Summarize historical experience and forge ahead towards the second centenary goal
News from “Party Building” Magazine The Communist Party of China is a party that is good at summing up historical experience. The Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Party will comprehensively summarize the major achievements and historical experience of the party’s centuries of struggle. This is an inevitable requirement for our party to unite and lead the people of all ethnic groups across the country towards the second centenary goal and to start a new journey of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way.
The party’s historical experience requires us to uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics. Over the past 100 years, our party has centered on the historical theme of realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, united and led the Chinese people, self-reliant, worked hard, explored and pioneered the road of China’s new democratic revolution and socialism with Chinese characteristics, and created society. Great achievements in socialist revolution and construction. History and practice have proved that the road is the most fundamental problem. Taking one’s own path is the basis of all the party’s theory and practice, and it is the historical conclusion drawn by the party’s centuries of struggle. Socialism with Chinese characteristics is the fundamental achievement made by the party and the people through untold hardships and at a huge price. It is the correct path and fundamental guarantee for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. We must unswervingly adhere to the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, firmly hold the destiny of China’s development and progress in our own hands, and unswervingly move towards the second centenary goal.
The party’s historical experience requires us to further strengthen the “four consciousnesses”, strengthen the “four self-confidence”, and achieve “two safeguards.” Over the past 100 years, one of the important reasons why our party has been able to overcome the difficulties and obstacles on the road ahead time and time again is that it has formed and established a strong and powerful leadership core. The Zunyi Conference established Comrade Mao Zedong’s leadership in the Red Army and the Party Central Committee. Our party began to form a strong leadership core. Since then, the Chinese revolution has continued to move from victory to new victory. The Chinese Communists, mainly represented by Comrades Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, and Hu Jintao, have united and led the entire party and the people of all ethnic groups in the country to promote revolution, construction, and reform, and have made major achievements and accumulated valuable experience. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has united and led the whole party and the people of all ethnic groups in the country to achieve new major achievements, accumulate new valuable experience, and demonstrate the strong vitality of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the spirit of the party. The unprecedented cohesion and excitement of the people have provided a more complete institutional guarantee, a more solid material foundation, and a more active spiritual force for the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. History and practice have proved that in such a big party and in such a big country, only the Party Central Committee has the authority to unite the entire party and the people of all ethnic groups in the whole country into an indestructible and majestic force. The core of the party is hard to come by, and the leader of the party is hard to come by. We must unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, strengthen the “four consciousnesses”, strengthen the “four self-confidence”, achieve “two safeguards”, and unite to march towards the second centenary goal.
The party’s historical experience requires that we must continue to advance the party’s self-revolution and improve the party’s ability to fight. Looking back on the party’s history, our party has always been pushing for social revolution while courageously promoting self-revolution, always adhering to the truth, correcting mistakes, daring to face problems, overcoming shortcomings, daring to scrape bones to cure poison, to remove decay and to grow muscles, so as to be able to survive the crisis. Survive from a desperate situation, set things right after making a mistake, and become a Marxist party that can never be defeated or crushed. History and practice have proved that the key to our party’s vigor and vigor after thousands of trials lies in always insisting that the party must manage the party and govern the party strictly in an all-round way. We must increase our awareness of danger, always be prepared for danger in times of peace, and constantly improve our ability to deal with risks, meet challenges, and turn dangers into bargain. We must overcome all risks and challenges on the road ahead with strong revolutionary fighting spirit and strong combat capabilities, and stride forward to the second centenary goal. .
(Author unit: The Second Research Department of the Central Party History and Literature Research Institute)