[Editor’s Note] In October this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered a report at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, explaining in detail how he will lead the CCP to realize its vision of governing the country, indicating that the central task of the CCP in the future is to “unite and lead the whole country.” The people of all ethnic groups will build a powerful modern socialist country in an all-round way, realize the second centenary goal, and comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization."
It may not be easy to understand the 20th National Congress report, which is more than 30,000 words in length, but it is the most direct document for understanding the strategic intentions and governance planning of the Chinese Communist Party in the coming period.
Why does the CCP, which takes Marxism as its theoretical banner, actively promote the Sinicization of the ideological field?
What is the long-term firm confidence shown by the CCP, and what is the difference between the "Chinese-style modernization" officially explained in the report and Western modernization?
How does the CCP understand Xi Jinping's "great changes unseen in a century", and what changes will China, which is at the center of the changes, bring to the world structure?
This series of articles revolves around these questions.
(Series No. 10)
Deconstruct the 20th National Congress.
1｜Why should we understand the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China?
When interpreting major meeting documents of the Communist Party of China, it is necessary to distinguish between political and policy expositions, especially when interpreting the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
Distinguish between political and policy discourse
In the report to the 20th National Congress, the political content includes a phased description of the ideological development of the Communist Party of China and requirements for party building.
If you have studied how Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping led them to the historical stage, you should use similar judgments to understand how Xi Jinping inherited Mao Zedong's "new democratic revolution" and Deng Xiaoping's "reform and opening up" through his thoughts on "governing the country". ", and then promote China's socialist modernization.
This law allows people to understand how the CCP has consolidated its leadership and led China's development through the continuous strengthening of ideology and party organizations in the past 100 years.
In the field of ideology, the report of the 20th National Congress continued to build an ideological system of "seeking truth from facts". Whether it refers to the "revolution" of encircling the city from the countryside, the "reform" of crossing the river by feeling the stones, or the "governance" of rolling up our sleeves, Politics" did not depart from this main axis.
The "two combinations" of the Sinicization of Marxism are the theoretical achievements under the guidance of "seeking truth from facts." The specific direction of the socialist modernization thought with Chinese characteristics in the era.
"Governance" is built on the basis of successful "revolution" and "reform", deconstructs the ills of ideology in Western governance, and finds a path of "seeking truth from facts" for "Chinese-style modernization". It is Xi Jinping's "new era" theme.
The CCP's "party building work" is one of Xi Jinping's greatest achievements.
From the outside, anti-corruption is the theme of party building, but in fact it is far more than that. It is to correct the laxity of the party organization of the CCP.
Anti-corruption is of course important, but what is more critical is to rebuild the ideals and beliefs of the CCP members, the discipline and style of the CCP organization, and the people’s trust in the CCP’s continued governance.
As a Leninist party, the CCP is a highly political organization.
Since the founding of the party, the CCP has very strict requirements on party organizations, and clearly realizes that a strong party organization is a prerequisite for solving governance issues.
Zhang Guotao established a new Central Committee during the Long March, Mao Zedong launched the rectification movement in Yan'an, and Lin Biao's coup d'état overthrew the Gang of Four. These events included not only power and line struggles, but also the CCP's subjective demands for "self-revolution."
In the past ten years, Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized not to forget the original intention, and warned the party not to follow in the footsteps of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He proposed "four consciousnesses"-political consciousness, overall situation consciousness, core consciousness, alignment consciousness, and "two safeguards"- To resolutely safeguard General Secretary Xi Jinping and the core of the Party Central Committee, the core position of the entire Party, and resolutely safeguard the authority of the Party Central Committee and centralized and unified leadership are all based on the requirements of strengthening the Party organization, solving the problem of looseness, and consolidating democratic centralism.
A preliminary inspection shows that although the reform is still in progress, many people have let go of their doubts and put their hopes on the CCP's "self-revolution".
If the failure of the Western democratic system is due to populism and the brutal intervention of capital, and the collapse of the Soviet Union is due to the loss of ideals and beliefs of the Soviet Union and the paralysis of its organization, then the CCP can continue to be in power because it focuses on solving difficulties for the people and promoting national development.
The implementation of the CCP’s ideology and thoughts on state governance depends on highly politicized party organizations and cadres. This is the fundamental reason why Xi Jinping emphasizes "self-revolution" and party building so much.
Governance Thought Is the Meaning of the Question
To understand the policy content of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, one must understand how Xi Jinping creatively constructed the ideological system of "governing the country."
At the Third Plenary Session of the Eighteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping proposed "the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities" and bound the "fifth modernization" with socialism with Chinese characteristics. This is the theme he formulated for "governance".
He later proposed the rule of law, new development concepts, the Belt and Road Initiative, supply-side structural reforms, and the dual cycle, as well as the "Chinese-style modernization" proposed at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, allowing people to gradually establish a global understanding of the thought of "governing the country" , the CCP’s plans for national governance and economic development in the new era are fully presented.
Western developed countries once focused on the construction of national governance systems, but they have been destroyed by ideology and populist politics.
Although they have a high opinion of their own political system, it is a tool-level and ideological-dominated governance system. After more than a hundred years of testing, it has been proven to have great flaws.
In order to cope with the financial turmoil, the United States has adopted quantitative easing policies for many years, and the result is drinking poison to quench thirst; the abortion right, which has been controversial for decades, was overturned after changing a group of judges; climate warming is a major issue in the world, but the policy of the United States is Left and right; guns and drugs have been around for decades, and the government can't do anything about it.
If even major problems cannot be solved, where is the advanced nature?
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CCP has focused on "governance of the country" and actively promoted "Chinese-style modernization" to correct the past mistakes of barbaric economic development. National governance has begun to be seen as professional and scientific, and the trust of all parties inside and outside has been enhanced.
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China revolves around Xi Jinping's "governance of the country" and puts forward more long-term and systematic requirements for national governance, elevating the knowledge of national governance to another level.
Analysis of 15 themes in the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China
The Top 20 report consists of 15 themes.
The first topic reviews the country’s development and experience summary in the past ten years, providing ideological preparation and theoretical guidance for the development until the middle of this century; the second, third, and fifteenth topics are all aimed at the current socialist ideology of the CCP Development and how the CCP continues to strictly govern the party, promote party building, and govern for a long time; the 4th to 10th themes are the main areas related to national development, of which the 4th theme focuses on "new development concepts" and "new development patterns", combined with " The appearance of "Chinese-style modernization" allows everyone to fully grasp the policy thinking of the CCP in governing the country; topics 11, 12, and 14 are related to national security, military affairs, and international relations; topic 13 is related to "one country, two systems."
Summary of the First Ten Years of the New Era (Theme 1)
The first theme of the report to the 20th National Congress is to describe the changes in the past ten years. It occupies one-fifth of the report. Combined with the previously published "Resolution on the Party's Major Achievements and Historical Experience in the Centennial Struggle", it clearly states that "the new The historical tasks to be carried by the "era" and the overall picture of state governance.
A hundred years of history is not easy to grasp. Over forty years of reform and opening up have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Ten years of governance may not have settled down enough, and everyone is still digesting it.
If you don't know the true face of Lushan Mountain, just because you are in this mountain, you will not be able to see the current changes clearly when you are in the same period.
This theme is to study the guidance of changes, so as to get a glimpse of the profound meaning of the transformational impact of the past ten years, and how the CCP’s governance thoughts provide guidance for subsequent development.
Chinese who have experienced the 1980s know that they are in the torrent of reform. The past decade is also historic, but the changes are different.
Just as the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee marked the opening of a new historical period for the CCP, the Third Plenary Session of the Eighteenth Central Committee also declared that drastic changes were coming, and it was called the starting point of a "new era."
Combined with the fierce anti-corruption campaign at the time, Xi Jinping made it clear that he would push for more profound and comprehensive reforms.
From the very beginning, Xi Jinping bundled "the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities" with "improvement and development of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics," promoting a higher-level and more comprehensive modernization based on the changes brought about by the "four modernizations." It has prepared a new understanding and scientific theory for it.
This shows that he is determined to lead China to take a path different from Western-style modernization, and provide imagination for "Chinese-style modernization" through governance.
In the language of the CCP, Xi Jinping wants China to "stand up", "get rich" and then "be strong". It is achieved through "Chinese-style modernization", and as the "fifth modernization", "the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities ", is the connecting point and transit point between the "Four Modernizations" and "Chinese-style modernization".
CCP’s Requirements for Ideology and Party Organizations (Themes 2, 3, and 15)
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out: "The thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era" is a "major theoretical innovation achievement" after the Communist Party of China deepened its understanding of "the law of governance, the law of socialist construction, and the law of human society development."
In the past ten years, new changes in the domestic and international situation have put forward new requirements for governance. The CCP must "intensively answer a series of major issues of the times related to the development of the party and the country, and the party's governance and administration of state affairs from the perspective of the combination of theory and practice." Xi Jinping He believes that in addition to combining with China's "concrete reality", Marxism must also be combined with "excellent Chinese traditional culture".
Xi Jinping is not a traditional Marxist theorist. He firmly believes that his theoretical exploration should focus on "governing the country."
The "combination of the two" is not just a theoretical issue. It is to put tradition and reality on the same platform, so that everyone can grasp the historical trajectory of state governance, and in terms of epistemology, the people can better form a consensus with the ruling party.
The "combination of the two" is to link the governance of the country with specific policies through the transformation of ideas, and play an active role in "Chinese-style modernization."
The 20th National Congress focused the CCP's "central task" on building a powerful modern socialist country, and it could only achieve "Chinese-style modernization."
As the general secretary of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping pointed out that the key to successfully building a modern socialist country lies in whether the Chinese Communist Party can revolutionize itself and strictly govern the party.
The report lists the CCP’s requirements for the cadre team, including centralized and unified leadership, adhering to the socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics in the new era, building a code of conduct system based on the principle of "self-revolution", building a high-quality cadre team, strengthening the party organization, and strengthening the team We will continue to fight against corruption.
The report believes that, as the largest Marxist ruling party in the world, the Communist Party of China can only "win the support of the people and consolidate its long-term ruling position" by "comprehensively promoting the party's self-purification, self-improvement, self-revolution, and self-improvement."
Practice of new development concepts (topic 4)
The fourth theme of the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is a chapter of the entire document. It is about building a "new development pattern" and implementing a "new development concept."
The CCP firmly believes that "development is the party's top priority in governing and rejuvenating the country," and that "high-quality development is the top priority in building a modern socialist country in an all-round way."
Under this understanding, the "new concept of development" has become a bond that combines socialist values and governance.
The "new development concept" is the main element that distinguishes "Chinese-style modernization" from "Western-style modernization". It is the guarantee of "high-quality development". It is necessary to correct the rough economic development model in the early stage of reform and opening up, and to satisfy socialist values , but also to solve the deep-rooted dilemma of Western-style modernization.
The "New Development Concept" is the guiding theory of socialism with Chinese characteristics at the policy level. Without understanding the "New Development Concept", it is impossible to understand the CCP's "governance" thinking and why it wants to build a "new development pattern."
Xi Jinping believes that the "new stage of development" that China is in today is a "historic new stage" in which it will continue to "stand up", "get rich", and "be strong".
Building a "new development pattern" is a "major measure to implement the new development concept" at this stage. What is a "new development pattern"?
It is an economic pattern in which "domestic circulation is the main body and domestic and international dual circulations promote each other".
For Xi Jinping, the "new development concept" is the "most important and most important" among the many major economic and social development theories and concepts proposed since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
The "New Development Concept" includes five aspects: innovative development, coordinated development, green development, open development, and shared development.
Xi Jinping later proposed the "dual cycle" strategy for the first time at the Seventh Meeting of the Central Financial and Economic Commission (April 2020).
At the Fifth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, he linked the "new development stage", "new development concept" and "new development pattern", made a systematic discussion for the development of the "new era" of the Communist Party of China, and formulated the "governance" thought. A guide to scientific development.
Xi Jinping believes that the market is the "scarceest resource" in the world. The "dual cycle" is based on the huge scale of the Chinese market, and the "new development pattern" with the "dual cycle" as the main body is to ensure that the economic cycle is unimpeded.
How to be unimpeded?
Then we must grasp the "supply-side structural reform".
Xi Jinping judged that the world economic situation has undergone profound changes, globalization has encountered headwinds, and the ongoing epidemic has partially broken the global industrial chain and supply chain, and the trend will continue. Generally speaking, it is a "chaos".
This situation is particularly unfavorable for China, which "is subject to various pressures and severe challenges that no other country has ever faced".
Xi Jinping believes that building a "new development pattern" is the most important means to deal with the situation China is facing today, and it is an effective way to "quickly restore the initiative."
Rejuvenating the country with talents and common prosperity (topics 5 and 9)
In the early days of reform and opening up, Deng Xiaoping proposed that "technology is the primary productive force" and actively promoted the "four modernizations."
Although the technology at that time only appeared in the form of civil engineering construction and low-level manufacturing, these efforts provided the basis for engineering practice and academic progress for today's great technological leap forward, and promoted "talent is the primary resource, innovation is the primary driving force", It has established an organic connection among education, talents, technology, innovation and development.
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China believes that innovation occupies "the core position in the whole field of modernization construction", but innovation does not only refer to entrepreneurship. If you think that talents are only related to wealth, it is likely to be a priority.
China has made more efforts in education than any other country in the world, but it is not just for technology, but all-round, with the focus on cultivating talents.
Talent is the result of labor force upgrading, it is the password to open high-quality development, and it is also the means of common prosperity.
High-quality development naturally requires high-level science and education to rejuvenate the country. It not only provides the talents needed for the "new era", but also satisfies the people's desire to arm themselves and accelerate the establishment of common prosperity.
There are essential differences between socialism and capitalism, but not everyone understands the difference, and it is even more general to pin the difference on the welfare system.
The high-quality development required by the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China requires the improvement of total factor productivity, and talents, innovation, and technology are the guarantees for improving productivity.
The report also believes that "the distribution system is a basic system for promoting common prosperity" and that it should "strive to increase the proportion of residents' income in the distribution of national income and increase the proportion of labor remuneration in the primary distribution".
This is the major difference that can most specifically distinguish the two systems, but it is not a policy of restoring equal distribution, but "adhering to the principle of distribution according to work and the coexistence of multiple distribution methods."
"Common prosperity" was the original intention of the CCP when it was founded.
A few years ago, the CCP began to emphasize the vision of "common prosperity". In addition to linking up the social mobilization after the eradication of absolute poverty and coordinating the development of various income groups, it is also to expand the domestic market and increase the proportion of consumption in the economy. Political lead.
Because it also proposes to prevent the disorderly expansion of capital, some people think that Xi Jinping is going to "turn to the left". This is due to his failure to understand socialism with Chinese characteristics.
When the CCP was founded, it chose a different path from Westernized and conservatives in terms of common prosperity and other values.
Reiteration of this concept today is even more contemporary. Labor as a factor of production can strengthen its proportion in production distribution through the rejuvenation of the country through talents, and combine common prosperity with sustainable economic development.
Political Democracy and the Rule of Law in China (Themes 6 and 7)
In the past ten years, Xi Jinping has proposed two political reforms—"whole-process people's democracy" and the rule of law in China. He defines the former as "the essential attribute of socialist democratic politics, the broadest, most authentic, and most effective form of democracy." ".
The West generally does not agree with China's understanding of democracy, but their criticism cannot go beyond the lack of multi-party competition, lack of elections and other arguments.
In recent years, Western countries have strongly felt that their democracy has reached a dead end, and the evidence of "doesn't work" continues to increase, and criticisms of China naturally seem pale and weak.
After the 20th National Congress, when U.S. President Joe Biden congratulated Xi Jinping on his re-election as General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping specifically introduced "the whole process of people's democracy." Biden could only express his respect for China's system and did not seek to change it. The previous policy has undergone a fundamental change.
Democracy in China takes consultation as an important form, emphasizing the mass self-government mechanism led by grassroots party organizations to provide services, management, and supervision in daily affairs at the grassroots level.
The CCP’s united front is also a democratic method, and it is not fundamentally different from the West’s use of political public relations and propaganda to expand its dissemination and consolidate its results.
Democracy has no fixed system or model, let alone the West. If China's economic and social success can remind the West to examine its own system, it may also be beneficial to democracy.
After the CCP put forward the "Fifth Modernization", the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee took the rule of law as the agenda, which became the core content of Xi Jinping's "governance" thought. The report of the 20th National Congress called it "a profound revolution in national governance ".
If one has not experienced the changes in Chinese judiciary in the past ten years, it is indeed difficult to understand its profundity.
The West criticizes the CCP for using the law as a ruling tool. On the contrary, the CCP believes that the government’s administration according to law is an important part of the rule of law. It does not accept the opposition between the rule of law and administration. It also refuses to use "judicial independence" to distort the unity of national governance and wrongly define justice. relationship with administration.
Law is an important part of state governance and must be revised in response to the development of the times. It is essentially a tool attribute and a guarantee for maintaining social fairness and justice.
China's system of ruling the country by law is still under construction, but the CCP's efforts are obvious to all, and external criticism is likely to be like its criticism of Chinese-style democracy, which is difficult to stand the test of practice.
Cultural confidence and socialist ideology (topic 8)
The Communist Party of China discusses culture at two levels: one is a large culture based on China's excellent traditional ideas and historical self-confidence, and the other is a popular culture centered on ideology, cultural expression, and social morality.
Understanding cultural self-confidence through these two levels and why the CCP has strengthened relevant discourses in recent years can help everyone understand the CCP's "governance" thinking and "Chinese-style modernization."
The report of the 20th National Congress put forward specific requirements for socialist ideology and the civilization of the whole society. Combined with the recent historical confidence, the CCP is striving to establish an ideological system in line with the social progress of the new era.
Chinese people value their own civilization, culture, and traditional thinking, and the Chinese Communist Party does the same, but it did not emphasize such expositions in the past, and people even mistakenly think that it stays in the memory of "overthrowing the Confucian family shop."
As a Marxist political party, there has always been a theoretical gap between it and the Chinese people. Although everyone accepts that revolution is necessary to solve the transformation of Chinese society, it is necessary to understand "revolution", Marxism and Chinese social reality and excellent traditional culture. relationship is not easy.
The CCP emphasizes the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism and how it integrates with China’s specific reality, but only when Xi Jinping put forward the “two combinations” can people begin to grasp the meaning of the Sinicization of Marxism and how it can be better understood. The combination of Chinese reality, tradition and history.
Indian Buddhism is an imported product, and it took hundreds of years of integration to become a part of Chinese civilization. Similarly, only when Marxism is truly integrated with China's excellent traditional culture can it be regarded as completing its first cycle of Sinicization.
This is the most difficult task in the theoretical work of the Communist Party of China.
Theories of Green Development and Eco-Environmental Protection (Top 10)
China was once criticized as the chief culprit for destroying the ecological environment. Today, it is a large economy with a leading position in green economy and ecological protection.
Which one is the real China? Many people will question it for a while.
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China regards the harmonious development of man and nature as the main content of "Chinese-style modernization". In fact, the answer has already been placed in front of everyone.
The agricultural economy is highly dependent on the natural ecological environment, and farmers naturally attach importance to the protection of the ecological environment. As a political party rising from the countryside, it is hard to imagine that the CCP does not pay attention to the relationship between man and nature.
China's green development is a systematic concept, not just replacing fossil fuels, and not just a few electric cars can solve the problem.
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that "promoting green economic and social development and low-carbonization are the key links to achieve high-quality development", which affects multiple fields such as "industrial structure, energy structure, and transportation structure".
This is the main content of China's complete change of development strategy, emphasizing "high-quality development" and proposing "new development concepts".
According to the report, "Achieving carbon neutrality from peak carbon emissions is a wide-ranging and profound economic and social systemic change," and China will "actively participate in the global governance of climate change."
One Country, Two Systems and Cross-Strait Reunification (Theme 13)
"One country, two systems" is an initiative of the Chinese Communist Party to "seek truth from facts" and implement the idea of "governing the country", and it is also a huge challenge for it.
As a socialist political party, the CCP has not ignored the historical and realistic value of capitalism. It accommodates different systems, including the capitalist system, under the "one China" principle, which stems from its deep understanding of the deideologization of national development.
Whether judging from national unity or strategic security, the last mile of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is likely to pass through Taiwan.
The social riots in Hong Kong a few years ago exposed and confirmed the US intention to encircle China, and made the possibility of US military intervention in the Taiwan Strait more obvious. The key to solving the Taiwan and Hong Kong issues is to implement "one country, two systems".
The social unrest in Hong Kong has put "one country, two systems" to a major test, and unifying Taiwan with "one country, two systems" is a task before the central government. Xi Jinping's report to the 20th National Congress and the 40th anniversary speech of the "Message to Compatriots in Taiwan" clearly stated that "two The "Taiwan Control Plan" is the best way to unify the country.
The situation in the Taiwan Strait has become a major event that provokes the geopolitical balance. China and the United States should clarify their positions. The "Two Systems Taiwan Plan" is not only to reassure the people of Taiwan, but it is also likely to be the next step for the United States to give up intervention. It is the focus of US policy swings point.
Whether Hong Kong can get out of today's predicament also depends on the continuous improvement of the "one country, two systems" Hong Kong proposal.
The report of the 20th National Congress emphasized "administrative leadership" and "deciphering the deep-seated contradictions and problems in economic and social development". Threats of "no commitment to renounce the use of force", thus missing the opportunity for "peace".
"One country, two systems" is not a rigid concept, but a constitutional arrangement that is being practiced, developed, and dynamically changed.
Elites in Hong Kong and Taiwan must understand that before and after reunification or reunification, "one country, two systems" will be adjusted according to specific realities to adapt to new developments. This understanding of the relationship between "a high degree of autonomy" and the country's "comprehensive governance" can serve Hong Kong and Taiwan provide guidance on addressing key issues.
National Security, Military Development, Great Power Diplomacy (Themes 11, 12, 14)
The CCP’s national security concept has two dimensions: national security and social stability. The CCP calls it the “overall national security concept.”
The world's major changes unseen in a century have highlighted the anxiety of traditional forces. They have prejudices and taboos against emerging countries, and it is difficult to tolerate any behavior that touches the traditional geopolitical balance.
The result is that the United States not only wants to contain China, but also implements a military blockade against Russia through NATO.
If China does not develop scientific understanding for its national security, it may, like Russia, recklessly plunge into an endless regional war.
The CCP believes that the three major fields of national security, sovereignty, and development interests run through, and they all belong to the category of external and internal security.
The report of the 20th National Congress regards improving the national security system, enhancing national security capabilities, improving the level of public security governance, and improving the social governance system as the main tasks of the "new security pattern."
This actually regards the "modernization of the national security system and capabilities" as part of the "modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities", which is an important cornerstone of the "governance of China".
According to the report, with political security as the foundation, economic security as the basis, military science, technology, culture and social security as the guarantee, and international security as the basis, this is the main field for constructing the overall national security concept. Both can be understood from external security, but they are closely related to national development and social stability.
The goal of China's military strategic development is very clear, to enable "the people's army to have the confidence and ability to safeguard national sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity," provide strategic support for national rejuvenation, and make greater contributions to world peace and development.
Since Xi Jinping became the chairman of the Military Commission, the reform of the military has been huge, and the combat effectiveness has made a great leap forward.
The confrontation between the People's Liberation Army and the U.S. military in the South China Sea has occurred from time to time. The U.S. military has never been less encircled. In response to the reunification of Taiwan, it is likely to use non-peaceful means, and both require the PLA to become a world-class army.
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China anchors the theme of China's international relations on "building a community with a shared future for mankind." It wants to answer Xi Jinping's question: "What's wrong with the world, what should we do?" The means is to build major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi clearly pointed out in a recent article that “there is no such thing as “freedom and democracy” that is superior to others, and there is no such thing as a “universal value” that is self-respecting. Imposing national values on others will only increase the source of turmoil. Drawing lines in the form can easily lead to the disaster of conflict”, which is the deep-seated reason for the vicissitudes of international relations.
For the CCP, the common value pursuit of the whole world is "peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy, and freedom." As long as we adhere to the principle of "all things grow together without harming each other, and roads run without conflict", common development and mutual benefit Win-win international relations are within reach.
"Deconstructing the Top 20" series of articles:
Deconstruct the 20th National Congress.
1｜Why should we read the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and deconstruct the 20th National Congress.
2｜Sort out the overall context from the structure of the report