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life and promote people’s well-rounded development.

Development is the Party’s top priority in governing and rejuvenating the country. The
Party must commit to a people-centered philosophy of development and pursue the vision
of innovative, coordinated, green, and open development that is for everyone. The general
starting point and criteria for judging each item of the Party’s work are that it must benefit
the development of the socialist productive forces, be conducive to increasing socialist
China’s overall strength, and help to improve the people’s living standards. The Party must
respect labor, knowledge, talent, and creativity and ensure that development is for the
people and relies on the people, and that its fruits are shared among the people.

The beginning of the new century marked China’s entry into a new stage of
development in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and accelerating
socialist modernization. In accordance with the five-sphere integrated plan and the
four-pronged comprehensive strategy for the cause of socialism with Chinese
characteristics, the Party must promote coordinated economic, political, cultural, social, and
ecological advancement, and coordinate efforts to finish building a moderately prosperous
society in all respects, comprehensively deepen reform, fully advance the law-based
governance of China, and strengthen Party self-governance in every respect.
In this new era in the new century, the strategic objectives of economic and social
development are to finish building a moderately prosperous society in all respects by the
time the Party marks its centenary and to build China into a great modern socialist country
in every dimension by the time the People’s Republic celebrates its centenary.
The basic line of the Communist Party of China in the primary stage of socialism is to
lead all the people of China together in a self-reliant and pioneering effort, making
economic development the central task, upholding the Four Cardinal Principles, and
remaining committed to reform and opening up, so as to see China becomes a great
modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced,
harmonious, and beautiful.
In leading the cause of socialism, the Communist Party of China must continue its
commitment to economic development as the central task, and all other work must take an
ancillary role and serve this center. The Party shall implement the strategy for invigorating
China through science and education, the strategy on developing a quality workforce, the
innovation-driven development strategy, the rural vitalization strategy, the coordinated
regional development strategy, the sustainable development strategy, and the
military-civilian integration strategy. It shall give full play to the role of science and
technology as primary productive forces and the role of innovation as the primary force
driving development, draw on advances in science and technology, improve the quality of
the country’s workforce, and ensure higher-quality and more efficient, equitable, and
sustainable development of the economy.
The Four Cardinal Principles—to keep to the path of socialism, to uphold the people’s
democratic dictatorship, to uphold the leadership of the Communist Party of China, and to
uphold Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought—form the foundation for building
the country. Throughout the whole course of socialist modernization, the Party must
adhere to the Four Cardinal Principles and oppose bourgeois liberalization.
A continued commitment to reform and opening up is the path to a stronger China.

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