Adhering to the Four Cardinal Principles is the foundation of our country, the fundamental political basis for the Communist Party of China (CPC) to realize the historical mission of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation in the new era, and the political premise and fundamental guarantee for promoting the new journey of building socialist modernization in an all-round way. Adhering to the Four Cardinal Principles is the essential requirement of the "Four Greatness". Its basic connotation, spiritual essence and their relationship endow it with new connotation of the times.
Adhering to the Four Cardinal Principles is a basic point of the Party's basic line in the primary stage of socialism on the basis of scientific judgment that China is in and will be in the primary stage of socialism for a long time. With the deepening of Marxism in China, the Party's understanding of the socialist road has deepened and matured. On February 4th, the Fifth Session of the Fifth National People's Congress wrote the adherence to the Four Cardinal Principles into the Constitution.
The 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that China is in the primary stage of socialism and will be in it for a long time, and it takes adhering to the Four Cardinal Principles and persisting in reform and opening up as two basic points. * * Together with taking economic construction as the center, it has become an important part of the Party's basic line in the primary stage of socialism. This basic line is the lifeline of the party and the country, the happiness line of the people, and the fundamental follow-up for building Socialism with Chinese characteristics.
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Adhering to the four cardinal principles and reform and opening up are intrinsically linked, interacting and closely combined. Adhere to the Four Cardinal Principles, combine the great practice of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, focus on economic construction, and persist in reform and opening up. Taking economic construction as the center is the key to rejuvenating the country, persisting in reform and opening up is the road to strengthening the country, and adhering to the four cardinal principles is the foundation of building the country. Without the center of economic construction, all the development and progress of socialist society will lose its material foundation;
Without the four cardinal principles and reform and opening up, economic construction will lose its direction and motivation. The Party has explored and answered what socialism is and how to build it, opened up and expanded the road of Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the reform and opening up, enriched and developed Socialism with Chinese characteristics's theoretical system, perfected and developed Socialism with Chinese characteristics's system, and ushered in a historic leap for the Chinese nation from standing up to becoming rich and then becoming strong.
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China * * * Production Party News Network-Adhering to the Four Cardinal Principles is the "Big Four" to promote ideological and political work