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environmentally friendly society, implement the strictest possible environmental protection
systems, and work to shape spatial layouts, industrial structures, modes of production, and
ways of life that are conducive to resource conservation and environmental protection,
creating good working and living environments for the people, and ensuring sustainable
development for the Chinese nation.

The Communist Party of China shall uphold its absolute leadership over the People’s
Liberation Army and other people’s armed forces; implement Xi Jinping’s thinking on
strengthening the military; strengthen the development of the People’s Liberation Army by
enhancing its political loyalty, strengthening it through reform and technology, and
running it in accordance with the law; build people's forces that obey the Party’s command,
can fight and win, and maintain excellent conduct; ensure that the People’s Liberation
Army accomplishes its missions and tasks in the new era; and give full play to the role of
the People’s Liberation Army in consolidating national defense, defending the motherland,
and participating in socialist modernization.
The Communist Party of China shall develop and preserve socialist relations among
ethnic groups based on equality, solidarity, mutual assistance, and harmony; work
proactively to train and select officials from ethnic minorities; help ethnic minorities and
areas with concentrations of ethnic minorities with economic, cultural, and social
development; foster a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation; and ensure that all
ethnic groups work together for common development and prosperity. The Party shall
fully implement its basic policy on religion, and encourage religious believers to contribute
to economic and social development.

The Communist Party of China shall urge all workers, farmers, and intellectuals, and
all other political parties, persons without party affiliation, and the patriotic forces of all
ethnic groups in China to further develop and expand the broadest possible patriotic united
front embracing all socialist workers, all those working for the socialist cause, all patriots
who support socialism, all patriots who support the reunification of the motherland, and all
patriots who are dedicated to the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The Party shall work
continuously to strengthen the unity of all the Chinese people, including compatriots in the
Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions and in Taiwan as well as overseas
Chinese. It shall promote long-term prosperity and stability in Hong Kong and Macao and
achieve the reunification of the motherland in conformity with the principle of “one
country, two systems.”

The Communist Party of China shall uphold an independent foreign policy of peace,
follow a path of peaceful development, continue with the win-win opening up strategy,
consider both domestic and international situations, and actively foster relations with other
countries, endeavoring to develop a favorable international environment for China’s reform,
opening up, and modernization. In international affairs, it shall uphold justice while
pursuing shared interests, safeguard China’s independence and sovereignty, oppose
hegemonism and power politics, defend world peace, promote human progress, work to
build a community with a shared future for mankind, and advance the building of a
harmonious world of lasting peace and common prosperity. It shall develop relations
between China and other countries on the basis of the five principles of mutual respect for
sovereignty and territorial integrity, mutual nonaggression, mutual noninterference in
internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful coexistence. The Party shall

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