The party's century-long struggle has fundamentally changed the future and destiny of the Chinese people

【Guangming Forum】

Author: Ouyang Kang (Dean and Professor, Institute of National Governance, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Researcher of Hubei Provincial Research Center for Theoretical System of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics)

The Sixth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China pointed out when comprehensively summarizing the great achievements and historical experience of the CPC's century-long struggle: "The party's century-long struggle has fundamentally changed the future and destiny of the Chinese people. "The cpc's century-long struggle has fundamentally changed the future and destiny of the Chinese people in four aspects: ideological awakening, political revolution, social change and personality shaping.

Great Ideological Awakening: Spiritually from passive confusion to grasping the historical initiative. The history of the CPC's century-long struggle originated in the political and ideological darkest period of the Chinese nation and the Chinese people, and its primary premise and mission was to arouse the great awakening and spiritual consciousness of the Chinese people. After the Opium War in 1840, China gradually degenerated into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, various revolutionary movements rose one after another, and various doctrines and national salvation plans were introduced in turn, but all ended in failure, and the Chinese people fell into unprecedented political and ideological confusion. It was at this critical moment that the Communist Party of China came into being. The Chinese Communists learned Marxism-Leninism from the October Revolution in Russia and applied it to China's revolution, construction, reform and opening up, and China's socialist modernization drive, leading the Chinese people to constantly change from passive to active in spirit, and radiating a great spirit of historical initiative and historical creation.

The great spiritual awakening and great creation of the Chinese people is a very difficult process of knowledge and self-knowledge. As far as self-knowledge is concerned, it has experienced reflection and criticism of the "national nature" of Chinese; as far as China's comparison with the developed countries in the West is concerned, it has experienced ideological disputes such as "using the Chinese body for western use" or "using the Western body for the Chinese body"; as far as the relationship between the Communist Party of China and various political concepts is concerned, it has experienced various ideological controversies such as Marxism and non-Marxism, socialism and liberalism, capitalism, and revisionism; and as far as its internal struggle is concerned, it is faced with various forms of "left" and "right" erroneous ideological trends , the challenges of conservatism and radicalism, dogmatism and separatism, and so on. Three important resolutions in the history of the Communist Party of China represent the ideological awakening and self-understanding and reflection process of the Chinese people led by the Communist Party of China.

Great Political Revolution: Chinese people have completely freed themselves from the fate of being bullied, oppressed, and enslaved in their status, and have become masters of the fate of the country, society, and themselves. The great awakening of thought is accompanied by a great political revolution. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the Chinese nation has made a revolutionary leap from a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society to a socialist modern society with Chinese characteristics politically, and the Chinese people have realized their political status from being enslaved and oppressed to becoming masters of the country, society, and their own destiny. Chinese people have lived in a feudal autocratic society for a long time, and have been deeply influenced by ideas such as "divine right of kings" and "supremacy of kingship". The imperialist invasion has caused great disasters to the Chinese people. The Chinese Communists led the Chinese people to make a revolution, took the socialist road and the establishment of the people's democratic dictatorship as their goal in building the state system, and completed the new-democratic revolution and established the socialist system through the Northern Expedition, the Agrarian Revolutionary War, the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the War of Liberation. After the founding of New China, China's democratic political construction, in which the people are the masters of their own affairs, has been continuously expanded, updated, and upgraded. The people's congress system has become the fundamental system of China, the system of multi-party cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the system of regional ethnic autonomy and the system of autonomy for the masses at the grass-roots level have become the basic system, and there are various important systems and systems. The trinity of party leadership, people's mastery, and governing the country according to law earnestly guarantees the people's democratic rights, and the whole process of people's democracy has become a form of democratic political civilization with Chinese characteristics.

Great social change: from poor to beautiful economically, it continues to become a reality. The Chinese Communists regard the prosperity and strength of the country and the happiness of the people as their goal of struggle, build the poor and white old China into a thriving new China, historically eliminate absolute poverty, build a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, and constantly turn the people's yearning for a better life into reality. Chinese people once had their own historical glory, and in modern times they have been poor and weak, decaying and withering. After the founding of New China, the Chinese Communists worked hard to establish an independent and relatively complete industrial system, and after the reform and opening up, they established a development strategy centered on economic construction, stimulated the vitality of social production and development, accelerated the modernization of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and became the world's second largest economy. Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the mainland's economic strength, scientific and technological strength and comprehensive national strength have entered the forefront of the world, overcome the serious impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, historicly eliminated absolute poverty, built a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, and started a new journey of building a socialist modern power, the people's yearning for a better life has continuously become a reality, and the development goals and paths of common prosperity have become clearer and substantive achievements are being made.

Great Personality Shaping: From "Sick Man of East Asia" to Self-Confidence and Self-Improvement in Character. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, Chinese not only created the "two miracles" of long-term rapid economic growth and long-term social stability, but also shaped a self that is more confident and self-reliant in personality, national character and character. In modern times, Chinese have been humiliated as the "sick man of East Asia" and have been bullied to the fullest, and the Communist Party of China has led the Chinese people to stand up in all directions ideologically, politically, economically, and culturally, and has also promoted the revolutionary improvement of the personality of the Chinese people, the national character of the People's Republic of China, and the national character of the Chinese nation. Chinese people not only confidently write the great history of China's development in the new era, but also get closer and closer to the center of the world stage, showing the world significance of China's development, providing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions for those countries in the world that hope to develop rapidly and maintain their independence, and make due contributions to building a community with a shared future for mankind.

Guangming Daily ( 2022-01-21 02 edition)

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