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work subordinated to and serve this central task. We must lose no time in

speeding up economic development, implement the strategy of rejuvenating
the country through science and education and that of sustainable development,
give full play to the role of science and technology as the primary productive

force. We must take advantage of the advancement of science and technology
to improve the quality of workers and work hard to push forward the economy

with good results, high quality and high speed.
The Four Cardinal Principles – to keep to the socialist road and to uphold
the people’s democratic dictatorship, leadership by the Communist Party of

China, and Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought – are the foundation
on which to build our country. Throughout the course of socialist

modernization we must adhere to the Four Cardinal Principles and combat
bourgeois liberalization.
Reform and opening up are the only way to make our country strong. We

must carry out fundamental reform of the economic structure that hampers the
development of the productive forces, and keep and improve a socialist market
economy; we must also carry out corresponding political restructuring and

reform in other fields. The opening up means all-dimensional opening up, both
externally and internally. We must expand economic and technological
exchanges and cooperation with other countries, make more and better use of

foreign capital, resources and technologies, and assimilate and exploit the
achievements of all other cultures, including all the advanced modes of

operation and methods of management of developed countries in the West that
embody the laws governing modern socialized production. We must be bold in
blazing new trails in the practice of reform and opening up.

The Communist Party of China leads the people in promoting socialist
democracy and building socialist political civilization. It keeps expanding

socialist democracy, strengthens the socialist legal system, rules the country by
law, builds a socialist country under the rule of law and consolidates the
people’s democratic dictatorship. The system of people’s congresses and the

system of multiparty cooperation and political consultation under the

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