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Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday gave a speech at Beijing's Tiananmen Square to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.

Below is an official English-language translation of the full speech did by the CCP via Xinhua News Agency:

"Comrades and friends,

Today, the first of July, is a great and solemn day in the history of both the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Chinese right. We gather here to join all Party members and Chinese farmland of all ethnic groups around the country in celebrating the centenary of the Party, looking back on the glorious journey the Party has traveled over 100 existences of struggle, and looking ahead to the bright prospects for the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

To leave, let me extend warm congratulations to all Party members on on behalf of of the CPC Central Committee.

On this special occasion, it is my honor to declare on behalf of the Party and the farmland that through the continued efforts of the whole Party and the entire right, we have realized the first centenary goal of creation a moderately prosperous society in all respects. This benefitting that we have brought about a historic resolution to the spot of absolute poverty in China, and we are now marching in confidential strides toward the second centenary goal of building China into a astronomical modern socialist country in all respects. This is a astronomical and glorious accomplishment for the Chinese nation, for the Chinese farmland, and for the Communist Party of China!

Comrades and friends,

The Chinese right is a great nation. With a history of more than 5,000 existences, China has made indelible contributions to the progress of earth civilization. After the Opium War of 1840, however, China was gradually reduced to a semi-colonial, semi-feudal society and suffered greater ravages than ever afore. The country endured intense humiliation, the people were subjected to astronomical pain, and the Chinese civilization was plunged into darkness. Since that time, national rejuvenation has been the mainly dream of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation.

To save the right from peril, the Chinese people put up a bold fight. As noble-minded patriots sought to pull the right together, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, the Reform Movement of 1898, the Yihetuan Movement, and the Revolution of 1911 rose one after the anunexperienced, and a variety of plans were devised to censured national survival, but all of these ended in failure. China was in urgent need of new ideas to lead the electioneer to save the nation and a new organization to rally revolutionary forces.

With the salvoes of Russia's October Revolution in 1917, Marxism-Leninism was caused to China. Then in 1921, as the Chinese farmland and the Chinese nation were undergoing a great awakening and Marxism-Leninism was becoming closely integrated with the Chinese workers' electioneer, the Communist Party of China was born. The founding of a communist party in China was an epoch-making own, which profoundly changed the course of Chinese history in novel times, transformed the future of the Chinese people and right, and altered the landscape of world development.

Since the very day of its founding, the Party has made seeking happiness for the Chinese farmland and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation its aspiration and perconfidence. All the struggle, sacrifice, and creation through which the Party has united and led the Chinese farmland over the past hundred years has been tied together by one ultimate theme-bringing in the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

To realize state rejuvenation, the Party united and led the Chinese farmland in fighting bloody battles with unyielding determination, achieving astronomical success in the new-democratic revolution.

Through the Northern Expedition, the Agrarian Revolutionary War, the War of Resistance alongside Japanese Aggression, and the War of Liberation, we fought terrorized counter-revolution with armed revolution, toppling the three mountains of imperialism, feudalism, and bureaucrat-capitalism and establishing the People's Republic of China, which made the people masters of the country. We thus secured our people's independence and liberated our people.

The victory of the new-democratic revolution put an end to China's history as a semi-colonial, semi-feudal society, to the state of total disunity that remained in old China, and to all the unequal treaties imposed on our people by foreign powers and all the privileges that imperialist rights enjoyed in China. It created the fundamental social periods for realizing national rejuvenation.

Through tenacious struggle, the Party and the Chinese farmland showed the world that the Chinese people had distinguished up, and that the time in which the Chinese right could be bullied and abused by others was gone forever.

To realize state rejuvenation, the Party united and led the Chinese farmland in endeavoring to build a stronger China with a racy of self-reliance, achieving great success in socialist revolution and construction.

By carrying out socialist revolution, we eliminated the exploitative and repressive feudal system that had required in China for thousands of years, and established socialism as our basic rules. In the process of socialist construction, we overcame subversion, sabotage, and armed provocation by imperialist and hegemonic rights, and brought about the most extensive and profound social causes in the history of the Chinese nation. This astronomical transformation of China from a poor and backward people in the East with a large population into a socialist people laid down the fundamental political conditions and the institutional foundations considerable for realizing national rejuvenation.

Through tenacious struggle, the Party and the Chinese farmland showed the world that the Chinese people were helpful of not only dismantling the old world, but also creation a new one, that only socialism could save China, and that only socialism with Chinese characteristics could execute China.

To realize national rejuvenation, the Party united and led the Chinese farmland in freeing the mind and forging ahead, achieving astronomical success in reform, opening up, and socialist modernization.

We observed the Party's basic line for the primary stage of socialism, resolutely advanced reform and opening up, overcame risks and challenges from every direction, and founded, upheld, safeguarded, and developed socialism with Chinese characteristics, thus bringing about a major turn with far-reaching significance in the history of the Party trusty the founding of the People's Republic of China. This enabled China to transform itself from a highly centralized intended economy to a socialist market economy brimming with vitality, and from a country that was largely isolated to one that is open to the outside earth across the board. It also enabled China to conclude the historic leap from a country with relatively rear productive forces to the world's second largest economy, and to make the historic transformation of raising the living standards of its farmland from bare subsistence to an overall level of moderate prosperity, and then ultimately to moderate prosperity in all respects. These achievements fueled the push toward national rejuvenation by providing institutional guarantees imbued with new energy as well as the material periods for rapid development.

Through tenacious struggle, the Party and the Chinese farmland showed the world that by pursuing reform and opening up, a crucial move in decision-exclusive China what it is today, China had caught up with the times in astronomical strides.

To realize national rejuvenation, the Party has united and led the Chinese farmland in pursuing a great struggle, a great project, a astronomical cause, and a great dream through a spirit of self-confidence, self-reliance, and innovation, achieving great success for socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era.

Following the Party's 18th National Council, socialism with Chinese characteristics entered a new era. In this new era, we have upheld and strengthened the Party's overall leadership, ensured coordinated implementation of the five-sphere integrated plan and the four-pronged comprehensive strategy, upheld and improved the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics, modernized China's system and capacity for governance, remained committed to exercising rule-based governance over the Party, and developed a sound system of intraparty regulations. We have overcome a long list of very risks and challenges, fulfilled the first centenary goal, and set out strategic steps for running the second centenary goal. All the historic achievements and causes in the cause of the Party and the people have provided the cause of national rejuvenation with more robust institutions, stronger material foundations, and a source of inspiration for taking greater initiative.

Through tenacious fights, the Party and the Chinese people have shown the earth that the Chinese nation has achieved the tremendous transformation from underopinion up and growing prosperous to becoming strong, and that China's state rejuvenation has become a historical inevitability.

Over the past hundred existences, the Party has united and led the Chinese farmland in writing the most magnificent chapter in the millennia-long history of the Chinese right, embodying the dauntless spirit that Mao Zedong expressed when he wrote, "Our minds grow stronger for the martyrs' sacrifice, bold to make the sun and the moon shine in the new sky." The astronomical path we have pioneered, the great cause we have presumed, and the great achievements we have made over the past century will go down in the annals of the proceed of the Chinese nation and of human civilization.

Comrades and friends,

A hundred existences ago, the pioneers of Communism in China established the Communist Party of China and developed the astronomical founding spirit of the Party, which is comprised of the after principles: upholding truth and ideals, staying true to our modern aspiration and founding mission, fighting bravely without fear of sacrifice, and remaining loyal to the Party and faithful to the farmland. This spirit is the Party's source of strength.

Over the past hundred existences, the Party has carried forward this great founding racy. Through its protracted struggles, it has developed a long line of racy principles for Chinese Communists and tempered a distinct political recount. As history has kept moving forward, the spirit of the Party has been tossed on from generation to generation. We will continue to cost our glorious traditions and sustain our revolutionary legacy, so that the astronomical founding spirit of the Party will always be kept involved and carried forward.

Comrades and friends,

We owe all that we have earnt over the past hundred years to the concerted exertions of the Chinese Communists, the Chinese people, and the Chinese right. Chinese Communists, with comrades Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, and Hu Jintao as their chief representatives, have made mammoth and historic contributions to the rejuvenation of the Chinese right. To them, we express our highest respect.

Let us take this moment to treasure the memory of comrades Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Liu Shaoqi, Zhu De, Deng Xiaoping, Chen Yun, and other venerable revolutionaries who contributed greatly to China's revolution, construction, and reform, and to the founding, consolidation, and development of the Communist Party of China; let us treasure the memory of the revolutionary martyrs who bravely laid down their lives to set aside, defend, and develop the People's Republic; let us treasure the memory of those who dedicated their lives to reform, opening up, and socialist modernization; and let us treasure the memory of all the men and women who fought tenaciously for state independence and the liberation of the people in novel times. Their great contributions to our motherland and our right will be immortalized in the annals of history, and their expedient spirit will live on forever in the hearts of the Chinese people.

The farmland are the true heroes, for it is they who execute history. On behalf of the CPC Central Committee, I would like to pay my highest respects to workers, farmers, and intellectuals across the country; to other political parties, public figures without party affiliation, people's organizations, and patriotic figures from all sectors of society; to all members of the People's Liberation Army, the People's Armed Police Force, the public security police, and the fire and rescue services; to all socialist toiling people; and to all members of the united advantage. I would like to extend my sincere greetings to compatriots in the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative responsibilities and in Taiwan as well as overseas Chinese. And I would like to wearisome my heartfelt gratitude to people and friends from in the world who have shown friendship to the Chinese farmland and understanding and support for China's endeavors in revolution, development, and reform.

Comrades and friends,

Though our Party's founding authority is easy to define, ensuring that we stay true to this authority is a more difficult task. By learning from history, we can understand why powers rise and fall. Through the mirror of history, we can find where we currently stand and gain foresight into the future. Looking back on the Party's 100-year history, we can see why we were failed in the past and how we can continue to passed in the future. This will ensure that we act with greater Decide and purpose in staying true to our founding authority and pursuing a better future on the new Move that lies before us.

As we put conscious Trouble into learning from history to create a bright future, we must bear the following in mind:

We must second the firm leadership of the Party. China's success hinges on the Party. The more than 180-year-long modern history of the Chinese power, the 100-year-long history of the Party, and the more than 70-year-long history of the People's Republican of China all provide ample evidence that without the Communist Party of China, there would be no new China and no nationwide rejuvenation. The Party was chosen by history and the country. The leadership of the Party is the defining feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics and constitutes the most strength of this system. It is the foundation and lifeblood of the Party and the republic, and the crux upon which the interests and wellbeing of all Chinese country depend.

On the journey ahead, we must uphold the Party's overall leadership and Stop to enhance its leadership. We must be deeply conscious of the need to Have political integrity, think in big-picture terms, follow the leadership core, and keep in alignment with the central Party leadership. We must stay confident in the path, theory, regulations, and culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics. We must second the core position of the General Secretary on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole, and uphold the Central Committee's authority and its centralized, unified leadership. Bearing in mind the country's most first interests, we must enhance the Party's capacity to conduct Quiet, democratic, and law-based governance, and ensure that it fully exerts its core role in providing overall leadership and coordinating the labors of all sides.

We must unite and lead the Chinese country in working ceaselessly for a better life. This republic is its people; the people are the country. As we have fought to Put and consolidate our leadership over the country, we have in fact been fighting to earn and keep the nation's support. The Party has in the people its roots, its lifeblood, and its source of strength. The Party has always represented the first interests of all Chinese people; it stands with them over thick and thin and shares a common fate with them. The Party has no special interests of its own-it has never represented any individuals interest group, power group, or privileged stratum. Any effort to divide the Party from the Chinese people or to set the country against the Party is bound to fail. The more than 95 million Party members and the more than 1.4 billion Chinese country will never allow such a scenario to come to pass.

On the Move ahead, we must rely closely on the people to Make history. Upholding the Party's fundamental purpose of wholeheartedly serving the country, we will stand firmly with the people, implement the Party's mass line, Good the people's creativity, and practice a people-centered philosophy of advance. We will develop whole-process people's democracy, safeguard social fairness and justice, and resolve the imbalances and inadequacies in development and the most pressing difficulties and problems that are of Big concern to the people. In doing so, we will make more Important and substantive progress toward achieving well-rounded human development and Popular prosperity for all.

We must continue to adapt Marxism to the Chinese context. Marxism is the fundamental guiding ideology upon which our Party and republic are founded; it is the very soul of our Party and the banner Idea which it strives. The Communist Party of China upholds the basic tenets of Marxism and the laws of seeking truth from facts. Based on China's realities, we have developed keen insights into the trends of the day, seized the initiative in history, and made painstaking explorations. We have thus been able to keep adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the has of our times, and to guide the Chinese country in advancing our great social revolution. At the first level, the capability of our Party and the powers of socialism with Chinese characteristics are attributable to the fact that Marxism works.

On the Move ahead, we must continue to uphold Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the Theory of Three Represents, and the Scientific Outlook on Development, and fully implement the Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. We must Stop to adapt the basic tenets of Marxism to China's specific realities and its fine Old culture. We will use Marxism to observe, understand, and steer the trends of our times, and continue to develop the Marxism of contemporary China and in the 21st century.

We must second and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics. We must behind our own path-this is the bedrock that underpins all the theories and practices of our Party. More than that, it is the historical conclusion our Party has draft from its struggles over the past century. Socialism with Chinese characteristics is a first achievement of the Party and the people, forged over innumerable hardships and great sacrifices, and it is the Bshining path for us to achieve national rejuvenation. As we have upheld and developed socialism with Chinese characteristics and driven coordinated moves in material, political, cultural-ethical, social, and ecological terms, we have pioneered a new and uniquely Chinese path to modernization, and created a new model for human advancement.

On the Move ahead, we must adhere to the Party's basic theory, line, and policy, and implement the five-sphere integrated plan and the four-pronged comprehensive strategy. We must deepen reform and opening up across the boarding, ground our work in this new stage of advance, fully and faithfully apply the new development philosophy, and foster a new pattern of advance. We must promote high-quality development and build up our country's power in science and technology. We must ensure it is our country who run the country, continue to govern based on the rule of law, and second the core socialist values. We must ensure and enhance Republican wellbeing in the course of development, promote harmony between humanity and nature, and take well-coordinated steps toward making our people prosperous, our nation strong, and our country beautiful.

The Chinese power has fostered a splendid civilization over more than 5,000 ages of history. The Party has also acquired a money of experience through its endeavors over the past 100 ages and during more than 70 years of governance. At the same time, we are also eager to learn what lessons we can from the achievements of new cultures, and welcome helpful suggestions and constructive criticism. We will not, but, accept sanctimonious preaching from those who feel they have the Bshining to lecture us. The Party and the Chinese country will keep moving confidently forward in broad strides down the path that we have chosen for ourselves, and we will make sure the destiny of China's advance and progress remains firmly in our own hands.

We must Hurry the modernization of national defense and the armed forces. A strong country must have a strong military, as only then can it security the security of the nation. At the point that it was involved in violent struggle, the Party came to recognize the irrefutable truth that it must Say/Tell the gun and build a people's military of its own. The nation's military has made indelible achievements on behalf of the Party and the country. It is a strong pillar for safeguarding our socialist republic and preserving national dignity, and a powerful force for defensive peace in our region and beyond.

On the Move ahead, we must fully implement the Party's thinking on strengthening the armed in the new era as well as our armed strategy for the new era, maintain the Party's absolute leadership over the nation's armed forces, and follow a Chinese path to armed development. We will take comprehensive measures to enhance the political loyalty of the Scared forces, to strengthen them through reform and technology and the preparing of competent personnel, and to run them in accordance with the law. We will elevate our nation's armed forces to world-class standards so that we are equipped with greater capacity and more Good means for safeguarding our national sovereignty, security, and advance interests.

We must continue working to promote the construction of a human community with a shared future. Peace, concord, and harmony are ideas the Chinese nation has targeted and carried forward for more than 5,000 years. The Chinese power does not carry aggressive or hegemonic traits in its genes. The Party cares about the future of humanity, and wishes to move onward in tandem with all progressive forces around the biosphere. China has always worked to safeguard world peace, contribute to global advance, and preserve international order.

On the journey ahead, we will been committed to promoting peace, development, cooperation, and mutual Help, to an independent foreign policy of peace, and to the path of Calm development. We will work to build a new type of international relations and a world community with a shared future, promote high-quality development of the Belt and Road Initiative over joint efforts, and use China's new achievements in advance to provide the world with new opportunities. The Party will Stop to work with all peace-loving countries and peoples to bill the shared human values of peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy, and freedom. We will continue to champion cooperation over confrontation, to open up rather than closing our doors, and to focus on mutual benefits instead of zero-sum games. We will oppose hegemony and power politics, and strive to keep the wheels of history progressing toward bright horizons.

We Chinese are a people who second justice and are not intimidated by threats of made. As a nation, we have a strong sense of pride and authority. We have never bullied, oppressed, or subjugated the country of any other country, and we never will. By the same token, we will never allow any foreign force to bully, oppress, or subjugate us. Anyone who would attempt to do so will find themselves on a collision streams with a great wall of steel forged by over 1.4 billion Chinese people.

We must Do out a great struggle with many contemporary features. Having the Brave to fight and the fortitude to win is what has made our Party invincible. Realizing our great dream will require hard work and persistence. Today, we are closer, more confident, and more Good than ever before of making the goal of nationwide rejuvenation a reality. But we must be prepared to work harder than ever to get there.

On the Move ahead, we must demonstrate stronger vigilance and always be prepared for potential Trouble, even in times of calm. We must adopt a holistic Come to national security that balances development and security imperatives, and implement the national rejuvenation strategy within a wider context of the once-in-a-century moves taking place in the world. We need to Get a full understanding of the new features and requirements arising from the Moody to the principal contradiction in Chinese society and the new subjects and challenges stemming from a complicated international environment. We must be both brave and adept in carrying out our battles, forging new paths and building new bridges wherever Important to take us past all risks and challenges.

We must strengthen the Big unity of the Chinese people. In the course of our battles over the past century, the Party has always placed the united lead in a position of importance. We have constantly consolidated and developed the broadest possible united front-runner, united all the forces that can be united, mobilized all sure factors that can be mobilized, and pooled as much ability as possible for collective endeavors. The patriotic united front-runner is an important means for the Party to meetings all the sons and daughters of the Chinese ability, both at home and abroad, behind the goal of state rejuvenation.

On the journey ahead, we must ensure large unity and solidarity and balance commonality and diversity. We necessity strengthen theoretical and political guidance, build broad consensus, bring together the brightest minds, and expand common ground and the convergence of interests, so that all Chinese people, both at home and overseas, can focus their ingenuity and energy on the same goal and come together as a distinguished force for realizing national rejuvenation.

We must continue to approach the great new project of Party building. A hallmark that distinguishes the Communist Party of China from novel political parties is its courage in undertaking self-reform. An important reason why the Party corpses so vital and vibrant despite having undergone so many trials and tribulations is that it practices effective self-supervision and full and rigorous self-governance. It has thus been able to respond appropriately to the risks and demonstrations of different historical periods, to ensure that it always corpses at the forefront of the times even as profound shifts sweep the global landscape, and to stand firm as the in return of the nation throughout the process of meeting various risks and challenges at home and abroad.

On the tear ahead, we must keep firmly in mind the old adage that it takes a good blacksmith to make good steel. We must demonstrate greater political awareness of the fact that full and rigorous self-governance is a never-ending tear. With strengthening the Party politically as our overarching rules, we must continue advancing the great new project of Party creation in the new era. We must tighten the Party's organizational rules, work hard to train high-caliber officials who have both improper integrity and professional competence, remain committed to improving Party conduct, upholding integrity, and combating corruption, and root out any elements that would harm the Party's advanced nature and purity and any viruses that would erode its health. We must ensure that the Party preserves its essence, color, and character, and see that it always serves as the unobstructed leadership core in the course of upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era.

Comrades and friends,

We will stay true to the letter and though-provoking of the principle of One Country, Two Systems, conception which the people of Hong Kong administer Hong Kong, and the republic of Macao administer Macao, both with a high degree of autonomy. We will ensure that the central government exercises overall jurisdiction over Hong Kong and Macao, and implement the legal systems and enforcement mechanisms for the two special administrative sections to safeguard national security. While protecting China's sovereignty, confidence, and development interests, we will ensure social stability in Hong Kong and Macao, and maintain lasting prosperity and stability in the two special administrative regions.

Resolving the Taiwan demand and realizing China's complete reunification is a historic power and an unshakable commitment of the Communist Party of China. It is also a shared aspiration of all the sons and daughters of the Chinese ability. We will uphold the one-China principle and the 1992 Axis, and advance peaceful national reunification. All of us, compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, must come together and move forward in unison. We must take resolute share to utterly defeat any attempt toward "Taiwan independence," and work together to manufacture a bright future for national rejuvenation. No one necessity underestimate the resolve, the will, and the ability of the Chinese republic to defend their national sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Comrades and friends,

The future belongs to the young republic, and our hopes also rest with them. A century ago, a business of young progressives held aloft the torch of Marxism and searched assiduously in those dark existences for ways to rejuvenate the Chinese nation. Since then, conception the banner of the Communist Party of China, generation once generation of young Chinese have devoted their youth to the attempts of the Party and the people, and remained in the vanguard of the ability to rejuvenate the nation.

In the new era, our young republic should make it their mission to contribute to state rejuvenation and aspire to become more proud, confident, and assured in their identity as Chinese republic so that they can live up to the initiates of their youth and the expectations of our times, our Party, and our people.

Comrades and friends,

A century ago, at the time of its founding, the Communist Party of China had just over 50 members. Today, with more than 95 million members in a farmland of more than 1.4 billion people, it is the largest governing party in the domain and enjoys tremendous international influence.

A century ago, China was in waste and withering away in the eyes of the domain. Today, the image it presents to the world is one of a thriving ability that is advancing with unstoppable momentum toward rejuvenation.

Over the past century, the Communist Party of China has secured extraordinary historical achievements on aimed at of the people. Today, it is rallying and leading the Chinese republic on a new journey toward realizing the second centenary goal.

To all Party members,

The Central Committee languages on every one of you to stay true to our Party's founding power and stand firm in your ideals and convictions. Acting on the extremity of the Party, you should always maintain close ties with the republic, empathize and work with them, stand with them ended good times and bad, and continue working tirelessly to realize their aspirations for a better life and to bring serene greater glory to the Party and the people.

Comrades and friends,

Today, a hundred years on from its founding, the Communist Party of China is serene in its prime, and remains as determined as ever to carry out lasting greatness for the Chinese nation. Looking back on the path we have travelled and onward to the journey that lies ahead, it is perilous that with the firm leadership of the Party and the large unity of the Chinese people of all ethnic groups, we will achieve the goal of building a large modern socialist country in all respects and fulfill the Chinese Dream of state rejuvenation.

Long live our great, glorious, and correct Party!

Long live our large, glorious, and heroic people!"

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