"Seeking Truth" magazine published General Secretary Xi Jinping's important article "Upholding and Developing Socialism with Chinese Characteristics must be consistent"

The 18th issue of "Seeking Truth" published on September 16 will publish an important article by Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, "Upholding and Developing Socialism with Chinese Characteristics."

The article emphasizes that socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era is the result of our party leading the people to carry out the great social revolution, and it is also the continuation of our party leading the people to carry out the great social revolution. It must be carried out consistently. Both history and reality tell us that it often takes a long historical process for a social revolution to achieve final victory. Only by looking back at the road we have traveled, comparing the roads of others, overlooking the road ahead, and figuring out where we came from and where we are going, can we see many problems deeply and accurately.

The article points out that socialism with Chinese characteristics did not fall from the sky, but was a valuable achievement made by the party and the people through untold hardships and various costs. It is not easy to get this result.

The article points out that since the reform and opening up, we have been practicing and exploring. On the premise of adhering to the leadership of the Communist Party of China and China's socialist system, we have carried out a series of revolutionary changes in the socialist road, theory, system and culture, opened up the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and made China's development catch up with the times. The great success of socialism with Chinese characteristics in China shows that socialism has not perished and will not perish, and it is full of vigor and vitality. The success of scientific socialism in China is of great significance to Marxism, scientific socialism and world socialism.

The article points out that the flag determines the direction and the road determines the fate. The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China made a major political conclusion that socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era. We must realize that this new era is a new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics, not any other new era. If the party wants to realize its historical mission in the new era in the new historical position, the most fundamental thing is to hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Socialism with Chinese characteristics is becoming the banner of the development of scientific socialism in the 21st century and the mainstay of revitalizing world socialism. Our party has the responsibility, confidence and ability to make greater historical contributions to the new development of scientific socialism.

The article points out that if we do not forget our original ideals and aspirations and bear in mind our mission, we should not forget that we are Communists, we are revolutionaries, and we should not lose our revolutionary spirit. After revolution, construction, and reform, our party has gone from a party that led the people to fight for the seizure of national power to a party that led the people to control national power and was in power for a long time; it has gone from a party that led national construction under the conditions of external blockade and the implementation of a planned economy. Become a party that leads national construction under the conditions of opening up to the outside world and developing a socialist market economy. Our party is a Marxist ruling party, but at the same time it is a Marxist revolutionary party. We must maintain the strength, revolutionary enthusiasm, and desperate spirit of the revolutionary war in the past, and do the revolutionary work to the end.

The article emphasizes that yesterday's success does not mean that the future can be successful forever, and the glory of the past does not mean that the future can be brilliant forever. The times are the examiners, we are the examiners, and the people are the examiners. To achieve the prosperity and long-term stability of the party and the country, all comrades in the party must maintain the revolutionary spirit and revolutionary fighting spirit, and have the courage to continue the great social revolution led by our party and the people. They must not be proud of victory, and must not be slack because of achievements. We must not shrink back because of difficulties, and strive to make socialism with Chinese characteristics show a stronger and more convincing power of truth.

Source: Learning Power Platform