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alleviation have been consolidated and expanded. As the green and
low-carbon transition has picked up pace, the environment has continued to

improve. We have increased our capacity to safeguard national security,
enhanced social governance, and maintained overall social stability. Major
headway has been made in strengthening national defense and military

development. The policy of One Country, Two Systems has been further
advanced in practice. Progress has been secured on all fronts of major-country
diplomacy with Chinese characteristics. Impressive results have been

achieved in the Party’s full and rigorous self-governance, and the fight against
corruption has been stepped up. Our Party’s creativity, cohesion, and ability
have all been markedly increased. With China reaching new heights in

economic strength, scientific and technological ability, and composite national
strength, we have made solid new strides in advancing Chinese
modernization and gotten off to a good start on our new journey toward the

Second Centenary Goal.
We owe all these remarkable achievements to the CPC Central Committee
with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, which has been at the helm charting the

course, and to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
for a New Era, which has provided sound guidance to advance our cause.
2. The 15th Five-Year Plan period as a critical stage in building on past successes

to break new ground for basically realizing socialist modernization
Socialist modernization can only be realized through a historical process
of gradual and ongoing development. It requires the unremitting hard work
of one generation after another. The period covered by the 15th Five-Year

Plan will be critical in this process as we work to reinforce the foundations
and push ahead on all fronts toward basically realizing socialist

modernization by 2035.
In this period, we must consolidate and build on our strengths, remove
development bottlenecks, and shore up areas of weakness. We must seize the
strategic initiative amid intense international competition and secure major

breakthroughs in strategic tasks of overall importance to Chinese
modernization. This will put us on firmer foundations for basically realizing

socialist modernization.
3. Profound and intricate changes facing China’s development environment in
the 15th Five-Year Plan period
Relations between major countries have an important bearing on the

international landscape, the dynamics of which will in turn exert a profound

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