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Strengthening and Improving Party Building in Line with Requirements of 'Three Represents'
Marked by Comrade Jiang Zemin's important speech made on July 1, the self-construction of the Communist Party of China (CPC) with a glorious history of 80 years has entered a new stage of development.
Strengthening and improving Party building in compliance with the requirements of the "three represents" is the main theme of Comrade Jiang Zemin's speech made on "July 1". This Speech is a programmatic document of Marxism, this "program" is the "three represents" (representing the requirement to develop advanced productive forces, an orientation toward advanced culture and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people in China), this "program" is a guide to action in comprehensively pushing Party building forward and proceeding to carry on various items of work of the Party under new historical conditions.
Reviewing the course of struggle traversed and the basic experiences gained by our Party over the past 80 years shows that they can be summed up as our persistent practice of the "three represents". Looking forward to the arduous tasks and bright future in the new century requires that the Party continue to stand in the van of the times to lead the people forward, the most fundamental thing still is to persistently carry out the "three represents". The important thought of the "three represents" originates from the entire history of the Party, seriously faces up to the future of the Party and explicitly sets a series of major new requirements for strengthening the self-construction of the Party and fundamentally answers the basic question regarding what kind of a party is to be build and how to build the party under new historical conditions, thus providing a new theoretical basis and opening up a new realm of thought for us to further solve the two major historical subjects regarding enhancing the ruling capability and leading level that faces the Party, and improving the ability to repel corrupting influence and guard against degeneration and resist risks.
Our Party is the vanguard of the working class, the advanced nature of the Party embodies all the life and strength of the Party. The basic aim of strengthening and improving Party building is to consistently maintain the advanced nature of the Party, which is eventually expressed in the role of the Party leading the people in pushing history forward. The important thinking of the "three represents", following the basic theory of dialectical materialism and historical materialism, places the question concerning maintenance of the advanced nature of the Party on the most fundamental issue that affects social progress of modern China, that is, on considering the issue from the perspective of the development of advanced productive forces and advanced culture and the requirement of the fundamental interests of the broad masses of the people. And centered closely around the Party's historical tasks of building socialism with Chinese characteristics and from the five aspects of (1) adhering to the Party's ideological line featuring the emancipation of the mind and seeking truth from facts, (2) maintaining the advanced nature of the Party being the vanguard of the working class and expanding the mass foundation of the Party, (3) upholding the Party's democratic centralism, (4) adhering to the guideline for the ranks of cadres being more revolutionary, better educated, younger in average age and more professionally competent and to the principle of cadres having both ability and political integrity, and (5) upholding the principle for the Party to govern the Party and enforce strict administration of the Party, the important thinking of the "three represents" clearly sets the various tasks and basic requirements for Party building, thus giving a profound answer to the question regarding the fundamental significance of pushing forward the great project of Party building. At the same time, it fully shows that after 80 years of painstaking exploration and great practice, our Party has acquired a deeper understanding of the Marxist doctrine on political party; a more scientific knowledge about the law governing the construction of the working class' political party; it demonstrates that our Party understands, strengthens and improves itself from a new historical height, and reflects that Party building has entered a new stage of development.
To strengthen and improve Party building in line with the requirements of the "three represents", we must study the various practical problems facing Party construction in the spirit of reform and innovation, carry it out in various items of practical work relating to Party building. The Communist Party members in general, particularly the Party's leading cadres at various levels, should first study and comprehend the profound contents of the important thinking of the "three represents" and its major significance to Party building and further enhance their consciousness and firmness in carrying out this important thinking. Party organizations at all levels should, in line with the requirements of the "three represents", comprehensively examine the various pieces of work relating to Party building, actively explore effective ways and methods for strengthening and improving Party building. Any work conforming to the requirements of the "three represents" should be unswervingly carried on, any work that is inconsistent with the requirements of the "three represents" should be realistically corrected. When we persevere in strengthening and improving Party building in compliance with the requirements of the "three represents", our Party will be able to always advance in the van of the times in the historical process of the profound change in the world situation, and always become the mainstay of the people of the whole country in the historical process of withstanding the tests of various domestic and foreign risks, and always become the core of staunch leadership in the historical process of building socialism with Chinese characteristics.
The key to running China's own affairs well lies in the Party. In a large, multi-ethnic developing country such as China, to pool the strength and wisdom of more than 1.2 billion people and advance victoriously toward our goal of socialist modernization, there must be the staunch leadership of the Communist Party of China. When we strengthen and improve Party building in line with the requirements of the "three represents", our Party will certainly be able to carry on the glorious tradition and be better able to shoulder the people's hopes and heavy historical tasks.
This article is written by People's Daily commentator on the study and implementation of Comrade Jiang Zemin's important speech given on July 1 in celebration of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the CPC.
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