Promote the Great Founding Spirit of the Party and Accelerate the Building of a Strong Agricultural Country

Spirit is the soul on which a nation depends for long-term survival. The great founding spirit of the Party is the spiritual source of the Communist Party of China, the spiritual gene by which the Party unites and leads the people in carrying out great struggles, advancing the great project, promoting the great cause, and realizing the great dream. To make a country strong, agriculture must first be made strong; only when agriculture is strong can the country be strong. At present, China is in a crucial period of getting off to a good start in comprehensively building a modern socialist country. Promoting the great founding spirit of the Party has important practical significance for accelerating the building of a strong agricultural country and comprehensively building a modern socialist country.

精神是一个民族赖以长久生存的灵魂。伟大建党精神是中国共产党的精神之源，是党团结带领人民进行伟大斗争、建设伟大工程、推进伟大事业、实现伟大梦想的精神基因。强国必先强农，农强方能国强。当前，我国正处于全面建设社会主义现代化国家开局起步的关键时期，弘扬伟大建党精神，对于加快建设农业强国和全面建成社会主义现代化强国具有重要的现实意义。

Illuminating the Path of Building a Strong Agricultural Country

照亮农业强国建设之路

Marxism is a scientific theory that creatively reveals the objective laws of the development of human society, points the way for humanity to leap from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom, and points the path for the people to realize freedom and liberation. Marxism is the fundamental guiding ideology for the founding of the Party and the country, and for the rejuvenation of the Party and the country. Ideals and convictions are the political soul of Chinese Communists. Upholding truth and坚守理想 [n1] demonstrates the scientific nature of Marxism, reveals from the dimension of thought the unique advantage of our Party’s advanced thinking and firm faith, and constitutes the ideological cornerstone of the great founding spirit of the Party. The history of the Communist Party of China is a history of theoretical exploration in which the Party unites and leads the people to uphold truth and坚守理想. Over more than one hundred years, Chinese Communists have adhered to integrating the basic principles of Marxism with China’s specific realities and with the fine traditional Chinese culture, continuously adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times, forming Marxism that has been adapted to the Chinese context and the needs of the times. This has laid a solid theoretical foundation for the great leap of the Chinese nation from standing up and growing prosperous to becoming strong, and has provided rich theoretical nourishment for Chinese Communists to坚守理想. On the new journey to accelerate the building of a strong agricultural country, it is necessary to further promote the great founding spirit of the Party of upholding truth and坚守理想. There is no precedent for building a strong agricultural country in a large country with a civilization history of more than five thousand years and a population of over 1.4 billion. Only by upholding truth and坚守理想, and using the light of Marxist truth to illuminate the path of building a strong agricultural country, can this be achieved. This requires using the Marxist stance, viewpoint, and method to analyze the major theoretical and practical issues in building a strong agricultural country, both following the general laws of building a strong agricultural country and basing ourselves on our national conditions of a large country with small-scale peasant farming, taking the Chinese-path modernization path for agriculture, rural areas, and farmers, and striving to write a new chapter on agriculture, rural areas, and farmers in the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. This requires adhering to and learning Marxism as a fundamental skill, truly grasping the essence of Marxism, persisting in arming the mind with the Party’s innovative theories, especially General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on work related to agriculture, rural areas, and farmers, continuously consolidating the foundation of faith, replenishing the calcium of the spirit, and steadying the helm of thought, so that truth and ideals may bloom with even more splendid flowers in the acceleration of building a strong agricultural country.

马克思主义是科学的理论，创造性地揭示了人类社会发展的客观规律，为人类指明了从必然王国向自由王国飞跃的途径，为人民指明了实现自由和解放的道路。马克思主义是我们立党立国、兴党兴国的根本指导思想。理想信念是中国共产党人的政治灵魂。坚持真理、坚守理想，彰显了马克思主义的科学性，从思想的维度展现了我们党思想先进、信仰坚定的独特优势，是伟大建党精神的思想基石。一部中国共产党的历史就是一部党团结带领人民坚持真理、坚守理想的理论探索史。一百多年来，中国共产党人坚持把马克思主义基本原理同中国具体实际相结合、同中华优秀传统文化相结合，不断推进马克思主义中国化时代化，形成了中国化时代化的马克思主义，为中华民族迎来从站起来、富起来到强起来的伟大飞跃奠定了坚实的理论基础，为中国共产党人坚守理想提供了丰厚的理论滋养。新征程上加快建设农业强国，需进一步弘扬坚持真理、坚守理想的伟大建党精神。在具有五千多年文明史、拥有14亿多人口的大国建成农业强国没有先例，唯有坚持真理、坚守理想，用马克思主义真理之光照亮农业强国建设之路。这就要求用马克思主义的立场观点方法分析农业强国建设中的重大理论和现实问题，既遵循农业强国建设的一般规律，又立足我国大国小农的国情农情，走中国式农业农村农民现代化道路，奋力书写中华民族伟大复兴的“三农”新篇章。这就需要坚持和学习马克思主义这一看家本领，真正掌握马克思主义精髓，坚持用党的创新理论尤其是习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述武装头脑，不断筑牢信仰之基、补足精神之钙、把稳思想之舵，让真理和理想在加快建设农业强国中开出更加绚丽的花朵。

Gathering the Mighty Force for Building a Strong Agricultural Country

汇聚农业强国建设磅礴力量

Never forget why you started, and you can accomplish your mission. The original aspiration and mission of Chinese Communists is to seek happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation. Practicing the original aspiration and undertaking the mission reveals from the dimension of responsibility the fundamental driving force for Chinese Communists to keep moving forward, and is a distinctive symbol of the great founding spirit of the Party. The history of the Communist Party of China is a history in which the Party’s original aspiration and mission have inspired all Party members and cadres to forge ahead with determination. Over more than one hundred years, generations of Chinese Communists have practiced the original aspiration and undertaken the mission, attaching great importance to work related to agriculture, rural areas, and farmers, and promoting historic achievements and historic changes in agriculture and rural areas. China’s comprehensive agricultural production capacity has taken a great leap forward, farmers’ incomes have grown continuously, rural people’s livelihoods have improved significantly, and the face of the countryside has taken on a completely new look, laying a solid foundation for embarking on the new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country. At the same time, we must also be soberly aware that agriculture and rural areas are still a weak link in China’s modernization drive. Compared with new industrialization, informatization, and urbanization, agricultural modernization remains a shortcoming. In comprehensively building a modern socialist country and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, the most arduous and heavy tasks remain in the countryside, and the most extensive and profound foundation also lies in the countryside. Looking to the future, the Party Central Committee, focusing on comprehensively building a modern socialist country, has made a strategic deployment to basically realize agricultural modernization by 2035 and build a strong agricultural country by the middle of this century. On the new journey to accelerate the building of a strong agricultural country, it is necessary to further promote the great founding spirit of the Party of practicing the original aspiration and undertaking the mission. This requires effectively transforming the Party Central Committee’s strategic deployment of building a strong agricultural country in two steps into responsibility and commitment, further promoting the implementation of the policy requirement of persisting in making solving issues related to agriculture, rural areas, and farmers the top priority of the Party’s work without compromise, placing the acceleration of building a strong agricultural country in an important position, adhering to the priority development of agriculture and rural areas, accelerating the filling of shortcomings in agriculture and rural areas, continuously consolidating the foundation of agriculture and rural areas, and mobilizing the entire Party and the whole society to promote comprehensive rural revitalization.

不忘初心，方得始终。中国共产党人的初心和使命，就是为中国人民谋幸福，为中华民族谋复兴。践行初心、担当使命，从责任担当的维度揭示了中国共产党人不断前进的根本动力，是伟大建党精神的鲜明标识。一部中国共产党的历史就是一部党的初心使命激励全体共产党员和干部砥砺奋进的历史。一百多年来，一代代中国共产党人践行初心、担当使命，高度重视“三农”工作，推动农业农村取得历史性成就、发生历史性变革。我国农业综合生产能力上了大台阶，农民收入持续增长，农村民生显著改善，乡村面貌焕然一新，为开启全面建设社会主义现代化国家新征程奠定了坚实基础。同时，我们也要清醒地看到，当前农业农村仍然是我国现代化建设的短板，同新型工业化、信息化、城镇化相比，农业现代化依然是短板。全面建设社会主义现代化国家，实现中华民族伟大复兴，最艰巨最繁重的任务依然在农村，最广泛最深厚的基础依然在农村。面向未来，党中央着眼于全面建成社会主义现代化强国作出了到2035年基本实现农业现代化、到本世纪中叶建成农业强国的战略部署。新征程上加快建设农业强国，需进一步弘扬践行初心、担当使命的伟大建党精神。这就要求切实把党中央分两步建成农业强国的战略部署转化为责任担当，进一步推动坚持把解决好“三农”问题作为全党工作重中之重的政策要求不折不扣落到实处，把加快建设农业强国摆在重要位置，坚持农业农村优先发展，加快补齐“三农”短板，不断夯实“三农”基础，举全党全社会之力推动乡村全面振兴。

Facing the Difficulties and Challenges of Building a Strong Agricultural Country

直面农业强国建设困难挑战

“For the sake of sacrifice, there is bold ambition; dare to make the sun and moon shine in a new sky.” [n2] Not fearing sacrifice and fighting bravely embodies the revolutionary nature of Marxism, reveals from the spiritual dimension our Party’s powerful strength of daring to struggle and being invincible, and constitutes the distinctive background of the great founding spirit of the Party. The history of the Communist Party of China is a history in which the Party unites and leads the people in not fearing sacrifice and fighting bravely. Over more than one hundred years, the Party has led the people through magnificent great struggles, achieving great successes in the new-democratic revolution, socialist revolution and construction, reform and opening up and socialist modernization, and socialism with Chinese characteristics for a New Era. None of these achievements fell from the sky, nor were they bestowed by others; they were obtained through not fearing sacrifice, daring to struggle, and continuous struggle. No political party in the world has encountered as many difficulties and obstacles, experienced as many life-and-death tests, or paid as many tragic sacrifices as the Communist Party of China. It is precisely because of adhering to and promoting the great founding spirit of the Party of not fearing sacrifice and fighting bravely that China’s work on agriculture, rural areas, and farmers has achieved remarkable results. At the same time, we must also be soberly aware that the current construction of a strong agricultural country in China faces prominent problems such as an unstable agricultural foundation, relatively low agricultural production efficiency and comparative benefits, intensified pressure from resource and environmental constraints on agricultural development, insufficient international competitiveness of agricultural products, a large income gap between urban and rural residents, unbalanced urban-rural development, and inadequate rural development. For the nation to rejuvenate, the countryside must first be revitalized. On the new journey to accelerate the building of a strong agricultural country, it is necessary to further promote the great founding spirit of the Party of not fearing sacrifice and fighting bravely. This requires that the Party, in the historical process of uniting and leading the people to accelerate the building of a strong agricultural country, must be brave in carrying out a great struggle with many new historical features. This requires a comprehensive analysis and profound understanding of the historical characteristics of the new great struggle in work related to agriculture, rural areas, and farmers on the new journey, carrying forward the revolutionary spirit of not fearing sacrifice, continuously improving the ability to struggle, and turning the beautiful blueprint of building a strong agricultural country into reality step by step through unremitting struggle.

为有牺牲多壮志，敢教日月换新天。不怕牺牲、英勇斗争，体现了马克思主义的革命性，从精神的维度展现了我们党敢于斗争、无坚不摧的强大力量，是伟大建党精神的鲜明底色。一部中国共产党的历史就是一部党团结带领人民不怕牺牲、英勇斗争的历史。一百多年来，党领导人民经过波澜壮阔的伟大斗争，取得了新民主主义革命、社会主义革命和建设、改革开放和社会主义现代化建设、新时代中国特色社会主义的伟大成就。这一切不是从天上掉下来的，不是别人恩赐的，而是通过不怕牺牲、敢于斗争、不断斗争取得的。世界上没有哪个政党像中国共产党这样，遭遇过如此多的艰难险阻，经历过如此多的生死考验，付出过如此多的惨烈牺牲。正是因为坚持和弘扬不怕牺牲、英勇斗争的伟大建党精神，我国“三农”工作才取得了显著成就。同时，我们也要清醒地看到，当前我国农业强国建设面临农业基础还不稳固，农业生产效率和比较效益偏低，农业发展资源环境约束压力加剧，农产品国际竞争力不足，城乡居民收入差距较大，城乡发展不平衡、农村发展不充分等突出问题。民族要复兴，乡村必先振兴。新征程上加快建设农业强国，需进一步弘扬不怕牺牲、英勇奋斗的伟大建党精神。这就要求党在团结带领人民加快建设农业强国的历史进程中必须勇于进行具有许多新的历史特点的伟大斗争。这就需要全面分析和深刻领会新征程上在“三农”工作中进行新的伟大斗争的历史特点，发扬不怕牺牲的革命精神，不断提高斗争本领，通过不懈斗争把建设农业强国的美好蓝图一步步变为现实。

Ensuring the Correct Direction for Building a Strong Agricultural Country

确保农业强国建设正确方向

The country is the people, and the people are the country. The Party’s roots lie in the people, its lifeblood in the people, its strength in the people. Always representing the fundamental interests of the broadest majority of the people, sharing weal and woe with the people, and having no special interests of its own—this is the fundamental reason why the Party stands invincible. Being loyal to the Party and living up to the people’s trust manifests the people-centered character of Marxism, embodies from the dimension of value the Party’s political quality of building the Party for the public and caring for the people, and constitutes the value pursuit of the great founding spirit of the Party. The history of the Communist Party of China is a history of working for the well-being of the people. The Party has always attached great importance to the work concerning agriculture, rural areas, and farmers. From confiscating the land of the landlords and distributing it to the tillers during the Agrarian Revolutionary War, to implementing the household contract responsibility system after reform and opening up, and now to implementing the rural revitalization strategy and accelerating the building of a strong agricultural country, the farmers’ aspiration for a better life has been steadily turned into reality. On the new journey of accelerating the building of a strong agricultural country, it is necessary to further carry forward the great founding spirit of the Party of being loyal to the Party and living up to the people’s trust. Loyalty to the Party is the fundamental political guarantee for accelerating the building of a strong agricultural country, and living up to the people’s trust is the starting point and ultimate goal of accelerating the building of a strong agricultural country. This requires, in the building of a strong agricultural country, ensuring the correct direction of this endeavor with a firm political stance and profound feelings for the people, effectively promoting the comprehensive upgrading of agriculture, the comprehensive progress of rural areas, and the comprehensive development of farmers, and doing everything possible to increase agricultural efficiency, invigorate rural areas, and raise farmers’ incomes. This requires adhering to making increasing farmers’ income the central task of work concerning agriculture, rural areas, and farmers, resolutely implementing the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee on work concerning agriculture, rural areas, and farmers, keeping in mind that “food security” is a matter of “paramount importance for the country” [3], taking ensuring the stable and secure supply of grain and important agricultural products as the top priority in building a strong agricultural country, taking comprehensively promoting rural revitalization as an important task in building a strong agricultural country, vigorously advancing rural reform and rural modernization, accelerating the achievement of high-level self-reliance and self-strengthening in agricultural science and technology, and enabling the broad masses of farmers to share the fruits of building a strong agricultural country.

江山就是人民，人民就是江山。党的根基在人民、血脉在人民、力量在人民。始终代表最广大人民根本利益，与人民休戚相关、生死相依，没有任何自己特殊的利益，这是党立于不败之地的根本所在。对党忠诚、不负人民，彰显了马克思主义的人民性，从价值的维度体现了我们党立党为公、心系人民的政治品格，是伟大建党精神的价值追求。一部中国共产党的历史就是一部为民造福的历史。党始终高度重视“三农”工作，从土地革命时期打土豪分田地，到改革开放后推行家庭联产承包责任制，再到如今实施乡村振兴战略、加快建设农业强国，农民对美好生活的向往不断变为现实。新征程上加快建设农业强国，需进一步弘扬对党忠诚、不负人民的伟大建党精神。对党忠诚是加快建设农业强国的根本政治保障，不负人民是加快建设农业强国的出发点和落脚点。这就要求在农业强国建设中以坚定的政治立场和深厚的为民情怀确保农业强国建设的正确方向，切实推动农业全面升级、农村全面进步、农民全面发展，千方百计促进农业增效益、农村增活力、农民增收入。这就需要坚持把增加农民收入作为“三农”工作的中心任务，坚决贯彻党中央关于“三农”工作的决策部署，牢记“粮食安全”是“国之大者”，把保障粮食安全和重要农产品稳定安全供给作为建设农业强国的头等大事、全面推进乡村振兴作为建设农业强国的重要任务，大力推进农村改革和农村现代化建设，加快实现高水平农业科技自立自强，让广大农民共享农业强国建设成果。

(The author is Vice Dean and Professor of the School of Marxism at China Agricultural University, and a Distinguished Researcher of the Beijing Research

（作者系中国农业大学马克思主义学院副院长、教授，北京市习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想研究中心特约研究员）

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