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Liberation Army and other people’s armed forces, builds up the strength of the

People’s Liberation Army, and gives full play to its role in consolidating
national defense, defending the motherland and participating in the socialist
modernization drive.

The Communist Party of China upholds and promotes relations of equality,
unity and mutual assistance among all ethnic groups in the country, upholds

and constantly improves the system of regional ethnic autonomy, actively
trains and promotes cadres from among ethnic minorities, and helps them with
economic and cultural development in the areas inhabited by ethnic minorities

so as to achieve common prosperity and all-round progress for all ethnic
groups.

The Communist Party of China unites with all workers, farmers and
intellectuals, and with all the democratic parties, personages without party
affiliation and the patriotic forces of all ethnic groups in China in further

expanding and fortifying the broadest possible patriotic united front embracing
all socialist workers and all patriots who support socialism or who support the
reunification of the motherland. We should constantly work to strengthen the

unity of all the Chinese people, including our compatriots in Hong Kong and
Macao special administrative regions and in Taiwan as well as overseas
Chinese. We should accomplish the great task of reunifying the motherland in

conformity with the principle of “one country, two systems”.
The Communist Party of China stands for developing relations with other

countries in order to bring about a favorable international environment for
China’s reform, opening up and modernization. In international affairs, it
adheres to the independent foreign policy of peace, safeguarding China’s

independence and sovereignty, opposing hegemonism and power politics,
defending world peace, and promoting human progress. It works to develop

relations between China and other countries on the basis of the five principles
of mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, mutual
non-aggression, noninterference in each other’s internal affairs, equality and

mutual benefit, and peaceful coexistence. It strives for the constant

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