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leadership of the Communist Party of China should continue. The Party should

encourage the people to act as the masters of the country and take effective
measures to protect the people’s right to run the affairs of the state and of
society and manage economic and cultural undertakings. It should encourage

the free airing of views and establish and improve systems and procedures of
democratic decision-making and supervision. State legislation and law

enforcement should be strengthened so as to gradually put all work of the state
on a legal footing. Comprehensive measures for keeping law and order should
be taken to maintain the long-term social stability. Efforts must be made

according to law to crack down on the criminal activities and criminals that
endanger national security and interests, social stability and economic

development. We should strictly distinguish between the two different types of
contradictions – those between ourselves and the enemy and those among the
people, so as to handle them properly.

The Communist Party of China leads the people in their efforts to build
spiritual civilization as well as material and political civilizations and to
combine ruling the country by law and ruling the country by virtue. Socialist

spiritual civilization provides a powerful ideological driving force and
intellectual support and helps create a good social climate for economic
development, reform and opening up. It is essential to press ahead with

education, science and culture, respect learning and talented people, raise the
ideological, moral, scientific and educational levels of the entire nation,

develop the fine national traditional culture, and develop a thriving socialist
culture. It is essential to inspire the Party members and the people with the
Party’s basic line, patriotism, community spirit and socialist ideology, enhance

their sense of national dignity, self-confidence and self-reliance, imbue the
Party members with lofty ideals of communism, resist corrosion by capitalist

and feudal decadent ideas and wipe out all social evils so that our people will
have lofty ideals, moral integrity, a good education and a strong sense of
discipline.

The Communist Party of China persists in its leadership over the People’s

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