Shou Xiaoli:

Next, I'll give the floor to Mr. Tian Peiyan.

Tian Peiyan:

Friends from the media, good morning. Next, I'll briefly introduce the key achievements made in the past decade about upholding and strengthening Party leadership on all fronts.

Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has taken a series of strategic moves to uphold and strengthen the overall leadership of the Party and worked to address the problems that rendered Party leadership weak, ineffective, and marginalized. As a result, we have seen major progress on political, theoretical, and institutional fronts and related practices.

The highlight of political achievements is that people have embraced the decisive significance of the establishment of both Comrade Xi Jinping's core position on the CPC Central Committee and in the Party as a whole and the guiding role of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. The sixth plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Committee thoroughly reviewed the great endeavor of building socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era and put forward the establishment of both Comrade Xi Jinping's core position on the CPC Central Committee and in the Party as a whole and the guiding role of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. This reflects the will of all members of the Party, all members of the armed forces, and all the people of China and has decisive significance to the development of the Party and the country in the new era and to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. This key judgment has become a universal consensus among all Chinese people.

The highlight of theoretical achievements is that a series of new thinking, ideas, and judgments on the Party's overall leadership have been put forward. For example, the leadership of the Party is the defining feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics and constitutes the greatest strength of this system, and the Party is the highest force for political leadership. The leadership of the Party is comprehensive, systematic, and holistic and must be implemented in all fields, aspects, and processes of the cause of the Party and the country. The CPC Central Committee's centralized and unified leadership is the top principle of the Party's leadership, and strengthening and upholding it is a common political responsibility for the whole Party. A clear political stand must first be taken in order to uphold the Party's leadership. The whole Party must obey the Central Committee. These theoretical achievements have further enriched and developed operational theories for a Marxist party and deepened the CPC's understanding of governance by a communist party.

The highlight of institutional achievements is that a set of relatively sound mechanism concerning the leadership of the Party has been put in place. For example, the Party's leadership system has become the country's fundamental leadership system. The mechanism for upholding the CPC Central Committee's centralized leadership has seen further improvement. We have also improved the systems concerning the Party's leadership over the people's congresses, the government at all levels, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference committees, oversight bodies, courts, procuratorates, the armed forces, people's organizations, enterprises and public institutions, primary-level people's organizations for self-governance, and social organizations. The CPC Central Committee's role in decision-making, deliberation, and coordination has been further strengthened, which helps further improve the mechanism by which the CPC Central Committee's major decisions are implemented. These institutional arrangements offer strong support to ensure the Party's role in exercising overall leadership and coordinating the efforts of all involved.

In terms of practical achievements, it is embodied in the Party's leadership becoming stronger. The whole Party's political awareness of boosting the consciousness of the need to maintain political integrity, think in big-picture terms, follow the leadership core, and maintain alignment with the central Party leadership; staying confident in the path, theory, system and culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics; and firmly upholding Comrade Xi Jinping's core position on the CPC Central Committee and in the Party as a whole and upholding the Central Committee's authority and its centralized, unified leadership has been unprecedentedly improved. The authority of the CPC Central Committee and its centralized leadership have been strengthened on all fronts. The Party's ability to lead politically, to guide through theory, to organize the people, and to inspire society has been remarkably improved. The status and role of the Party as the most reliable backbone of the people when responding to risks and challenges have been fully demonstrated.

Thank you.