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promoting economic and social development, and to both pursue
development and ensure security.

We have remained true to the general principle of pursuing progress
while ensuring stability. We have devoted great energy to finishing building a
moderately prosperous society in all respects, fully and faithfully applied the

new development philosophy on all fronts, focused on promoting
high-quality development, and worked to create a new pattern of
development. We have pursued reform at a swift and steady pace, made solid

progress in developing whole-process people’s democracy, and advanced
law-based governance across all fields of endeavor. We have actively
developed advanced socialist culture. We have worked to ensure and

improve public wellbeing as a matter of priority and pooled resources to
wage a critical battle against poverty. We have made a big push to enhance
ecological conservation. We have worked with firm resolve to safeguard

national security, fended off and defused major risks, and ensured social
stability. We have devoted great energy to modernizing our national defense
and the armed forces. We have helped to restore order in Hong Kong,

bringing about a major turn for the better. We have stood firm in fighting
against separatism and interference, conducted major-country diplomacy
with Chinese characteristics on all fronts, and made sweeping efforts to

advance the great new project of Party building. We have eradicated absolute
poverty as scheduled and finished building a moderately prosperous society
in all respects, thus attaining the First Centenary Goal and embarking on a

new journey to build a modern socialist country in all respects and reach the
Second Centenary Goal.
Over the past five years, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi

Jinping at its core fully assessed the situation, upheld fundamental principles
and broke new ground, and exhibited its courage and ability to fight. It has
united and led the whole Party, the entire military, and all people across the

country in effectively responding to grave, intricate international
developments and a series of immense risks and challenges, in solving a great
number of problems that had long gone unsolved, in securing many

accomplishments that hold major future significance, and in achieving
impressive advances in the cause of the Party and the country. With great
effort and determination, we have thus steadily advanced socialism with

Chinese characteristics in the new era.
The Congress stresses that the past decade since the Party’s 18th National

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