President
Jiang makes important speech in Party school (05/31/2002)
Jiang Zemin, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Chinese
Communist Party, said Friday that China has entered a new development
era of building an overall well-to-do society, in which the country
should accelerate the pace of socialist modernization.
Jiang made the important speech at the graduation ceremony of the
Party School of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.
He said that in this new era, all CPC members and people from all
works of life should devote themselves to the cause of building
the socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Perfection of Socialist Ownership
Jiang Zemin said it is basic to the socialist economic system to
have public ownership as the core, developing together with various
kinds of ownership.
Within this system, China will be able to gradually eliminate the
impediments to the development of productivity, generated from an
irrational ownership structure, he said.
He said CPC has arrived at this economic system through a long
period of building socialism, and will stick to it.
Jiang urged the Chinese people to deepen their understanding ofthis
economic system and perfect it through practice. This will bedone
according to the requirements of liberating and developing productivity,
he said.
Socialist Democracy is an Important Objective
Promoting socialist democratic politics is an important objective
of China's socialist modernization drive, Jiang said at the graduation
ceremony of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee.
Jiang said while continuing to adhere to the Four Cardinal Principles,
reform of the political system must continue to be pushed forward
actively and appropriately in line with requirements of economic
and social developments.
He said an important objective of this reform is to develop socialist
democracy with Chinese characteristics, which will help to consolidate
today's democratic, united, dynamic, stable and harmonious political
atmosphere.
He said in pushing forward reform of the political system, China
must proceed from its own conditions and unswervingly stick to its
own political road.
He pointed out that what China needs is socialist democratic politics
with Chinese characteristics. And China will never copy the Western
political systems.
The Four Cardinal Principles mentioned in Jiang's speech are: adherence
to the socialist road, the people's democratic dictatorship, Marxism-Leninism
and Mao Zedong Thought, and the leading role of the Communist Party
of China.
Acceleration of Socialist Modernization
The Chinese top leader said China needs new ideas and breakthroughs
in the fields of reform and opening-up, so as to improve the national
economic scale and the overall national strength.
Jiang said China has entered a new development era of building
an overall well-to-do society.
Jiang said in this new era China should upgrade its economic efficiency,
rely on scientific and technological advances, and improve its management
and supervision to ensure the quality of economic growth.
He also stressed the importance of the implementation of a sustainable
development strategy, urging the country to make efficient and rational
use of natural resources and strengthen environmental and ecological
protection and construction.
Jiang also placed importance on balanced regional development and
balanced urban and rural development.
From the historical perspective, China must seize opportunities
and make accomplishments in the favorable strategic circumstances
in the first one or two decades in this century, he said.
China's present social conditions make it ready for an accelerated
pace of socialist modernization development, Jiang said, calling
on the whole Party to unite the whole people of all nationalities
to seize the opportunity, deepen the reform and opening-up measures,
boost development and maintain stability.
Emancipation of the Mind
Jiang called on the whole party to adhere to the ideological guideline
of emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts, and upholds
the spirit of marching in step with the time.
Jiang said this ideological guideline decides the progressive nature
of the Party's ruling stand, adding that the future of the country
depends on whether the Party can adhere to it.
He said the whole Party should keep in mind the profound changes
that have taken place in the world's political, economic, cultural
and technological spheres since the publication of the "Manifesto
of the Communist Party" written by Karl Marx and F. Engels
some 150 years ago, as well as the fundamental changes in China's
socialist construction, in people's working and life conditions
and in social environment, so as to make correct judgments on how
the changes challenge the work of the Party.
He said it is wrong and harmful to negate the scientific nature
of Marxism and deny the achievements of the forerunners of socialism.
But he also emphasized that the CPC must develop Marxism and apply
it to practice.
The Party's nature can only be tested through history, to see whether
it can develop advanced productivity and culture, and safeguard
the basic interests of the people, Jiang said, adding that these
are the two preconditions representing the wishes of the people
and the essence of the cause of the building of socialism.
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