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political civilization. It shall uphold and improve the people’s congress system, the

Communist Party-led system of multiparty cooperation and political consultation,
the system of regional ethnic autonomy, and the system of public self-governance
at the primary level. The Party shall develop a broader, fuller, and more robust
whole-process people’s democracy, advance extensive, multilevel, and

institutionalized development of consultative democracy, and act in earnest to
protect the people’s right to manage state and social affairs and to manage

economic and cultural matters. It shall respect and safeguard human rights. The
Party shall encourage the free expression of views and work to establish sound
systems and procedures for democratic elections, consultations, decision-making,
administration, and oversight. It shall improve the socialist system of laws with

Chinese characteristics and strengthen the implementation of law, to bring all the
work of the state under the rule of law.

The Communist Party of China shall lead the people in developing advanced
socialist culture. It shall promote socialist cultural-ethical progress, ensure the
practice of the rule of law in combination with the rule of virtue, and work to

strengthen the thinking and morality as well as the knowledge of science and
culture of the whole nation to provide powerful ideological guarantees, motivation,

and intellectual support for reform, opening up, and socialist modernization, and
develop a strong socialist culture in China. It shall strengthen the system of core
socialist values, uphold Marxism as its guiding ideology, foster the common ideal
of socialism with Chinese characteristics, promote a national spirit to which

patriotism is central and a spirit of the times centered on reform and innovation,
cultivate and practice core socialist values, and champion the socialist concept of

honor and disgrace. It shall work to strengthen the people’s sense of national
dignity, self-confidence, and self-reliance, protect against the corroding influence
of decadent capitalist and feudal ideas, and eliminate all social ills, endeavoring to
see that the people of China are people of high ideals and moral integrity and are

cultured and disciplined. It must better educate its members of the great ideal of
communism. The Party shall strive to develop educational, scientific, and cultural

undertakings, promote the creative evolution and innovative development of fine
traditional Chinese culture, carry forward our revolutionary culture, develop an
advanced socialist culture, and enhance our country’s cultural soft power. The
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