Our party is a great political party that holds high the great banner of Marxism, is very mature in theory and is constantly developing. As the highest leading organ of the Party, the National Congress of the Party plays an extremely important role in promoting the development of the Party’s cause and the theoretical construction of the Party. Since the reform and opening up, the Party’s national congresses have made important contributions to theoretical construction. The most significant theoretical achievement of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is to write Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era on the banner of the Party, and establish it as the guiding ideology that the Party must adhere to for a long time, thus realizing the Party’s guiding ideology to keep pace with the times again.
The establishment of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era as the guiding ideology that the Party must adhere to for a long time has realized that the Party’s guiding ideology keeps pace with the times again.
The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is a very important meeting held in the decisive stage of building a well-off society in an all-round way and the critical period of Socialism with Chinese characteristics entering a new era. The congress analyzed the development and changes of the international and domestic situation, reviewed and summarized the work and historical changes in the past five years, made major political conclusions such as Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, the main contradiction in our society has been transformed into the contradiction between the people’s growing need for a better life and the unbalanced development, profoundly expounded the historical mission of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in the new era, and put forward the basic strategy of upholding and developing Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. The goal of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way and starting a new journey of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way has been set, and comprehensive arrangements have been made for promoting the great cause of Socialism with Chinese characteristics and the new great project of party building in the new era. Among them, the most important theoretical achievement of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is to write Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era on the banner of the Party, and establish it as the guiding ideology that the Party must adhere to for a long time, thus realizing the Party’s guiding ideology to keep pace with the times again. This great theoretical achievement is of great political, theoretical and practical significance.
The 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is the historical starting point for the formation of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the new era. In the five years since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Do not forget your initiative mind, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, has made unremitting efforts to effectively cope with many risks and challenges at home and abroad, solved many long-term unsolved problems, accomplished many major events that he wanted to do but failed to do in the past, made all-round and groundbreaking historical achievements, made profound and fundamental historical changes in the cause of the party and the state, and entered a new era in Socialism with Chinese characteristics. In this process, the Supreme Leader, with great political courage and strong historical responsibility, combined theory with practice, made arduous theoretical explorations and made great theoretical innovations, and founded the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era, centering on answering the important issues of what kind of Socialism with Chinese characteristics and how to uphold and develop Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the cause of the Party and the state has been able to overcome difficulties and create a new situation in an all-round way, fundamentally because of the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, and because of the scientific guidance of the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era.
Building a socialist modern power in an all-round way is the most important task for the party and the country facing the future, and it is also the time condition for the formation of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the new era. A report of the 19th National Congress is a scientific interpretation and full expression of the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era. It is an original, classic and original theory of strengthening the country, strategy and people’s theory of our party in the new era, which has an epoch-making milestone significance of connecting the past with the future and carrying forward the future. This report further points out the direction of the cause of the party and the state, is the political declaration and action plan of our party to unite and lead the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country to uphold and develop Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and is also the concentrated expression of the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era. At the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought, the supreme leader in the new era, was written on the party’s banner, which was established as the guiding ideology that the party must adhere to for a long time, which realized the party’s guiding ideology to keep pace with the times again, and provided scientific theoretical guidance for winning the great victory of Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, realizing the goal of "two hundred years" and the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era is a profound scientific theoretical system.
The theme of the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era is to systematically answer what kind of Socialism with Chinese characteristics and how to adhere to and develop Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era from the combination of theory and practice. This theme is the inheritance, development, deepening and sublimation of Deng Xiaoping Theory’s theme, Theory of Three Represents’s theme and Scientific Outlook on Development’s theme.
The Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era includes such basic issues as adhering to and developing Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s general goal, general task, overall layout, strategic layout and development direction, development mode, development motive force, strategic steps, external conditions and political guarantee in the new era. According to the new practice, it has a profound impact on economy, politics, rule of law, science and technology, culture, education, people’s livelihood, nationality, religion, society, ecological civilization, national security, national defense and political guarantee. This scientific theoretical system is not only an important part of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s theoretical system, but also a significant development of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s theoretical system.
The main connotation of the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era is the "Eight Clarities" expounded according to the new situation and new tasks faced by the new era and new journey: First, it is clear that the overall task of upholding and developing Socialism with Chinese characteristics is to realize socialist modernization and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and it is proposed to build a prosperous, democratic, civilized, harmonious and beautiful socialist modernization power in two steps in the middle of this century on the basis of building a well-off society in an all-round way, and the goal of building a socialist modernization power is put forward, which enriches the connotation of building a socialist modernization power; Second, it is clear that the main contradiction in China’s society in the new era is the contradiction between the people’s growing need for a better life and the unbalanced development, and it is emphasized that we must adhere to the people-centered development idea and constantly promote the all-round development of people and the common prosperity of all people; Third, it is clear that the overall layout of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s career is "five in one" and the strategic layout is "four comprehensive", emphasizing firm road confidence, theoretical confidence, institutional confidence and cultural confidence, which is the great development and main experience of Socialism with Chinese characteristics theory and practice in the new era since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Fourth, it is clear that the overall goal of comprehensively deepening reform is to improve and develop the Socialism with Chinese characteristics system and promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, which is the fundamental driving force and institutional guarantee for the development of Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era;Fifth, it is clear that the overall goal of comprehensively promoting the rule of law is to build Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s rule of law system and build a socialist country ruled by law, which is the rule of law guarantee and governance mode for Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s development in the new era; Sixth, it is clear that the party’s goal of strengthening the army in the new era is to build a people’s army that listens to the party’s command, can win battles and has a good style of work, and to build the people’s army into a world-class army, which is an important cornerstone for Socialism with Chinese characteristics to develop and build a socialist modern power in an all-round way in the new era; Seventh, it is clear that the diplomacy of a big country with China characteristics should promote the construction of new international relations and a community of human destiny, which is the external condition for the development of Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era; Eighth, it is clear that the most essential feature of Socialism with Chinese characteristics is the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s leadership, the greatest advantage of Socialism with Chinese characteristics system is the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s leadership, and the Party is the highest political leadership force. It is the fundamental political guarantee for Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s development in the new era to put forward the general requirements for Party building in the new era and highlight the important position of political construction in Party building. Comrade Supreme Leader elaborated on upholding and developing Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s "Fourteen Persistences", which is an in-depth summary of the experience in the past 40 years of reform and opening up and the five years since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, as well as a deep integration and sublimation of the Party’s basic program, experience and requirements, and has long-term guiding significance.
Generally speaking, the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era has clearly answered major theoretical and practical questions such as what flag our Party is holding, what road we are taking, what state of mind we are taking, what historical mission we are shouldering and what goals we are striving for. It is the inheritance and development of Marxism–Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, Theory of Three Represents and Scientific Outlook on Development, and it is the latest achievement of China Marxism. It is the crystallization of the practical experience and collective wisdom of the Party and the people, an important part of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s theoretical system, and an action guide for the whole Party and the people to strive for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. It must be adhered to and continuously developed for a long time.
The party’s vitality is first of all the vitality in thought and theory, and the party’s creative cohesion fighting capacity is first of all the creative cohesion fighting capacity in thought and theory. The formation of the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era has raised our Party’s understanding of the laws governing communist party, socialist construction and the development of human society to a new level, and raised the China, modernization and popularization of Marxism to a new level, which is a vivid manifestation and fundamental symbol of our Party’s vitality, strong creativity and cohesive fighting capacity in the new era.
Insist on arming the whole party with Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era.
Following the Marxist epistemology of practice, cognition, re-practice and re-cognition, the process of theoretical innovation, theoretical construction and theoretical guidance of the party includes two closely related and interactive dynamic processes: from practice to theory and from theory to practice. After the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the New Era has been established as the guiding ideology that the Party must adhere to for a long time, the most important political task before the whole party is to make great efforts and make great efforts to arm the whole party with the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the New Era.
To thoroughly study and implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the most important thing is to thoroughly study and implement Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era, the ideological soul of the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. The whole party should profoundly study and understand the rich connotation, spiritual essence, great significance and historical position of the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era, firmly grasp the "Eight Clarities" of the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era, firmly grasp the "Fourteen Persistences" of Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, and conscientiously organize the spiritual publicity, education and study and training of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Party committees at all levels should insist on putting political construction in the first place, regard arming the whole party with Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the new era as the most important and central link in strengthening party building, use theoretical armed work to guide the work of leading group building and party building, and push the whole party to make unremitting efforts to realize the historical mission of the party in the new era more consciously.
Time is the mother of thought and practice is the source of theory. Every era will face new problems different from other eras, and answering and solving these new problems will inevitably produce new theories and practices different from other eras. Times promote practice, practice calls for theory, and theory guides and pushes forward the times and practice. This is the dialectics in which times, practice and theory are interrelated and interacting. The Communist Party of China (CPC) is a party that emancipates the mind, seeks truth from facts, keeps pace with the times and is pragmatic. Our party has always relied on Marxist truth for food, and its theoretical advantage has always been its core advantage. Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, which requires our party to have higher theoretical consciousness than ever before, pay more attention to theoretical innovation and theoretical construction, and pay more attention to the improvement of the theoretical literacy of the whole party. As long as we persist in arming the whole Party with Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the new era, our Party’s creativity, cohesion and combat effectiveness will be greatly improved, so as to better shoulder the lofty mission entrusted to our Party by the new era to carry out great struggles, build great projects, advance great undertakings, realize great dreams and build a socialist modern power in an all-round way.
(The author is the president of the Shanghai Party Construction Research Institute and the former head of the discipline inspection team of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in the Ministry of Culture)