Chinese Communist Party Constitution

Chinese Communist Party Constitution

• The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sees itself as the vanguard of the working class, the Chinese people, and the Chinese nation.
• It aims to lead the socialist cause with Chinese characteristics and represents the development needs of China's advanced productive forces.
• The CCP also represents the orientation of China's advanced culture and the fundamental interests of the vast majority of the Chinese people.
• The CCP's highest ideal and ultimate goal is the realization of communism.
• The CCP uses Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the Important Thought of the "Three Represents", the Scientific Outlook on Development, and Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as its guide to action.
• Marxism-Leninism reveals the laws of historical development in human society.
• The basic principles of Marxism-Leninism are correct and have great vitality.
• The highest ideal of communism pursued by Chinese communists can only be realized on the basis of full development and a high degree of development in socialist society.
• Socialist system development and improvement is a long historical process.
• Adherence to the basic tenets of Marxism-Leninism and following a path suited to China's conditions will lead to the ultimate success of socialism in China.
• Chinese communists, with Mao Zedong as their chief representative, integrated the basic principles of Marxism-Leninism with the concrete practice of the Chinese revolution, creating Mao Zedong Thought.
• Mao Zedong Thought is the application and development of Marxism-Leninism in China.
• It has been proven through practice, is a correct theoretical principle and summary of experience regarding the Chinese revolution and construction, and is a crystallization of the collective wisdom of the Chinese Communist Party.
• Under the guidance of Mao Zedong Thought, the CCP led the people of all ethnic groups in China to achieve victory in the new-democratic revolution through a long struggle of opposing imperialism, feudalism, and bureaucrat-capitalism, and established the People's Republic of China.
• After the founding of the PRC, the socialist transformation was carried out successfully, the transition from new democracy to socialism was completed, the basic socialist system was established, and socialist economy, politics, and culture were developed.
• Since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, Chinese communists, with Deng Xiaoping as their chief representative, summed up the experience of both positive and negative aspects since the founding of the PRC, emancipated their minds, sought truth from facts, shifted the focus of the work of the whole Party to economic construction, implemented reform and opening up, opened a new period for the development of socialism, and gradually formed the line, policy, and policy of building socialism with Chinese characteristics.
• The basic issues of building socialism in China, consolidating and developing socialism, and establishing Deng Xiaoping Theory are clarified.
• Deng Xiaoping Theory is the product of combining the basic principles of Marxism-Leninism with the contemporary practice and characteristics of China and is an inheritance and development of Mao Zedong Thought under new historical conditions.
• Deng Xiaoping Theory represents a new stage of development of Marxism in China, it is the Marxism of contemporary China, it is a crystallization of the collective wisdom of the Chinese Communist Party, and it guides the continuous advancement of China's socialist modernization.
• Since the Fourth Plenary Session of the Thirteenth Central Committee, Chinese communists, with Jiang Zemin as their chief representative, deepened their understanding of what socialism is, how to build socialism, what kind of party to build, and how to build the party, and accumulated new and valuable experiences in governing the party and the country, forming the Important Thought of the "Three Represents.
• The Important Thought of the "Three Represents" is an inheritance and development of Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, and Deng Xiaoping Theory.
• The Important Thought of the "Three Represents" reflects the new requirements for the work of the Party and the state made by the development and changes in the contemporary world and China, and it is a powerful theoretical weapon for strengthening and improving Party building, and promoting the self-improvement and development of socialism in China.
• The Important Thought of the "Three Represents" is a crystallization of the collective wisdom of the Chinese Communist Party, and it must always be adhered to as a guiding ideology for the Party.
• Upholding the "Three Represents" is the foundation of the Party's founding, the foundation of its governance, and the source of its strength.
• Since the 16th National Congress, Chinese communists, with Hu Jintao as their chief representative, adhered to Deng Xiaoping Theory and the Important Thought of the "Three Represents" as their guide, and in accordance with the new requirements of development, profoundly recognized and answered major questions such as what kind of development to achieve under the new situation, and how to develop.
• The Scientific Outlook on Development is an integrated embodiment of the Marxist-Leninist, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, and the Important Thought of the "Three Represents" that is both consistent and keeps pace with the times, and it is a concentrated manifestation of the Marxist worldview and methodology on development, a major achievement in the localization of Marxism in China, a crystallization of the collective wisdom of the Chinese Communist Party, and a guiding ideology that must be adhered to for a long time in developing socialism with Chinese characteristics.
• Since the 18th National Congress, Chinese communists, with Xi Jinping as their chief representative, upheld the integration of the basic principles of Marxism with the concrete practice of China and with China's excellent traditional culture, scientifically answered the major questions of the times such as what kind of socialism with Chinese characteristics to uphold and develop in the new era and how to uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics.
• Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era embodies Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the Important Thought of the "Three Represents," and the Scientific Outlook on Development.
• It represents contemporary Chinese Marxism and 21st-century Marxism, capturing the quintessential elements of Chinese culture and spirit.
• It encapsulates both the practical experiences and collective wisdom of the Party and the people.
• It serves as a crucial component of the theoretical framework defining socialism with Chinese characteristics.
• It guides the endeavors of the entire Party and the nation in striving for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, mandating long-term commitment and continuous evolution.
• Under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the CCP leads the people of all ethnic groups in China to coordinate the Great Struggle, Great Project, Great Cause, and Great Dream, promote socialism with Chinese characteristics into a new era, and achieve the first centennial goal, opening a new journey to achieve the second centennial goal.
• The fundamental reason for all the achievements and progress made since the reform and opening up can be attributed to the creation of the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the formation of the theoretical system of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the establishment of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, and the development of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics.
• CCP members must cherish, uphold, and continuously develop this path, this theoretical system, this system, and this culture, hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, strengthen confidence in the path, confidence in theory, confidence in the system, and cultural confidence, carry forward the spirit of struggle, strengthen their ability to struggle, and implement the basic theory, basic line, and basic strategy of the Party, to realize the three major historical tasks of promoting modernization, completing the reunification of the motherland, and maintaining world peace and promoting common development, and realize the second centennial goal and the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
• Since its establishment, the CCP has taken the well-being of the Chinese people and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation as its original aspiration and mission.
• It has fundamentally changed the future destiny of the Chinese people, opened up the correct path to realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, demonstrated the great vitality of Marxism, deeply influenced the course of world history, and forged the Chinese Communist Party that is at the forefront of the times.
• Through long-term practice, the CCP has accumulated valuable historical experience in persisting in the Party's leadership, adhering to the people first, adhering to theoretical innovation, adhering to independence and self-reliance, adhering to the Chinese path, adhering to having the world in mind, adhering to pioneering and innovation, adhering to daring to struggle, adhering to the united front, and adhering to self-revolution.
• This is the spiritual wealth jointly created by the Party and the people, which must be cherished and adhered to for a long time, and constantly enriched and developed in practice.
• China is still in the primary stage of socialism and will be for a long time to come.
• This is a historical stage that cannot be skipped in China, which was originally economically and culturally backward, to build socialist modernization, and it will take hundreds of years.
• China's socialist construction must proceed from China's national conditions, take the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization.
• At the present stage, the main contradiction in Chinese society is the contradiction between the people's growing needs for a better life and unbalanced and inadequate development.
• Due to domestic and international factors, class struggle will continue to exist in a certain range for a long time, and it may intensify under certain conditions, but it is no longer the main contradiction.
• The fundamental task of socialist construction in China is to further liberate productive forces, develop productive forces, and gradually realize socialist modernization, and to reform the aspects and links in the relations of production and the superstructure that are not adapted to the development of productive forces.
• The fundamental economic system of China in the primary stage of socialism is: To uphold and improve the basic socialist economic system in which public ownership is the mainstay and diverse forms of ownership develop together, distribution according to work is the mainstay and diverse forms of distribution exist alongside it, and the socialist market economy is the economic system.
• It is necessary to encourage some regions and some people to get rich first and gradually achieve common prosperity for all, and constantly meet the people's growing needs for a better life on the basis of economic development and social wealth growth, and promote the all-round development of people.
• Development is the Party's top priority in governing and rejuvenating the country.
• It is imperative to adhere to a people-centered development ideology, grasp the new stage of development, implement the new development concepts of innovation, coordination, greenness, openness and sharing, accelerate the construction of a new pattern of development with the domestic cycle as the main body and the domestic and international dual cycles promoting each other, and promote high-quality development.
• All work must take developing the productive forces of socialist society, strengthening the comprehensive national strength of socialist countries, and improving the people's living standards as the general starting point and standard for inspection, respect labor, respect knowledge, respect talent, and respect creation, and achieve development for the people, development relying on the people, and development results shared by the people.
• The overall layout of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics should be coordinated and advanced in accordance with the "Five-in-One" overall layout and the "Four Comprehensives" strategic layout, so as to coordinate the construction of a modern socialist country in an all-round way, comprehensively deepen reform, comprehensively govern the country according to law, and comprehensively strengthen Party discipline.
• In this new era and new journey, the strategic goal of economic and social development is to basically realize socialist modernization by 2035, and to build China into a great modern socialist country by the middle of this century.
• The basic line of the Chinese Communist Party in the primary stage of socialism is to lead and unite the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country, with economic construction as the center, adhere to the Four Cardinal Principles, adhere to reform and opening up, self-reliance, hard work, and to build China into a strong, democratic, culturally advanced, and harmonious modern socialist country.
• In leading the socialist cause, the CCP must adhere to economic construction as the center, and all other work must be subordinate to and serve this center.
• To implement the strategy of invigorating the country through science and education, the strategy of strengthening the country through talent, the innovation-driven development strategy, the rural revitalization strategy, the regional coordinated development strategy, the sustainable development strategy, and the military-civilian integration development strategy, give full play to the role of science and technology as the primary productive force, give full play to the role of talent as the primary resource, give full play to the role of innovation as the primary driving force for development, rely on scientific and technological progress, improve the quality of workers, and promote the national economy to a higher quality, more efficient, fairer, more sustainable, and safer development.
• Adhering to the socialist path, adhering to the people's democratic dictatorship, adhering to the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, and adhering to Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought, these four cardinal principles are the foundation of our country.
• In the entire process of socialist modernization, it is imperative to adhere to the Four Cardinal Principles and oppose bourgeois liberalization.
• Adhering to reform and opening up is our path to strengthening the country.
• Only through reform and opening up can we develop China, develop socialism, and develop Marxism.
• It is necessary to comprehensively deepen reform, improve and develop the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, and promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities.
• It is imperative to fundamentally reform the economic system that hinders the development of productive forces, and adhere to and improve the socialist market economic system.
• Correspondingly, it is necessary to carry out political system reform and reforms in other fields.
• It's a basic policy to be open to the outside world, absorb civilization results created by human society.
• Reform and opening up should be bold in exploration, courageous in pioneering, should improve the scientific nature of reform decision-making, should pay more attention to the systematic, holistic, and synergistic nature of reform, and should create new paths in practice.
• The CCP leads the people in developing a socialist market economy.
• It is imperative to unswervingly consolidate and develop the public sector, and unswervingly encourage, support, and guide the development of the non-public sector.
• Give play to the decisive role of the market in allocating resources, better give play to the role of the government, and establish a sound macroeconomic control system.
• Development is the Party's top priority in governing and rejuvenating the country.
• It is imperative to adhere to a people-centered development ideology, grasp the new stage of development, implement the new development concepts of innovation, coordination, greenness, openness and sharing, accelerate the construction of a new pattern of development with the domestic cycle as the main body and the domestic and international dual cycles promoting each other, and promote high-quality development.
• All work must take developing the productive forces of socialist society, strengthening the comprehensive national strength of socialist countries, and improving the people's living standards as the general starting point and standard for inspection, respect labor, respect knowledge, respect talent, and respect creation, and achieve development for the people, development relying on the people, and development results shared by the people.
• The overall layout of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics should be coordinated and advanced in accordance with the "Five-in-One" overall layout and the "Four Comprehensives" strategic layout, so as to coordinate the construction of a modern socialist country in an all-round way, comprehensively deepen reform, comprehensively govern the country according to law, and comprehensively strengthen Party discipline.
• The CCP leads the people in developing socialist democracy.
• Insisting on the organic unity of the Party's leadership, the people being the masters of the country, and governing the country according to law, following the path of socialist political development with Chinese characteristics, following the path of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics, expand socialist democracy, build a socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics, build a socialist rule of law country, consolidate the people's democratic dictatorship, and build a socialist political civilization.
• We must adhere to and improve the system of the People's Congress, the system of multi-party cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, the system of regional ethnic autonomy, and the system of grassroots mass autonomy.
• Develop more extensive, fuller, and more sound people's democracy throughout the whole process, promote the institutionalization development at the multi-layered and multilateral level of consultative democracy and ensure people administer state affairs, manage social affairs, manage economic, and cultural business affairs.
• The rights of the people must be respected and protected.
• Broaden avenues for expressing public opinion, and establish and improve systems and procedures for democratic elections, democratic consultation, democratic decision-making, democratic management, and democratic oversight.
• The CCP leads the people in developing an advanced socialist culture.
• In building a socialist spiritual civilization, we must combine governing the country by law with governing the country by virtue, enhance the ideological and moral qualities and scientific and cultural qualities of the entire nation, provide a strong ideological guarantee, spiritual impetus, and intellectual support for reform and opening up and socialist modernization, and build a strong socialist cultural power.
• Strengthen the construction of the socialist core value system, adhere to Marxism as the guiding ideology, establish a common ideal of socialism with Chinese characteristics, promote and carry forward the national spirit with patriotism as the core and the spirit of the times with reform and innovation as the core, cultivate and practice the socialist core values, advocate the socialist concept of honor and disgrace, and enhance national self-esteem, self-confidence, and self-improvement.
• Resist the corrosion of decadent capitalist and feudal ideologies, eliminate all kinds of social evils, and strive to make the people of our country people with ideals, morality, culture, and discipline.
• Communist Party members must be educated on the lofty ideal of communism.
• Educational, scientific, and cultural undertakings must be vigorously developed, the creative transformation and innovative development of China’s outstanding traditional culture must be promoted, revolutionary culture must be inherited, advanced socialist culture must be developed, and the country’s cultural soft power must be enhanced.
• We must firmly grasp the leadership over ideological work, and constantly consolidate the guiding position of Marxism in the ideological field, and consolidate the common ideological foundation for the entire Party and the nation to unite and struggle.
• The CCP leads the people in building a harmonious socialist society.
• Adhere to the general requirements of democracy, the rule of law, fairness, justice, integrity, amity, full of vitality, safety and order, and harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and the principles of joint construction and shared enjoyment, with guaranteeing and improving people's livelihood as the key, solving the most concerned, most direct, and most realistic issues of interest to the people, so that the fruits of development will benefit all people more and more fairly, and constantly enhance the people's sense of gain, and strive to form a situation in which all people give full play to their talents, get what they deserve, and live in harmony and harmony.
• Strengthen and innovate social governance.
• Strictly distinguish and correctly handle the two types of contradictions that are different in nature, namely the contradictions between ourselves and the enemy and the contradictions among the people.
• Strengthen comprehensive social management, resolutely crack down on all kinds of criminal activities and criminals that endanger national security and interests, endanger social stability and economic development, and maintain long-term social stability.
• Adhere to the overall national security concept, coordinate development and security, and resolutely safeguard national sovereignty, security, and development interests.
• The CCP leads the people in constructing a socialist ecological civilization.
• Establishing the ecological civilization concept of respecting nature, conforming to nature, and protecting nature, enhancing the awareness that green waters and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains, adhering to the basic national policy of conserving resources and protecting the environment, adhering to the policy of prioritizing conservation, prioritizing protection, and prioritizing natural recovery, adhering to the path of civilized development of production development, affluent life, and good ecology.
• We must strive to build a resource-saving and environment-friendly society, implement the strictest ecological and environmental protection system, and form a spatial pattern, industrial structure, production method, and lifestyle that conserves resources and protects the environment, so as to create a good production and living environment for the people, and realize the sustainable development of the Chinese nation.
• The CCP insists on absolute leadership over the People's Liberation Army and other People's armed forces.
• Implementing Xi Jinping's thought on strengthening the army, strengthening the building of the People's Liberation Army, adhering to building the army politically, strengthening the army through reform, strengthening the army through science and technology, strengthening the army through talent, and governing the army according to law, building a people's army that obeys the Party's command, is able to win battles, and has a fine style, building the people's army into a world-class army.
• The CCP protects and develops socialist ethnic relations of equality, unity, mutual assistance, and harmony.
• The CCP trains and selects minority cadres, helps minorities and ethnic minority areas develop their economy, culture, and social undertakings, forges a community of the Chinese nation. The CCP fully implements the Party's basic policy on religious work, and unites religious believers to contribute to economic and social development.
• The CCP unites with workers, peasants, and intellectuals of all ethnic groups in China, together with all democratic parties, non-party figures, and patriotic forces of all ethnic groups to further develop and strengthen the broadest possible patriotic united front composed of all socialist workers, builders of the cause of socialism, patriots who support the reunification of the motherland, and patriots who are committed to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
• We must unswervingly and accurately implement the policy of "one country, two systems. The CCP upholds an independent foreign policy of peace, adhering to the path of peaceful development, adhering to the open strategy of mutual benefit and win-win results, coordinating the domestic and international situations. We are engaged in international affairs, promote world peace, and promote human progress, and push the building of a community of human destiny, pushing the building of a continuous peace, generally secure, join the prosperity, opening tolerance, clean beautiful world.

Membership

• Eligibility: Any Chinese citizen who is at least 18 years old, recognizes the Party's program and constitution, and is willing to join and actively work in one of the Party's organizations.
• Qualifications: The Party member is a vanguard fighter of the Chinese working class, who must wholeheartedly serve the people.
• Every member is an ordinary member of the working people, not allowed to seek personal gain or any privileges.

Basic Requirements

• Study Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the Scientific Outlook on Development, and Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.
• Raise "Four consciousness", be firm in "Four Confidences", achieve "Two Safeguards", improve skills to serve the people, persist in and perfect democratic centralism.
• Adhere to the principle of the Party's and the people's interests being higher than anything else, suffer first, enjoy later, and work for the benefit of the masses.
• The Party adheres to the principle of democratic centralism, fully promote inner-Party democracy, safeguard their democratic rights.

Rights of members

• To participate in relevant Party meetings, to read Party documents, and to receive Party education and training.
• To participate in discussions on Party policies.
• To make suggestions and initiatives regarding the work of the Party.
• Within the Party structure, members can be candidly critical of any organization or member, expose misconduct responsibly, demand disciplinary actions, or appeal for dismissal of incompetent cadres.
• The level of decision making is as follows: vote on matters, have the right to elect, have the right to be elected.