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in the millennia-long history of the Chinese nation.

It was stated at the session that the major tasks of the Party in the period of the
new-democratic revolution were to oppose imperialism, feudalism, and

bureaucrat-capitalism, seek national independence and the people’s liberation, and
create the fundamental social conditions for realizing national rejuvenation. In the
course of the revolutionary struggle, Chinese communists, with Comrade Mao
Zedong as their chief representative, adapted the basic tenets of Marxism-Leninism

to China’s specific realities and developed a theoretical synthesis of China’s unique
experience which came from painstaking trials and great sacrifices. They blazed
the right revolutionary path of encircling cities from the countryside and seizing
state power with military force. They established Mao Zedong Thought, which

charted the correct course for securing victory in the new-democratic revolution.
The Party led the people in fighting bloody battles with unyielding determination,
achieving great success in the new-democratic revolution, establishing the People’s
Republic of China, and achieving national independence and the people’s

liberation. This put an end to China’s history as a semi-colonial, semi-feudal
society, to the rule of a handful of exploiters over the working people, to the state
of total disunity that existed in the old China, and to all the unequal treaties
imposed on our country by foreign powers and all the privileges that imperialist
powers enjoyed on our land, marking the country’s great transformation from a

millennia-old feudal autocracy to a people’s democracy. This also reshaped the
world political landscape and offered enormous inspiration for oppressed nations
and peoples struggling for national liberation around the world. Through
tenacious struggle, the Party and the people showed the world that the Chinese

people had stood up and the time in which the Chinese nation could be bullied
and abused by others was gone and would never return. This marked the
beginning of a new epoch in China’s development.

It was stated at the session that the major tasks of the Party in the period of

socialist revolution and construction were to realize the transformation from new
democracy to socialism, carry out socialist revolution, promote socialist
construction, and lay down the fundamental political conditions and the
institutional foundations necessary for national rejuvenation. In this period,
Chinese communists, with Comrade Mao Zedong as their chief representative, put

forward a series of important theories for socialist construction. Mao Zedong

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