Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 28 th: The head of the Secretariat of The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China answered the Xinhua News Agency reporter’s question on the Constitution of the Communist Party of China (Amendment) adopted by the 19 th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
Xinhua news agency reporter
On October 24th, 2017, The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China passed the Constitution of the Communist Party of China (Amendment), and Xinhua News Agency interviewed the head of the Secretariat of the 19th CPC National Congress.
Q: Please talk about why the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China revised party constitution.
A: It is a practice of our Party that the National Congress of the Party revises party constitution according to the theoretical and practical innovations of the Party. The current party constitution was revised and formulated at the 12th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. According to the development and changes of the situation and tasks, party constitution has been revised to varying degrees from the 13th to 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has adhered to the guidance of Marxism–Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, Theory of Three Represents and Scientific Outlook on Development, complied with the development of the times, concentrated the wisdom of the whole party, vigorously promoted theoretical innovation, created the new era Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader, and opened up a new realm of Marxism in China and Socialism with Chinese characteristics. Under the guidance of the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the New Era, the Communist Party of China (CPC) led the people of all ethnic groups in China, took charge of great struggles, great projects, great undertakings and great dreams, and pushed Socialism with Chinese characteristics into a new era. The theoretical and practical significance of the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era is increasingly apparent, and it has been widely recognized and supported by the whole party and people of all ethnic groups throughout the country, and the time and conditions are ripe to be included in the Party’s guiding ideology.
In the past five years, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has scientifically grasped the development trend of the world and contemporary China, complied with the practical requirements and people’s wishes, persisted in leading economic development with new development concepts, made overall plans to promote the "five in one" overall layout, coordinated and promoted the "four comprehensive" strategic layout, put forward a series of new ideas, new ideas and new strategies, promulgated a series of major principles and policies, launched a series of major initiatives and promoted a series of major work. It has solved many difficult problems that have been solved for a long time but have not been solved, and has made many major events that were tried but not done in the past, and promoted historic achievements and changes in the cause of the party and the state. At the same time, we must persist in the ideological party building and the institutional party management, unswervingly push forward the comprehensive and strict party management, focus on solving the outstanding problems that are most strongly reflected by the people and pose the greatest threat to the party’s ruling foundation, and form an overwhelming situation in the anti-corruption struggle. The political life within the party has been updated, the political ecology within the party has improved significantly, the party’s ability of self-purification, self-improvement, self-innovation and self-improvement has been significantly improved, and the social foundation and mass foundation of the party’s ruling have been further consolidated.
Therefore, in soliciting opinions, everyone unanimously suggested that party constitution should be appropriately revised, that Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era should be established as the Party’s guiding ideology together with Marxism–Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, Theory of Three Represents and Scientific Outlook on Development, and written into party constitution, that the authority of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Supreme Leader as the core and centralized and unified leadership should be firmly safeguarded, and that a series of major innovations and effective successful experiences of the CPC Central Committee in promoting the comprehensive and strict administration of the Party since the 18th CPC National Congress should be written into the Party Constitution. It can be said that the revision of party constitution is an objective need to realize the Party’s guiding ideology to keep pace with the times, an inevitable requirement to promote the development of the cause of the Party and the country in the new era, a strategic measure to promote the new great project of Party building, and a realistic need to implement the spirit of the 19th Party Congress.
Standing at the height of history and times, the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, according to the changes in the international situation and the new features of domestic economic and social development, clarified the major policies and strategic arrangements for the work of the Party and the state in the coming period, and put forward a series of new important ideas, important viewpoints, major conclusions and major initiatives. Reflecting the important contents of the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in party constitution is conducive to better combining the study of party constitution with the study of the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and solidly promoting the study, understanding and implementation of the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
According to historical experience and practical requirements, the CPC Central Committee decided to make only appropriate revisions to party constitution this time, and determined the principles of revision: adhere to the guidance of Marxism–Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, Theory of Three Represents and Scientific Outlook on Development, thoroughly implement the spirit of the series of important speeches by the Supreme Leader General Secretary and the new ideas, new ideas and new strategies for governing the country, and write the major theoretical viewpoints and major strategic ideas established in the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China into party constitution; Persist in carrying forward inner-party democracy and concentrate the wisdom of the whole party; To maintain the overall stability of party constitution, we should only revise those contents that must be changed and have reached consensus within the Party, and strive to make the revised party constitution fully reflect the latest achievements of Marxism in China, a series of major strategic ideas put forward by the CPC Central Committee since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and the fresh experience of the Party’s work and party building, so as to meet the new requirements of the new situation and new tasks for the Party’s work and party building.
Q: What are the characteristics of this revision of party constitution?
A: Persisting in developing inner-party democracy and concentrating the wisdom of the whole party is an important principle set by the CPC Central Committee for the revision of party constitution, and it is also a distinctive feature of the revision of party constitution. After the preparations for the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China began, in the process of soliciting opinions from various regions and departments on the topics of the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, many localities and departments suggested that the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China should make appropriate amendments to party constitution according to the new requirements put forward by the Party’s practical development and theoretical innovation, the development and changes of the situation and tasks, and the promotion of the Party’s cause and the strengthening of Party building. The Political Bureau of the Central Committee carefully studied this proposal, made a decision to make appropriate amendments to party constitution, and set up a revision team in party constitution. After the revision of party constitution started, the CPC Central Committee issued a notice to solicit opinions from various regions and departments on the revision of party constitution. On the basis of careful study of opinions and suggestions from all sides, party constitution Revision Team put forward party constitution Revision Plan. The Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) Conference and Politburo meeting of the Chinese Communist Party successively deliberated party constitution’s revised plan, forming a draft of party constitution’s amendment for comments. After that, the CPC Central Committee issued the draft of party constitution Amendment for comments to various departments in various regions and representatives of the 18th and 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China for comments. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader attached great importance to and guided party constitution’s revision work throughout the process, personally presided over six symposiums, and listened to the opinions and suggestions of the main responsible comrades of various provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, major units of the People’s Liberation Army and various departments of the Central Military Commission on the revision of the party constitution amendment. According to the feedback from all sides, the party constitution Revision Group has carefully revised the draft of the party constitution Amendment.After being deliberated again by The Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) Conference and Politburo meeting of the Chinese Communist Party, it was submitted to the Seventh Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee for adoption, forming the party constitution Amendment submitted to the 19th CPC National Congress for deliberation. During the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, all the delegates held serious discussions and put forward some suggestions for revision. The party constitution Amendment Group synthesized these opinions and formed the voting draft of the party constitution Amendment Conference. On October 24th, the plenary session of the General Assembly unanimously adopted the party constitution amendment. It can be seen that the revision of party constitution has solicited opinions from all sides, concentrated the wisdom of the whole party, condensed the consensus of the whole party, and embodied the will of the whole party. It is a vivid practice for the CPC Central Committee to fully carry forward inner-party democracy.
Q: How to understand the great significance of the party constitution Amendment in establishing the Supreme Leader’s New Era Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought as the Party’s guiding ideology?
A: The party constitution Amendment stipulates that the Communist Party of China (CPC) should take Marxism–Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, Theory of Three Represents, Scientific Outlook on Development and the Supreme Leader’s Thought of Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the New Era as his guide to action. Establishing the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the New Era as the Party’s guiding ideology and writing it on the Party’s banner is the biggest highlight and the most prominent historical contribution of party constitution’s revision.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader, with extraordinary political wisdom, tenacious will and strong responsibility, has united and led the whole party and people of all ethnic groups throughout the country to carry out great struggles with many new historical characteristics, promoted the overall layout of the "five in one" as a whole, coordinated and promoted the "four comprehensive" strategic layout, made historic achievements in reform, opening up and socialist modernization, pushed the cause of the party and the state to open up a new situation in an all-round way and made historic changes, and won high praise and heartfelt love from the whole party, army and people of all ethnic groups throughout the country. In the practice of leading the whole party and the whole country to advance the cause of the party and the state, the Supreme Leader General Secretary put forward a series of groundbreaking new ideas, ideas and strategies with the profound insight, keen judgment and strategic determination of Marxist politicians, theorists and strategists, which played a decisive role and made a decisive contribution to the establishment of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era.
In the process of soliciting opinions on the revision of party constitution, all localities and departments unanimously suggested that the series of important speeches by the Supreme Leader General Secretary and the new ideas, ideas and strategies of governing the country be refined and summarized, and become the guiding ideology of the party. Party constitution’s amendment adopted this suggestion, and added a natural paragraph after the seventh paragraph of the general outline of party constitution’s amendment, which stated: Since the 18th National Congress, the Communist Party of China (CPC) people, with the supreme leader as the main representative, complied with the development of the times, and systematically answered what kind of Socialism with Chinese characteristics and how to uphold and develop Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era from the combination of theory and practice, and created the Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the supreme leader in the new era. Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era is the inheritance and development of Marxism–Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, Theory of Three Represents and Scientific Outlook on Development, the latest achievement of Marxism in China, the crystallization of the practical experience and collective wisdom of the Party and the people, an important part of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s theoretical system, and an action guide for the whole party and the people to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, which must be adhered to and continuously developed for a long time. Under the guidance of the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the New Era, the Communist Party of China (CPC) led the people of all ethnic groups in China, took charge of great struggles, great projects, great undertakings and great dreams, and pushed Socialism with Chinese characteristics into a new era.
Establishing Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era as the Party’s guiding ideology is an inevitable requirement for Socialism with Chinese characteristics to enter the new era, and it is an important decision in line with the party’s heart and public opinion. It will have a great and far-reaching impact on the whole party’s unification of thoughts and actions with Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era and the new great project of guiding China’s socialist modernization and party building with Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era. All comrades in the Party must earnestly enhance their consciousness and firmness in studying and implementing the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era, profoundly understand the scientific system, spiritual essence and practical requirements of the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era, grasp the Marxist standpoint and methods that run through it, and make unremitting efforts to realize the historical mission of the Party more consciously.
Q: What has the party constitution Amendment done to enrich the fundamental reasons for all the achievements and progress made since the reform and opening up?
A: party constitution’s amendment enriches the fundamental reasons for all the achievements and progress made since the reform and opening up in the eighth natural section of the general program, and writes the development of Socialism with Chinese characteristics culture into party constitution together with opening up the road to Socialism with Chinese characteristics, forming the Socialism with Chinese characteristics theoretical system and establishing the Socialism with Chinese characteristics system. At the same time, after holding high the great banner of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, we should add the contents of firm road self-confidence, theoretical self-confidence, institutional self-confidence and cultural self-confidence, and implement the party’s basic theory, line and general plan; After the three major historical tasks, add the content of the Chinese dream to realize the goal of "two hundred years" and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Such enrichment will help the whole party to fully grasp the connotation of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, strengthen the political determination to uphold and develop Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and provide strong spiritual support for realizing the grand goals of the party and the country.
Q: What adjustment and enrichment did the party constitution Amendment make to the content of the primary stage of socialism?
A: The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China made a major political conclusion that the main contradiction in our society has been transformed into the contradiction between the people’s growing need for a better life and the unbalanced development. Accordingly, the party constitution Amendment was revised in the ninth paragraph of the original general outline. This natural paragraph also adds the content that we must adhere to the people-centered development idea and the development concept of innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing; It will be revised from the overall layout of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s cause to the overall layout of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s cause of "five in one" and "four comprehensive" strategic layout, and the content of coordinating and promoting the comprehensive construction of a well-off society, comprehensively deepening reforms, comprehensively administering the country according to law and strictly administering the party will be added. At the same time, the adjustment of economic and social development goals in the new century and new era is expressed as: by the centenary of the founding of the party, a well-off society will be built in an all-round way; By the centenary of the founding of New China, we will have built a socialist modernization power in an all-round way. These revisions will help the whole party to unify its thoughts and actions with the scientific judgment and strategic deployment of the CPC Central Committee, establish and practice new development concepts, and consciously make unremitting efforts to achieve the goal of "two hundred years".
Q: What did the party constitution Amendment enrich and improve the Party’s basic line?
A: The party’s basic line is the lifeline of the party and the country and the happiness line of the people. We must persist in it for a long time and keep pace with the times to deepen our understanding. The party constitution Amendment absorbs the suggestions of various regions and departments, and enriches the important ideas and viewpoints of the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the relevant references in the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China into the relevant natural paragraphs of the general program. First, the last sentence of the original tenth natural paragraph of the general program is adjusted and expressed as: strive to build China into a prosperous, strong, democratic, civilized, harmonious and beautiful socialist modern power. The second is to grasp the characteristics of China’s development stages, and add the contents of implementing innovation-driven development strategy, rural revitalization strategy, regional coordinated development strategy and integration of defense and civilian technologies development strategy in the original eleventh natural paragraph of the general program, and give full play to the role of innovation as the first driving force for development. At the same time, the sound and rapid development will be revised into higher quality, more efficient, fairer and more sustainable development. Making these amendments reflects our party’s accurate grasp of the current economic development trends and characteristics of China, and is conducive to promoting sustained and healthy economic and social development. Third, in the original thirteenth paragraph of the general program, it was added that we should comprehensively deepen the reform, improve and develop the Socialism with Chinese characteristics system, promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, and pay more attention to the systematicness, integrity and synergy of the reform. These additions are conducive to strengthening the political determination of the whole party to comprehensively deepen reform and continuously consolidate and expand the results of reform.