The following is the full text of Resolution of the
Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China on the
Report of its Seventeenth Central Committee adopted at the Eighteenth
National Congress of the Communist Party of China on November 14, 2012:
The Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China approved the report delivered by Comrade Hu Jintao
on behalf of the Party's Seventeenth Central Committee. Holding high
the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics and following
the guidance of Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping
Theory, the important thought of Three Represents and the Scientific
Outlook on Development, the report analyzes the developments and changes
in the international and domestic environments, reviews our work in the
past five years and the historic achievements we have made in the
course of our endeavors since the Sixteenth Party Congress, and
establishes the historical position of the Scientific Outlook on
Development. The report sets forth the basic requirements for winning
new victory for socialism with Chinese characteristics, and the goals of
completing the building of a moderately prosperous society in all
respects and deepening reform and opening up in an all-around way. It
lays out an overall plan for advancing the cause of socialism with
Chinese characteristics in the new era, and sets forth explicit
requirements for making Party building more scientific in all respects.
The report also draws up a grand blueprint for completing the building
of a moderately prosperous society in all respects and accelerating
socialist modernization and charts the course for making continued
progress in the cause of the Party and country. It is the
crystallization of the wisdom of the whole Party and the people of all
ethnic groups in China. It is a political declaration and a program of
action for the Party to rally and lead the people of all our ethnic
groups in winning new victory for socialism with Chinese
characteristics. The report is a guiding Marxist document.
The congress held that the underlying theme set forth in the report
is of great importance to the Party leading the people in building on
our past success and carrying forward our cause with determination. The
whole Party must hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese
characteristics, follow the guidance of Deng Xiaoping Theory, the
important thought of Three Represents and the Scientific Outlook on
Development, free up the mind, implement the policy of reform and
opening up, pool our strength, overcome all difficulties, firmly march
on the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and strive to
complete the building of a moderately prosperous society in all
respects.
The congress stressed that at present, as the global, national and
our Party's conditions continue to undergo profound changes, we are
faced with unprecedented opportunities for development as well as risks
and challenges unknown before. The whole Party must keep in mind the
trust the people have placed in us and the great expectation they have
of us. We must aim higher and work harder and continue to pursue
development in a scientific way, promote social harmony, and improve the
people's lives so as to complete the glorious and arduous tasks
bestowed on us by the times.
The congress applauded the work of the Seventeenth Central Committee.
Over the past five years since the Seventeenth Party Congress, we have
marched boldly on the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics,
overcome numerous difficulties and risks, achieved new success in
building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, and made new
and major achievements in all fields of our work.
The congress endorsed the Seventeenth Central Committee's basic
review of our endeavors over the past ten years since the Sixteenth
National Congress. It held that we have firmly seized and made the most
of the important period of strategic opportunities for China's
development, successfully met major challenges, and brought socialism
with Chinese characteristics to a new stage of development. It also held
that we have consolidated and developed the cause of reform and opening
up and socialist modernization and raised China's international
standing, and that all this shows the superiority and vitality of
socialism with Chinese characteristics and has enhanced the pride and
cohesiveness of the Chinese people and nation.
The congress stressed that the most important achievement in our
endeavors in the past ten years is that we have developed the Scientific
Outlook on Development and applied it by making courageous theoretical
innovations on the basis of practice and developing closely
interconnected new ideas and viewpoints on upholding and building
socialism with Chinese characteristics. The Scientific Outlook on
Development was created by integrating Marxism with the reality of
contemporary China and with the underlying features of our times, and it
fully embodies the Marxist worldview on and methodology for
development. This theory provides new scientific answers to the major
questions of what kind of development China should achieve in a new
environment and how the country should achieve it. It represents a new
level of our understanding of the laws of socialism with Chinese
characteristics and reaches a new realm in the development of Marxism in
contemporary China. The Scientific Outlook on Development is the latest
achievement in developing the system of theories of socialism with
Chinese characteristics, and it is the crystallization of the collective
wisdom of the Communist Party of China and a powerful theoretical
weapon for guiding all the work of the Party and country. Together with
Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory and the
important thought of Three Represents, the Scientific Outlook on
Development provides the long-term theoretical guidance the Party must
adhere to.
The congress pointed out that over the past 90-plus years, relying
firmly on the people and adapting the basic tenets of Marxism to China's
conditions and the underlying trend of the times, our Party has pursued
its own course independently. The Party, enduring untold hardships and
sufferings and paying various costs, achieved great success in
revolution, development and reform, and created and developed socialism
with Chinese characteristics, thus fundamentally changing the future and
destiny of the Chinese people and nation. The path of socialism with
Chinese characteristics, the system of theories of socialism with
Chinese characteristics and the socialist system with Chinese
characteristics are the fundamental accomplishments made by the Party
and people in the course of arduous struggle over the past 90-plus
years. We must cherish these accomplishments, uphold them all the time
and continue to enrich them. To achieve new victory for socialism with
Chinese characteristics under new historical conditions, we must have a
firm grasp of the following basic requirements: We must maintain the
people's principal position in the country, continue to release and
develop the productive forces, persevere in reform and opening up,
uphold social fairness and justice, strive for common prosperity,
promote social harmony, pursue peaceful development and uphold the
leadership of the Party.
The congress held that basing ourselves on China's actual economic
and social development, we should work hard to meet the following new
requirements while working to fulfill the goal of building a moderately
prosperous society in all respects set forth at the Sixteenth and
Seventeenth National Congresses of the Party. They are: The economy
should maintain sustained and sound development; people's democracy
should be expanded; the country's cultural soft power should be improved
significantly; living standards should be fully raised; and major
progress should be made in building a resource-conserving and
environmentally friendly society. To complete the building of a
moderately prosperous society in all respects, we must, with greater
political courage and vision, lose no time in deepening reform in key
sectors and resolutely discard all notions and systems that hinder
efforts to pursue development in a scientific way. We should set up a
well-developed, scientific, standardized and effective framework of
systems and ensure that operating institutions in all sectors are fully
functioning.
The congress endorsed the plan made in the report for promoting
socialist economic, political, cultural, social, and ecological progress
in China. The congress emphasized the need to speed up the improvement
of the socialist market economy and the change of the growth model and
make development based more on improved quality and performance; and to
fire all types of market participants with new vigor for development,
increase motivation for pursuing innovation-driven development,
establish a new system for developing modern industries, and create new
favorable conditions for developing the open economy. This will make
economic development driven more by domestic demand, especially consumer
demand, by a modern service industry and strategic emerging industries,
by scientific and technological progress, by a workforce of higher
quality and innovation in management, by resource conservation and a
circular economy, and by coordinated and mutually reinforcing
urban-rural development and development between regions. Taking these
steps will enable us to sustain long-term development and promote
harmonized development of industrialization, IT application,
urbanization and agricultural modernization. The congress required us to
keep to the socialist path of making political advance with Chinese
characteristics, promote reform of the political structure and make
people's democracy more extensive, fuller in scope and sounder in
practice. We should ensure the unity of the leadership of the Party, the
position of the people as masters of the country and law-based
governance; and in order to guarantee the fundamental position of the
people as masters of the country and reach the goal of enhancing the
vitality of the Party and country and keeping the people fully
motivated, we should expand socialist democracy, improve the system of
socialist consultative democracy, improve community-level democracy,
accelerate the building of a socialist country based on the rule of law,
establish a sound mechanism for conducting checks and oversight of the
exercise of power, and thus advance socialist political progress. The
congress stressed the need to make steady progress in developing a
strong socialist culture in China. We should keep to the goal of
developing an advanced socialist culture, create a new surge in
promoting socialist culture and bring about its great development and
enrichment, increase China' s cultural soft power, and get culture to
guide social trends, educate the people, serve society, and boost
development. The congress emphasized the need to strengthen social
development by improving the people's wellbeing and making innovations
in management. In order to uphold the fundamental interests of the
overwhelming majority of the people with high priority given to ensuring
and improving the people's wellbeing, we should improve the people's
material and cultural lives, bring as much benefit as possible to them,
resolve as many difficulties as possible for them, intensify efforts to
improve the basic public service system, strengthen and make innovations
in social management, and boost the building of a harmonious socialist
society. The congress called for making great efforts to promote
ecological progress. We should raise our ecological awareness of the
need to respect, accommodate to and protect nature, incorporate
ecological progress into all aspects and the whole process of advancing
economic, political, cultural, and social progress, intensify protection
of the ecosystem and the environment, work hard to build a beautiful
country, and achieve lasting and sustainable development of the Chinese
nation. The congress emphasized the importance of responding to China's
core security needs, following the three-step development strategy for
modernizing national defense and the armed forces, intensifying efforts
to accomplish the dual historic tasks of military mechanization and full
IT application and building strong national defense and powerful armed
forces that are commensurate with China's international standing and
meet the needs of its security and development interests.
The congress highlighted the need to fully and faithfully implement
the principle of "one country, two systems," under which the people of
Hong Kong govern Hong Kong and the people of Macao govern Macao and both
regions enjoy a high degree of autonomy. We must both adhere to the
one-China principle and respect the differences of the two systems, both
uphold the power of the central government and ensure a high degree of
autonomy in the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions, and
both give play to the role of the mainland as the staunch supporter of
Hong Kong and Macao and increase the competitiveness of the two regions.
We must adhere to the principle of "peaceful reunification and one
country, two systems," consolidate and strengthen the political,
economic, cultural and social foundation for the peaceful growth of the
relations between the two sides of the Taiwan Straits, open a new
horizon in advancing the peaceful growth of these relations, and work
with our compatriots in Taiwan to safeguard and build the common home of
the Chinese nation, so as to create even better conditions for
achieving peaceful reunification.
The congress endorsed the report's analysis of the international
situation and the guiding principles it sets forth for China's
diplomacy. The congress stressed that China will continue to hold high
the banner of peace, development, cooperation and mutual benefit, firmly
pursue an independent foreign policy of peace, unswervingly stay on the
path of peaceful development, and unwaveringly follow a win-win
strategy of opening up. We should be firm in our resolve to uphold
China's sovereignty, security and development interests, and stay
committed to growing friendship and cooperation in all fields with other
countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.
We should work to build a harmonious world of enduring peace and common
prosperity, and are ready to work with the people of other countries to
unremittingly promote the noble cause of peace and development for
mankind.
The congress stressed that, facing the new developments, the progress
in our cause and the expectation the people have of us, we should
comprehensively carry out the great new undertaking of Party building in
an innovative and reform-driven way and make Party building more
scientific in all respects. All Party members must heighten their sense
of urgency and sense of responsibility and focus on strengthening the
Party's governance capacity, advanced nature and purity. We must put
people first and exercise governance for the people. We should continue
to free up our minds, carry out reform and innovation, and uphold the
principle that the Party should supervise its own conduct and run itself
with strict discipline. We should make all-around efforts to strengthen
the Party theoretically and organizationally, improve its conduct,
fight corruption, uphold Party integrity and improve Party rules and
regulations. We should enhance our capacity for self-purity,
self-improvement, self-development and self-innovation and build the
Party into a learning, service-oriented and innovative Marxist governing
party. By taking these steps, we can ensure that the Party is always
the firm leadership core guiding the cause of socialism with Chinese
characteristics.
The congress underscored that combating corruption and promoting
political integrity is a clear-cut and long-term political commitment of
the Party and a major political issue of great concern to the people.
We must make unremitting efforts to combat corruption, promote integrity
and stay vigilant against degeneration. We should pursue a distinctive
Chinese approach to combating corruption and promoting integrity. We
should persist in combating corruption in an integrated way, addressing
both its symptoms and root causes, and combining punishment and
prevention, with emphasis on the latter. We should advance in an
all-around way the establishment of a system of combating corruption
through both punishment and prevention and see to it that officials are
honest, the government is clean, and political integrity is upheld.
The congress emphasized that centralized leadership of the Party is
the source of its strength and a fundamental guarantee for China's
economic and social development, ethnic unity and progress, and enduring
peace and stability. The more complexities the Party faces and the more
arduous the tasks it undertakes, the more imperative it is for the
Party to strengthen its discipline and uphold its centralized
leadership. This will enable the whole Party from the leadership to the
ranks to advance in unison as a great force.
The congress stressed that to live up to the people's trust in and
expectation of us and stand new tests under new historical conditions,
the whole Party must be keenly aware of potential dangers, be modest and
prudent, guard against arrogance and impetuosity, and remain
clear-headed. We must be innovative in our thinking, uphold truth and
correct mistakes, and always maintain energy and drive. We must follow
the guidance of the fundamental purpose of the Party, trust and rely on
the people, and always put them above everything else. We must heighten
our sense of mission, be realistic and pragmatic, defy difficulties and
work hard, and preserve the political integrity of Communists.
The congress called on all Party members and the people of all ethnic
groups in China to hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese
characteristics, rally more closely around the Party Central Committee,
strive to complete the building of a moderately prosperous society in
all respects, continue to win new victory for socialism with Chinese
characteristics, and make joint efforts to create an even brighter
future for the Chinese people and nation.
(Source ; Xinhua)
