at the celebration of the centenary of the founding of the communist party of china (cpc), general secretary xi jinping made it clear that "all the struggles, sacrifices, and creations that the cpc has united and led the chinese people in over the past 100 years can be summed up in one theme: realizing the great rejuvenation of the chinese nation." the theme of the cpc's century-old struggle is to realize the great rejuvenation of the chinese nation, and the glorious course of the cpc's century-old struggle is a history of practice and theory created around this theme. the endogenous driving force of this continuous struggle comes from the cpc's distinctive character of having the courage to make self-revolution.
the theme of the cpc's centennial struggle is to realize the great rejuvenation of the chinese nation
the theme of realizing the great rejuvenation of the chinese nation was not created by the communist party of china (cpc), but was spawned by china's historical development after entering modern times. as general secretary xi jinping has pointed out, "after the opium war in 1840, china gradually became a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. the country was humiliated, the people suffered, and the chinese civilization was in the dust. the chinese nation suffered unprecedented disaster. since then, realizing the great rejuvenation of the chinese nation has become the greatest dream of the chinese people and the chinese nation."
however, chinese people's cognition of this historical theme was not clear and conscious at the beginning. the taiping heavenly kingdom movement, the westernization movement, the reform movement of 1898, the boxer movement and the revolution of 1911 all ended in failure, failing to change the tragic fate of the chinese people and nation. political and ideological limitations inevitably lead to practical failures. although these different classes and strata have made attempts and efforts, they have not made substantial progress in realizing the theme of the great rejuvenation of the chinese nation. the failure left a painful but valuable lesson. without the guidance of scientific theories, it is difficult for people to grasp the laws and trends of historical development and find the right direction and explore the right road in practice. without the leadership of advanced political parties, the masses will fall into a state of scattered sand, and it will be difficult to form a strong joint force. this is the reason why struggles have failed in modern times. as xi jinping pointed out, "china urgently needs new thinking to lead the national salvation movement and new organizations to gather revolutionary forces."
upon its arrival on the stage of history, the cpc established its original aspiration and mission of seeking happiness for the chinese people and rejuvenation for the chinese nation, and took rejuvenation of the chinese nation as the theme of its struggle. in particular, the mission consciousness and theme consciousness of the communist party of china from the very beginning went beyond the previous different classes, showing a state of self-consciousness. it can be seen from the major and major documents passed by the party that the chinese communists have ideological consciousness of lofty goals and struggle themes.
the cpc's consciousness of realizing the great rejuvenation of the chinese nation comes from its advanced nature in ideology, class and practice. since its founding, the communist party of china has held high the banner of marxism, stood on the commanding heights of truth and morality, consciously assumed the responsibility of being the vanguard of the chinese working class, took the lead in action, and always maintained its advanced nature and purity.
thanks to this sense of self-awareness, the cpc has never changed its theme or forgotten its original mission in its century-long struggle, no matter in good times or bad, no matter in victory or defeat, no matter what difficulties and obstacles it encounters, no matter what changes the situation may bring. instead, we will use strong political leadership, core cohesion, and direction to unite and lead the chinese people in their unswerving and continuing efforts to advance toward the goal of national rejuvenation.
the glorious history of the cpc in the past 100 years has been based on the theme of unremitting struggle
in the course of the centenary, the communist party of china (cpc) has united the people and led them in creatively integrating the basic tenets of marxism with china's actual conditions and the characteristics of the times, as well as with the fine traditional chinese culture, thus advancing the process of national rejuvenation and writing the most magnificent epic in the history of the development of the chinese nation.
in new-democratic revolution period, the party unity to lead the people fought, perseverance, after the agrarian revolution war, the anti-japanese war, liberation war, armed with armed revolution against counter-revolutionary, achieved complete victory of new-democratic revolution, established the new china in which people became their own masters, realized the national independence and liberation, it put an end to the semi-colonial and semi-feudal history of old china, put an end to the situation in which sand was scattered in old china, and abolished the unequal treaties imposed on china by foreign powers and all imperialist privileges in china, thus creating the fundamental social conditions for the great rejuvenation of the chinese nation. chinese communists have deeply grasped and applied the essence of marxist theory, formed their positions, views and methods, and put forward systematic and complete scientific theories, lines, principles and policies on the chinese revolution.
in the socialist revolution and construction period, the party unity leads people's self-reliance, careers, to carry on the socialist revolution, eliminate in china for thousands of years of feudal exploitation system, establish the basic socialist system, pushing forward the construction of the socialism against imperialism and hegemonism of subversion, sabotage and armed provocations, it has carried out the most extensive and profound social transformation in the history of the chinese nation, and made a great leap forward for the impoverished and populous country in the east to stride into a socialist society, laying the fundamental political premise and institutional foundation for the great rejuvenation of the chinese nation. in the arduous exploration of a socialist construction path suitable for china's national conditions, our party has gained an important new understanding of how to build socialism and formed a series of original theoretical achievements.
in reform, opening up and socialist modernization construction new period, the party lead the people to emancipate the mind, forge ahead, the far-reaching great transition, the establishment of the party's basic line in the primary stage of socialism, and unswervingly promote reform and opening up and overcome the challenges from all sides risk, create, persistence, defend, the development of socialism with chinese characteristics, implementation from the highly centralized planned economic system to the dynamic system of socialist market economy, from closed semi-closed historic change, to the all-round open realized from the relatively backward productivity condition to the economy as the world's second historic breakthrough, realizes the people's life from insufficient food and clothing to the overall well-off, ran to the historic leap of the all-round well-off society, it has provided an institutional guarantee full of new vitality and material conditions for rapid development for the great rejuvenation of the chinese nation. chinese communists have established and continuously developed a system of theories of socialism with chinese characteristics, focusing on and answering scientifically a series of major questions such as "what is socialism and how to build it", "what kind of party should we build and how to build it", and "what kind of development should we achieve and how to achieve it".
socialism with chinese characteristics into a new era, the party unity leads people's confident and keep is innovation, suggested "four great", overall layout, plan as a whole to promote "five one" coordinate "comprehensive" four strategic layout, to uphold and improve the system of socialism with chinese characteristics, promoting the modernization of national management system and management ability, overcome a series of major risk challenge, we achieved the first centenary goal, identified the strategic arrangements for achieving the second centenary goal, and made historic achievements and changes in the cause of the party and the country, providing a better institutional guarantee, a more solid material foundation, and a more proactive spirit for realizing the great rejuvenation of the chinese nation. comrade xi as the main representative of the chinese communists, keep up with the development of the times, the system in the paper from theory and practice to answer the new era, what kind of upholding and developing socialism with chinese characteristics, how to adhere to and develop socialism with chinese characteristics the important age topic, founded the new age of xi the ideas of socialism with chinese characteristics. this marxism of contemporary china and the 21st century has provided the whole party and the whole people with a guide to action for the great rejuvenation of the chinese nation.
through unremitting efforts, the party has united and led the people in blazing a new trail, creating new theories, developing new undertakings, and making new achievements. the great rejuvenation of the chinese nation has entered an irreversible historical process.
the internal driving force behind the cpc's century-old unremitting struggle comes from the party's great self-revolution
the development of the communist party of china in the past century has not always been smooth sailing, but it has never abandoned its ideals and beliefs, nor lost its confidence in victory. instead, it has unswervingly pursued the theme of realizing the great rejuvenation of the chinese nation. the secret of this lies in its distinctive character and strong ability to make self-revolution. this great self-revolution has given rise to an indomitable internal driving force for chinese communists to advance one after another.
before the early chinese communists accepted marxism, they had also been influenced by social reformism, anarchism and utopian socialism. after studying and comparing different ideological trends in struggle practice, they firmly believed in marxism and embarked on the road guided by marxism. it can be said that this spirit of self-revolution has injected the red gene of self-revolution into the century-old party and created the distinctive character of self-revolution.
in the grave situation of the failure of the great revolution, our party held an emergency meeting on august 7, 1927 to review and correct its mistakes in the later period of the great revolution. it was by correcting mistakes that the party set forth the new task of exploring the path of the chinese revolution, established the policy of carrying out agrarian revolution and armed insurrection, and began to lead the chinese revolution independently, gradually ushering in a new upsurge of the chinese revolution.
the zunyi conference was a life-and-death turning point in the history of the party. the conference established the leading position of the correct marxist line with comrade mao zedong as its chief representative in the cpc central committee, and saved the party, the red army and the chinese revolution. from then on, the party embarked on the road of independent development and became increasingly mature ideologically, politically and organizationally. the chinese revolution began to turn from adversity to prosperity. later, after the yenan rectification, our party further matured and created great achievements of the new democratic revolution.
the third plenary session of the eleventh is in the party and the state confronted at the great historical moment, break through the "left" mistakes over a long period of severe bondage, spoke highly of the discussion about truth standard, decisive end "taking class struggle as key link", to establish the marxist ideological line, political line, organizing line. on this basis, china launched and continued to deepen reform and opening up, created and continued to advance the great cause of socialism with chinese characteristics, and created great achievements in reform, opening up and socialist modernization.
since the eighteenth congress, the party central committee with comrade xi as the core, based on the new era of historical position, highlight to self revolution, strictly party party, at the height of the theory of lucid and strong political concentration, found problems in time to carry out self-examination, blade inward, dare to scrape osteopathic poison, guard against risk challenge, firmly with all weakened the party's advanced nature and purity, harm the body health phenomenon struggle, constantly promote the further development of comprehensive governing party, constantly enhance the party's political leadership, ideological driving force, mass organization, social appeal, make the party forever strong vitality and strong fighting capacity, to gather the people of the mighty power, we have made great achievements in building socialism with chinese characteristics for a new era.
in short, the communist party of china is a marxist political party that is both courageous and adept at self-revolution. it can uphold truth and correct mistakes by relying on its own strength and the support of the people. it is through the great revolution, the communist party of china constantly from the predicament, from failure to victory on the road to success, always don't forget to beginner's mind the mission, continue to increase the endogenous dynamic of realizing the great rejuvenation of the chinese nation, lead the people to realize the unity from rich, stand up to strong rise of the great leap, ushered in the great rejuvenation of the chinese nation's bright future.
source: state-owned assets and administration commission of the state council