Beijing Youth Daily:

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "to understand China today, one must learn to understand the Communist Party of China." We all know that telling the story of the CPC is an important task of the IDCPC. Can you give us a brief introduction to this work? Thank you.

Guo Yezhou:

Thank you for your question. As China has moved closer to the center of the world stage, a series of major theoretical and practical accomplishments of the Party has got a lot of attention from the international community. In particular, foreign political parties want to know the thoughts and actions of the CPC. They have more observations and deep thoughts about the CPC's governance of China and want to hear more from the CPC. In this context, it is the responsibility of us, the international department, to perform duties, leverage our strengths, respond to concerns, and provide more information as well as better tell stories about CPC to the international society. These are integral principles and responsibilities of the Party's external work.

We tell stories that follow in the footsteps of the general secretary. Among the CPC stories, the most important ones are those of General Secretary Xi Jinping. In recent years, at the request of foreign political parties and dignitaries, we have invited many foreign political leaders to visit places, either online or in person, where General Secretary Xi Jinping once worked or personally paid attention to, such as Shibadong village of Xiangxi Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture in Hunan province, Xiaqi village in Ningde city of Fujian province, and Liangjiahe village of Yanchuan county in Shaanxi province. In this way, foreign political leaders can see for themselves the whole process of how the Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era came into being, developed, and was put into practice.

We tell stories in response to the needs of the international society. We listen carefully to the concerns of foreign political parties and leaders to understand their interests in the CPC and strive to provide the information they need in their areas of interest. For example, in response to the need of foreign political parties to understand CPC's major political agenda, we have held hundreds of briefings around the 18th and 19th CPC National Congress, as well as plenary sessions of the CPC Central Committee. In response to the needs of developing countries who want to know CPC's experience in governing the country, we have held a series of thematic briefings in cooperation with relevant provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions), focusing on targeted poverty alleviation, common prosperity, new development philosophy, supply-side structural reform, and other topics of interest to foreign parties. We not only introduce what we think but also show how we have done it, what results have been achieved, and what needs to be improved.

We tell stories about community-level governance. The Chinese people working hard to realize their dreams under the leadership of the Party is the most exciting chapter in the story of the CPC. Foreign political parties and leaders pay attention to the top-level political design of CPC's governance of the country, as well as the day-to-day governance practice at the community level. To this end, we broadcasted live globally the meetings of the standing committees of the county party committees and the villages' representative assemblies. We invited village branch secretaries of the CPC, ordinary Party members, and ordinary villagers to tell their stories, demonstrating the CPC's democratic and scientific decision-making process and how farmers got rid of poverty. It also helps foreign political parties and leaders understand why the CPC is capable of governing the country and why socialism with Chinese characteristics works.

Under the leadership of the CPC, historic achievements and changes have been made in the building of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. The past decade in the new era has been extraordinary. The CPC has numerous great and exciting stories. The IDCPC will continue to work hard for the Party's external work and better tell these good stories. Thank you.

Chen Wenjun:

Thank you, Mr. Guo and Mr. Ma, and thanks to all reporters. Today's press conference is concluded. Goodbye!

Translated and edited by Zhang Liying, Wang Qian, Liu Sitong, Zhou Jing, Li Huiru, Duan Yaying, Ma Yujia, Yan Bin, Wang Wei, Wang Yanfang, Xu Kailin, Yang Xi, Yuan Fang, Zhang Rui, Huang Shan, Cui Can, Zhang Tingting, Wang Yiming, Qin Qi, David Ball, Tom Arnsten, and Jay Birbeck. In case of any discrepancy between the English and Chinese texts, the Chinese version is deemed to prevail.