From standing up to getting rich and strong: the outstanding contribution made by the party's leadership

Author: Pei Zeqing (Party School of Sichuan Provincial Party Committee, Vice President and Professor of Sichuan Administrative College)

The party's leadership is an inevitable requirement for the choice of history, the choice of the people, and the long-term ruling power. A century-old history of the party is a history and a history of the great cause of the people's choice of the party to lead the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Over the past one hundred years, the party's leadership Chinese people have ushered in the great leap of the Chinese nation from standing up to becoming rich and strong, which is the outstanding contribution made by the CPC to the suffering and brilliant Chinese nation, and also the heroic epic jointly created by the CPC leading the people to take root in the land of China.

The Chinese nation has ushered in a great leap from standing up and getting rich to becoming strong

After the Opium War, whether it was the Qing government's foreign affairs movement, the New Deal at the end of the Qing Dynasty and other self-improvement and law-changing movements, or the Taiping Rebellion, the Boxer Rebellion, the Wushu Reform Movement and other self-help movements launched by various strata of Chinese society, it can be said that all kinds of resistance were tried, but in the end they all failed. Sun Yat-sen led the overthrow of the feudal autocracy of the Qing Dynasty, but the fruits of the Xinhai Revolution were stolen by Yuan Shikai, and China entered the period of Beiyang warlord rule. During this period, the mountains and rivers were broken, lives were destroyed, and the people suffered greatly. The lesson of blood tells the indomitable Chinese: If we want to save China, we must have an advanced political party, a party armed with advanced theories. As soon as the Communist Party of China, which had engraved its hammer and sickle on its banner in 1921, stepped onto the stage of history, the Chinese revolution took on a new look, and the people of the Chinese ushered in the most reliable backbone when the storm struck.

From Shikumen to the Red Boat, from the Autumn Harvest Uprising to the Reorganization of the Three Bays, from the Gutian Conference to the Yan'an Rectification, the Chinese Communists, with Comrade Mao Zedong as the main representative, integrated the basic tenets of Marxism with the concrete practice of the Chinese revolution, and after twenty-eight years of arduous and tenacious struggle, finally established the People's Republic of China, completely ended the history of the semi-colonial and semi-feudal society in old China, completely ended the situation in which old China was scattered and scattered, and realized the Chinese nation from being the sick man of East Asia to standing up. China has made a great leap from thousands of years of feudal autocracy to people's democracy.

After the founding of New China, the party led the people to eliminate the remnants of the Kuomintang reactionaries, realized the peaceful liberation of Tibet, established people's governments at all levels, suppressed counter-revolution, launched the "three antis" and "five antis" movements, and led the great war to resist US aggression and aid Korea, which defended the family and defended the country. The first five-year plan began in 1953, kicking off the prelude to industrialization and modernization. Mao Zedong's April 1956 report "On the Relations of the Ten Congresses" was a preliminary exploration of how to build our country into a strong socialist country. The Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China correctly analyzed the changes in the situation at home and abroad and the main contradictions in the country, and clearly pointed out that "as a result of the victory of the bourgeois-democratic revolution and the socialist revolution, the obstacles to the development of the productive forces have basically been removed", and also pointed out that the main contradiction in our country "is already a contradiction between the people's demand for the establishment of an advanced industrial country and the reality of a backward agricultural country, and a contradiction between the people's need for rapid economic and cultural development and the current situation in which the economy and culture cannot meet the needs of the people." The Chinese Communists, with Comrade Mao Zedong as the main representative, led the people to accomplish the most extensive and profound social changes in the history of the Chinese nation, laid the fundamental political premise and institutional foundation for all development and progress in contemporary China, and provided valuable experience, theoretical preparation, and material foundation for the creation of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

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, led the people to profoundly sum up the positive and negative experiences of China's socialist construction, 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, scientifically answered a series of basic questions in building socialism with Chinese characteristics, and formulated a development strategy for basically realizing socialist modernization in three steps by the middle of the twenty-first century. 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, led the people to further deepen their understanding of what socialism is, how to build socialism, what kind of party to build, and how to build the party; in the face of the severe test of serious twists and turns in world socialism, they defended socialism with Chinese characteristics, established the reform objectives, basic framework, and basic economic system of the socialist market economic system, and successfully pushed socialism with Chinese characteristics into the twenty-first century. After the Sixteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Chinese Communists, with Comrade Hu Jintao as the main representative, led the people to profoundly understand and answer major questions such as what kind of development to achieve and how to develop under the new situation, put forward the idea of building a socialist harmonious society, focusing on ensuring and improving people's livelihood, promoting social fairness and justice, promoting the construction of a harmonious world, and promoting the building of the party's ruling capacity and advanced nature, and successfully upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics at a new historical starting point.

Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has led the people to systematically answer the major issue of the times of upholding and developing what kind of socialism with Chinese characteristics and how to uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era from the combination of theory and practice, founded Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era, persisted in making overall plans to promote the overall layout of the "five-in-one" and coordinated the promotion of the "four comprehensive" strategic layout, and took charge of the great struggle, the great project, the great cause, and the great dream. Adhere to the people-centered development thinking, adhere to and strengthen the party's overall leadership, solve many long-term problems that have not been solved, accomplish many major things that have been wanted to be done but have not been done in the past, promote the cause of the party and the country to achieve historic achievements and historic changes, including proposing the "Belt and Road" initiative and signing cooperation agreements with 140 countries to jointly build the "Belt and Road", basically forming a new system of a higher level of open economy, achieving a comprehensive victory in the battle against poverty, and comprehensively advancing the strategy of rural revitalization. Decisive achievements in building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way have taken a new big step forward in the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

The party's leadership is the fundamental guarantee for achieving the great leap from standing up and getting rich to becoming strong

The leadership of the Communist Party of China is the fundamental guarantee for the Chinese nation to make a historic leap from standing up and getting rich to becoming strong. The leadership of the Communist Party of China is the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the greatest advantage of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics. In the study of the party, the government, the military, and the people, in the east, west, south, and north, the party leads everything. A century of practice tells us that history and the people are correct in choosing the cause of the CPC to lead the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, that the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics opened up by the CPC under the leadership of the Chinese people is correct, and that the strategy of the CPC and the Chinese people to take root in the land of China, absorb the outstanding achievements of human civilization, and independently realize national development is correct. The party's historic decision to reform and opening up at a specific historical juncture more than 40 years ago is by no means accidental, it is the inevitable result of our party taking the initiative to grasp the general trend of historical development and resolutely grasping the opportunity of historical change, and it is a historical great contribution that fully demonstrates the party's leadership advantages and the leadership of Marxist political parties.

The CPC is a mission-oriented Marxist political party, and the fundamental reason why it has been able to leapfrog the historical cycle rate to achieve long-term ruling and achieve comprehensive leadership is, first, to always pursue Marxist theory and always firmly believe in Marxism; second, it has always placed the people in the highest position in its heart, and regarded the people's support or disapproval, approval or disapproval, happiness or displeasure, and promise or disapproval as the fundamental criterion for judging the gains and losses of all work; and the third is to always pay attention to maintaining its own advanced nature and purity. At the same time, on this basis, we should focus on scientific governance, democratic governance, and ruling according to law, continuously improve our long-term ruling ability and comprehensive leadership level, and make unremitting efforts to lead the people to realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. In the new journey of the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan" and even for a longer period of time, it is still necessary to earnestly implement and embody the party's comprehensive leadership in various fields such as reform, development, and stability, domestic and foreign affairs, national defense, and governing the party and the army, and use the party's innovative theories to arm the mind, guide practice, and promote work, so as to create a new great cause of the times in the historical process of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Source: Guangming Network - Party Building Channel