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to development that ensures increased production, higher living standards, and

healthy ecosystems. The Party shall strive to build a resource-conserving,
environmentally friendly society, implement the strictest possible environmental
protection systems, and work to shape spatial layouts, industrial structures, modes
of production, and ways of life that are conducive to resource conservation and

environmental protection, creating good working and living environments for the
people, and ensuring sustainable development for the Chinese nation.

The Communist Party of China shall uphold its absolute leadership over the
People’s Liberation Army and other people’s armed forces; implement Xi Jinping’s
thinking on strengthening the military; strengthen the development of the People’s

Liberation Army by enhancing its political loyalty, strengthening the military
through reform, science and technology, personnel training, and running the

military in accordance with the law; build people’s forces that obey the Party’s
command, can fight and win, and maintain excellent conduct; elevate our people’s
armed forces to world-class standards; ensure that the People’s Liberation Army
accomplishes its missions and tasks in the new era; and give full play to the role of

the People’s Liberation Army in consolidating national defense, defending the
motherland, and participating in socialist modernization.

The Communist Party of China shall preserve and develop socialist relations
among ethnic groups based on equality, solidarity, mutual assistance, and
harmony; work proactively to train and select officials from ethnic minorities; help

ethnic minorities and areas with concentrations of ethnic minorities with economic,
cultural, and social development; foster a strong sense of community for the

Chinese nation; and ensure that all ethnic groups work together for common
development and prosperity. The Party shall fully implement its basic policy on
religion, and encourage religious believers to contribute to economic and social
development.

The Communist Party of China shall urge all workers, farmers, and

intellectuals, and all other political parties, persons without party affiliation, and
the patriotic forces of all ethnic groups in China to further develop and expand the
broadest possible patriotic united front embracing all socialist workers, all those

working for the socialist cause, all patriots who support socialism, all patriots who

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