Historical Mission of the Party in the New Era

National rejuvenation has been the greatest dream of the Chinese people since modern times began and the historical mission shouldered by the Party since it was founded. The 19th CPC National Congress held in October 2017 clearly pointed out that socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era and the Chinese nation has stood at a new historic starting point. The report of the 19th CPC National Congress pointed out that: today, we are closer, more confident, and more capable than ever before of making the goal of national rejuvenation a reality.

In this critical period, all the Party members must be prepared to work even harder toward this goal. The whole Party must carry out our great struggle, build our great program and advance our great cause closely around the realization of our great dream. To realize our great dream, we must carry out our great struggle. To unite and lead the people to effectively respond to major challenges, withstand major risks, overcome major obstacles, and address major conflicts, we must undertake a great struggle with many new contemporary features. All thinking and behavior in the vein of pleasure seeking, inaction and sloth, and problem avoidance are unacceptable. The whole Party must fully realize that the great struggle is a long-term, complex and arduous task, and must carry forward the struggle spirit and improve the capability of struggle to constantly win new victories in the great struggle. To realize our great dream, we must further promote the great new Party-building program. Without the leadership of the Party, national rejuvenation will inevitably be a fantasy.

The whole Party must more consciously uphold the values and principles of the Party, be brave in facing problems, dare to scrape the poison off the bone, eliminate all factors that damage the Party's advancement and purity, remove all viruses eroding the Party, and continuously enhance the Party's political leadership, ideological leadership, mass organization and social appeal to ensure that the Party will always maintain strong vitality and strong combat effectiveness. To realize our great dream, we must advance the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

Socialism with Chinese characteristics is the theme of all theories and practices of the Party since the Reform and Opening-up and the fundamental achievement that the Party and the people have made at the cost of countless hardships and enormous sacrifices. The socialist road with Chinese characteristics is the only way to realize socialist modernization and create a better life for the people. The theoretical system of socialism with Chinese characteristics is the correct theory to guide the Party and people to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The socialist system with Chinese characteristics is the fundamental institutional guarantee for the development and progress of contemporary China. Socialist culture with Chinese characteristics is a powerful spiritual force to inspire the whole Party and people of all nationalities to forge ahead bravely.

The whole Party must have firm confidence in the path, theories, system, and culture of Chinese socialism. We will not take the old path of a rigid closed-door policy, nor an erroneous path by abandoning socialism. We must maintain our political orientation, do the good solid work that sees our country thrive, and continue to uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics. The great struggle, great program, great cause, and great dream are closely connected, flow seamlessly into each other, and are mutually reinforcing. Among them, the great new Party-building program plays the decisive role. All work to advance the great program must go hand in hand with that geared toward the struggle, the cause, and the dream. We must see that as history progresses and the world undergoes profound changes, the Party remains always ahead of the times; that as history progresses and we respond to risks and tests at home and abroad, the Party remains always the backbone of the nation; and that as history progresses and we continue to uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics, the Party remains always a powerful leadership core. The 19th CPC National Congress put forward the great struggle, great program, great cause and great dream as a whole, and gave a profound answer to the major theoretical and practical issues of what is the historic mission of the Party in the new era and how to realize the historic mission of the Party in the new era. Based on this, the Party has a further understanding of its own historic mission.