| People's
Daily hails opening of Party Congress (11/07/2002)
China's leading newspaper, the People 's Daily, will run an editorial
Friday hailing the opening of the 16th National Congress of the
Communist Party of China (CPC) in Beijing.
The 16th CPC National Congress will raise its curtain Friday morning
and last for a week through November 14.
The editorial calls the Party Congress, the first for the CPC in
the new century, "a very important congress convened at a time
when China has entered a new development stage of building a society
in an all-round way in which the people can lead a fairly comfortable
life and accelerating the socialist modernization drive".
Despite a rapidly-changing international situation and the test
of various difficulties and dangers, China, guided by the third-
generation central collective leadership of the CPC with Jiang Zemin
at the core, has achieved major progress in all fields in the past
13 years since the Fourth Plenum of the 13th CPC Central Committee,
especially in the five years since the 15th CPC National Congress
was held, says the editorial.
"In the past 13 years, the reform and opening up drive has
achieved historic breakthroughs, our country's overall national
strength has grown remarkably, the great cause of peaceful reunification
of the motherland has made major advancement, the people's life
has taken a historic leap from being adequately fed and dressed
to being fairly well-off, and a brand new situation has emerged
for the cause of building socialism with Chinese characteristics,"
it says.
The editorial says that the thought of "Three Represents"
has provided fundamental answers to vital questions like what kind
of a political party the CPC should become and how to further develop
the CPC in the new domestic and global situation and in the 21st
century which is full of various challenges.
"By firmly and comprehensively implementing the 'Three Represents'
important thought, our Party will be able to always lead the progress
of the times and constantly enhance its creativity, unity and competence,
while our country will be able to always maintain stability and
great vitality," it says.
The editorial finally wishes every success to the Party Congress,
expressing the confidence that the 2,100-strong delegates to the
Congress will "definitely live up to the expectations of the
66 million CPC members and the 1.2 billion Chinese people"
and "make the Congress a united, upward and triumphant meeting".
(xinhua)
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