Xinhua News Agency Commentator: Advancing Chinese-style modernization must uphold the leadership of the Communist Party of China.

　　BEIJING, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) — 　 Title: Advancing Chinese-style Modernization Requires Upholding the Leadership of the Party — A Commentary on Deeply Understanding General Secretary Xi Jinping’s Important Speech at the Opening Ceremony of the Seminar on Studying and Implementing the Spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China

　　Xinhua News Agency Commentator

　　“Chinese modernization is a major achievement attained through the arduous efforts and tremendous sacrifices of our Party, together with the people of all ethnic groups across the country, over a long process of exploration and practice. We must cherish it all the more, steadfastly uphold it, and continue to expand and deepen it.” In his important address at the seminar for newly elected members and alternate members of the CPC Central Committee, as well as leading cadres at the provincial and ministerial levels, General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly elucidated a series of major theoretical and practical issues concerning Chinese modernization. This speech represents a significant enrichment and development of the theory of Chinese modernization, characterized by its strong political relevance, theoretical depth, targeted focus, and guiding significance. It holds great importance for the entire Party in correctly understanding and vigorously advancing Chinese modernization, comprehensively studying, grasping, and implementing the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the CPC, and striving to open up new prospects for the development of the Party and the country on the new journey. We must study and thoroughly grasp this important speech, aligning our thinking and actions with the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s address and with the decisions and arrangements of the CPC Central Committee, so as to steadily advance the cause of Chinese modernization.

　　History is the best textbook. Looking back over more than a century of trials and tribulations, all the struggles waged by our Party in unity with the people have been aimed at building China into a modern, powerful nation and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The arduous battles and momentous victories of the New Democratic Revolution laid the fundamental social conditions for modernization; the socialist revolution and construction following the founding of New China established the essential political prerequisites, accumulated invaluable experience, forged theoretical foundations, and provided a solid material base for the cause of modernization; and the new era of reform and opening up and socialist development has enabled a historic leap in people’s lives—from subsistence to moderate prosperity and onward toward comprehensive well‑offness—while furnishing Chinese‑style modernization with vibrant institutional safeguards and the material conditions for rapid progress. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era. Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, our Party has built on past achievements, continued to forge ahead, and consistently achieved groundbreaking innovations in both theory and practice, successfully advancing and expanding Chinese‑style modernization. Over the past decade of the new era, a series of transformative practices, breakthrough advances, and landmark accomplishments have propelled the Party and the country to achieve historic successes and undergo historic changes, providing Chinese‑style modernization with more robust institutional guarantees, a firmer material foundation, and a more vigorous spiritual force.

　　History and practice have amply demonstrated that upholding the leadership of the Communist Party of China is the most distinctive feature and the most salient strength of Chinese modernization, and it is the paramount principle that must be firmly adhered to in advancing this path. The Party’s leadership bears directly on the fundamental direction, future prospects, and ultimate success or failure of Chinese modernization. On the new journey ahead, by resolutely safeguarding the authority of the CPC Central Committee and its centralized, unified leadership, and by ensuring that Party leadership is fully implemented across all fields, aspects, and links of the Party and state endeavors, we can ensure that the Party remains the most reliable pillar of support for all the people when storms arise, thus guaranteeing that China’s socialist modernization proceeds along the correct course and that we maintain strong political cohesion and confidence in development, continuously opening up new horizons for Chinese modernization.

　　The leadership of the Party determines the fundamental nature of Chinese modernization. Only by unswervingly upholding Party leadership can Chinese modernization enjoy a bright future and flourish; otherwise, it will stray from its course, lose its soul, and even risk committing catastrophic errors. Party leadership ensures that Chinese modernization remains firmly anchored to its goals and advances steadily over the long term. Throughout a century of glorious achievements, our Party has maintained consistent objectives, passing them on from one generation to the next and delivering remarkable accomplishments that have captured worldwide attention and secured a place in history. Party leadership injects powerful momentum into the endeavor of building Chinese modernization. As the saying goes, “Only those who reform advance, only those who innovate grow strong, and only those who combine reform and innovation prevail.” Our Party has courageously pursued reform and innovation, continuously dismantling institutional and mechanistic obstacles across all sectors, thereby providing an inexhaustible driving force for Chinese modernization. Party leadership also rallies tremendous strength behind the cause of Chinese modernization. “When many minds contribute, matters are surely clear; when many hands join forces, tasks are sure to succeed.” Upholding the mass line and a people-centered development philosophy, our Party has developed whole-process people’s democracy, fully inspiring the sense of ownership among all the people and uniting them in a powerful collective effort to realize the Chinese Dream.

　　The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China emphasized that, from this moment onward, the central task of the CPC is to unite and lead the people of all ethnic groups across the country in fully building a modern socialist country and achieving the Second Centenary Goal, thereby advancing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese-style modernization. Let us rally even more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, comprehensively implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, strengthen our confidence, forge ahead in unity, and work diligently and pragmatically, so as to continuously secure new victories in the endeavor to build a modern socialist country in all respects and usher in an even brighter future in the historic process of advancing Chinese-style modernization.