A great leap from standing up and getting rich to becoming strong

Source: People's Daily - People's Daily

Executive Summary

Realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is a relay race. After a hundred years of struggle, the Chinese nation has ushered in a great leap from standing up and getting rich to becoming strong, and has ushered in a bright prospect for realizing great rejuvenation. Today, we are closer, more confident and capable of achieving the goal of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation than at any time in history.

The centenary of our Party is one hundred years of creating glory and opening up the future. In the magnificent course of a century-old history, the COMMUNIST Party of China has closely united with and relied on the people, overcome countless difficulties and obstacles, won one great victory after another in revolution, construction, and reform, created brilliant achievements in the history of the development of the Chinese nation, the history of the development of world socialism, and the development of human society, and ushered in a great leap for the Chinese nation from standing up and getting rich to becoming strong. The dawn of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is ahead and the future is bright.

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The Chinese nation has created a splendid civilization in the course of thousands of years of history and has made outstanding contributions to the progress of human civilization. After the Opium War, due to the invasion of Western powers and the corruption of feudal rule, China gradually became a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and the Chinese nation fell into a tragic situation of internal and external troubles.

The October Revolution brought Marxism-Leninism to China with the sound of a cannon. The advanced elements in China saw from Marxism-Leninism and the October Revolution the way out of the Chinese problem. The founding of the Communist Party of China is a major event that breaks new ground and profoundly changes the direction and process of the development of the Chinese nation after modern times, profoundly changes the future and destiny of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation, profoundly changes the trend and pattern of world development, and brings light and hope to the Chinese nation and the Chinese people in a state of peril. Since then, the struggle of the Chinese people to seek national independence, the people's liberation, the country's prosperity and strength, and the people's happiness has had a backbone, and the Chinese people have changed from passive to active in spirit, and the chinese revolution has taken on a new look.

The Chinese Communists, with Comrade Mao Zedong as the main representative, integrated the basic tenets of Marxism-Leninism with the concrete practice of the Chinese revolution, founded Mao Zedong Thought, united and led the whole party and the people of all nationalities throughout the country, and after a long and bloody struggle, completed the new-democratic revolution, established the People's Republic of China, established the basic socialist system, successfully realized the most profound and greatest social changes in China's history, and laid the fundamental political premise and institutional foundation for all development and progress in contemporary China.

The founding of New China completely put an end to the history of the semi-colonial and semi-feudal society of old China, completely put an end to the scattered situation in old China, completely abolished the unequal treaties imposed on China by the great powers and all the privileges of imperialism in China, realized China's great leap from thousands of years of feudal autocracy to people's democracy, and opened a new era of development and progress of the Chinese nation. After the founding of New China, our party led the people to establish an independent and relatively complete industrial system and a national economic system on the basis of being poor and white, accumulated important experience in socialist construction in China, an economically and culturally backward big country in the East, laid a solid foundation for China to develop prosperity and strength, and Chinese people's living standards, and realized the great leap of the Chinese nation from continuous decline to fundamentally reversing its destiny and continuing to move toward prosperity and strength. The party's original theoretical achievements and tremendous achievements in socialist revolution and construction have provided valuable experience, theoretical preparation, and material foundation for creating socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new historical period.

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After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Chinese Communists, with Comrade Deng Xiaoping as the main representative, united and led the whole party and the people of all nationalities throughout the country to profoundly sum up the positive and negative experiences of China's socialist construction, drew on the historical experience of world socialism, founded Deng Xiaoping Theory, made the historic policy decision of shifting the work center of the party and the state to economic construction and carrying out reform and opening up, profoundly revealed the essence of socialism, established the basic line for the primary stage of socialism, and clearly proposed to take our own road and build socialism with Chinese characteristics It has scientifically answered a series of basic questions on building socialism with Chinese characteristics, formulated a three-step development strategy to basically realize socialist modernization by the middle of the 21 st century, and successfully created socialism with Chinese characteristics.

After the Fourth Plenary Session of the Thirteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Chinese Communists, with Comrade Jiang Zemin as the main representative, united and led the whole party and the people of all nationalities throughout the country to adhere to the party's basic theory and basic line, deepened their understanding of what socialism is, how to build socialism, what kind of party to build, and how to build the party, accumulated new valuable experience in governing the party and the country, and formed the important thinking of "three represents." In the face of the severe test of a very complicated situation at home and abroad and serious twists and turns in world socialism, we have defended socialism with Chinese characteristics, established the reform objectives and basic framework of the socialist market economic system, established the basic economic system and distribution system in the primary stage of socialism, created a new situation of comprehensive reform and opening up, promoted the new great project of party building, and successfully pushed socialism with Chinese characteristics into the 21 st century.

After the Sixteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Chinese Communists with Comrade Hu Jintao as the main representative, united and led the whole party and the people of all nationalities throughout the country, persisted in taking Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thinking of the "three represents" as guidance, profoundly understood and answered major questions such as what kind of development to achieve under the new situation and how to develop in accordance with the new development requirements, formed a scientific outlook on development, seized the important strategic opportunity period, promoted practical innovation, theoretical innovation, and institutional innovation in the process of building a well-off society in an all-round way, and emphasized adhering to the principle of putting people first. Comprehensively coordinate sustainable development, form the overall layout of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, focus on ensuring and improving people's livelihood, promote social fairness and justice, promote the construction of a harmonious world, promote the party's ruling capacity building and advanced nature construction, and successfully uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics at a new historical starting point.

The most distinctive feature of this new historical period is reform and opening up. From rural reform to urban reform, from economic structural reform to structural reform in all aspects, from a highly centralized planned economic system to a vigorous socialist market economic system, from invigorating the interior to opening up to the outside world, from establishing special economic zones to opening up coastal, riverside, border, and inland areas to joining the WTO and taking deep part in economic globalization, from large-scale "introduction" to "going out" in big strides, reform and opening up has greatly stimulated the creativity of the broad masses of the people and greatly liberated and developed the social productive forces. From 1979 to 2012, China's GDP grew at an average annual rate of 9.8%, much higher than the average annual growth rate of the world economy of about 2.8% in the same period; the proportion of GDP in the world rose from 1.8% at the beginning of reform and opening up to 11.5%. In 2010, China's economy surpassed Japan's to become the world's second largest economy. Reform and opening up, as a great revolution in the history of the development of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation, has greatly changed the face of China, the face of the Chinese nation, the face of the Chinese people, and the face of the Communist Party of China.

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Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Chinese Communists with Comrade Xi Jinping as the main representative have united and led the whole party and the people of all nationalities throughout the country to comprehensively examine the new international and domestic situations, and through summing up practice and looking forward to the future, profoundly answered the major issue of the times of what kind of socialism with Chinese characteristics to uphold and develop in the new era, how to uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics, founded Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era, persisted in coordinating the two overall situations at home and abroad, and took charge of the great struggle, the great project, the great cause, and the great cause. The great dream, adhering to the overall layout of the "five-in-one" and coordinating the promotion of the "four comprehensive" strategic layout, adhering to the general tone of the work of seeking progress in a stable manner, putting forward a series of new ideas, new ideas and new strategies for the work of the party and the state in all aspects, promoting the cause of the party and the state to achieve historic achievements and historic changes, and socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era.

The COVID-19 pandemic is the most widespread global pandemic that has affected humanity in the last 100 years. In the face of this century test, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core adheres to the supremacy of the people and the supremacy of life, unites and leads the whole party and the people of all ethnic groups in the country to quickly launch the people's war, the overall war and the obstruction war of epidemic prevention and control, and used more than 1 month to initially curb the momentum of the spread of the epidemic, use about 2 months to control the daily new cases in the local area within single digits, and achieve decisive results in the Wuhan defense war and the Hubei defense war in about 3 months, and then fight several local cluster epidemic annihilation wars in succession It has seized major strategic achievements in the national anti-epidemic struggle. The Party Central Committee made a major decision to coordinate epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development in a timely manner, and paid close attention to restoring the order of production and life, and achieved remarkable results. In 2020, China became the only major economy in the world to achieve positive economic growth since the outbreak of the epidemic, and it is at the forefront of the world in epidemic prevention and control and economic recovery.

In 2020, China's GDP will exceed 100 trillion yuan, accounting for more than 17% of the world economy. The battle against poverty has won a comprehensive victory, the problem of absolute poverty that has plagued the Chinese nation for thousands of years has been historically solved, and China has created another miracle on earth that will stand in the annals of history!

After a hundred years of unremitting struggle, the Communist Party of China has led the Chinese people to win great victories in China's revolution, construction, and reform, so that The Chinese civilization will glow with new vigor in the process of modernization, scientific socialism will glow with new vigor in the 21 st century, and the construction of New China with a history of more than 70 years will achieve world-renowned achievements. It has created a miracle of rapid economic development and long-term social stability that is rare in the world.

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"Xiongguan Mandao is really like iron, and now he steps forward from the beginning." Realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics is a glorious course in which generations of Chinese communists have led the people to continue their struggle. After several generations of long-term efforts, the first centenary goal of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way has made decisive achievements. This is of landmark significance in the historical process of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and is not only the fruitful result of the indomitable and long-term struggle of the CPC in uniting and leading the people, but also the new historical starting point for the CPC to unite and lead the people to set sail on a new journey and set sail again. The Nineteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China drew up a grand blueprint for comprehensively building a modern socialist country: by 2035, socialist modernization will be basically realized; by the middle of this century, China will be built into a prosperous, strong, democratic, civilized, harmonious and beautiful socialist modern power. At that time, China's material, political, spiritual, social and ecological civilization will be comprehensively upgraded, the national governance system and governance capacity will be modernized, and it will become a country with comprehensive national strength and international influence, the common prosperity of all the people will be basically realized, the people of our country will enjoy a happier and more healthy life, and the Chinese nation will stand tall among the nations of the world with a more lofty attitude and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

The one who walks a hundred miles is half ninety. The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is by no means something that can be achieved easily by beating a gong and a drum. The whole Party must be prepared to make more arduous and arduous efforts and must continue the great struggle with many new historical characteristics. In the new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country, in the face of various foreseeable and unforeseeable risks and challenges, we must draw wisdom and strength from the century-old history of the Communist Party of China to continue to move forward, unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, more consciously adhere to the party's leadership and socialism with Chinese characteristics, enhance the "four consciousnesses", strengthen the "four self-confidences", achieve "two safeguards", do not forget the original intention, keep in mind the mission, dare to struggle, and be good at struggle. Constantly write a new brilliant chapter in the new era of upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!

(The author is the director of the Academic and Editorial Committee of the Central Academy of Party History and Literature)

People's Daily (2021-06-24 13th edition)