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Jiang Zemin's speech on Party's 80th anniversary
(part IV)
(07/01/2001)
Strengthening socialist ideological and ethical building constitutes
the essential content of and a key link in developing China's advanced
culture. We must be aware that people will lack common objective
of struggle and reject the accepted code of conduct if we only stress
material gains and money to the neglect of ideals and morality.
We should combine the rule of law with the rule of virtue in order
to build a lofty ideological and ethical foundation for maintaining
a good public order and practice.
We should advocate the ideology of patriotism, collectivism and
socialism among all people, combat and resist money worship, hedonism,
ultra-egoism and other decadent ideas, enhance the Chinese people's
national self-esteem, self-confidence, and the sense of pride, and
stimulate them to make unremitting efforts for the rejuvenation
of the Chinese nation.
The socialist culture has become dominant in China. Because of the
past and present reasons, however, there still exist some backward
cultures in society that have features of superstition, ignorance,
decadence and vulgarity, and even exist some decadent cultures that
corrode people's mental world and jeopardize the socialist cause.
We should remold the backward cultures, prevent and resolutely resist
the corrosion to people by decadent cultures and various erroneous
ideological concepts, and gradually reduce and root out the soil
on which they rely to breed, through improving our policy and system,
strengthening education and management, and transforming social
traditions.
In developing the socialist culture, we must carry on and develop
all the fine cultures, fully reflect the spirit of the times and
creativity, and have the world perspective in a bid to enhance our
inspiring capacity. We should make positive efforts to inherit and
develop the fine cultural traditions of the Chinese nation, the
revolutionary cultural traditions formed among the Party and people
since the May 4th Movement (1919), as well as all the advanced civilization
achievements mankind has ever created. With regard to the rich cultural
legacies left over from China's history of several thousand years,
we should select the essence and discard the dross therefrom, and
carry forward and develop them in line with the spirit of the times
in order to make the past serve the present.
At the same time, we must, in line with new practices and requirements
of the times and by taking account of the needs for cultural life
of the people, promote cultural innovations, flourish the advanced
culture and attract hundreds of millions of people to rally closely
around the great banner of the socialist culture with Chinese characteristics.
To always represent the fundamental interests of the overwhelming
majority of the Chinese people, our Party must, in all kinds of
work including Party's theory, line, program, principle and policy,
persevere in taking the fundamental interests of the people as the
starting point and purpose, bring into full play people's enthusiasm,
initiative and creativity, and enable the people to constantly obtain
tangible economic, political and cultural benefits through continuous
social development and progress.
The fundamental difference between our Party and all other political
parties of exploiting classes lies in the fact that the former serves
the people heart and soul, works for the public and assumes power
for the people. At any time, we must continue to uphold the congruity
between respecting the law of social development and respecting
the people's status as the principal part in history, the agreement
between striving for the lofty ideals and for the fundamental interests
of the overwhelming majority of the people, and the agreement between
fulfilling the Party's various tasks and realizing the people's
interests.
All the endeavors our Party has done over the past 80 years are,
in the final analysis, aimed at the interests of the overwhelming
majority of the people. During the revolutionary wartime, our Party
called on all its members to fight bravely and fear no sacrifice,
and advance wave upon wave for the victory of revolution. After
new China was founded, the Party exhorted all its members to remain
modest and prudent, guard against conceit and impetuosity, and retain
the revolutionary spirit of arduous struggle for good. In the new
era, the Party demands that all its comrades be able to withstand
the test of reform, opening-up and being in power, lead the people
to work assiduously for the realization of socialist modernization.
All this is aimed at continuously accomplishing, safeguarding and
developing the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority
of the people through always maintaining the Party's blood-and-flesh
contacts with the people.
The general interests of the people are always composed of specific
interests of different circles. All of our policies, measures and
work should correctly reflect the relationships of various interests
and help properly handle them, and we should take into consideration
and look after the interests of the people from different social
strata and circles. However, what is the most important is to give
top priority to and satisfy the interests and demands of the overwhelming
majority of the people.
This has always been vital to the overall interests of keeping the
Party in power, the country's economic, political and cultural development,
and the unity among the people of different ethnic groups and social
stability. The interests of the overwhelming majority of the people
are the vital and most decisive factor. This is a fundamental viewpoint
of Marxism and leading organs and cadres at different levels must
fully realize and earnestly practice it.
Our party has always adhered to the principle of putting the interests
of the people above everything else. Apart from the interests of
the overwhelming majority of the people, the Party does not have
any special interests of its own. All the Party's work must take
the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people
as the supreme criteria. All comrades in the Party should always
uphold the basic viewpoint that they should do everything for the
people and by relying on the people.
We should adhere to the mass line of the Party by going down to
the people at the grass-roots level to hear their voices, reflect
their will and pool their wisdom, so that make all policy decisions
thus made and our work conform to the reality and the demands of
the masses. All cadres who are Party members must properly assume
and exercise the power truly on behalf of the people, and in no
way should they be allowed to abuse power for personal gains or
form any vested interest groups. In gradually realizing the common
prosperity of the people across the country, cadres who are Party
members must correctly handle the relationships between becoming
well-off early and late, and between individual and common prosperity.
All leading Party cadres should be the first to concern about the
country and the people and the last to enjoy life; be the first
to bear hardships and the last to enjoy themselves; support and
help others first instead of only thinking about how to get rich
themselves, let alone seeking unlawful interests by abusing power.
Leading cadres at all levels should always keep in mind the safety
and well-being of the masses, show concern for the sufferings of
the masses, and try hard to do useful and good things for the masses.
Leading organs and leading cadres at all levels should pay particular
attention to those who have encountered temporary difficulties in
their work and life, and make proper arrangements for their employment
and life by listing their problems on the top of the agenda for
special consideration and solution. Only by making substantial efforts
to take care of and serve the masses well, can we maintain the blood-and-flesh
links with the people and remain invincible.
Representing the requirements of the development trend of China
's advanced productive forces, representing the orientation of China's
advanced culture and representing the fundamental interests of the
overwhelming majority of the Chinese people are interrelated and
interact and constitute an integral whole. To develop advanced productive
forces is a basic condition for developing advanced culture and
realizing the fundamental interests of the people. The people are
the main body to create advanced productive forces and culture as
well as the fundamental force to realize their own interests.
To ceaselessly develop advanced productive forces and culture is,
in the final analysis, aimed at meeting the growing material and
cultural needs of the people and continuously realizing the fundamental
interests of the people.
The requirements of the "Three Represent's" are the basic
requirements for our Party to maintain its advanced nature and always
remain the strong leading core in building socialism with Chinese
characteristics. It is in conformity with the Party's upholding
of Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory,
adherence to its nature of being the vanguard of the working class,
and its purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly. All comrades
in the Party must unswervingly implement the requirements of the
"Three Represent's" in all aspects of the Party building
and in the entire process of the Party leading the people in the
reform, opening-up and modernization drive.
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