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the focus of the Party and the country’s work onto economic development and to
launch the reform and opening up drive. Chinese communists brought the essence

of socialism to light, set the basic line for the primary stage of socialism, and made
it clear that China would follow its own path and build socialism with Chinese
characteristics. They provided sound answers to a series of basic questions on
building socialism with Chinese characteristics, and formulated a development
strategy for basically achieving socialist modernization by the middle of the 21st

century through a three-step approach. They thus succeeded in founding socialism
with Chinese characteristics.

It was stated at the session that after the fourth plenary session of the 13th
Central Committee, Chinese communists, with Comrade Jiang Zemin as their chief

representative, united and led the whole Party and the entire nation in upholding
the Party’s basic theory and line, deepening their understanding of what socialism
is and how to build it, and what kind of Party to build and how to build it. On this
basis, they formed the Theory of Three Represents. In the face of complex domestic

and international situations and serious setbacks confronting world socialism, they
safeguarded socialism with Chinese characteristics, defined building a socialist
market economy as an objective of reform and set a basic framework in this regard,
and established a basic economic system for the primary stage of socialism under
which public ownership is the mainstay and diverse forms of ownership develop

together, as well as an income distribution system under which distribution
according to work is the mainstay while multiple forms of distribution exist
alongside it. They opened up new horizons for reform and opening up across all
fronts and advanced the great new project of Party building. All these efforts

helped to successfully launch socialism with Chinese characteristics into the 21st
century.

It was stated at the session that after the 16th National Party Congress, Chinese
communists, with Comrade Hu Jintao as their chief representative, united and led

the whole Party and the entire nation in advancing practical, theoretical, and
institutional innovation during the process of building a moderately prosperous
society in all respects. They gained a deep understanding of major questions such
as what kind of development to pursue and how to pursue it under new
circumstances, and provided clear answers to these questions, thus forming the

Scientific Outlook on Development. Taking advantage of an important period of

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