Only Socialism with Chinese characteristics can liberate and develop productive forces and eliminate polarization. In the final analysis, the twists and turns and mistakes that China experienced before the reform and opening up lie in not fully realizing that to build socialism in a country with backward economy and culture like China, we must regard the liberation and development of productive forces as the fundamental task and essential requirement of socialism. Socialism with Chinese characteristics's road requires that economic construction be the center, giving priority to the development of productive forces, and developing productive forces through reform and opening up. After nearly 30 years of development, China's economic system has achieved a historic transformation from a planned economy system to a socialist market economy system, people's life has generally achieved a historic leap from adequate food and clothing to a well-off society, and the whole country has achieved a historic leap from closed stagnation to vigorous development. Adhering to Socialism with Chinese characteristics means adhering to the essential requirements of socialism and unifying the development of production and prosperity.
Only Socialism with Chinese characteristics can safeguard social fairness and justice and give full play to the enthusiasm, initiative and creativity of all the people. Fairness and justice is the value criterion of socialism, and maintaining and realizing social fairness and justice is the essential requirement of China's socialist system. Maintaining social fairness and justice means safeguarding the rights and interests of all people in politics, economy, culture and society, and giving full play to the historical initiative of all people to create their own happy life and bright future. Socialism with Chinese characteristics is in the primary stage of socialism, and it is a historical process to realize social fairness and justice. Our party has always regarded the maintenance and realization of social fairness and justice as the inevitable requirement of building the party for the public and governing for the people. While promoting development, we should put the maintenance and realization of social fairness and justice in a more prominent position in time, so that all the people can enjoy the fruits of reform and development and make steady progress towards prosperity. Safeguarding and expanding the right to development is an important manifestation of people's interests, and the important purpose of safeguarding and realizing social fairness and justice is to safeguard and expand people's right to development. This will stimulate the development enthusiasm and creativity of the broad masses of the people to the maximum extent, and provide inexhaustible motive force for building Socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Only Socialism with Chinese characteristics can improve itself through reform and innovation, and glow with the vigorous vitality of socialism. Reform is the self-improvement and development of socialism. Its essence and goal is to fundamentally change the economic system that restricts the development of China's productive forces, establish a socialist market economic system full of vitality and vitality, and at the same time reform the political system and other systems accordingly, so as to glow the vitality and superiority of socialism from the institutional mechanism. Reform is also innovation, and innovation includes reform. In the process of advancing the cause of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, our party consciously regards innovation as the soul of national progress, the inexhaustible motive force of national prosperity and the source of political parties' eternal vitality, develops innovative culture, stimulates the innovative spirit of the whole nation, vigorously promotes innovations in theory, system, science and technology and culture, builds an innovative country, and constantly consolidates and develops the cause of Socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Only Socialism with Chinese characteristics can unite the party and people's hearts and safeguard national unity and national unity. In contemporary China, socialist ideals and beliefs have been deeply integrated into party member's world outlook, and socialist values have become the common consciousness of the broad masses. Although the socialist cause has experienced twists and turns and mistakes in China, the development of socialism is still unsatisfactory. However, from the comparison between old and new China, before and after the reform and opening-up, and at home and abroad, the broad masses of party member cadres and masses have deeply realized that China, as the largest developing country in the world with a population of 654.38+0.3 billion, can only ensure social stability and harmony, people live and work in peace and contentment, and long-term stability of the country by unswervingly taking the road of Socialism with Chinese characteristics. Socialism with Chinese characteristics is the wish of the Party and the people, and a banner that unites the whole nation and society.
Only Socialism with Chinese characteristics can realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and stand on its own feet among the nations of the world. During the period of the new-democratic revolution, our party united and led the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country to accomplish the historical task of national independence and people's liberation, which created the premise for realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. After the founding of New China, our party creatively completed the transition from new democracy to socialism and began the historical journey of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on the socialist road. Since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, our Party has found the correct way to build Socialism with Chinese characteristics and given new vitality to national rejuvenation. The grand goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way and creating a new situation in Socialism with Chinese characteristics put forward by the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is a strategic plan to promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The development and prosperity of socialist China will make new and greater contributions to the cause of human progress.
Building Socialism with Chinese characteristics in scientific development and harmony.
Entering the new century and new stage, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Hu Jintao as the general secretary closely focuses on the theme of building Socialism with Chinese characteristics, deeply analyzes the stage characteristics of China's development, scientifically plans the overall layout of Socialism with Chinese characteristics's cause, and puts forward a series of major strategic ideas and tasks such as establishing and implementing Scientific Outlook on Development and building a socialist harmonious society, so as to push forward the cause of Socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Open up the road of scientific development in Socialism with Chinese characteristics. In the process of building a well-off society in an all-round way and accelerating socialist modernization in China, although the economy as a whole has maintained steady and rapid growth, the long-term accumulated structural contradictions and extensive growth patterns have not been fundamentally changed, the bottlenecks in energy, resources, environment and technology have become increasingly prominent, and the pressure to achieve sustainable development has increased. Scientific Outlook on Development profoundly reflects our party's new understanding of development, the new situation of economic, political, cultural and social development in the world today, and the new requirements for China's economic and social development to enter a critical period. To implement Scientific Outlook on Development, we must put economic and social development into a people-oriented, comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable development track to achieve sound and rapid development. Scientific Outlook on Development put forward a series of new ideas such as development path, development mode, development strategy, development motivation, development purpose and development requirements in enriching development connotation, innovating development ideas, opening up development ideas and solving development problems, which revealed the objective laws of China's economic and social development and provided a scientific world outlook and methodology for guiding Socialism with Chinese characteristics's development.
Open up the realm of harmonious development in Socialism with Chinese characteristics. At present, China's urban and rural areas, regions and economic and social development are unbalanced, and there are still a considerable number of poor people and low-income people in urban and rural areas. Employment, medical care, schooling, income distribution, social security, ecological environment protection, safety in production, social security and a series of issues related to the vital interests of the masses need to be solved urgently. It is more difficult to take into account the interests of all parties, and contradictions among the people are frequent. Social construction and management are facing a series of new topics. Under the new situation, our party puts forward that social harmony is the essential attribute of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, defines the position of building a harmonious socialist society in the overall layout of Socialism with Chinese characteristics's cause, and puts the promotion of social harmony in a more prominent position. A harmonious socialist society is a society built and shared by all the people on the road of Socialism with Chinese characteristics and under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC). To build a harmonious socialist society is not to deny social contradictions, but to face social contradictions more actively, resolve social contradictions more timely and effectively, maximize harmonious factors, minimize disharmonious factors, and promote the harmonious development of Socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Maintain Socialism with Chinese characteristics's peaceful development environment. The development of world multipolarization and economic globalization has brought opportunities to world peace and development, but the unstable and uncertain factors affecting peace and development are also increasing, and traditional and non-traditional security threats are intertwined. Creating a good external environment is an urgent need to build a well-off society in an all-round way and a harmonious socialist society. China holds high the banner of peace, development and cooperation, unswervingly follows the path of peaceful development, and actively strives for a peaceful and stable international environment, a good-neighborly and friendly surrounding environment, an equal and mutually beneficial cooperation environment, a safe environment of mutual trust and cooperation, and an objective and friendly public opinion environment. It not only makes full use of the opportunities brought by world peace and development, but also better safeguards world peace and promotes common development through its own development.