Global Times: Translators' Voices: CPC's leadership through Party building will inevitably grow as 15th Five-Year Plan unfolds

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As this year marks the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC), a national conference on Party building was held in Beijing on June 15, making arrangements for studying and implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building. The Thought reflects intrinsic connections among Party self-governance, Party strengthening and national rejuvenation. Articulated through the “Fourteen Upholds” – and comprising a series of signature major concepts, original ideas, and fundamental theoretical insights – the Thought has made major original contributions to the development of the Marxist theory of Party building, and is of great practical significance and far-reaching guiding significance for strengthening the Party and the country.

Of the “Fourteen Upholds,” the first is that upholding the Party’s leadership is the defining feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics. The book Xi Jinping: The Governance of China includes several important speeches on upholding and strengthening the leadership of the Party. In the “Speech at the Ceremony Marking the Centenary of the Communist Party of China” included in Volume IV of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, Chinese President Xi Jinping stressed, “The leadership of the Party is the defining feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics and constitutes the greatest strength of this system. It is the foundation and lifeblood of the Party and the country, and the crux upon which the interests and wellbeing of all Chinese people depend.”