Manifesto: Why we can succeed

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Advantage is strength, only when there is comparison can there be discernment, and only when there is an advantage can there be hope for victory.

In the course of one hundred years of struggle, Chinese people have deeply realized that the leadership of the Communist Party of China is the greatest advantage in our march from victory to victory, where the fundamental and lifeblood of the party and the state lie, and where the interests and destiny of the people of all nationalities throughout the country are concerned. It is precisely under the leadership of the Communist Party of China that we have done many things that others cannot do, accomplished many things that others cannot do, and created human miracles that cannot be created by any political force in the world.

It is precisely because of the greatest advantage of the party's leadership that we have made great achievements in rapid economic development.

The economy is the foundation, and the advantages of the party's leadership are concentrated in economic construction. More than 70 years ago, when New China was "full of depression and full of wastes to be rebuilt," Comrade Mao Zedong once said with deep feeling: "What can we build now?" Can make tables and chairs, can make tea bowls and teapots... But a car, an airplane, a tank, a tractor cannot be made. It was our party that united and led the people to write "the latest and most beautiful pictures" on "a blank piece of paper." For decades, our party has insisted on leading the practice of economic construction by formulating five-year plans or plans, and as of 2020, 13 have been completed and the fourteenth five-year plan is being implemented. Through the step-by-step implementation, relay promotion and rolling implementation of one plan or plan after another, we will consistently move towards the set goals and promote the sustained and rapid development of the economy. Many people in Western countries are envious of our five-year plan, believing that the CPC can think and plan the country's future development goals and paths in a phased and step-by-step manner, which is both continuous and forward-looking, and it is difficult to imagine and achieve in Western countries.

In the more than 70 years since the founding of New China, China's economy has grown by about 189 times in real terms; from a per capita national income of only 27 US dollars in 1949 to a per capita GDP of more than 10,000 US dollars for two consecutive years; from a backward agricultural country to becoming the world's largest manufacturing country for 11 consecutive years. Taking China's GDP growth as an example, it surpassed Italy in 2001, France in 2005, Britain in 2006, Germany in 2007, and Japan in 2010, becoming the second in the world. In 2020, the gross domestic product will exceed 100 trillion yuan, and the total economic volume will exceed 70% of that of the United States. The dynamic development model and sustained and rapid economic growth have laid a solid material foundation for realizing the irreversible historical process of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Stability is the foundation of development and the condition for the people to live and work in peace and contentment. It is precisely because of the greatest advantage of the leadership of the party that we have achieved long-term social stability.

Today's China is a safe China, one of the most secure countries in the world. The people's satisfaction with the construction of Safe China reached 98.4%, and people lamented: "The world we live in is not peaceful, we are just fortunate to live in a peaceful country." "Today's China is a happy China, and the people's sense of gain, happiness and security has steadily improved. Statistics from internationally renowned polling agencies show that in 2020, China has the highest happiness index among the participating countries, and the proportion of Chinese who feel very happy or relatively happy is as high as 93%. "There is no regret in this life, and there is no regret in the next life to plant flowers", such online words and phrases have expressed the common aspirations of hundreds of millions of people. Today's China is a harmonious China, and the sense of community of the Chinese nation has been significantly enhanced. 56 ethnic groups hug each other like pomegranate seeds, and all ethnic groups are inseparable from each other, and "the Chinese nation is a family and builds the Chinese dream together" has become a vivid portrayal of national unity and progress in the new era.

Especially in the fight against COVID-19, we have taken the lead in controlling the spread of the epidemic, and to this day, we are still the country with the lowest incidence and the lowest number of deaths among the world's major powers. In the comparison, people once again clearly see the advantages of the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party in the governance of the country.

Living in a harmonious and stable China, the people are increasingly supporting and supporting the leadership of the Party. According to a 2020 report entitled "Understanding the Resilience of the Chinese Communist Party: A Long-Term Survey of Chinese Opinions" released by Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, Chinese people's satisfaction with the government has continued to increase since 2003, with satisfaction with the Chinese Communist Party continuing to exceed 90%.

Winning the opportunity in the competition of comprehensive national strength is the key to national rejuvenation. It is precisely because of the greatest advantage of the party's leadership that we have become the greatest positive energy that determines the great changes in the world in a hundred years.

In October 1961, Montgomery, who had finished his visit to China, told the British Sunday Times: "It is better for the Western world to establish and maintain friendly relations with the People's Republic of China; this country needs to treat each other as equals; it will become a great power no less than any country in the world in a certain period of time." A great nation, the largest country in the world, is moving forward. Arnold Joseph Toynbee, a British historian who experienced two world wars and witnessed the rise and fall of the East and the West in modern times, believes that "the future of mankind is in the East, and Chinese civilization will become the leader of the world." Their predictions are becoming reality.

Looking at the world, the world today is experiencing major changes unprecedented in a century, and a distinctive feature of this great change is that the trend of rising in the east and falling in the west is irreversible. The Communist Party of China has united and led the Chinese people to actively cultivate opportunities in the crisis, open up a new situation in the midst of changes, and make new development and progress, becoming a beautiful landscape in the world. The greatest significance of China's peaceful development to the world lies not only in the extensive and profound international impact of one-fifth of the world's population toward prosperity, but also in the new path of Chinese-style modernization and the new form of human civilization created by China, which provides Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions for mankind to build a better society.

Now, the international community's perspective on China has undergone an important change: from focusing on China's achievements to focusing on the political reasons and institutional secrets of China's achievements; from asking whether the Chinese Communist Party can and cannot do it, to eager to understand why the Chinese Communist Party can and why it can do it; from marveling at the Chinese Communist Party's ability and the Chinese Communist Party's behavior, to thinking about what it can do. It can be said that the world influence of "China's rule" is getting bigger and bigger.

Historical practice has constantly proved that the Communist Party of China is the most reliable backbone and fixed star of the people Chinese when the storm strikes. The concentrated embodiment of China's strength, Chinese spirit, and Chinese efficiency is the leadership of the Communist Party of China, such as engaging in revolution, engaging in construction, grasping reform, promoting rejuvenation, fighting floods, fighting earthquakes, eliminating poverty, and controlling the epidemic. In overcoming all kinds of difficulties and obstacles and coping with various risks and challenges, the Communist Party of China can. This is the practical logic of upholding the party's leadership.

Looking back at the past and looking forward to the future, with the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China and the close unity of the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country, the goal of building a socialist modern power in an all-round way will certainly be realized, and the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation will certainly be realized! (End)