General Secretary Xi Jinping’s Series of Important Speeches

Since the 18th CPC National Congress, Xi Jinping, based on the adherance to and development of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the realization of Chinese Dream, that is, to realize the great national rejuvenation, has delivered a series of speeches on reform, development, stability, domestic and foreign affairs, national defense, and governing the Party, country and army. Among them, many creative new ideas, new viewpoints, new judgments and new requirements are put forward. It profoundly answers a series of major theoretical and practical questions about the development of the Party and the state under the new situation, and is the latest theoretical achievement in upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics.

Xi Jinping repeatedly emphasized that the spirit of the 18th National Congress of the CPC , no matter how you put it again and again, boils down to a single sentence: upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics, because socialism with Chinese characteristics does not grow on trees, but is earned by the Party and the people who have gone through all kinds of hardships.This is the judgement of history and the choice of the people. The responsibility of the new central leadership collective is to continue to write down the great article on socialism with Chinese characteristics. The book expounded on “Chinese Dream” of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, which embodies the long-cherished wishes of several generations of Chinese people and the common aspiration of all descendants of Chinese nation.

Xi Jinping pointed out that the goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects would certainly be achieved by the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, and the goal of developing a great modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious, and beautiful be achieved by the 100th anniversary of the founding of New China. The “Two Centenary Goals” constitute the "Chinese Dream" of realizing the great national rejuvenation. He believes that the basic connotation of the Chinese Dream is the country's prosperity, national rejuvenation and people's happiness. It is connected with the beautiful dreams of people all over the world. To realize the Chinese Dream, we must adhere to the Chinese road, carry forward the Chinese spirit, and unite China's strength. Only by doing practical work can our dreams come true. He also pointed out that we were closer to the goal of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and more confident in and capable of achieving this goal than they were at any time in history.

Starting from the overall situation of upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics, General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of important speeches put forward and formed a strategic layout of building a well-off society in an all-round way, comprehensively deepening reforms, comprehensively advancing law-based governance, and comprehensively administering the Party strictly. During his inspection tour in Jiangsu Province in December 2014, Xi Jinping proposed to “coordinate and promote the building of a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, comprehensively deepen reform, comprehensively promote the rule of law, administer the Party strictly in an all-round way, and push reform, opening-up, and socialist modernization to a new level”. For the first time, he put forward the requirements of the four-pronged comprehensive strategy. In January 2015, on a tour of investigation in Yunnan, Xi Jinping proposed “to fully implement the spirit of the 18th CPC National Congress and the Third and 4th Plenary Sessions of the 18th CPC Central Committee, to build a well-off society in an all-round way, comprehensively deepen reforms, comprehensively govern the country according to law, and comprehensively and strictly manage the Party”, and emphasizing the “leading” role of the four-pronged comprehensive strategy in all kinds of work.

On February 2, 2015, in a speech at the opening ceremony of the special seminar for leading cadres at the provincial and ministerial level to study and implement the spirit of the 4th Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, Xi Jinping pointed out that the four-pronged comprehensive strategy was formulated by the Party Center according to the overall situation of upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics. In his speech at the International Labor Day Celebration Meeting on April 28, 2015, Xi Jinping further emphasized that the four-pronged comprehensive strategy provided theoretical guidance and practical guidance for realizing the “Two Centenary Goals” and the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Xi Jinping stressed that in the process of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, in order to overcome the difficulties on the road ahead, we must have the courage to face daunting challenges, grasp the general requirements for comprehensively deepening reforms, promote the modernization of China’s governance system and capacity, and strive to promote reforms in a steadfast way. It is necessary to build a socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics, safeguard social fairness and justice, and attach importance to the application of the thinking and way of the rule of law to ensure that reforms are promoted on the track of the rule of law. Under new circumstances, many severe challenges, especially many problems like corruption, separation from the masses, formalism and bureaucracy that exist among some Party members and cadres, must be solved with great efforts. We must insist in exercising rigorous governance over the Party, show zero tolerance for corruption, and manage the Party, power and officials with the system, so that the Party can always be a strong core of leadership in the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

In order to uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics and realize the Chinese Dream, Xi Jinping emphasized that it is necessary to establish a development concept of innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing, and lead development with new development concepts. We must actively adapt, grasp and lead the new normal of economic development and promote sustained and healthy economic development. It is necessary to develop socialist democratic politics, fully promote the construction of China ruled by law, and give full play to the superiority of China's socialist political system. We must be united around the socialist core values and build a socialist cultural power. We must improve people's livelihood, innovate social governance, and let ordinary people live a good life. We must vigorously promote the construction of ecological civilization and implement the strictest ecological environmental protection system. It is necessary to comprehensively promote national defense and army building, and build a people's army that follows the Party's command, can win battles, and has a good style of work. We must always follow the path of peaceful development, establish a new type of international relations with cooperation and win-win as the core, and build a community of human destiny. We must unswervingly adhere to the common political foundation of the “1992 Consensus”, seek benefits for compatriots on both sides of the strait, and work together to achieve national rejuvenation. It is necessary to learn and master Marxist philosophy and improve the ability of strategic thinking, historical thinking, dialectical thinking, innovative thinking and bottom line thinking.

General Secretary Xi Jinping’s series of important speeches are rich in connotation, profound in thought, and involve reform, development and stability, internal affairs, diplomacy, national defense, administration of the Party, country and army, etc. They have distinct themes, grand goals, strategic layout, overall layout, development philosophy, internal and external guarantees and political guarantees, which constitute a systematic and complete scientific theoretical system with strict logic and profoundly answer a series of major theoretical and practical problems in the cause development of the Party and the state under the new situation.They further deepen the understanding of the ruling law of the Communist Party, the law of socialist construction, and the law of human social development. They are a combination of historical logic, theoretical logic and practical logic of Chinese revolution, construction and reform, as well as the latest achievement of the theoretical system of socialism with Chinese characteristics. They have sublimated the new realm of Marxist development and are a living Marxism that guides the great struggle with many new historical characteristics.