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CONSTITUTION OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA

Revised and adopted at the 19th National Congress of the

Communist Party of China on October 24, 2017

General Program

The Communist Party of China is the vanguard of the Chinese working class, the
Chinese people, and the Chinese nation. It is the leadership core for the cause of socialism
with Chinese characteristics and represents the developmental demands of China’s
advanced productive forces, the orientation for China’s advanced culture, and the
fundamental interests of the greatest possible majority of the Chinese people. The Party’s
highest ideal and ultimate goal is the realization of communism.
The Communist Party of China uses Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng
Xiaoping Theory, the Theory of Three Represents, the Scientific Outlook on Development,
and Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as its
guides to action.

Marxism-Leninism reveals the laws governing the development of the history of
human society. Its basic tenets are correct and have tremendous vitality. The highest ideal
of Communism pursued by Chinese Communists can be realized only when socialist
society is fully developed and highly advanced. The development and improvement of the
socialist system is a long historical process. By upholding the basic tenets of
Marxism-Leninism and following the path suited to China’s specific conditions as chosen
by the Chinese people, China’s socialist cause will ultimately be victorious.
With Comrade Mao Zedong as their chief representative, Chinese Communists
developed Mao Zedong Thought by combining the basic tenets of Marxism-Leninism with
the actual practice of the Chinese revolution. Mao Zedong Thought is the application and
development of Marxism-Leninism in China; it is a body of theoretical principles and a
summary of experiences, proven correct in practice, relating to China’s revolution and
construction; and it is a crystallization of the collective wisdom of the Communist Party of
China. Under the guidance of Mao Zedong Thought, the Communist Party of China led the
Chinese people of all ethnic groups in the long revolutionary struggle against imperialism,
feudalism, and bureaucratic capitalism, securing victory in the new democratic revolution
and founding the People’s Republic of China, a people’s democratic dictatorship. After the
founding of the People’s Republic, the Communist Party of China successfully led the
people in carrying out socialist transformation, completing the transition from New
Democracy to socialism, establishing the basic socialist system, and developing a socialist
economy, politics, and culture.

After the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party
of China, Chinese Communists, with Comrade Deng Xiaoping as their chief representative,
analyzed both positive and negative experience gained since the founding of the People’s
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