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Constitution is revised accordingly. This will inspire all Party members to maintain
firm confidence, forge ahead with enterprise and fortitude, and keep on working to
accomplish the Party’s set goals.

The Congress notes that since the 19th National Congress, the Party Central
Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has developed new ideas, new

thinking, and new strategies for advancing the coordinated implementation of the
Five-Sphere Integrated Plan and the Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy. The
Congress agrees to add to the Party Constitution statements on following the path

of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics; developing a broader, fuller,
and more robust whole-process people’s democracy; establishing sound systems

and procedures for democratic elections, consultations, decision-making,
management, and oversight; and both pursuing development and safeguarding

security.
These additions will play an important role in helping all Party members act

with a stronger sense of purpose and greater resolve in implementing the Party’s
basic theory, line, and policy, so as to comprehensively advance the great cause of
socialism with Chinese characteristics.

The Congress also notes that since the 19th National Congress, Comrade Xi
Jinping has put forward a series of new ideas, new thinking, and new strategies on

national defense, the armed forces, the united front, and foreign affairs. It agrees to
include in the Party Constitution statements on enhancing political loyalty in the

military, strengthening the military through reform, science and technology, and
personnel training, and running the military in accordance with the law; elevating

the people’s armed forces to world-class standards; fully, faithfully, and resolutely
implementing the policy of One Country, Two Systems; resolutely opposing and
deterring separatists seeking “Taiwan independence”; holding dear humanity’s

shared values of peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy, and freedom;
and advancing the building of an open, inclusive, clean, and beautiful world that

enjoys lasting peace, universal security, and common prosperity.
These revisions reaffirm the Party’s commitment to building a strong military

with Chinese Characteristics, making sustained and steady progress with the One
Country, Two Systems policy, advancing national reunification, promoting the

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