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enhancing the vitality of the Party and country and keeping the people fully
motivated, we should expand socialist democracy, improve the system of
socialist consultative democracy, improve community-level democracy,

accelerate the building of a socialist country based on the rule of law, establish

a sound mechanism for conducting checks and oversight of the exercise of
power, and thus advance socialist political progress. The congress stressed the
need to make steady progress in developing a strong socialist culture in China.

We should keep to the goal of developing an advanced socialist culture, create

a new surge in promoting socialist culture and bring about its great
development and enrichment, increase China’s cultural soft power, and get
culture to guide social trends, educate the people, serve society, and boost

development. The congress emphasized the need to strengthen social

development by improving the people’s wellbeing and making innovations in
management. In order to uphold the fundamental interests of the
overwhelming majority of the people with high priority given to ensuring and

improving the people’s wellbeing, we should improve the people’s material

and cultural lives, bring as much benefit as possible to them, resolve as many
difficulties as possible for them, intensify efforts to improve the basic public
service system, strengthen and make innovations in social management, and

boost the building of a harmonious socialist society. The congress called for

making great efforts to promote ecological progress. We should raise our
ecological awareness of the need to respect, accommodate to and protect
nature, incorporate ecological progress into all aspects and the whole process

of advancing economic, political, cultural, and social progress, intensify

protection of the ecosystem and the environment, work hard to build a
beautiful country, and achieve lasting and sustainable development of the
Chinese nation. The congress emphasized the importance of responding to

China’s core security needs, following the three-step development strategy for

modernizing national defense and the armed forces, intensifying efforts to

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