" Jiang Zemin on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics (Topic Excerpts): Topic Excerpts

Author: Compiled by the Documentation and Research Center of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
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Publishing Date: 2002-08-01
Features: The content of the book "Jiang Zemin on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics" (Topic Selections) is excerpted from more than 370 important documents by Jiang Zemin, including reports, speeches, articles, letters, and directives, from June 1989 to June 2002. It is divided into 25 topics and 119 sub-topics, compiling a series of important discussions by Jiang Zemin on building socialism with Chinese characteristics. These important discussions comprehensively reflect Jiang Zemin's scientific analysis of major changes in the international and domestic situation, his profound summary of the rich experience in China's reform and opening-up and socialist modernization, and the new ideas, viewpoints, and conclusions he proposed and elaborated. "Jiang Zemin on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics" (Topic Selections) is extremely rich in content, including Jiang Zemin's discussions on upholding the great banner of Deng Xiaoping Theory, emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts, keeping pace with the times, and pioneering and innovating; on correctly understanding China's basic national conditions, adhering steadfastly to the Party's basic line and basic program, and building a socialist economy, politics, and culture with Chinese characteristics; on continuously advancing reform and opening-up and establishing and improving an economic system and a socialist market economy system that meet the requirements of productive forces development; on taking development as the top priority of governing the country, correctly handling the relationship between reform, development, and stability, maintaining the sustained and rapid economic and social development of the national economy, and comprehensively building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and accelerating the modernization of socialism; on implementing the strategy of revitalizing the country through science and education, giving full play to the important role of science and technology in developing China's advanced productive forces and advanced culture, and safeguarding and promoting the fundamental interests of the broad masses of the Chinese people; on developing socialist democratic politics, adhering to the combination of governing the country according to law and governing the country with virtue, building a socialist political civilization, and building a socialist country under the rule of law; on governing for the people, taking the realization of the interests of the people as the starting point and destination of all our work; on taking material civilization and spiritual civilization as a unified goal, improving the ideological and ethical standards and scientific and cultural literacy of the entire nation, promoting the national spirit, and strengthening national cohesion; on consolidating and developing the socialist relations among ethnic groups characterized by equality, unity, and mutual assistance, promoting the development, progress, and common prosperity of all ethnic groups, and actively guiding religion to adapt to socialist society; on adhering to the Party's absolute leadership over the army, basing itself on winning localized wars under modern and especially high-tech conditions, and comprehensively strengthening the army and national defense construction; on adhering to the principle of "one country, two systems," maintaining the prosperity and stability of Hong Kong and Macao, developing relations across the Taiwan Strait, and achieving the complete unification of the motherland; on correctly grasping the development trends of world multipolarity and economic globalization, adhering to an independent and peaceful foreign policy, safeguarding China's independence, sovereignty, and safety, and promoting world peace and development; and on the principle that governing the country must first govern the Party, governing the Party must be strict, and comprehensively advancing the great new project of Party building, etc.