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of Peaceful Coexistence. We should work to build a harmonious world of
enduring peace and common prosperity, and are ready to work with the
people of other countries to unremittingly promote the noble cause of peace

and development for mankind.

The congress stressed that, facing the new developments, the progress in
our cause and the expectation the people have of us, we should
comprehensively carry out the great new undertaking of Party building in an

innovative and reform-driven way and make Party building more scientific in

all respects. All Party members must heighten their sense of urgency and sense
of responsibility and focus on strengthening the Party’s governance capacity,
advanced nature and purity. We must put people first and exercise governance

for the people. We should continue to free up our minds, carry out reform and

innovation, and uphold the principle that the Party should supervise its own
conduct and run itself with strict discipline. We should make all-around efforts
to strengthen the Party theoretically and organizationally, improve its conduct,

fight corruption, uphold Party integrity and improve Party rules and

regulations. We should enhance our capacity for self-purity, self-improvement,
self-development and self-innovation and build the Party into a learning,
service-oriented and innovative Marxist governing party. By taking these steps,

we can ensure that the Party is always the firm leadership core guiding the

cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
The congress underscored that combating corruption and promoting
political integrity is a clear-cut and long-term political commitment of the

Party and a major political issue of great concern to the people. We must make

unremitting efforts to combat corruption, promote integrity and stay vigilant
against degeneration. We should pursue a distinctive Chinese approach to
combating corruption and promoting integrity. We should persist in combating

corruption in an integrated way, addressing both its symptoms and root

causes, and combining punishment and prevention, with emphasis on the latter.

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