130th birth anniversary of Mao marked
THE Communist Party of China Central Committee held a symposium at the Great Hall of the People yesterday morning to commemorate the 130th anniversary of the birth of Comrade Mao Zedong.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, delivered an important speech at the symposium.
Xi stressed the importance of pushing forward the cause pioneered by Mao and called for efforts to build China into a stronger country and rejuvenate the Chinese nation on all fronts by pursuing Chinese modernization.
Mao Zedong Thought is an invaluable spiritual wealth for our Party and will guide our action in the long term, Xi said, noting that the best way to commemorate Mao is to continue to advance the cause pioneered by him.
Members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Ding Xuexiang, Li Xi, and Vice President Han Zheng attended the symposium, presided over by Cai Qi, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.
In his speech, Xi said that the life of Mao was one devoted to national prosperity, rejuvenation, and people’s happiness. Mao led the people in blazing a trail for adapting Marxism to the Chinese context, forging the great, glorious and correct CPC and founding the New China with the people being masters of the country.
He also founded an advanced socialist system and a new model of people’s army that is invincible.
Mao made indelible historic contributions to the Chinese nation and the Chinese people, which will go down in history, Xi said.
Noting that the central task of the Party and the nation on the new journey of the new era is to build a stronger country and rejuvenate the Chinese nation on all fronts by pursuing Chinese modernization, Xi said it is a cause passed down from veteran revolutionaries, including Mao, and is the solemn historical responsibility of today’s Party members.