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Three Represents
(cpc.people.com)
Updated: 2007-07-10 09:25
First expositions of the important thought of Three Represents
Comrade Jiang Zemin first propounded the important thought of Three Represents during his inspection tour of
Guangdong Province in February 2000.
He emphatically pointed out, "An important conclusion can be reached from reviewing our Party's history over
the past 70-odd years; that is, the reason our Party enjoys the people's support is that throughout the historical
periods of revolution, construction and reform, it has always represented the development trend of China's
advanced productive forces, the orientation of China's advanced culture, and the fundamental interests of the
overwhelming majority of the Chinese people. With the formulation of the correct line, principles and policies,
the Party has untiringly worked for the fundamental interests of the country and the people. Under the new
conditions of historic significance, how our Party can better translate the Three Represents into action
constitutes a major issue that all Party members, especially senior officials, must ponder deeply ."
During his inspection tour of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces and Shanghai in May 2000, Comrade Jiang Zemin
emphasized again that the steadfast implementation of the Three Represents constitutes the foundation of our
Party, the cornerstone for its governance and the source of its strength.
At the Fifth Plenary Session of the Fifteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in
October 2000, General Secretary Jiang Zemin noted, "In all the work we do, we must fulfill the requirements of
the Three Represents. We need to ensure that all our measures and work accord with these requirements. If
they do, we shall unswervingly stay on our course; if they don't, we shall be realistic and boldly correct them."
At the meeting celebrating the 80th anniversary of the founding of the CPC on July 1, 2001, General Secretary
Jiang Zemin, proceeding from the perspective of the law of historical development and the need to advance
with the times, comprehensively and incisively elaborated the scientific meaning of the important thought of
Three Represents.
He stated, "Saying our Party always represents the development trend of China's advanced productive forces
means that the Party's theory, line, program, principles, policies and all its work must be in line with the laws
governing the development of productive forces; embody the requisites for constantly furthering the release
and development of productive forces, especially advanced productive forces; and steadily raise the people's
standard of living by developing the productive forces."
He continued, "Saying our Party always represents the orientation of China's advanced culture means that its
theory, line, program, principles, policies and all its work must embody the requisites for guiding the
development of a national, scientific, and popular socialist culture geared to the needs of modernization, the
world and the future in order to improve the ideological and ethical standards and scientific and cultural levels
of the whole nation and to provide motivation and intellectual support for China's economic development and
social progress."
He added, "Saying our Party always represents the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the
Chinese people means that in its theory, line, program, principles, policies and all its work, it must persevere in
taking the fundamental interests of the people as its starting point and objective, give full expression to the
people's enthusiasm, initiative and creativity, and enable the people to constantly obtain tangible economic,
political and cultural benefits on the basis of social development and progress."
Following this speech on July 1, 2001, Comrade Jiang Zemin gave another important speech on May 31, 2002,
at the graduation ceremony for provincial and ministerial officials who had taken a class at the Party School of
the Central Committee of the CPC.
He said, "The Three Represents is imbued with the same spirit as Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought and
Deng Xiaoping Theory, and it reflects new demands on the work of the Party and the state arising from
developments and changes presently occurring in China and the world over. The Three Represents is a
powerful theoretical tool for strengthening and improving Party building and promoting the self-improvement
and development of China's socialist system." The basic requisites for implementing the Three Represents are,
"in essence, to advance with the times, maintain the Party's advanced nature and administer the country in the
interests of the people."
Specifically, the Party must adhere to the precept of the four musts: "The whole Party must always maintain the
spirit of advancing with the times and constantly extend Marxist theory into new realms; it must give top priority
to development in governing and invigorating the country and constantly break new ground and open up a new
prospect in the modernization drive; it must fully mobilize all positive factors and constantly generate new
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strength for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation; and it must improve its Party building in a spirit of
reform and constantly inject new vitality into itself."
In the political report he delivered at the Sixteenth National Congress of the CPC in 2002, Comrade Jiang
Zemin again made it clear that in order to enter a new phase in building socialism with Chinese characteristics,
the CPC must hold high the great banner of Deng Xiaoping Theory and adhere to the important thought of
Three Represents.
This thought is a continuation and development of Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping
Theory, and it reflects new demands on the work of the Party and the state arising from developments and
changes presently occurring in China and the world over.
This thought is a powerful theoretical tool for strengthening and improving Party building and promoting the
self-improvement and development of socialism in China.
It is the crystallization of the collective wisdom of the entire Party and a guiding principle the Party must followfor many years to come. This thought was propounded on the basis of the scientific assessment of the Party's
historical position.
It is a strategic conception made at the historic beginning of the new century by the Chinese Communists who
scientifically analyzed and understood the domestic and international situation, the tasks the Party shoulders,
and the realities of Party building from the viewpoint of the destiny of the Party and the country in the future. It
is a scientific judgment made by the Party based on the stand, viewpoint and methodology of dialectical
materialism and historical materialism, a review of the experience of the world socialist movement since the
Manifesto of the Communist Party was published more than 150 years ago, and an assimilation of the
experience the Party has gained over the past 80 years since its founding.
The meaning of the important thought of Three Represents
-Representing the development trend of China's advanced productive forces.
The Party's basic nature determines that it must represent the development trend of China's advanced
productive forces. Productive forces are the most revolutionary and dynamic factors in social mode of
production, and they are the forces that ultimately determine how human society develops.
The competition among all the forces in the world today is, in the final analysis, a competition in overall national
power, including economic, scientific and technological strength and national cohesiveness. China's productive
forces have grown fairly rapidly over the 50 plus years since the People's Republic was founded in 1949,
especially over the 20 plus years since the policies of reform and opening up were introduced in the late
1970s.
However, their overall level is still much lower than in the developed countries in the West. China must
vigorously develop its productive forces and improve its economy so that it can gain greater initiative and a
more favorable position in future competition in science and technology and solve its present economic and
social problems.
All the Party's battles dur ing the 80 plus years since its founding have been waged to emancipate and develop
the productive forces. The Party must ground itself on China's realities, conform to the trend of the times, stay
focused on economic development, and make developing the productive forces its basic task.
-Representing the orientation of China's advanced culture.
Socialist society means a society that develops and progresses comprehensively. A society is truly socialist
only when its economic, political and cultural development is balanced and a good job is done in both material
and spiritual civilization. Only by always representing the orientation of China's advanced culture and working
hard to develop a socialist culture with Chinese characteristics can the CPC achieve this goal.
In present-day China, developing advanced culture means developing a national, scientific, and popular culture
that is geared to the needs of modernization, the world and the future. The fundamental task of socialist culture
is to educate citizens to have lofty ideals, moral integrity, good education and a strong sense of discipline. We
must always take Marxism as our guide, clearly discern the orientation of advanced culture, and resolutely
oppose wrong, anti-Marxist ideas.
At the same time, we must clearly understand that Marxism is a developing science. It cannot be regarded as a
rigid dogma; new experience and understanding gained from practice must be constantly assimilated and used
to enrich and develop Marxism.
-Representing the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the Chinese people.
Ever since our Party was founded, its primary aim has been to serve the people wholeheartedly. Over the past
80 plus years, all our successes in both revolution and development have been attributable mainly to the fact
that we represent the interests of the overwhelming majority of the people and are able to unite with them intheir struggles for their own interests.
In the circumstances of carrying out the reform and opening up and expanding the socialist market economy,
our Party must emphasize working for the interests of the people more than ever before.
The Party's greatest political strength is that we have maintained close ties with the masses, and the greatest
danger since assuming political power has lain in the possibility of being estranged from them. Whether the
line, principles and policies the Party formulates conform to the fundamental interests of the overwhelming
majority of the people must be taken as the highest criterion for judging them, and whether the people are
satisfied with and agree with them must be taken as their basis and goal.
Our cadres must maintain the work style and the way of thinking of "from the masses, to the masses". They
must be concerned about the people's hardships, listen to their opinions and protect their interests. Party
officials, especially leaders at all levels, must be incorruptible and self-disciplined and share weal and woe with
the masses.
At all times and under any circumstances, Party officials must follow the Party's mass line, adhere to the
objective of serving the people wholeheartedly, and take benefiting the people as the starting and end points of
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all their work. They must carefully study the new character of mass work in the new situation and integrate
strengthening and improving mass work into all their work relating to Party building and consolidating political
power.
The Three Represents are mutually related, complement each other and constitute a unified whole.
The unity of the Three Represents is a unity not only in theoretical logic but also in practice. Developing
advanced productive forces is a fundamental condition for developing advanced culture and materializing the
fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people.
At the same time, the development of advanced productive forces is inseparable from cultural issues such as
ideology, ethics, education and science because the general ideological and cultural levels of a given society
directly affect the quality of the work force. The same is true of the relationship between the people and the
development of advanced productive forces and advanced culture. The people are the main creators of
advanced productive forces and advanced culture as well as the basic force to achieve their own interests. At
the same time, the basic reason to develop advanced productive forces and advanced culture is to satisfy the
ever-growing needs of the people's material and cultural lives and to continually ensure that their fundamental
interests are fulfilled. Just as Jiang Zemin pointed out, "All Party members must continue to integrate the
fulfillment of the requirements of the Three Represents with all aspects of Party building and with the Party's
leadership of the people in the whole process of carrying out the reform, opening up and the socialist
modernization drive."
In short, the important thought of Three Represents is developing and advancing. The whole Party must
continuously emancipate their minds, make theoretical progress and break new ground in practice. They must
infuse the important thought of Three Represents into all areas of the socialist modernization drive and into all
aspects of Party building so that our Party always advances with the times and shares weal and woe with the
people.
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