A Dream of Millennia Is Coming True
China Today (English)|October 2020
ACHIEVING the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the dream of the Chinese people since modern times. The Communist Party of China (CPC), upon its establishment in 1921, took on the historical mission of realizing the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The construction of a new China and the establishment of a socialist system after the new democratic revolution have accomplished the most wide-ranging and penetrating social transformations in the country, and as a result, it lay the fundamental prerequisites and institutional infrastructure for achieving the rebound of the Chinese nation and for its people to pursue a better life, thus initiating the great journey of China towards a modern, strong, and prosperous country.
CHEN LI
A Dream of Millennia Is Coming True

In a country with under-developed social productive forces, the initiative to promote socialist modernization construction constituted a brand-new subject, and no readily available solution or historical precedent existed. The Chinese Communists with Mao Zedong as the leader integrated the fundamental principles of Marxism with the reality of China, proactively explored China’s own path of building socialism, and formulated the grand strategy for China to advance towards a consolidated socialist country, which would be accomplished in two stages: The first stage was to establish an independent and relatively integrated industrial system and national economic system; the second stage was to comprehensively realize the modernization of agriculture, industry, national defense, and science and technology, so as to become one of the world’s leading economies.

Through arduous and painstaking efforts, China, starting from virtually nothing while also languishing in poverty, built up an independent and relatively complete industrial hierarchy and national economic system, accumulating all the while excellent experiences for exploring the path of building socialism with Chinese characteristics and providing a better life and future for its people.

The Communist Party of China (CPC), upon its establishment in 1921, took on the historical mission of realizing the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Kicking off Chinese-style Modernization

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