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Chinese characteristics, have firm confidence in its path, theory, system, and

culture, carry forward the fighting spirit and build up our fighting ability,
implement the Party’s basic theory, basic line, and basic policy, and strive to fulfill
the three historic tasks of advancing modernization, achieving China’s
reunification, and safeguarding world peace and promoting common development,

and realize the Second Centenary Goal and the Chinese Dream of national
rejuvenation.

Since its founding, the Communist Party of China has remained true to its
original aspiration and founding mission of seeking happiness for the Chinese
people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation. Through its endeavors over the

past century, the Party has fundamentally transformed the future of the Chinese
people, opened up the right path for achieving rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,

demonstrated the strong vitality of Marxism, profoundly influenced the course of
world history, and made itself a forerunner of the times. Based on long-term
practice, the Party has gained valuable historical experience in the following
respects: upholding the Party’s leadership, putting the people first, advancing

theoretical innovation, staying independent, following the Chinese path,
maintaining a global vision, breaking new ground, standing up for ourselves,

promoting the united front, and remaining committed to self-reform. These points
are a rich source of inspiration that the Party and the people have created together.
We must cherish them, uphold them over the long term, and continue to enrich
and develop them through practice.

China is currently in the primary stage of socialism and will remain so for a

long time to come. This is a stage of history that cannot be bypassed as China,
which used to be economically and culturally lagging, makes progress in socialist
modernization; it will take over a century. China’s development of socialism must
begin from China’s own circumstances, follow the path of socialism with Chinese

characteristics, and comprehensively promote national rejuvenation through the
path of Chinese modernization. At the present stage, the principal contradiction in

Chinese society is that between the ever-growing needs of the people for a better
life and unbalanced and inadequate development. Owing to both domestic factors
and international influences, a certain amount of class struggle will continue to

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