The Key Code to Why the Chinese Communist Party Can Succeed

The Chinese Communist Party has been founded for 105 years and in power for 77 years. Having endured hardships, its fighting spirit has grown stronger, and after repeated tempering, it has become even more resilient. At the meeting celebrating the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, General Secretary Xi Jinping, with a broad vision, looked back on the Party’s history, concisely summarized and profoundly elucidated the Party’s six outstanding qualities, and pointed out that “the fundamental reason why the Chinese Communist Party has been able to continuously achieve brilliance in its 105 years of struggle, and why history and the people have chosen the Chinese Communist Party, lies in the fact that our Party possesses outstanding qualities unmatched by any other political party or political force.” This major theoretical innovation condenses the course of struggle, reveals the key code, and enables us to understand more deeply what kind of party the Chinese Communist Party is and what kind of people Chinese Communists truly are. Thus, we can unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, strengthen our confidence, continue our struggle, and constantly create new achievements worthy of the times and the people.

中国共产党成立105年、执政77年，历经磨难斗志弥坚，千锤百炼更加坚强。习近平总书记在庆祝中国共产党成立105周年大会上，以宏阔视野回望党的历史，凝练概括并深刻阐发党的六大优秀特质，指出“中国共产党之所以能够在105年奋斗中不断铸就辉煌，历史和人民之所以选择中国共产党，根本在于我们党具有其他政党和政治力量无可比拟的优秀特质”。这个重大的理论创新，浓缩奋斗历程，揭示关键密码，使我们更加深切地体悟到中国共产党是一个什么样的党、中国共产党人究竟是什么样的人，从而更加紧密地团结在以习近平同志为核心的党中央周围，坚定信心、接续奋斗，不断创造无愧于时代和人民的新业绩。

The Chinese Communist Party is a great party that is steadfast in pursuing truth and always keeps the direction of progress correct.

中国共产党是矢志追求真理、始终把准前进方向的伟大政党

The power of truth is embodied centrally in the Party’s scientific theory. A party guided by scientific theory is indestructible and invincible. At the most critical moment in modern China, our Party, after extensive exploration and repeated comparison, found Marxism-Leninism, bringing the spark of truth to China. In the course of leading revolution, construction, and reform, the Party has always been based on China’s national conditions, insisted on emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts, advancing with the times, and being realistic and pragmatic. It has been adept at revealing and applying truth in the movement of social contradictions, and at testing and developing truth in practice. It has continuously advanced the adaptation of Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times, forming Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thought of the “Three Represents,” and the Scientific Outlook on Development. This has deeply rooted Marxism in the soil of China, unleashed a powerful material force for understanding and transforming the world, guided China to initiate earth-shaking historical changes, and guided the cause of the Party and the people to advance in the correct direction.

真理力量集中体现为党的科学理论，一个拥有科学理论指导的政党是无坚不摧、无往不胜的。在近代中国最危急的时刻，我们党经过上下求索、反复比较，找到了马克思列宁主义，为中国带来真理的火种。在领导革命、建设、改革的进程中，党始终立足我国国情，坚持解放思想、实事求是、与时俱进、求真务实，注重在社会矛盾运动中揭示和运用真理，善于在实践中检验和发展真理，不断推进马克思主义中国化时代化，形成毛泽东思想、邓小平理论、“三个代表”重要思想、科学发展观，使马克思主义深深扎根中国大地，焕发出认识世界、改造世界的强大物质力量，指引中国开启翻天覆地的历史巨变，指引党和人民事业沿着正确方向前进。

The light of truth transcends time and illuminates the journey. Entering the New Era, new situations and new tasks urgently require new theories to set the direction and consolidate the soul. Chinese Communists, with Comrade Xi Jinping as their main representative, standing at a new historical juncture, treat science with a scientific attitude, pursue truth with the spirit of truth, adhere to combining the basic tenets of Marxism with China’s specific realities and with the best of traditional Chinese culture, continuously promote theoretical innovation on the basis of practice, and have established Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. This has achieved a new leap in adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times, providing scientific theoretical guidance for the development of the Party and the country that is both continuous and advancing with the times, and providing a powerful ideological weapon and guide to action for advancing the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation. Thought originates from practice and in turn guides practice. Relying on the power of scientific theory, our Party has united and led the people of all ethnic groups across the country to write a new chapter in the two miracles of rapid economic development and long-term social stability, to build a moderately prosperous society in all respects on the land of China, to successfully advance and expand Chinese-path modernization, and to make the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation unstoppable, showing unprecedented bright prospects. The extremely unusual journey and extraordinary achievements of the New Era fully demonstrate the truth power and practical power of the Party’s innovative theory, becoming the most vivid portrayal and the most powerful proof that Marxism works and that Marxism adapted to the Chinese context and the needs of the times works.

真理之光穿越时空、照亮征程。进入新时代，新的形势、新的任务，迫切需要新的理论举旗定向、凝心铸魂。以习近平同志为主要代表的中国共产党人站在新的历史方位，以科学的态度对待科学，以真理的精神追求真理，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，在实践基础上不断推进理论创新，创立了习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想，实现了马克思主义中国化时代化新的飞跃，为党和国家事业发展提供了既一脉相承又与时俱进的科学理论指导，为推进强国建设、民族复兴伟业提供了强大思想武器和行动指南。思想源于实践又指导实践。依靠科学理论的力量，我们党团结带领全国各族人民，书写了经济快速发展和社会长期稳定两大奇迹新篇章，在中华大地上全面建成了小康社会，成功推进和拓展了中国式现代化，推动中华民族伟大复兴势不可挡，展现出前所未有的光明前景。新时代极不寻常的历程、极不平凡的成就，充分彰显了党的创新理论的真理力量和实践伟力，成为马克思主义行、中国化时代化的马克思主义行的最生动写照、最有力证明。

History profoundly shows that Marxism does not end truth, but rather opens the path to truth. We must better unify upholding and developing Marxism, consciously use Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to arm our minds, guide practice, and promote work. We must deeply understand the decisive significance of the Two Establishments, resolutely achieve the Two Upholds, and, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, strive to create new historical brilliance, allowing contemporary Chinese Marxism and Marxism of the 21st century to radiate even more brilliant rays of truth.

历史深刻昭示，马克思主义并没有结束真理，而是开辟了通向真理的道路。我们要把坚持和发展马克思主义更好统一起来，自觉用习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想武装头脑、指导实践、推动工作，深刻领悟“两个确立”的决定性意义，坚决做到“两个维护”，在以习近平同志为核心的党中央坚强领导下，奋力创造新的历史辉煌，让当代中国马克思主义、二十一世纪马克思主义放射出更加灿烂的真理光芒。

The Chinese Communist Party is a great party that is deeply rooted in the people and always possesses a solid foundation.

中国共产党是深深植根人民、始终拥有坚实根基的伟大政党

Historical materialism holds that the masses of the people are the main body of historical activities and the creators of history. This points out the force to rely on for the proletarian party. A significant mark distinguishing the Chinese Communist Party from other political parties is its maintenance of the closest ties with the masses of the people. For 105 years, the Party has always firmly believed that the people are the true heroes, has taken serving the people wholeheartedly as its fundamental purpose, has established and adhered to the mass line, has proposed tasks for different historical stages to meet the people’s expectations, has extensively mobilized and organized the people, and has gathered them into an impregnable iron wall. All the work of our Party, whether it is carrying out revolutionary struggles, establishing armed forces, building political systems, or advancing reform and opening up, promoting cultural-ethical progress, and innovating social governance, is ultimately aimed at realizing the fundamental interests of the broadest majority of the people. History and reality repeatedly prove that whoever can stand firmly with the people, think together with them, and work together with them, the people will choose and support them.

唯物史观认为，人民群众是历史活动的主体，是历史的创造者，这为无产阶级政党指明了依靠力量。中国共产党区别于其他政党的一个显著标志，就是和人民群众保持最密切的联系。105年来，党始终坚信人民是真正的英雄，把全心全意为人民服务作为根本宗旨，创立和坚持群众路线，提出不同历史阶段的任务以满足人民期待，把人民广泛发动起来、组织起来，汇聚成摧不垮、打不破的铜墙铁壁。我们党的所有工作，不论是开展革命斗争、建立武装力量、构建政治制度，还是推进改革开放、推动文化发展、创新社会治理等，归根到底都是为了实现最广大人民的根本利益。历史和现实反复证明，谁能坚定地同人民站在一起、想在一起、干在一起，人民就会选择谁、支持谁。

Traveling thousands of miles, we never forget our original aspiration. Our Party has traversed countless rivers and mountains, and its steps to seek happiness for the people have never ceased. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “The country is the people, and the people are the country.” These sincere words reveal the profound sentiment of the Party’s leader and the people’s leader of “I will have no self, and I will not fail the people.” Since the New Era, the Party Central Committee has responded to the people’s desire for a better life, firmly established a people-centered development philosophy, insisted on building the Party for the public and exercising governance for the people, integrated the people’s concerns into the top-level design of national development, and embodied them in the policy arrangements for governing the country: the principle of putting the people first has been carried through all fields and the entire process of economic and social development, winning the largest battle against poverty in human history; wholehearted and dedicated efforts have been made to solve practical problems concerning the people, such as employment, education, social security, medical care, and elderly care, striving to promote the well-rounded development of people and common prosperity for all; we insist on asking the people about their needs and seeking their advice, fully stimulating the creative power contained within the masses of the people, and using the Chinese Dream to continuously consolidate and develop the great unity of all ethnic groups, the great unity of the people of the whole country, and the great unity of all the sons and daughters of the Chinese nation. Countless Communist Party members stand among the broadest masses of the people, play a vanguard and exemplary role in their respective positions, step forward in times of crisis, and spare no effort to work for the people. The recipients of the “July 1 Medal” honored this time are outstanding representatives among the millions of Party members who adhere to their original aspiration and founding mission and practice their purpose.

行程万里，不忘初心。我们党走过万水千山，为人民谋幸福的脚步从未停歇。习近平总书记指出：“江山就是人民，人民就是江山。”真挚的话语，道出了党的领袖、人民领袖“我将无我，不负人民”的深厚情怀。新时代以来，党中央顺应人民对美好生活的向往，牢固树立以人民为中心的发展思想，坚持立党为公、执政为民，把民之关切融入国家发展的顶层设计中，体现在治国理政的政策安排中：将人民至上理念贯穿于经济社会发展全过程各领域，打赢人类历史上规模最大的脱贫攻坚战；用心用情用力解决群众关心的就业、教育、社保、医疗、养老等实际问题，努力推动人的全面发展、全体人民共同富裕；坚持问需于民、问计于民，充分激发蕴藏在人民群众中的创造伟力，以中国梦不断巩固和发展各民族大团结、全国人民大团结、全体中华儿女大团结。无数共产党员站在最广大人民之中，在各自岗位发挥先锋模范作用，在危难时刻挺身而出，不遗余力为民办事。这次受表彰的“七一勋章”获得者，正是千千万万党员中坚守初心、践行宗旨的杰出代表。

History profoundly shows that the people are the source of our Party’s strength and the foundation of its victory. On the new journey, as long as we keep in mind the fundamental question of what the Chinese Communist Party is and what it wants to do, forever maintain flesh-and-blood ties with the masses of the people, take benefiting the people as the greatest political achievement, further boost the spirit of doing business and starting undertakings, and drive the enthusiasm of all aspects, we will surely be able to unite and lead the people of all ethnic groups across the country to forge ahead, enabling the Party to possess a solid foundation that no storm can shake.

历史深刻昭示，人民是我们党的力量源泉和胜利之本。新征程上，只要我们牢记中国共产党是什么、要干什么这个根本问题，永远保持同人民群众的血肉联系，把为民造福作为最大政绩，进一步提振干事创业的精气神，把各方面的干劲带起来，就一定能团结带领全国各族人民开拓进取，使党拥有任何风浪都动摇不了的坚实根基。

The Chinese Communist Party is a great party that bravely undertakes its historical mission and always masters strategic initiative.

中国共产党是勇担历史使命、始终掌握战略主动的伟大政党

After modern times, China fell into an unprecedented dark situation. For the rebirth of the country and the nation, the Chinese Communist Party, cherishing the lofty ideal of communism and aspiring to the millennia-long cause of the Chinese nation, firmly shouldered the heavy responsibility entrusted by history and the people, and embarked on the long journey of pursuing modernization. Inspired by this great mission, our Party has adapted to changes in the principal contradiction of society to establish central tasks, refined long-term development visions into practical, forward-looking, and inspiring goals, successively proposing the realization of the “Four Modernizations,” the “three-step” development strategy for modernization, and building a moderately prosperous society in all respects. This has effectively led China’s socialist modernization past one key juncture after another, continuously achieving new successes, and the dream that the Chinese nation has diligently pursued is step by step becoming a “vibrant” reality.

近代以后，中国陷入前所未有的黑暗境地。为了国家和民族的新生，中国共产党胸怀共产主义远大理想、立志于中华民族千秋伟业，坚定地把历史和人民赋予的重任扛在肩上，踏上了追求现代化的漫漫征程。在这一伟大使命的激励下，我们党适应社会主要矛盾变化确立中心任务，将长远发展愿景细化为符合实际、具有前瞻性、富于感召力的奋斗目标，先后提出实现“四个现代化”、现代化建设“三步走”发展战略、全面建成小康社会等，有力引领我国社会主义现代化迈过一个个关键节点，不断取得新的成就，中华民族孜孜以求的梦想正一步步成为“活跃跃”的现实。

“Only with a certain strategy can one achieve a certain success.” [1]1 "Party building as a great project" refers to Mao Zedong's formulation during the Yan'an period, likening the construction of the CPC to a vast, systematic undertaking. Entering the New Era, China has stood at a new and higher starting point, and the importance of strategic issues has become even more prominent. General Secretary Xi Jinping, with a far-sighted perspective and overall planning, has repeatedly emphasized that strategic issues are fundamental to a political party and a country, and has engaged in profound strategic thinking and planning regarding where we are headed on the new journey and how to get there. The Party Central Committee has deeply discerned changes in the situation, made the major judgment that the principal contradiction in Chinese society has transformed, and arranged a new strategic plan divided into two stages, proposing to basically achieve socialist modernization by 2035 and to build a great modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious, and beautiful by the middle of this century, thereby setting the pace for the future modernization process and drawing a grand blueprint. In the historical process of stepwise progression, our Party has, from a horizontal perspective, coordinated the advancement of the Five-Sphere Integrated Plan and the Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy, and deeply implemented a series of major strategies such as the strategy of invigorating China through science and education, the coordinated regional development strategy, and the rural revitalization strategy; from a vertical perspective, it has adhered to the unity of long-term goals and phased objectives, implementing and advancing them step by step with a five-year plan as a cycle, making Chinese-path modernization clearer, more scientific, and more tangible and achievable. Many insightful individuals internationally envy China’s five-year plans, believing that the Chinese Communist Party can persist in drawing a blueprint to the end, which is unimaginable and even more difficult to achieve in many countries.

“有一定之略，然后有一定之功。”进入新时代的中国，站上新的更高起点，战略问题的重要性更加凸显。习近平总书记登高望远、谋篇布局，反复强调战略问题是一个政党、一个国家的根本性问题，并对新征程上我们朝哪走、怎么走进行深邃战略思考和战略谋划。党中央深刻洞察形势变化，作出我国社会主要矛盾转化的重大判断，分两个阶段作出新的战略安排，提出到2035年基本实现社会主义现代化，到本世纪中叶建成富强民主文明和谐美丽的社会主义现代化强国，为未来现代化进程设定前行节奏、擘画宏伟蓝图。在阶梯式递进的历史过程中，我们党从横向上统筹推进“五位一体”总体布局、协调推进“四个全面”战略布局，深入实施科教兴国战略、区域协调发展战略、乡村振兴战略等一系列重大战略；从纵向上坚持长远目标和阶段目标相统一，以五年为一个规划周期分步实施、接力推进，使中国式现代化更加清晰、更加科学、更加可感可行。国际上很多有识之士对中国的五年规划羡慕不已，认为中国共产党能够坚持一张蓝图绘到底，这在很多国家是难以想象，更是难以实现的。

History profoundly shows that if strategy is accurately judged, scientifically planned, and the initiative is seized, the cause of the Party and the people holds great promise. This year marks the beginning of the 15th Five-Year Plan period. [2]2 The First Congress Program (1921) was the CPC's founding document, outlining basic organizational and membership rules. We must closely focus on the Party’s mission and tasks for the New Era and the new journey, comprehensively, profoundly, and accurately understand and grasp the strategic deployment of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party, [3]3 The Yan'an Rectification Movement (1942-1945) was a Party-wide campaign to study Marxist-Leninist texts and correct "subjectivist," "sectarian," and "stereotypical" tendencies in Party work. implement it with the spirit of driving nails, work steadily and surely, be good at doing things and achieving success, and ensure that the great ship of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation braves the wind and waves and sails steadily and far.

历史深刻昭示，战略上判断得准确，战略上谋划得科学，战略上赢得主动，党和人民事业就大有希望。今年是“十五五”开局之年，我们要紧紧围绕新时代新征程党的使命任务，全面深刻准确领会和把握党的二十届四中全会的战略部署，以钉钉子精神抓好落实，稳扎稳打、善作善成，确保中华复兴号巨轮劈波斩浪、行稳致远。

The Chinese Communist Party is a great political party that conforms to the trend of development and always marches at the forefront of the times.

中国共产党是顺应发展潮流、始终走在时代前列的伟大政党

A political party or a country can only grasp the historical initiative of its cause’s development by recognizing the laws of history and keeping pace with the times. 105 years ago, our Party was born precisely in the world trend of the victory of the Russian October Revolution and the rise of socialism, following the historical logic of social progress in modern China. Along the way, from conforming to the general trend of the world anti-fascist war and the strong desire of the Chinese people for resistance and national salvation during the War of Resistance Against Japan, and facilitating the formation of the Anti-Japanese National United Front, to accurately grasping the will of the people and historical trends and establishing a new China where the people are the masters of the country, and then to proposing that peace and development are the themes of the contemporary era and making the great decision of reform and opening up, the Party has always deeply observed the conditions of the world, the country, and the Party, changed with the times and acted according to circumstances at every major historical juncture, leading the nation and the people to advance in the logic of historical progress and develop in the trend of the times, becoming a worthy vanguard of the times and the backbone of the nation.

一个政党、一个国家，只有认清历史规律，紧跟时代步伐，才能掌握事业发展的历史主动。105年前，我们党就是在俄国十月革命胜利、社会主义兴起的世界大势中，在近代以后中国社会进步的历史逻辑中应运而生的。一路走来，从抗日战争时期顺应世界反法西斯战争和中国人民抗日救亡强烈愿望的大势、促成抗日民族统一战线，到准确把握民心所向和历史趋势、建立人民当家作主的新中国，再到提出和平与发展是当今时代的主题、作出改革开放的伟大决策，党始终深刻体察世情国情党情，在每一个重大历史关头因时而变、随事而制，引领国家和民族在历史前进的逻辑中前进、在时代发展的潮流中发展，成为当之无愧的时代先锋、民族脊梁。

Those who discern the situation are wise; those who ride the trend win. When the baton of history was passed to our generation, the relationship between China and the world underwent profound changes, and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation entered a critical period. General Secretary Xi Jinping, proceeding from a grand historical perspective and based on the changes unseen in a century in the world, profoundly pointed out that understanding the general trend of world development and keeping up with the times is an extremely important and ever-new topic. The Party Central Committee coordinates both domestic and international situations, assesses the situation, follows the trend, leads the entire Party to seize the opportunity of historical change, actively recognizes, responds to, and seeks change, and forge ahead with pioneering spirit, continuously creating new opportunities and opening up new situations in turning crises into opportunities, breaking through difficulties, and responding to changing circumstances. Adapting to China’s economy entering a new stage of development, it guides high-quality development with the new development philosophy; responding to the historical demands of the people for development, innovation, and a better life, it seizes the opportunity to comprehensively deepen reform; facing the new wave of technological revolution and industrial transformation, it comprehensively improves independent innovation capabilities and develops new quality productive forces according to local conditions; discerning the trend of the times for peace, development, cooperation, and win-win outcomes, it expands high-level opening up, promotes high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, and promotes the building of a community with a shared future for mankind; seizing the strategic window period of the 15th Five-Year Plan to consolidate the foundation and exert full force, it seizes the momentum and continues to advance the construction of Chinese-path modernization. The great transformations since the New Era are both the “fruit” of the Chinese Communist Party’s understanding and following of laws, and the “achievement” of our Party riding the wind and taking the initiative to lead.

察势者智，驭势者赢。当历史的接力棒传到我们这一代人手中，中国与世界的关系发生深刻变化，中华民族伟大复兴进入关键时期。习近平总书记从大历史观出发、立足世界百年未有之大变局，深刻指出认识世界发展大势，跟上时代潮流，是一个极为重要并且常做常新的课题。党中央统筹国内国际两个大局，审时度势、顺势而为，带领全党抓住历史变革时机，积极识变应变求变，锐意开拓进取，在化危机、闯难关、应变局中不断创造新机遇、打开新局面。适应我国经济进入新发展阶段，以新发展理念引领高质量发展；顺应人民要发展、要创新、要美好生活的历史要求，不失时机推进全面深化改革；面对新一轮科技革命和产业变革浪潮，全面提高自主创新能力，因地制宜发展新质生产力；洞察和平、发展、合作、共赢的时代潮流，扩大高水平对外开放，高质量共建“一带一路”，推动构建人类命运共同体；抓住“十五五”夯实基础、全面发力的战略窗口期，乘势而上、接续推进中国式现代化建设。新时代以来的伟大变革，既是中国共产党认识规律、遵循规律之“果”，也是我们党御风而上、主动引领之“功”。

History profoundly shows that success always belongs to those who dare to stand at the forefront and innovate, while complacency will only be left behind by the times. The New Era contains new opportunities. We must uphold a high degree of historical consciousness and a broad world perspective, clearly grasp China’s national conditions and the themes of the times, mobilize and utilize all positive factors, concentrate our efforts on handling our own affairs well, promote the implementation of the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative, [4]4 This is a classical Chinese saying from the Daoist text *Laozi* (Chapter 33). and inject more positive energy into world peace and development.

历史深刻昭示，成功从来属于勇立潮头、敢于创新的弄潮儿，故步自封只会被时代抛下。新时代蕴含新机遇。我们必须秉持高度的历史自觉和宽广的世界眼光，清醒把握中国国情和时代主题，调动和运用一切积极因素，集中力量把自己的事情办好，推动落实全球发展倡议、全球安全倡议、全球文明倡议、全球治理倡议，为世界和平与发展注入更多正能量。

The Chinese Communist Party is a great political party that dares and is good at struggle, and always maintains firm confidence in victory.

中国共产党是敢于善于斗争、始终保持必胜信心的伟大政党

Daring to struggle and daring to win are the invincible spiritual strength of the Party and the people. This is an important historical conclusion and a valuable experience of success. Our Party grew and strengthened through struggle. Comrade Mao Zedong once profoundly summarized the development trend of the Chinese revolution: “Struggle, failure, again struggle, again failure, again struggle, until victory — that is the logic of the people.” [5]5 The 18th National Congress of the CPC was held in 2012, marking the beginning of the Xi Jinping era. Having undergone the baptism of war, our Party has repeatedly responded to adverse situations and setbacks, overcome numerous difficulties and obstacles, and greatly enhanced its confidence in overcoming all difficulties without being overwhelmed by any. Shortly after the founding of New China, facing threats and provocations from the world’s most powerful country, our Party made the decision “should participate, must participate” with extraordinary courage, and faced the enemy with the resolute will of “not minding if the country is beaten to pieces and rebuilt,” winning the great victory of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea. [6]6 The Eight-Point Regulations (2012) are a set of rules targeting bureaucracy, extravagance, and formalism among Party and government officials. Over the 105-year journey through wind and rain, countless Communists forged the spirit of fearing no sacrifice and heroic struggle with their blood and sweat, forming an important part of the great founding spirit of the Party. [7]7 "Scraping the poison from the bone" is a Chinese idiom (刮骨疗毒) referring to a story of the Three Kingdoms general Guan Yu, used here to symbolize painful but necessary self-reform.

敢于斗争、敢于胜利，是党和人民不可战胜的强大精神力量。这是重要的历史结论，也是宝贵的成功经验。我们党是在斗争中成长和壮大起来的。毛泽东同志曾深刻总结中国革命的发展趋势：“斗争，失败，再斗争，再失败，再斗争，直至胜利——这就是人民的逻辑”。历经烽火洗礼，我们党一次次应对逆境挫折、一次次战胜艰难险阻，极大增强了敢于战胜一切困难而不被任何困难所压倒的信心。新中国成立不久，面对世界最强大国家的威胁和挑衅，我们党以非凡胆略下定“应当参战，必须参战”的决心，以“不惜国内打烂了重新建设”的决绝斗志迎敌而上，赢得抗美援朝战争伟大胜利。105年风雨征程，无数共产党人用鲜血和汗水锻造了不怕牺牲、英勇斗争的精神，构成伟大建党精神的重要组成部分。

Times change, and so do the content, methods, and environment of struggle. For a period, the development environment was relatively relaxed, and some Party cadres lacked the will to struggle and their ability to struggle weakened, easily panicking when facing dangers and tests. General Secretary Xi Jinping, with high political sobriety and a strong sense of responsibility, warned the entire Party that it must carry out a great struggle with many new historical features, and must be prepared to make more arduous and harder efforts. The great struggle of the New Era involves a very wide range of fields, with contradictions and problems overlapping, and its long-term, complex, and arduous nature is rarely seen in the world or in history. It is amidst turbulent currents that a hero’s true mettle is revealed. The Party Central Committee oversees the great struggle, the great project, the great cause, and the great dream, uniting and leading the entire Party and people of all ethnic groups across the country to unwaveringly carry out resolute struggles in all fields, including reform, development, and stability; internal affairs, foreign affairs, and national defense; and governing the Party, the state, and the military. It has overcome a series of major risks and challenges from political, economic, ideological, and natural aspects, withstood and countered extreme external suppression and containment, and safeguarded national dignity and core interests through struggle. There is no easy success in the world. Everything we have today was not waited for or shouted for, but was achieved through the struggle character of not believing in evil, not fearing ghosts, and not fearing pressure, and through the Communists’ courage to take responsibility and dare to fight and win.

时代在变，斗争的内容、方式、环境也在变。一段时间以来，发展环境相对宽松，一些党员干部斗争意志缺乏、斗争本领减弱，面对危险和考验容易慌了手脚。习近平总书记以高度的政治清醒和强烈的责任担当，告诫全党必须进行具有许多新的历史特点的伟大斗争，必须准备付出更为艰巨、更为艰苦的努力。新时代的伟大斗争涉及领域十分广泛，矛盾和问题相互叠加，长期性、复杂性、艰巨性世所罕见、史所罕见。沧海横流，方显英雄本色。党中央统揽伟大斗争、伟大工程、伟大事业、伟大梦想，团结带领全党全国各族人民，在改革发展稳定、内政外交国防、治党治国治军等各领域，一刻都不放松地开展坚决斗争，战胜了来自政治、经济、意识形态、自然界等方面的一系列重大风险挑战，顶住和反击了外部极端打压遏制，在斗争中维护了国家尊严和核心利益。世界上没有随随便便的成功，我们今天的一切不是等来的、喊来的，而是凭着不信邪、不怕鬼、不怕压的斗争底色，靠着共产党人勇于担当、敢战能胜得来的。

History profoundly shows that without struggle, there is no victory, and there is no great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Facing increasingly complex risks and tests on the path ahead, we can only rely on tenacious struggle to carve out a new world and create a brighter future by strengthening our sense of urgency, adhering to bottom-line thinking, carrying forward the spirit of struggle, enhancing our ability to struggle, being soldiers who dare and are good at struggle, and actively confronting severe situations and struggle tasks.

历史深刻昭示，没有斗争，就没有胜利，就没有中华民族伟大复兴。面对前进道路上越来越复杂的风险考验，我们只有强化忧患意识、坚持底线思维，发扬斗争精神、增强斗争本领，做敢于善于斗争的战士，在严峻形势和斗争任务面前主动迎战，才能依靠顽强斗争打出一片新天地，开创更加美好的未来。

The Chinese Communist Party is a great political party that focuses on strengthening itself and is always full of vitality.

中国共产党是注重强健自身、始终充满生机活力的伟大政党

General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out: "Advancing Party building as a great project, and always adhering to the principle and policy that the Party must supervise itself and govern itself strictly, is a great innovation of our Party, and also a great magic weapon for building the Party and the country, and for rejuvenating the Party and strengthening the country." [1]1 "Party building as a great project" refers to Mao Zedong's formulation during the Yan'an period, likening the construction of the CPC to a vast, systematic undertaking. Precisely because it has always attached great importance to and continuously strengthened its own construction, the CPC has been able to grow from small to large, from weak to strong, and develop into the world's largest governing party with significant global influence. At the very beginning of its founding, the Party explored ways to strengthen its own construction. The Party's First Congress Program stipulated issues such as the Party's organizational principles, organizational structure, and conditions for joining the Party. [2]2 The First Congress Program (1921) was the CPC's founding document, outlining basic organizational and membership rules. Taking this as a starting point, our Party has consistently proceeded from the actual conditions within the Party, been adept at examining itself in light of the developmental requirements of the times, alerting itself with a strong sense of urgency, and perfecting itself with the spirit of self-revolution. Through the Yan'an Rectification Movement, comprehensive Party rectification, multiple centralized study and education campaigns, extensive criticism and self-criticism, and severe punishment of corrupt elements within the Party, it has intensively rectified and eliminated its own ailments, thereby comprehensively strengthening Party building and maintaining the health of the Party's organism. [3]3 The Yan'an Rectification Movement (1942-1945) was a Party-wide campaign to study Marxist-Leninist texts and correct "subjectivist," "sectarian," and "stereotypical" tendencies in Party work.

习近平总书记指出：“把党的建设作为一项伟大工程来推进，并且始终坚持党要管党、从严治党的原则和方针，是我们党的一大创举，也是立党立国、兴党强国的一大法宝。”正因为始终高度重视并不断加强自身建设，中国共产党才能够由小到大、由弱变强，发展成为具有重大全球影响力的世界第一大执政党。成立之初，党就对加强自身建设进行了探索，党的一大党纲规定了党的组织原则、组织机构和入党条件等问题。以此为起点，我们党坚持从党内实际状况出发，善于以时代发展要求审视自己、以强烈忧患意识警醒自己、以自我革命精神完善自己，通过延安整风运动、全面整党、多次集中性学习教育、广泛开展批评和自我批评、严惩党内腐败分子等，集中整治和清除自身病症，使党的建设得到全面加强，保持党的肌体健康。

"One who overcomes others is powerful; one who overcomes oneself is strong." [4]4 This is a classical Chinese saying from the Daoist text *Laozi* (Chapter 33). As a Marxist governing party in power for a long time, facing constantly emerging new situations and new problems, how to forever maintain its advanced nature and purity, and continuously improve the Party's leadership level and long-term governance capacity, is a major issue that our Party must answer and resolve well. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, General Secretary Xi Jinping has directly confronted the various problems caused by the once lax and soft approach to managing and governing the Party, insisted that to forge iron, one must be strong oneself, incorporated comprehensive and strict governance of the Party into the Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy, put forward the general requirements for Party building in the New Era, deeply advanced the great new project of Party building in the New Era, and opened up a new realm of managing, governing, rejuvenating, and strengthening the Party. [5]5 The 18th National Congress of the CPC was held in 2012, marking the beginning of the Xi Jinping era. The Party Central Committee began by formulating and implementing the Eight-Point Regulations to break new ground, deploying a comprehensive set of measures for comprehensive and strict governance of the Party. [6]6 The Eight-Point Regulations (2012) are a set of rules targeting bureaucracy, extravagance, and formalism among Party and government officials. In particular, targeting corruption, the greatest tumor endangering the Party's vitality and combat effectiveness, it pushed the anti-corruption struggle to achieve an overwhelming victory and comprehensively consolidated it. Through more than a decade of tempering in the fire, our Party has resolved a series of prominent problems in its political, ideological, organizational, and disciplinary aspects through the process of scraping the poison from the bone, enabling the century-old Party to achieve nirvana and rebirth, and the Party has become stronger and more powerful through revolutionary forging. [7]7 "Scraping the poison from the bone" is a Chinese idiom (刮骨疗毒) referring to a story of the Three Kingdoms general Guan Yu, used here to symbolize painful but necessary self-reform. It can be said that no other political party in world history has treated its own construction as seriously and conscientiously as the CPC, nor has any engaged in anti-corruption efforts on such a scale, with such intensity, and with such persistence.

“胜人者有力，自胜者强”。作为一个长期执政的马克思主义政党，面对不断出现的新情况新问题，如何永葆先进性和纯洁性、不断提高党的领导水平和长期执政能力，是我们党必须回答好、解决好的重大课题。党的十八大以来，习近平总书记直面管党治党一度宽松软带来的各种问题，坚持打铁必须自身硬，将全面从严治党纳入“四个全面”战略布局，提出新时代党的建设总要求，深入推进新时代党的建设新的伟大工程，开辟了管党治党、兴党强党新境界。党中央从制定和落实中央八项规定开局破题，打出一套全面从严治党“组合拳”，特别是针对腐败这个危害党的生命力和战斗力的最大毒瘤，推动反腐败斗争取得压倒性胜利并全面巩固。10多年浴火淬炼，我们党在刮骨疗毒中解决了自身在政治、思想、组织、纪律等方面存在的一系列突出问题，使百年大党实现了凤凰涅槃、焕然新生，党在革命性锻造中更加坚强有力。可以说，像中国共产党这样严肃认真地对待自身建设，这样大规模、大力度、坚持不懈地反腐败，在世界政党史上都是绝无仅有的。

History profoundly shows that handling China's affairs well depends on the Party, and depends on adhering to the principle that the Party must supervise itself and govern itself strictly and comprehensively. We must always maintain the sobriety and caution of being on a "test" [8]8 "Test" (赶考) refers to Mao Zedong's metaphor on the eve of the founding of the PRC in 1949, comparing the Party's assumption of national power to sitting for an imperial examination, implying a constant need for vigilance and self-improvement., comprehensively study and implement Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, and implement the requirements of comprehensiveness, the tone of strictness, and the concept of governance into the construction of the system for comprehensive and strict governance of the Party. Taking the Party's political construction as the guide, we must strengthen all aspects of Party building, resolutely fight the protracted, comprehensive, and general battle against corruption, and continuously build and strengthen our Party well.

历史深刻昭示，办好中国的事情，关键在党，关键在坚持党要管党、全面从严治党。我们要时刻保持“赶考”的清醒和谨慎，全面学习贯彻习近平党建思想，把全的要求、严的基调、治的理念落实到全面从严治党体系构建中，以党的政治建设为统领加强党的各方面建设，坚决打好反腐败斗争攻坚战持久战总体战，不断把我们党建设好、建设强。

Time is silent, but the spirit endures forever. These six excellent traits have become even more enduring through the passage of time and space, collectively embodying the ideological soul, nature and purpose, theme of struggle, enterprising spirit, will and character, and distinctive markers of Chinese Communists. They have made the great, glorious, and correct CPC, forged 105 years of glorious history, and provided a powerful driving force for the Party to grasp the present and create the future. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "We must combine the new realities to continuously carry forward the Party's excellent traits, ensuring that the Party never changes its nature, its character, or its flavor, and always possesses strong creativity, cohesion, and combat effectiveness." Forging ahead on the new journey, all Chinese Communists must bear in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's earnest instructions, deeply integrate the Party's excellent traits into their blood and marrow, continue and pass them on in practice, make the distinct image of Communist Party members more directly touch the hearts of the people, make the grand bearing of the century-old Party more awe-inspiring, and ensure that the Party always remains the strong leading core in the historical process of upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics in the New Era.

岁月无声，风骨永存。这六大优秀特质在时空流转中历久弥坚，集中体现了中国共产党人的思想灵魂、性质宗旨、奋斗主题、进取精神、意志品格、显著标识，成就了伟大、光荣、正确的中国共产党，铸就了105载辉煌历史，为党把握当下、开创未来提供了强大动力。习近平总书记指出：“我们要结合新的实际，把党的优秀特质不断发扬光大，确保党永远不变质不变色不变味，始终具有强大创造力凝聚力战斗力。”奋进新征程，全体中国共产党人必须牢记习近平总书记的谆谆嘱托，把党的优秀特质深深融入血脉、刻进骨髓，在实践中赓续好、传承好，让共产党员的鲜明形象更加直抵民心，让百年大党的恢宏气度更加震撼人心，确保党在新时代坚持和发展中国特色社会主义的历史进程中始终成为坚强领导核心。

(The author is the Executive Vice President (Vice President in charge of daily work) of the Central Party School (National Academy of Governance), and Director of the Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era at the Central Party School (National Academy of Governance).)

（作者为中央党校（国家行政学院）分管日常工作的副校长（副院长）、中央党校（国家行政学院）习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想研究中心主任）

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