Party builds on 100 years of achievements

Development philosophy

The poverty alleviation campaign, reinforced after the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012, lifted the country's 98.99 million impoverished people in rural areas out of extreme poverty.

Observers said China's poverty relief efforts clearly exemplify the Party's people-centered development philosophy, which is the CPC's overarching governance principle and the key to China's successful efforts in containing the pandemic and promoting economic recovery.

Addressing a grand gathering in Beijing to celebrate the Party's centenary on July 1, Xi reiterated upholding the CPC's fundamental purpose of wholeheartedly serving the people and ceaselessly working to improve their lives.

"We will develop whole-process people's democracy, safeguard social fairness and justice, and resolve the imbalances and inadequacies in development and the most pressing difficulties and problems that are of great concern to the people," he said. "In doing so, we will make more notable and substantive progress toward achieving well-rounded human development and common prosperity for all."

To ensure all members remain true to the Party's founding mission of unswervingly working to seek happiness for the people and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with even firmer ideals and beliefs, the CPC Central Committee launched a Party history learning and education campaign early this year.

The campaign has been viewed as a timely and necessary move for the Party to draw strength from its glorious past to advance the country's modernization drive despite the increasing challenges ahead.

More important, the sixth plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Committee, which ended last month with a landmark resolution on the major achievements and historical experience of the CPC's 100 years of endeavors, charted a course for China's future.

The resolution highlighted Xi's core position on the CPC Central Committee and in the entire Party as well as the significance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era in advancing the cause of the Party and the State.

Xi said at the plenary session, "The review of the major achievements and historical experience of the Party over the past century will help build a broader consensus and stronger unity in will and action among all members and rally and lead Chinese people of all ethnic groups in achieving new and great success in building socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era."

Wolfram Adolphi, a political scientist and sinologist from the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation based in Germany, said the CPC's 100-year history is not only important for China, but for mankind.

China's future decisions are significant for the whole world, said Adolphi, who has conducted research on Chinese politics and the CPC for more than 40 years.

In an op-ed article published on China Global Television Network's website, he said, "To slow down climate change, to solve the urgent problems of ecological development, to keep up with digitalization, to create a worldwide system of collective security, and finally to come to lasting peace－this all is unthinkable without China."

Christopher Helali, international secretary of the Party of Communists USA, said the significance of the landmark resolution is historic for the world, as it heralds a new era of socialist development and transformation in China which is unparalleled in global history.

Communist, socialist and Marxist parties worldwide look to China as a model to emulate, as they continue their work to build socialism and provide for the prosperity and development of all people around the globe, Helali said.

Xi announced on July 1 that China had achieved its first centenary goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects. The nation is marching toward the second centenary goal of building a modern socialist country by the middle of this century.

What will a modern socialist China bring to the world? Xi offered his answer, "China's development is opportunities for the world."

Experts have said China's peaceful rise－unprecedented in both scale and speed－shows there has never been a one-size-fits-all development model, and the style adopted in the West is not the only viable route to modernity.

The communique from the sixth plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Committee said the world's largest ruling party has "led the people in pioneering a uniquely Chinese path to modernization, creating a new model for human advancement, and expanding the channels for developing countries to achieve modernization."

However, China has made clear that it has no intention of selling its own development path to the world. It welcomes countries around the world to "get on board the express train of China's development" through mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation.