Looking back on the eve of the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, our country is facing a very difficult situation: ten years of civil strife has caused extremely serious trauma to the party and the country, and the national economy is on the verge of collapse. At the same time, the new scientific and technological revolution is booming around the world, and the modernization development of all countries in the world is competing in Qian Fan, while China lags behind the trend of the times.
Taking the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party as an opportunity, our party led the people to embark on a new journey of reform and opening up without hesitation, and at the same time began new exploration and new thinking on what socialism is and how to build it. In his opening speech at the 12th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Comrade Deng Xiaoping emphasized: "Combining the universal truth of Marxism with China's specific reality, taking our own road and building socialism with China characteristics is the basic conclusion we have drawn from long-term historical experience." This is the first time that our Party has clearly put forward the proposition of "building socialism with China characteristics". Over the past 30 years of reform and opening up, the development of China, all theoretical innovations and practical activities of our party have been carried out around such a distinctive theme. This is an extremely vivid and dialectical development process of the unity of theory and practice, and it is also a process of theoretical innovation and practical innovation. It is such a historical process that has profoundly changed the outlook of the people in China, the outlook of socialist China and the outlook of the * * * production party in China. Socialism and Marxism are full of vitality on the land of China, China has made great strides to catch up with the trend of the times, 654.38+0.3 billion China people have steadily embarked on the road of prosperity and well-being, and the brilliant dawn of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation shines on the eastern horizon.
Over the past 30 years, China's development achievements have been presented to the world like a winding, magnificent, vibrant and colorful picture scroll. China's comprehensive national strength has been greatly improved. In 2008, China's GDP exceeded 30 trillion yuan, ranking third in the world, up seven places from the world 1978 10, and the proportion of China's total economic output in the world increased from 1978 to nearly 6% in 2007. In the past 30 years, GDP has grown at an average annual rate of 9.8%, which is more than three times faster than the average growth rate of 3.0% in the world economy. According to the standards of the World Bank, China has jumped from a low-income country to the ranks of lower-middle-income countries in the world. We not only created the "China Miracle" that attracted worldwide attention in economic construction, but also made great progress in political construction, cultural construction, social construction, ecological civilization construction and party building. Our comprehensive national strength has been significantly enhanced and our international status has been continuously improved. Socialist China stands in the east of the world with unprecedented grandeur.
After the 1990s, the socialist movement fell into a low tide in the world. Some socialist countries have changed their names one after another, believing that after a short "shock", they can recover their vitality and get a new life. But this is not the case, and some of them are still difficult to get out of the trough. Facts have proved that the "neo-liberalism" of capitalism is not a good way to save the world. "Neo-liberalism" has not only hurt countries and regions such as Asia, Latin America, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, but even vendors themselves have reaped the consequences. At present, the international financial crisis triggered by the American subprime mortgage crisis has exposed the inherent drawbacks of the capitalist system. Socialism with Chinese characteristics, on the other hand, is a unique landscape, showing great vitality and attracting more and more people's attention. In recent years, foreign media and academic circles have had heated discussions about "Beijing Knowledge", "China Model" or "China Experience" and "China Development Road". China has had and will continue to have a significant and far-reaching impact on maintaining world peace, promoting development and promoting the progress of human civilization.
History and reality irrefutably prove that Socialism with Chinese characteristics is a historic choice made by the people of China in the new great practice, a road of light, good fortune and hope, and the only way to realize national rejuvenation, national prosperity, people's happiness and social harmony. We found the right way, and we are on the right path! Finding this road is the great fortune of the country and the blessing of the people. In contemporary China, only the great banner of Socialism with Chinese characteristics and no other banner can unite and condense the wisdom and strength of different social classes and groups to the greatest extent. Only Socialism with Chinese characteristics Road can lead the Chinese nation to achieve great rejuvenation. Only Socialism with Chinese characteristics Theory System can lead the development and progress of China.