Therefore, stability acts as a common ground where the authorities and the public can find a consensus. Balance will be maintained as long as the Party can solve problems and endeavor to work for the well-being of the people.
Economic pressure is another factor that some observers have cited, especially in the business sphere. Worries about China's economy have existed since the global financial crisis broke out years ago, but China has survived and maintained momentum for global economic recovery.
The CPC has taken economic development as its core mission since the landmark third plenum of its 11th Central Committee more than 30 years ago, when it decided to launch the reform and opening-up drive.
The words of U.S. financier Stephen Schwarzman may serve as a straightforward interpretation of the CPC's core mission.
He said during a forum held in Beijing last month that he believes the current slowdown of the Chinese economy will not continue for long, as the government would not allow that, according to the Century Weekly, a financial and economic magazine.
Hu was applauded on Thursday when he called on the Party to have "every confidence in our path, in our theories and in our system."
He was echoed by Vice President Xi Jinping, who said, when joining panel discussions of Shanghai delegates, that the congress has declared in a simple and explicit manner which banner the CPC will hold, which path it will take, which ideological state it will maintain and which goals it is trying to achieve.
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