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of our endeavors over the past ten years since the Sixteenth National Congress.
It held that we have firmly seized and made the most of the important period
of strategic opportunities for China’s development, successfully met major

challenges, and brought socialism with Chinese characteristics to a new stage

of development. It also held that we have consolidated and developed the
cause of reform and opening up and socialist modernization and raised China’s
international standing, and that all this shows the superiority and vitality of

socialism with Chinese characteristics and has enhanced the pride and

cohesiveness of the Chinese people and nation.
The congress stressed that the most important achievement in our
endeavors in the past ten years is that we have developed the Scientific

Outlook on Development and applied it by making courageous theoretical

innovations on the basis of practice and developing closely interconnected
new ideas and viewpoints on upholding and building socialism with Chinese
characteristics. The Scientific Outlook on Development was created by

integrating Marxism with the reality of contemporary China and with the

underlying features of our times, and it fully embodies the Marxist worldview
on and methodology for development. This theory provides new scientific
answers to the major questions of what kind of development China should

achieve in a new environment and how the country should achieve it. It

represents a new level of our understanding of the laws of socialism with
Chinese characteristics and reaches a new realm in the development of
Marxism in contemporary China. The Scientific Outlook on Development is

the latest achievement in developing the system of theories of socialism with

Chinese characteristics, and it is the crystallization of the collective wisdom of
the Communist Party of China and a powerful theoretical weapon for guiding
all the work of the Party and country. Together with Marxism-Leninism, Mao

Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of Three

Represents, the Scientific Outlook on Development provides the long-term

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