Leading new development with new ideas and strategies
Great times need the guidance of great thoughts. Based on the height of the times and the overall situation, the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China solemnly put forward Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought, the supreme leader in the new era, and established this thought as our party’s guiding ideology, realizing the party’s guiding ideology to keep pace with the times again and becoming the fundamental guide for us to better uphold and develop Socialism with Chinese characteristics. This is the soul of the 19th Party Congress, a historic decision and the most important contribution of the 19th Party Congress.
New ideas: a guide to action to win the great victory of Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has persisted in emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts, advancing with the times, seeking truth and being pragmatic, adhering to dialectical materialism and historical materialism, closely combining the new conditions and practical requirements of the times, deepening the understanding of communist party’s ruling law, socialist construction law and human social development law with a brand-new vision, carrying out arduous theoretical exploration, achieving great theoretical innovations and creating the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era.
The Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era systematically answered the major issues of the new era, such as what kind of Socialism with Chinese characteristics to adhere to and develop and how to adhere to and develop Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and the basic questions of adhering to and developing Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, such as the general goal, general task, overall layout, strategic layout and development direction, development mode, development power, strategic steps, external conditions and political guarantee. And according to the new practice, it makes theoretical analysis and policy guidance on economy, politics, rule of law, science and technology, culture, education, people’s livelihood, nationality, religion, society, ecological civilization, national security, national defense and army, "one country, two systems" and reunification of the motherland, United front, diplomacy, party building and other aspects. The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China summed up the main content of this thought with "eight definiteness". The new ideas cover various fields such as reform, development and stability, internal affairs, foreign affairs and national defense, and governing the party, country and army, and constitute a scientific system with complete system, strict logic and internal unity.
The Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era has achieved another leap in combining the basic principles of Marxism with China’s concrete reality, and opened up a new realm of Marxism, Socialism with Chinese characteristics, the party’s governance of the country and the party. Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era is the inheritance and development of Marxism–Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, Theory of Three Represents and Scientific Outlook on Development, the latest achievement of Marxism in China, the crystallization of the practical experience and collective wisdom of the Party and the people, an important part of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s theoretical system, and an action guide for the whole party and people to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, which must be adhered to and continuously developed for a long time.
New Strategy: Adhering to and Developing Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s Action Program
In order to implement the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era, the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward the basic strategy of upholding and developing Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, which was summarized as "fourteen adherences". The basic strategy with the content of "Fourteen Persistences" comes from the great practice of nearly 40 years since the reform and opening up, especially from the brilliant practice of forging ahead since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, which is the "road map" and "methodology" for realizing the goal of "two hundred years" and the Chinese nation’s great rejuvenation of the Chinese dream.
The basic strategy is to carry out the practice of the spiritual essence and rich connotation of the supreme leader Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. Its specific contents are: adhere to the party’s leadership over all work, adhere to the people as the center, persist in comprehensively deepening reform, adhere to the new development concept, adhere to the people being the masters of the country, adhere to the comprehensive rule of law, adhere to the socialist core value system, adhere to safeguarding and improving people’s livelihood in development, adhere to the harmonious coexistence of man and nature, adhere to the overall national security concept, adhere to the party’s absolute leadership over the people’s army, adhere to "one country, two systems" and promote the reunification of the motherland, and persist in promoting the construction of a community of human destiny. The "Fourteen Persistences" include upholding the Party’s leadership and strictly administering the Party in an all-round way, covering the overall layout of "five in one" and "four comprehensive" strategic layouts, and covering national defense and army building, safeguarding national security, and foreign strategies. It is an important part of the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era.
New ideas and new strategies: complement each other and develop together in practice.
Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era is the expression of guiding ideology, and the basic strategy of adhering to and developing Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era is the expression of action program, which together constitute a systematic and complete Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era, which clearly embodies the theoretical characteristics of the unity of theory and practice and the combination of strategy and tactics. The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that we must fully implement the Party’s basic theory, line and strategy, and better lead the development of the cause of the Party and the people.
"There is no end to practice, and there is no end to theoretical innovation." The unity and interaction of practical innovation and theoretical innovation gave birth to Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era. We should base ourselves on China and look around the world, combine the basic principles of Marxism with the reality of contemporary China and the characteristics of the times, especially the practice of Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. In the great practice of governing the country, we will continue to systematically summarize, continue to promote practical innovation and theoretical innovation, and enrich and develop Marxism in China in the 21st century.
It is an important reason why our Party can always maintain its vitality to guide new practice with developing Marxism and take the innovative achievements of Marxism in China as a guide to action. Facing the new era and new mission, we should firmly establish the "four consciousnesses", thoroughly study and understand the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era, comprehensively and accurately implement the basic strategy, and use Guangdong’s creative practice to make the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era take root and blossom in southern Guangdong.
The author is Jiang Bin, Deputy Director of Propaganda Department of Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and Party Secretary of Guangdong Academy of Social Sciences.