Chinese Communist Party Evaluates 100 Year History Full Document
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We are very pleased to publish here the full text of the Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the Major Achievements and Historical Experience of the Party over the Past Century, which was adopted at the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on 11 November 2021.
It is a very long document but it needs to be carefully read by anyone with a serious interest in socialism in general and in China and in Marxism and indeed, considering the vital and increasing importance of China in the world, in the future prospects of humanity.
In the last 100 years, this is only the third such resolution adopted by the CPC. The first, adopted in 1945, affirmed the correctness of Mao Zedong’s strategic line for the victory of the Chinese revolution and clearly established Mao Zedong Thought, along with Marxism-Leninism, as the guiding ideology of the CPC.
The second, adopted in 1981, while affirming Chairman Mao as a great proletarian revolutionary, sharply criticised the mistaken policies that led to the Cultural Revolution; formulated the theory of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics; and stressed the centrality of Reform and Opening Up to the building of China into a moderately prosperous nation.
The present resolution builds on these two historic documents to outline the contributions made by Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and especially Xi Jinping to the further consolidation of socialist positions in China. It further elucidates China’s place and role in the world and the vital importance of Marxism, to which Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is both an application to the concrete conditions of China and a development in the 21st Century.
The resolution is justly proud of the achievements of the Chinese party and people, which are among the greatest, if not the greatest, in human history. Yet, contrary to the usual facile coverage in the Western media, it is far from a self-congratulatory collection of platitudes. It is sober, modest, concrete and, where appropriate, selfcritical. As such it is a model of a Marxist, historical materialist document.
Document Writing Plan
Introduction I. The Great Victory of the New Democratic Revolution
II. Socialist Revolution and Socialist Construction
III. Reform, Expansion and Socialist Modernization
IV. The New Era of China-Specific Socialism (2012-
IV. 1 Keeping the Party’s Holistic Leadership High
2. Implement Full and Strong Self-Governance
3. Effort for Ekenomic Development
4. Deepening Reform and Opening Up
5. Making Political Work Competent
6. Comprehensively Enhancing Law-Based Governance
7. Enhancing Cultural Development
8. Promoting Social Development
9. Further Accelerating Ecological Development
10. Strengthening National Defense and Armed Forces
11. Defending National Security
12. Upholding the One Country Two Systems Policy and Promoting National Reunification 13. Further Strengthening Diplomatic Work Article V. Historical Significance of the Efforts of the Past 100 Years Article VI. Historical Experience of the Efforts of the Past 100 Years Article VII. CPC in the New Era
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