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of socialism with Chinese characteristics, that the Party is the highest force of

political leadership, and that upholding the centralized, unified leadership of
the Party Central Committee is the highest political principle. We have made
systematic improvements to the Party’s leadership systems. All Party
members have become more conscious of the need to maintain political
integrity, think in big-picture terms, follow the leadership core, and keep in
alignment with the central Party leadership. They have become more
purposeful in closely following the Party Central Committee in thinking,
political stance, and action, and they have continued to improve their capacity
for political judgment, thinking, and implementation. All this has ensured the

Party Central Committee’s authority and its centralized, unified leadership
and guaranteed that the Party fulfills its core role of exercising overall
leadership and coordinating the efforts of all sides. Now, our Marxist party of
over 96 million members enjoys greater unity and solidarity than ever.

—We have developed well-conceived and complete strategic plans for advancing
the cause of the Party and the country in the new era. We have put forward the
Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and proposed
promoting national rejuvenation through a Chinese path to modernization.
We have made well-coordinated efforts to advance our great struggle, our
great project, our great cause, and our great dream. We have adopted the
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Five-Sphere Integrated Plan and the Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy
as well as the general principle of pursuing progress while ensuring stability,
and we have worked to both pursue development and safeguard security. We

have identified the principal contradiction facing Chinese society as that
between unbalanced and inadequate development and the people’s
ever-growing needs for a better life, and we have made it clear that closing
this gap should be the focus of all our initiatives. With these efforts, we have
made constant progress in enriching and developing a new form of human
advancement.

—We have achieved moderate prosperity, the millennia-old dream of the Chinese
nation, through persistent hard work. With this, we have elevated China to a
higher historical starting point in development. By galvanizing the entire
nation to carry out targeted poverty alleviation, we have won the largest
battle against poverty in human history. A total of 832 impoverished counties
and close to 100 million poor rural residents have been lifted out of poverty,
and, among them, more than 9.6 million poverty-stricken people have been

relocated from inhospitable areas. We have, once and for all, resolved the

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The Five-Sphere Integrated Plan is to promote coordinated economic, political, cultural, social,
and ecological advancement. The Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy is to make comprehensive
moves to build a modern socialist country, deepen reform, advance law-based governance, and
strengthen Party self-governance.
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