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14th Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development and the

Long-Range Objectives through the Year 2035, and conducting a thorough
review of the Party’s major achievements and historical experience over the
past century. At these sessions, major strategic plans were also made for
advancing the cause of the Party and the country. The Central Committee has
brought together the entire Party, the military, and the Chinese people and
led them in effectively responding to grave, intricate international
developments and a series of immense risks and challenges. With great effort
and determination, we have steadily advanced socialism with Chinese
characteristics in the new era.

Over the past five years, we have continued to strengthen the overall
leadership of the Party and the centralized, unified leadership of the Central
Committee. We have devoted great energy to finishing building a moderately
prosperous society in all respects. We have fully and faithfully applied the

new development philosophy on all fronts, focused on promoting
high-quality development, and worked to create a new pattern of
development. We have pursued reform at a swift and steady pace, made solid
progress in developing whole-process people’s democracy, and advanced
law-based governance across all fields of endeavor. We have actively
developed advanced socialist culture. We have ensured and improved public
wellbeing as a matter of priority and pooled resources to wage a critical battle
against poverty. We have made a big push to enhance ecological conservation.
We have worked with firm resolve to safeguard national security, fended off

and defused major risks, and ensured social stability. We have devoted great
energy to modernizing our national defense and the armed forces. We have
conducted major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics on all fronts.
And we have made sweeping efforts to advance the great new project of Party
building.

We celebrated the centenary of the Communist Party of China and the
70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. We
adopted the third resolution concerning the Party’s history, organized
Party-wide activities to study Party history, and inaugurated the Museum of
the Communist Party of China. We called upon all Party members to study
and apply the great founding spirit of the Party, and we encouraged them to
create a brighter future by staying true to the Party’s founding mission with
greater resolve and purpose on the new journey ahead.

In responding to the sudden outbreak of Covid-19, we put the people and
their lives above all else, worked to prevent both imported cases and domestic
resurgences, and tenaciously pursued a dynamic zero-Covid policy. In
launching an all-out people’s war to stop the spread of the virus, we have

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