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make use of the principal role of Party organizations at the community level in
comprehensively advancing the law-based governance of the country, and
establish law-based work mechanisms with the focus of the work and main efforts
shifted closer to the community.

We need to intensify our efforts to practice law-based, strict governance of
the armed forces, build a sound law-based military system with Chinese
characteristics, and increase the level of rule of law in the development of
national defense and the armed forces in order to achieve the Party’s goal of
strengthening the military under the new conditions.

We must, in accordance with the law, safeguard the practice of “one country,
two systems,” promote the reunification of our country, ensure that Hong Kong
and Macao enjoy lasting prosperity and stability, push forward with the peaceful
reunification of our country, and protect the rights and interests of our fellow
countrymen and countrywomen in Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan.
We need to improve our work concerning foreign-related laws, use legal means
to safeguard our country’s sovereignty, security, and development interests, and
protect the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese citizens and legal persons
overseas and foreign citizens and legal persons in China.

The current situation and tasks were analyzed at the session and it was
stressed that all Party members should think and act in line with the major
decisions and plans of the Central Committee concerning comprehensively
deepening reform and advancing the law-based governance of China, read the
situation as it develops, maintain a state of vigilance, have the strategic resolve to
seize and make the most of this important period of strategic opportunities to
promote reform and development, and show incisiveness in observing changes
taking place at home and abroad. With a spirit of perseverance, all Party members
should continue to spur on the sustained, healthy development of the economy,
improve and provide safeguards for the standard of living of our people with an
emphasis on aiding people in need, rectify problems in conduct, exercise strict
governance of the Party, and maintain social harmony and stability in a bid to lay
down a solid foundation for a good start next year.

It was decided at the session, in line with the Party Constitution, to appoint
Ma Jiantang, Wang Zuo’an, and Mao Wanchun, alternate members of the CPC
Central Committee, to become full members of the Central Committee.

Participants at the session deliberated over and approved a report of the CPC
Central Commission for Discipline Inspection on the serious breaches of
discipline by Li Dongsheng, Jiang Jiemin, Wang Yongchun, Li Chuncheng, and
Wan Qingliang, and a report of the Commission for Discipline Inspection of the
CPC Central Military Commission on the serious breaches of discipline by Yang

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