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constantly work to develop good neighborly relations between China and its surrounding
countries and work to strengthen unity and cooperation between China and other
developing countries. It shall follow the principle of achieving shared growth through
discussion and collaboration, and pursue the Belt and Road Initiative. The Communist
Party of China shall develop relations with the Communist parties and other political
parties of other countries in accordance with the principles of independence, complete
equality, mutual respect, and noninterference in each other’s internal affairs.

To lead the Chinese people of all ethnic groups to achieve the two centenary goals and
realize the Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation, the Communist Party of China must
follow its basic line; exercise self-supervision and strengthen self-governance in every
respect; strengthen its long-term governance capacity, its advanced nature, and its purity;
and, in the spirit of reform and innovation, make comprehensive moves to press ahead
with the great new project of Party building. It must take enhancing its political building as
the overarching principle and make comprehensive efforts to ensure that the Party’s
political work is stressed, ideology is strengthened, organizations are consolidated, conduct
is improved, and discipline is maintained, institutional development is always emphasized,
and the fight against corruption keeps going, thus building the Party more effectively in all
respects. It must uphold the principle that the Party builds itself in the interests of, and
exercises governance for, the people, and see that its fine traditions and positive work style
continue to thrive. It must constantly work to improve the way it exercises leadership and
governance and strengthen its ability to resist corruption, prevent moral decline, and
withstand risks. It must constantly strengthen its ability to purify, improve, reform, and
excel itself. It must constantly strengthen its class foundation, expand its mass base,
enhance its creativity, cohesion, and readiness to meet challenges, and build itself up as an
ever-learning, service-oriented, and innovative Marxist governing party. The Party should
thus be able to forever stand at the forefront of the times and become a strong core capable
of leading all the people of China as they continue to advance along the road of socialism
with Chinese characteristics. In building itself, the Party must work with firm resolve to
meet the following five fundamental requirements.
1. Adherence to the Party’s basic line. The whole Party must use Deng Xiaoping Theory,
the Theory of Three Represents, the Scientific Outlook on Development, Xi Jinping Thought
on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and the Party’s basic line to
achieve unity in thought and action, and must resolutely continue to do so in the long term.
The Party must ensure that reform and opening up are carried out in unity with the Four
Cardinal Principles, put its basic line into effect in all fields of endeavor, and combat all
mistaken tendencies of the “Left” and Right, maintaining vigilance against Rightist
tendencies, but primarily defending against “Leftist” tendencies. The Party must strengthen
work to improve leading bodies at all levels, training and selecting the good officials that
our Party and people need, and it must cultivate and train millions of successors to
continue the cause of socialism, thus ensuring organizationally that the Party’s basic theory,
basic line, and basic policy are fully implemented and applied.
2. Commitment to emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts, advancing with the
times, and being realistic and pragmatic. The Party’s line of thinking is to proceed from
reality in all it does, to integrate theory with practice, to seek truth from facts, and to verify
and develop truths through practice. All Party members must uphold this line of thinking,

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