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theoretical guidance the Party must adhere to.
The congress pointed out that over the past 90-plus years, relying firmly
on the people and adapting the basic tenets of Marxism to China’s conditions

and the underlying trend of the times, our Party has pursued its own course

independently. The Party, enduring untold hardships and sufferings and paying
various costs, achieved great success in revolution, development and reform,
and created and developed socialism with Chinese characteristics, thus

fundamentally changing the future and destiny of the Chinese people and

nation. The path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the system of
theories of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the socialist system with
Chinese characteristics are the fundamental accomplishments made by the

Party and people in the course of arduous struggle over the past 90-plus years.

We must cherish these accomplishments, uphold them all the time and
continue to enrich them. To achieve new victory for socialism with Chinese
characteristics under new historical conditions, we must have a firm grasp of

the following basic requirements: We must maintain the people’s principal

position in the country, continue to release and develop the productive forces,
persevere in reform and opening up, uphold social fairness and justice, strive
for common prosperity, promote social harmony, pursue peaceful development

and uphold the leadership of the Party.

The congress held that basing ourselves on China’s actual economic and
social development, we should work hard to meet the following new
requirements while working to fulfill the goal of building a moderately

prosperous society in all respects set forth at the Sixteenth and Seventeenth

National Congresses of the Party. They are: The economy should maintain
sustained and sound development; people’s democracy should be expanded;
the country’s cultural soft power should be improved significantly; living

standards should be fully raised; and major progress should be made in

building a resource-conserving and environmentally friendly society. To

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