New era begins

CHINA has entered a new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics, that’s an outstanding judgement which differs from previous Party congresses when general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee Xi Jinping delivered a report at the opening ceremony of the 19th CPC Congress yesterday.

The Six Plenum of the 11th CPC Central Committee in 1981 described people’s increasing material and cultural demands on the one hand and backward productive force on the other.

Chinese people no longer struggle just to meet basic needs. The main contradiction has changed into people’s growing needs for a better life with unbalanced and insufficient development, Xi said in the report.

The Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era embodies the new ideas, new thinking, and new strategies of the governance philosophy of the CPC Central Committee.

Since the 18th CPC Congress in 2012, the Party has been committed to realising the Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation. And the “two centenary goals” of building a moderately prosperous society by 2020, one year before the Party’s 100th anniversary in 2021, and developing China into a “fully modernised, socialist nation” by the 100th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China in 2049, mean the Party has taken upon itself a great historical responsibility.

To accomplish the goals, the Party has to depend on the strategic layout of the “Four Comprehensives” – comprehensively build a moderately prosperous society, comprehensively deepen reform, comprehensively advance the rule of law, and comprehensively and strictly govern the Party, and carry out the “Five Development Concepts” of innovation, co-ordination, green, openness and shared development.