the examination. The first generation of the cpc's leadership has withstood the test and, in combination with the experience of other countries and their own conditions, has gradually resumed production in a targeted and planned manner. In just over two decades, New China has basically completed its initial industrialization from the beginning of being poor and white, and independently developing "two bombs and one satellite" has laid the foundation for national defense and security and laid a solid foundation for the subsequent reform and opening up.

At the end of the 1970s, the people's livelihood and social development in China threw a new historical question to the Chinese Communist Party: How to make the Chinese and the people rich? Chinese civilian wisdom and courage, found a development path with Chinese characteristics, and chose reform and opening up. Chinese people carry forward the spirit of bearing hardships and standing hard work, actively face unknown challenges, and strive to make a fortune. Especially after China's accession to the WTO, after unremitting efforts, China, which has a whole industrial chain, has become the world's factory and the largest market, and now the international market share is second to none.

However, the market economy is fierce and cruelly competitive, so that many developing countries have never been able to cross the development trap and may fall into poverty overnight in the face of the sudden financial crisis. However, China's institutional advantages have emerged, and under the macro-control of the Communist Party of China, it has withstood the test of the Southeast Asian financial crisis and the 2008 world financial crisis, and in 2010, its GDP rose to the second place in the world. At the important moment of ushering in the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, China has won a comprehensive victory in the battle against poverty and completed the arduous task of eliminating absolute poverty. This is not only the first time in thousands of years in China, but also the only time in human history so far. Even in the United States, the world's largest economy, poverty abounds and is getting worse. As the most populous country in the world, the great significance of the achievements in comprehensive poverty alleviation cannot be overemphasized.

After completing the grand goal of all-round poverty alleviation, the Communist Party of China embarked on a new journey to achieve common prosperity. Whether it was the great idea of reform and opening up of "first making the people rich" or the strategic principle of "one country, two systems" for the peaceful reunification of Hong Kong and Macao, they were all heroic changes made in accordance with the actual situation at that time. The goal of common prosperity cannot ignore "prosperity", and the complete reunification of the motherland must also leave a buffer room for history, as long as we keep our original intention and persist in seeking well-being for the people, the people will also give back with confidence and support.

Concern for the world, the world: the destiny of mankind is a community

With the increasing prosperity of global exchanges at all levels, China has also paid more attention to communication and exchanges with the world under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. Even in the Northwest Red Zone, the Chinese Communist Party has never been at peace, but has always looked at the global situation. To this day, strengthening international cooperation and reaching a unified consensus remain the most active, even the only, solution to global problems.

Duyun "is poor and good at his own, and if he is poor, he can help the world", and even when he is the most "poor", the Chinese Communists have a heart that helps the world at the same time. Comrade Mao Zedong offers an interesting point: the power of production and consumption of 450 million people is not a matter that can be completely managed by Chinese, but must be attended by many countries. Once truly liberated, our tens of millions of people, using their enormous potential productivity in all areas of creative activity, can help to improve the world's economies and raise the standard of the world's culture. These words are still practical in today's China and the world.

In 2021, when international trade is so developed, even if it is affected by the epidemic, China's GDP will remain stable, and as the world's largest producer and largest consumer market, it will bring a strong driving force to international trade. The vitality and vitality of China's economy not only brings opportunities for its own people to get rich, but also benefits the whole world. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, China's contribution to world economic growth has remained at around 30 percent for many years. For the sake of these long-term international interests, the Chinese people more than seventy years ago fought hard and won the great victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation; the persistence of the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan has steadily developed the economy step by step and improved people's livelihood; and the implementation of the "Belt and Road" construction has linked China with the world more realistically and concretely.

In his speech at the opening ceremony of the 2021 International Conference on "Reading China" (Guangzhou), President Xi Jinping pointed out, "I said, 'To understand today's China, we must understand the Chinese Communist Party.'" This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. Over the past 100 years, the Communist Party of China has united and led the unremitting struggle of the Chinese people, which has fundamentally changed the future and destiny of the Chinese people and profoundly affected the course of world history. "Only by reading the Chinese Communist Party can we understand China, and this sentence spans a hundred years. In the face of unprecedented changes in a century, the people of all countries need to strengthen communication and unite to cope with unknown challenges. After reading the Communist Party of China, we can not only understand the powerful energy of unity and unity, but also work with the 1.4 billion Chinese people to overcome difficulties and advance hand in hand.

(This article is supported by the Research Fund of Chinese Min University "Special Project for Studying and Implementing the Spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's Important Speech" (21XNQZ34).) ）

Source: Guangming Network - Academic Channel