It is an extremely important idea of General Secretary Hu Jintao's speech at the Party School of the CPC Central Committee to firmly adhere to Deng Xiaoping Theory and the “Three Represents” important thought as the guidelines and to implement the scientific outlook on development, keep unflinchingly and develop the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

The socialism with Chinese characteristics represents a banner leading the contemporary China to progress and the unity of the people of all its ethnic groups. It has answered unequivocally the questions of what road the present-day China should follow and what banner it should host. It shows distinctly the extreme importance of the socialism with Chinese characteristics to the country's modernization drive, and voiced clearly the CPC's resolve to lead the people of all the ethnic groups nationwide adamantly onto the road of socialism.

For the sake of its fast economic and social development, a nation has to find a road of development to fit its specific national conditions and keep up the demands of the current times. For its national rejuvenation, a nation must have an aspiration of its own. The road of socialism with Chinese characteristics, blazed out by the CPC in its prolonged practice for socialist construction, is a correct road leading to China to prosperity and its people to security and happiness. The shared ideal of socialism with Chinese characteristics represents the common aspiration for the whole Party and the entire Chinese people. Practice has fully testified to the truth that only socialism can save China, and only the socialism with Chinese characteristics, instead of whatever other “ism” can develop China and make it booming and prosperous. On the road of advance, whatever complicated circumstances or whatever risks China may encounter, we have to resolutely and unswerving adhere to and develop the socialism with Chinese characteristics .

The socialism with Chinese characteristics has opened up a brand new road for the development of socialism in China, and signified a historical leapt in the development of socialism in China. It is an integration of scientific socialism and China's specific national conditions, as well as a scientific outcome of the Sinification or Sinicization of Marxism. The vivid practice for the development of Marxism in China has eloquently proven that the close integration of the Marxist tenets with China's concrete conditions is sure to generate the infinite force for the advancement of history, and China's construction and development is sure to score tremendous achievements. Since the onslaught of the reform and opening up in the late 1970s, the correctness of the Party's leading the people on the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics and its role to move China ahead lies in the very fact that we both adhere to the basic tenets of scientific socialism and endow them with the vivid, distinct Chinese characteristics in compliance with its specific national conditions.

Socialism with Chinese characteristics has been developing in the course of practice. We should go on carrying researches and exploration into the socialism with Chinese characteristics and strive to make this road broader and wider still. It is essential to acquire a clear understanding of the general trend of the contemporary world and present-day China, to keep pace in an all-round way with new demands for China's development and new expectations of the masses of people, assiduously sum up the CPC's practical experience in governing the party and state, and formulate programs of actions and major guiding principle of fundamental importance in this regard.

In their great practice of making the history, people keep increasing their recognition of what has guided the construction of socialism, use the relevant laws creatively to guide the researches and solution of major issues that have emerged in China's reform and opening up and in the course of its socialist modernization drive. In so doing, people's thought and actions will comply more with the objective reality, with the nation's specific national conditions of the primary stage of socialism and demands from the era, as well as with the aspirations and interests of people.

The road of socialism with Chinese characteristics is the only way, or the only way for success and the way for victory for China to revitalize and prosper the nation and make its people contended and happy and its society harmonious; and so it has been the choice of history, the choice of its people and the choice of the times. All people within the Party should, from the very height of the prosperity and long-term stability of the Party and the state and from the very height of the great revitalization of the Chinese nation, pluck up their consciousness and resolve to take the socialist road with Chinese characteristics and strive to explore still broader prospects perspective for the development of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

(People's Daily Online July 20, 2007)