Feature article | Lin Jianhua: "Learning from History and Creating the Future" Action Guide

The Declaration of the Communist Party of China in the 21st Century Devoted to Realizing the Chinese Nation's Great Rejuvenation of the Chinese Dream——

A guide to action for "learning from history and creating the future"

Without the Communist Party, there would be no new China, which is a song of truth. Without the Communist Party, there would be no socialism, no socialism with Chinese characteristics, and no great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, which is the song of truth in the new era. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "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 in the country, the goal of building a socialist modern power in an all-round way can certainly be realized, and the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation will certainly be realized!" "Self-confidence in the wind and clouds for two hundred years, writing a new chapter of a strong party." The Centennial Communist Party of China is precisely such a political party.

At the meeting to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered an important speech, reviewing the glorious course of the CPC's century-long struggle, looking forward to the bright prospects of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and openly expounding to the whole of China and the world the nature and purpose of the Chinese Communists, the spirit of achievement experience, the direction of the theme goals, running through the world outlook methodology of dialectical materialism and historical materialism, with broad and profound content, and shocking thoughts, which is a programmatic document shining with the light of Marxist truth The action guide of "taking history as a mirror and creating the future" is the declaration of the Communist Party of China in the 21st century that encourages the whole party and the people of all ethnic groups in the country to strive to embark on a new journey of striving to build a socialist modern power in an all-round way and strive to realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

The nature, position and purpose of the Communist Party of China remain unchanged

The Communist Party of China takes Marxism, founded in the Communist Manifesto, as its guiding ideology. Once the Communist Party of China was born, the problems of the times it faced and needed to be solved were national independence, the liberation of the people, the prosperity and strength of the country, and the happiness of the people, which determined its nature, stand, and purpose.

The Communist Party of China is the vanguard of the Chinese working class, and at the same time the vanguard of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation; it has always adhered to the materialist view of history, always adhered to the people's stand, always adhered to the original mission of seeking happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation, and always adhered to the purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly. At the special time node of one hundred years since the founding of the party, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out categorically: The Communist Party of China has always represented the fundamental interests of the broadest masses of the people, shared solidarity with the people, and is dependent on life and death, without any special interests of its own, and has never represented the interests of any interest group, any powerful group, or any privileged strata. Over the past one hundred years, the Chinese Communists have been as original as a rock, as mission as a mountain, and as constant as ever.

The Communist Party of China deeply understands the truth that "the foundation of the Communist Party of China lies in the people, the blood is in the people, and the strength lies in the people," and deeply understands the logic of "jiangshan is the people, and the people are the jiangshan."; it has always vividly told the story that "the victory in the Huaihai Campaign was pushed out by the common people with a cart, and the victory in the battle to cross the river was drawn out by the common people with a small boat" and "what is the Communist Party?" The Communist Party is the one who has a quilt of its own, and it is also necessary to cut off half of it for the people" and other wonderful stories. The Communist Party of China has always faithfully practiced the lofty concept of "I will live up to the people without myself," consciously safeguarded the fundamental interests of the people, insisted that the people's interests are above everything else, and bravely sacrificed everything for the people's interests.

The people's mastery is a true portrayal of contemporary Chinese society. The Communist Party of China always puts the people in the highest position, consistently implements the party's mass line, respects the people's initiative spirit, and relies on the people in everything for the people and everything. In the new era, the Communist Party of China has more consciously adhered to the supremacy of the people's interests, practiced the people-centered development thinking, developed people's democracy in the whole process, safeguarded social fairness and justice, focused on solving the problems of imbalance and inadequacy and the problems of the people's anxieties and anxieties, and could not be less on the road to a well-off society in an all-round way, historically solved the problem of absolute poverty, promoted the all-round development of the people, and made more obvious substantive progress in promoting the all-round development of the people and the common prosperity of all the people. Therefore, the idea and practice of separating and opposing the Communist Party of China from the Chinese people is either out of ignorance of history and reality, or has ulterior motives and ulterior motives, but this will never succeed. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that more than 95 million Chinese Communists did not agree, and more than 1.4 billion Chinese people did not agree. The Communist Party of China and the masses of the people are connected by heart, breathe together, and share a common destiny, the great unity of the sons and daughters of the Chinese nation, and the proud standing of the Chinese nation among the nations of the world are not only historical experiences, but also valuable assets.

The achievements, experience and spirit of the Communist Party of China will stand in the annals of history

In the great awakening of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation, and in the close integration of Marxism-Leninism with the Chinese workers' movement, the Communist Party of China came into being. The Communist Party of China was born in the calamity of the humiliation of the country, the suffering of the people, and the dust of civilization. Realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the greatest dream of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation. Over the past one hundred years, "realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation" has always been the theme of the Chinese Communists, and "struggle" has always been the main theme of the CPC and the Chinese people. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that over the past hundred years, the Communist Party of China has united and led the Chinese people to carry out all the struggles, all the sacrifices, all the creations, which boil down to one theme: to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. This is because only a nation that has created glory understands the meaning and power of revival; only a nation that has experienced suffering has such attachment and desire for revival.

Man must have a spirit, a country and a nation must have a spirit, and a political party must have a spirit. No one can stand without spirit, no spirit cannot be strong in the country, and no spirit cannot advance without the party. Over the past one hundred years, the Chinese Communists have united and led the Chinese people to struggle bravely and tenaciously, and what has changed is the orientation of time and space, and what has not changed is the spiritual character, spiritual temperament, and spiritual demeanor of the Chinese Communists. "Those who fall into reality think of their trees, and those who drink their streams cherish their origins." "Adhering to the truth, adhering to ideals, practicing the original intention, undertaking the mission, not being afraid of sacrifice, heroic struggle, being loyal to the party, and not living up to the people" is the great founding spirit of the Communist Party of China, the source of the spirit of the Communist Party of China, and has been carried forward in the long-term struggle of the Communist Party of China to unite and lead the Chinese people, thus building up the spiritual genealogy of Chinese communists and building the spiritual dome of Chinese communists.

Carrying forward the great spirit of party building, the Chinese Communists forged the spiritual strength of "seeking truth from facts, adhering to the truth, responding to changes scientifically, seeking changes on the initiative, setting firm goals, and bravely forging ahead," successively created the great achievements of the new-democratic revolution, the great achievements of the socialist revolution and construction, the great achievements of reform, opening up, and socialist modernization, and the great achievements of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, and realized the historic leap of the "one poor and two white" and the large eastern country with a large population striding into socialism. It has achieved a historic change from a highly centralized planned economic system to a vibrant socialist market economic system, from being blockaded and contained to opening up in all directions, achieved a historic breakthrough from the situation of relatively backward productive forces to the second largest economic aggregate in the world, realized the historic leap in the people's living standards from insufficient food and clothing to the overall well-off, and rushed to a well-off society in an all-round way, achieved the goal of the first centenary struggle, comprehensively built a moderately prosperous society on the land of China, and achieved historic achievements and historic changes in the cause of the party and the state The realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has entered an irreversible historical process. All these are the historical contributions made by the Chinese Communists, which demonstrate the strong leadership, organizational strength, and appeal of the Communist Party of China; at the same time, they are also the great glory of the Chinese nation and the Chinese people, and they show the ambition, backbone, and confidence of the Chinese.

The historical process and achievements have condensed valuable experience and forged a great spirit. Summing up experience is to learn from history, that is, to move forward better and create a better future. The Communist Party of China is a political party that is good at summing up experience. As early as October 1939, Mao Zedong summed up in his "Speech of the Communists": The united front, armed struggle, and party building are the three basic issues of the Communist Party of China in the Chinese revolution, "the three magic weapons and the three main magic weapons for the Communist Party of China to defeat the enemy in the Chinese revolution." This is a great achievement of the Communist Party of China and a great achievement of the Chinese revolution. "Today, the Chinese Communist Party is the world's largest ruling party with more than 95 million members, more than 1.4 billion people and significant global influence. Its experience is extremely rich, its experience is extremely thick, and it can be summed up as follows: We must uphold the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China, we must unite and lead the Chinese people to constantly strive for a better life, we must continue to promote the sinicization of Marxism, we must uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics, we must speed up the modernization of national defense and the armed forces, we must constantly promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, we must carry out a great struggle with many new historical characteristics, and we must strengthen the great unity of the sons and daughters of the Chinese nation. We must constantly push forward the new great project of party building. This is the first concentrated summary of the party's experience over the past hundred years, and this is the nine magic weapons and nine main magic weapons that Chinese communists must cherish in the new era, and it is also a great achievement of the CPC and a great achievement of the CPC's century-long struggle. "Vibrating leaves to find roots, Guanlan and seek the source." Using history to reflect reality and look at the future from a distance, we figure out why we were able to succeed in the past, just to understand how we can continue to succeed in the future.

The themes, goals and directions of the Communist Party of China highlight the avenue

The Chinese nation is a great nation in the world, with an endless and long history of civilization for more than 5,000 years, and has made indelible and outstanding contributions to the progress of human civilization. However, after entering the modern era, almost all imperialist countries have invaded China, and the contradiction between imperialism and the Chinese nation, feudalism and the masses of the people has become the main contradiction in Chinese society, and the contradiction between imperialism and the Chinese nation is the most important contradiction. Where there is oppression, there is resistance. Therefore, realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has become the main theme of China in modern times, and national independence, national rejuvenation, and national rejuvenation have become the main line of the heroic and tenacious struggle of Chinese people with lofty ideals, especially the Communist Party of China.

The founding of the Communist Party of China has profoundly changed the direction and course of the development of the Chinese nation since modern times, profoundly changed the future and destiny of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation, and profoundly changed the trend and pattern of world development. The great achievements made by the Communist Party of China in uniting and leading the struggle of Chinese the Chinese people in different periods have successively created fundamental social conditions, laid the fundamental political premise and institutional foundation, provided institutional guarantees full of new vitality and material conditions for rapid development, and further provided more perfect institutional guarantees, more solid material foundations, and more active spiritual strength. What is particularly important is that the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has entered an irreversible historical process. A hundred years ago, the Chinese nation was confronted by a scene of decay and withering, when China's survival was imminent and there was even a danger of being expelled. Today, the Chinese nation is showing the world a thriving atmosphere, closer than at any time in history, more confident and capable of realizing the goal of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and is moving towards great rejuvenation with unstoppable steps, and is getting closer to the center of the world stage.

In the great process of realizing national rejuvenation, the Communist Party of China has united and led the Chinese people to rely on themselves and strive to become stronger in a mess full of holes and wastes to be rebuilt, successively solved the problem of food and clothing for the people's livelihood, and on the whole reached the level of moderate prosperity, and then comprehensively built a moderately prosperous society. The vision of the Chinese Communists spans time and space. The Communist Party of China has always regarded modernization as its unremitting pursuit. From the "First Five-Year Plan" to the "14th Five-Year Plan", building a modern socialist country has been the consistent theme of the ruling Chinese Communists.

Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Chinese Communists have answered the important question of what kind of socialist modern country to build in the new era and how to build such a modern socialist country. To comprehensively build a modern socialist country, in the final analysis, is to answer and solve the question of how to display the superiority of the socialist system. China has its own unique cultural traditions, historical destiny, and actual national conditions, and there is no precedent for China to emulate in socialist modernization. However, the Chinese people and the Communist Party of China who have ambition, backbone, and confidence will never accept the preaching of the "teacher's grandfather." Combined with the "two hundred years" goal, the Nineteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China made new strategic arrangements and arrangements for the decisive victory in building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way and starting a new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country. From the 19th National Congress to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, it is a historical convergence period of the "two hundred years" goal, which is arranged in two stages from 2020 to the middle of the 21st century. In the first stage, from 2020 to 2035, on the basis of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, we will strive for another 15 years to basically realize socialist modernization. In the second stage, from 2035 to the middle of the 21st century, on the basis of basically realizing modernization, we will strive for another 15 years to build our country into a prosperous, strong, democratic, civilized, harmonious and beautiful socialist modern power. This strategic arrangement and arrangement is a kind of acceleration, which has advanced the time for basically realizing socialist modernization by 15 years; it is also a kind of improvement in quality, and it is a kind of upgrading the building of a socialist modern country into a socialist modern power by the middle of the 21 st century. The Chinese Communist Party has created a new path of Chinese-style modernization. Chinese-style modernization is socialist modernization, not some other modernization. Chinese-style modernization is new in that it is a modernization that fully embodies the basic national conditions and a huge population scale, it is a modernization in which all the people are prosperous together, it is a modernization in which material civilization and spiritual civilization are coordinated, it is new in that it is a modernization in which man and nature coexist in harmony, and it is new in that it is a modernization that adheres to the path of peaceful development.

If you don't know why it is being built, you can't really build it. If you don't know the direction of progress, you can't move forward one step. The Communist Party of China has always made its intentions and propositions public, so that the masses of the people know more about what our party and government are doing and what they have to do, and this is the key to strengthening confidence and achieving victory. On the new journey, General Secretary Xi Jinping, on behalf of the Party Central Committee, called on all Communist Party members to keep in mind the original mission, strengthen ideals and beliefs, practice the party's purpose, always maintain flesh-and-blood ties with the people, always want to be with the people, work together, share weal and woe, continue to make unremitting efforts to realize the people's yearning for a better life, take the new road of catching up with the examination to achieve the second centenary goal, and strive to win greater glory for the party and the people.

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! The theme, goals and direction of the Communist Party of China highlight the great road and the right path. Engels once pointed out: "A party that knows its own aims and how to achieve it, a party that really wants to achieve it and has the tenacity necessary to achieve it - such a party will be invincible, especially in the present circumstances, if all its demands are in accordance with the needs of the economic development of the country, and it is precisely the political manifestation of this economic development." "The Centennial Communist Party of China is exactly such a political party. Without the Communist Party, there would be no new China, which is a song of truth. Without the Communist Party, there would be no socialism, no socialism with Chinese characteristics, and no great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, which is the song of truth in the new era. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "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 in the country, the goal of building a socialist modern power in an all-round way can certainly be realized, and the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation will certainly be realized!" "Self-confidence in the wind and clouds for two hundred years, writing a new chapter of a strong party." The Centennial Communist Party of China is precisely such a political party.

(The author is Vice President, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor of the Institute of Marxism, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

Source: Beijing Daily Client | Author Lin Jianhua

Editor: Shanshan Gao

Process Editor: Dan Guo