Author: Zhang Hongzhi (Former Council Member, Institute of Party History and Documentation of the CPC Central Committee)
The "Resolution of the CPC Central Committee on the Major Achievements and Historical Experiences of the Party's Centennial Struggle" deliberated and adopted by the Sixth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China is the third historical resolution adopted in the century-old history of our Party, and is of long-term guiding significance for the development of the cause of the Party and the country.
Deeply understand the great significance of the party's historical resolutions in promoting history forward
History records human activities and their results, contains the law of the rise and fall of the nation, the success or failure of the life and death of political parties, and is the best textbook and vivid apocalypse. The history of the Party is the precious spiritual wealth of the Communist Party of China and an important component part of the glorious history and culture of the Chinese nation.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "The more comprehensive the understanding of the historical process, the more profound the grasp of historical laws, the richer the party's historical wisdom, and the more active the grasp of the future." "Our party has always attached great importance to summing up historical experience, and is good at using history to reflect reality and look at the future from a distance. In the centennial journey of our Party, a total of three historical resolutions have been formulated. Every historical resolution inscribes the historical consciousness of a Marxist political party, records the unswerving and enterprising figure of an ancient nation, and also indicates that the party's cause will usher in new glory.
In 1945, the Seventh Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China adopted the "Resolution on Several Historical Issues," which summed up the history of the Party and its lessons learned in the period after the founding of the Party, especially from the Fourth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee of the Party to the Zunyi Conference, and drew conclusions on a number of major historical issues, so that the whole Party, especially the senior party cadres, had a consistent understanding of the basic issues of the Chinese revolution, strengthened the unity of the whole Party, created sufficient conditions for the successful convening of the Seventh National Congress of the Party, and effectively promoted the development of the Cause of the Chinese revolution. In 1981, the Sixth Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China adopted the Resolution on Several Historical Issues Concerning the Party since the Founding of the People's Republic of China, which reviewed the history of the Party before the founding of New China, summed up the historical experience of socialist revolution and construction, made evaluations of some major events and important figures, especially correctly evaluated Comrade Mao Zedong and Mao Zedong Thought, distinguished right from wrong, corrected the erroneous views of the "Left" and the Right, unified the thinking of the whole Party, and looked forward to promoting the unity and unity of the Party. Better promoting reform, opening up, and socialist modernization has had a major impact.
At the important historical moment of the centenary of the founding of the party, at the major historical juncture when the party and the people have successfully achieved the goal of the first centenary struggle, built a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, and are marching toward the second centenary goal of striving to build a socialist modern power in an all-round way, comprehensively summed up the major achievements and historical experience of the party's century-old struggle, and promoted the whole party to further unify its thinking, will, and action, and unite and lead the people of all nationalities throughout the country to win a new great victory of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. It has great practical significance and far-reaching historical significance. Our party's special use of a plenary session to sum up is a solemn historical and strategic policy decision; it fully embodies the party's strong will and firm determination to keep firmly in mind its original mission and mission and always maintain its vitality; it fully embodies the party's profound grasp of the law of historical development and its historical initiative and mission responsibility for the development of the cause of the party and the country; and it fully embodies the party's far-sightedness and far-sighted thinking in basing itself on the present, focusing on the future, and paying attention to summing up and applying historical experience.
The third historical resolution of the party is the same as the previous two historical resolutions, and the differences are mainly reflected in the fact that the third historical resolution is not only a review and tribute to the CPC's century-long journey, but also a mobilization and declaration of the great cause of the thousand autumns. In accordance with the requirements of summing up history, grasping the law, strengthening confidence, and marching toward the future, the third historical resolution focuses on summing up the major achievements and historical experience of the party's century-old struggle, focusing on summing up the historic achievements, historic changes that have taken place, and fresh experience accumulated in the cause of the party and the state in the new era, which is conducive to further promoting the whole party to increase wisdom, enhance unity, increase confidence, and enhance fighting spirit, focus on what we are doing, and enter a new journey and make contributions to a new era with a more lofty attitude.
A hundred years of struggle is fierce and thunderous, like a rafter writing a magnificent chapter. The Third Historical Resolution of the Party points out: "Over the past hundred years, the Party has handed over an excellent answer sheet to the people and to history. Now, the party has united and led the Chinese people to embark on a new road to achieve the goal of the second centenary struggle. Proceeding from this, the Chinese Communists in the new era have sounded the clarion call to open a new historical journey with a high sense of historical mission, a strong sense of historical initiative, and firm historical self-confidence.
Deeply understand the historical position of the new era in the journey of national rejuvenation
"Identify the orientation and be positive". Making it clear that socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China is a major strategic consideration made by our party on the basis of scientifically grasping the profound changes in the conditions of the world, the country, and the party, which further demonstrates the advanced nature of the CPC and the common progress of the times, and embodies a high degree of consciousness and self-confidence in grasping the laws of history.
In this new historical position, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, with its great historical initiative, great political courage, and strong responsibility, has coordinated the overall situation at home and abroad, implemented the party's basic theory, basic line, and basic strategy, taken charge of the great struggle, the great project, the great cause, and the great dream, adhered to the general tone of the work of seeking progress in a stable manner, introduced a series of major principles and policies, launched a series of major measures, promoted a series of major work, and overcome a series of major risks and challenges. It has solved many difficult problems that have long been wanted to be solved but have not been solved, accomplished many major things that were wanted to be done in the past but have not been accomplished, promoted the cause of the party and the state to achieve all-round and pioneering historic achievements, and undergone deep-seated and fundamental historical changes.
For example, building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way on the land of China, comprehensively winning the battle against poverty, and historically solving the problem of absolute poverty that has plagued the Chinese nation for thousands of years; the mainland's GDP has exceeded the 110 trillion yuan mark, and its per capita GDP has exceeded 12,000 US dollars, ranking among the upper-middle-income countries; the mainland has achieved a large number of landmark achievements in basic and frontier fields such as manned spaceflight, lunar exploration engineering, supercomputing, quantum communications, large aircraft manufacturing, and aircraft carriers, and has achieved a large number of landmark achievements in some fields from "following the run" to " The leap of "running and leading"; adhering to the overall goal of improving and developing the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity as the overall goal of comprehensively deepening reform, basically establishing the basic institutional framework in various fields, and achieving historic changes, systematic reshaping, and overall reconstruction in many fields; persisting in grasping the requirements of entering a new stage of development, firmly establishing a new development concept, accelerating the construction of a new development pattern, and realizing a fundamental change in the traditional development concept and development model...
What kind of new era is this? All the expectations and pursuits, explorations and struggles, accumulations and creations of the mainland since modern times have converged in the new era, bloomed in the new era, and achieved achievements in the new era. For the Chinese nation, this is a new era ushering in the bright prospects for realizing great rejuvenation; for scientific socialism, this is a new era in which the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics is held high in the world; for the Chinese people, this is a new era of unity and struggle, continuous creation of a better life, and gradual realization of common prosperity for all the people; for the whole world, this is a new era in which China contributes wisdom and solutions to solving human problems. Looking at the history of Chinese civilization of more than 5,000 years, no political force can promote the development process of the Chinese nation as profoundly and historically as the Communist Party of China.
After walking through thousands of mountains and rivers, you still need to wade through mountains and waters. Overlooking the road ahead, there are open waters and rapids, rivers returning to the sea, and chaotic clouds flying across. On the one hand, "the basic national conditions of the mainland that are still in the primary stage of socialism and will remain so for a long time have not changed, and the international status of the mainland as the world's largest developing country has not changed." At present, the mainland's per capita GDP has not yet reached the lower standard of high-income countries, and there is still a big gap compared with developed countries; scientific and technological innovation has made a series of substantive breakthroughs and landmark achievements, but the core technologies in many key areas are still subject to people. On the other hand, the main contradictions in society have undergone profound changes, and the people have put forward new and more needs and higher expectations for a better life, but the development is still unbalanced and insufficient. At the same time, today's world is experiencing major changes unprecedented in a century, and this change is not limited to one thing, one country and one domain, but a profound and magnificent change of the times. The changes of the times and the epidemic of the century are superimposed on each other, the world has entered a new period of turbulence and change, instability and uncertainty have risen significantly, economic globalization has encountered adverse currents, and unilateralism and protectionism have risen. The governance deficit, trust deficit, development deficit and peace deficit facing human society have increased unabated, and there is still a long way to go to achieve universal security and promote common development. In the coming period, the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has reached the final stage of victory, and it has also reached a critical journey full of risks and challenges and even terrifying waves.
Profoundly understanding the "two establishments" is the choice of history and the people
Having a strong leadership core and scientific theoretical guidance is an important symbol of a mature Marxist political party, and it is also the key to our party's century-old prosperity and great cause in the chest.
In a country and a political party, the core of leadership is crucial. An important enlightenment of the century-old party history is that resolutely safeguarding the core of the party Central Committee and the core of the whole party is the key to the party's consensus and decisive choice at major moments, and is an important guarantee for the party's unity and unity and victorious progress. Contemporary China is experiencing the most grand and unique practice innovation in human history, the heavy tasks of reform, development, and stability, the number of contradictions, risks, and challenges, the unprecedented tests of governing the country, and the unprecedented profound changes in the world's unprecedented major changes in a century, and has put forward a large number of theoretical and practical topics that need to be answered urgently. The complexity and severity of the situation and environment, the heavy and arduous nature of the tasks shouldered by the party are rare in the world and rare in history. In the great journey of the new era, there is an urgent need for a leader who can answer China's, the world's, the people's, and the times' questions in a timely manner, continue to write a new chapter in the sinification of Marxism, and guide the whole party and the people of the whole country in their way forward; urgently need those who can understand the situation of the times, distinguish between right and wrong, face the terrifying waves, and lead the whole party and the people of the whole country to carry out great struggles; there is an urgent need for those who can coordinate the overall situation of the cause of the party and the state, lead the great practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, and promote the realization." The goal of the two hundred years of struggle, condensing the general command of the whole party and the people of the whole country. It is precisely in such a call of the times, historical choices, people's expectations and practice forging that General Secretary Xi Jinping has deservedly and deservedly become the core of the Party Central Committee and the core of the whole Party.
If a nation wants to walk in the forefront of the times, it cannot for a moment be without theoretical thinking and for a moment without correct ideological guidance. Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Chinese Communists with Comrade Xi Jinping as the main representative have persistently integrated the basic tenets of Marxism with China's specific reality and with China's excellent traditional culture, adhered to Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thinking of the "three represents" and the scientific concept of development, profoundly summed up and fully applied the historical experience since the founding of the Party, proceeded from the new reality, and used the "arrow" of Marxism to shoot at China in the new era, and founded Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era. General Secretary Xi Jinping made 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, and on major issues of the times such as what kind of socialism with Chinese characteristics to uphold and develop in the new era, how to uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics, what kind of socialist modern power to build, how to build a socialist modern power, what kind of Long-term ruling Marxist political party to build, how to build a long-term ruling Marxist political party, etc. A series of original new ideas, new ideas and new strategies for governing the country have been put forward, which have played a decisive role and made decisive contributions to the establishment of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.
History has repeatedly proved that if the Party Central Committee does not have the authority to be fixed on one statue and one hammer, and if the Party Central Committee and the whole Party do not have the leading core that the whole party wants, nothing can be done; why the Communist Party of China can and why socialism with Chinese characteristics is good is, in the final analysis, because of Marxism. The reason why Marxism works is that the party constantly promotes the sinicization of Marxism and uses it to guide practice.
Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the most fundamental reason for the historic achievements and changes in the cause of the Party and the country is that General Secretary Xi Jinping, as the core of the Party Central Committee and the core of the whole Party, is at the helm and leading the way, and that there is a scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era.
Deeply understand the historical inevitability of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation
The torrent of history rushes forward, always higher than the other. On the occasion of the centenary of the Party, General Secretary Xi Jinping solemnly declared: "The Communist Party of China and the people of the Chinese solemnly declare to the world with heroic and tenacious struggle that the Chinese nation has ushered in a great leap from standing up and getting rich to becoming strong, and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has entered an irreversible historical process!" ”
The historical process of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is irreversible, and the "two establishments" are of decisive significance. The third historical resolution of the party solemnly pointed out: "The party establishes the core position of Comrade Xi Jinping's party central committee and the core of the whole party, and establishes the guiding position of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, reflects the common aspirations of the whole party, the whole army, and the people of all ethnic groups in the country, and 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." "This is a major historical conclusion drawn from profoundly summing up the party's century-old struggle and the great practice since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Party, and a major political judgment that embodies the common will of the whole party and reflects the common voice of the people." The two establishments "are the common choice, solemn choice, and inevitable choice of the times, history, and the people, and are the blessings of the party and the state, the people, and the Chinese nation; they will certainly provide a strong political guarantee and a strong ideological guidance for the great cause of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with a strong appeal, a firm driving force, and a solid guarantee force, and gather together an even more magnificent force for endeavor."
The historical process of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is irreversible, because it has a more perfect institutional guarantee, a more solid material foundation, and a more active spiritual force. Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we have continuously adhered to and improved the fundamental, basic and important systems that support the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, the socialist system with Chinese characteristics is more mature and more stereotyped, the modernization level of the national governance system and governance capacity has been continuously improved, and there is a more perfect institutional guarantee; based on the new development stage, implementing the new development concept, building a new development pattern, and promoting high-quality development, the balance, coordination and sustainability of the mainland's economic development have been significantly enhanced, and it has stepped forward with higher quality, more efficient and more fair The road to more sustainable and safer development has a more solid material foundation; the party's innovative theory has become more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people; the spiritual genealogy of Chinese communists with the great spirit of party building as the source has transcended time and space and has lasted for a long time, the cultural self-confidence of the whole party and the people of all nationalities in the country has been significantly enhanced, the cohesion and centripetal force of the whole society have been greatly enhanced, and there is a more active spiritual force. With institutional guarantees as the support, material foundation as the foundation, and spiritual strength as the driving force, socialist China stands tall in the east of the world with a more majestic posture, and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has ushered in an unprecedented bright future.
The historical process of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is irreversible, because At the present stage of China's development, an irrepressible endogenous driving force has been formed. It can be viewed from three aspects: time, place, people, and people. Heaven and time refer to the time and the potential on our side, which is where our concentration and confidence lie. Generally speaking, the theme of the times of peace and development has not changed, the general direction of economic globalization has not changed, and the international pattern and development strategy are favorable to me. At the same time, a new round of scientific and technological and industrial revolution has spawned new momentum for development and brought rare development opportunities. Seizing this opportunity, emerging market countries and developing countries may achieve "overtaking in curves". Geographical advantage refers to the strong advantages of the century-old party tempering, the valuable experience formed by socialist construction over the past 70 years, the solid foundation accumulated by more than 40 years of reform and opening up, the historic achievements and historic changes made in the new era in the past 10 years, injecting the surging power of "hanging directly on the clouds and sails to the sea" into the development of the country, and giving the resilience of "flying through chaotic clouds and flying calmly" to overcome ups and downs. People and refer to the more than 1.4 billion sons and daughters of China under the leadership of the party unswervingly pursue a better life, the whole country with one heart and one mind, concerted efforts, united will, condensed the heart to one place to think, vigorous to make a place to make a majestic force. This powerful endogenous driving force, which is formed by the accumulation of heaven, time, place, people, and accumulation, contains objective economic laws, reflects the development trend of human society, and embodies the materialist view of history that the people are the creators of history.
When we speak of irreversibility, we do not mean that there will be no difficulties and challenges on the road of national rejuvenation in the future, but that the general trend will not change, especially by external obstacles. Past history can confirm future developments. The history of the founding of New China for more than 70 years proves that the pace of Chinese people's pursuit of development and progress is unstoppable. Looking at the history of the development of human society, there has never been a country of the scale of China that has been able to create the "two miracles" of rapid economic development and long-term social stability; there has never been such a large number of individuals as the Chinese people who can change their lives and even the fate of their lives on such a large scale; and there has never been an ancient civilization with a long history like Chinese civilization that can regain its vigor and vitality after poverty and weakness, successfully walk out of the road of Chinese-style modernization, and create a new form of human civilization. This is a human miracle created by the leadership of the Communist Party of China Chinese people, which is unparalleled in the world and has only been seen in history. Facts have fully proved that socialism can not only save China, but also develop China, strengthen China, and realize the great rejuvenation that the Chinese nation dreams of.
The Communist Party of China is determined to achieve the great cause of the Chinese nation in the past, and the centenary is just the right time! Looking back at the past and looking forward to the future, the goal of comprehensively building a socialist modern power will certainly be realized, and the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation will certainly be realized. The Communist Party of China and the Chinese people have strong determination, firm will, and strong ability, and no one and no force can stop them.
Source: Qiushi 2022/03