Socialism with Chinese Characteristics Enters a New Era

Socialism with Chinese Characteristics Enters a New Era

The Scientific Connotation of the New Era

After long-term efforts, socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, marking a new historical position for China's development.

This new era is an era of building on past achievements and continuing to advance, an era of continuing to win great victories for socialism with Chinese characteristics under new historical conditions. It is an era of decisive victories in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and then advancing to build a strong socialist modernized country. It is an era where people of all ethnic groups in China unite and strive to create a better life and gradually achieve common prosperity for all. It is an era where all Chinese people work together with one heart and one mind to realize the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. It is an era in which China continues to make greater contributions to humanity.

The entry of socialism with Chinese characteristics into a new era means that the Chinese nation, which has endured many hardships since modern times, has achieved a great leap from standing up, becoming prosperous, to growing strong, and has ushered in a bright prospect for realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. It also means that scientific socialism has regained vitality in 21st-century China, raising high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the world. It signifies that the path, theory, system, and culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics are continuously developing, expanding the path to modernization for developing countries, providing new options for countries and nations that want to accelerate development while maintaining their independence, and contributing Chinese wisdom and solutions to solving global problems.

The Principal Contradiction in Chinese Society in the New Era

Since the reform and opening-up, the Party has led the people of all ethnic groups across the country in tireless efforts, successfully addressing the issue of providing basic needs for over a billion people. The people's need for a better life has become increasingly broad, the overall level of social productivity has significantly improved, and in many areas, China's productive capacity ranks among the top in the world. At the same time, imbalanced and inadequate development has become the main constraint on meeting the people's growing needs for a better life. The 19th National Congress of the CPC proposed that with the entry of socialism with Chinese characteristics into a new era, the principal contradiction in Chinese society has evolved into the contradiction between unbalanced and inadequate development and the people's ever-growing needs for a better life.

The change in the principal contradiction in Chinese society has not altered our judgment of the historical stage of socialism in China. The basic national condition that China is still in and will long remain in the primary stage of socialism has not changed, and China's international status as the world's largest developing country has not changed. We must firmly grasp the basic national condition of the primary stage of socialism, firmly base ourselves on this most fundamental reality, and consistently adhere to the Party's basic line, which is the lifeline of the Party and the country and the line that brings happiness to the people.

The CPC's basic line during the primary stage of socialism is to lead and unite the people of all ethnic groups across the country, taking economic development as the central task, adhering to the Four Cardinal Principles, upholding the policy of reform and opening-up, relying on our own efforts, and working hard to build China into a prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious, and beautiful socialist modernized country.

Persisting in and Developing Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era

Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era is both the result of the CPC leading the people in a great social revolution and the continuation of this great social revolution. We must carry it forward consistently.

Upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics is a noble cause that requires one generation of Chinese Communists after another to lead the people in continuous struggle. The task of contemporary Chinese Communists is to carry forward this great social revolution of upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. In practice, we must continually enrich the practical, theoretical, national, and era-specific characteristics of socialism with Chinese characteristics and continue to advance the cause of the Party and the country under new historical conditions.

The new era is an era for strivers. The new era belongs to everyone; each person is a witness, creator, and builder of the new era. Today, we have achieved a great leap from "keeping up with the times" to "leading the times." We must stay true to our original aspiration, keep our mission firmly in mind, maintain a spirit of relentless pursuit and an attitude of unwavering effort, consistently uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics, consistently advance the Party's new great project of building socialism, consistently strengthen our awareness of potential dangers, and prevent and overcome risks and challenges. We must open up new prospects in the great social revolution, strengthen ourselves in the great self-revolution, and continue to write new chapters in the history of the great struggle of more than 1.4 billion Chinese people across this vast land.