Group explains congress in Japan

He Yiting, executive vicepresident of the Central Party School, a higher learning institution affiliated with the Communist Party of China, explained in Japan last week the main ideas, decisions and achievements of the CPC’s 19th National Congress, in Beijing on Oct 18 to 24.

Speaking to an audience including lawmakers, journalists and businesspeople, He said the new leadership, with President Xi Jinping as its core, was announced, revealing a group characterized by political integrity and ability.

The congress presented Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and wrote it into the Party’s Constitution. Xi Jinping Thought is of great significance, He said, because it answers questions on China’s development in a new era.

The congress announced that socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, which He said is an overall, strategically political judgment.

He said the Party has rightly recognized the evolution of the principal contradiction facing China between unbalanced and inadequate development and the people’s evergrowing needs for a better life.

A Japanese journalist said he has found Chinese people’s living standard improving greatly in the past decade thanks to rapid economic growth.

The CPC has decided to take a two-step approach to build China into a great modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious, and beautiful by the middle of the century.

He divided the post-1949 China into three periods: the first for founding the People’s Republic of China, represented by Mao Zedong; the second for the country’s reform and opening-up, represented by Deng Xiaoping; and the third

We are here for a better China-Japan relationship.” He Yiting, executive vice-president of the Central Party School

for the new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics, represented by Xi Jinping.

Hironori Iwashita, a businessman, said he found no specific numbers for economic growth, such as the GDP goal, in the report Xi delivered at the CPC’s 19th National Congress, and he knows that China now aims for quality growth.

The congress also committed the Party to exercising full and rigorous governance over itself. It will continue its anticorruption campaign, He said.

Finally, the CPC vows to build a community with a shared destiny for mankind, He said. China will uphold its fundamental foreign policy goal of preserving world peace and promoting common development. China remains firm in its commitment to strengthen friendship and cooperation with other countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, and to forge a new form of international relations based on mutual respect, fairness, justice, and win-win cooperation.

He told the Japanese audience that the Party has said that China will never seek hegemony or engage in expansion or build its sphere of influence.

Some welcome changes have emerged in China-Japan relations, He said, thanks to the 45th anniversary of the normalization of China-Japan diplomatic relations this year, the 40th anniversary of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between China and Japan next year and the CPC’s 19th National Congress.

“We are here for a better China-Japan relationship,” He said.