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　　Seeking truth from facts is a basic clue that runs through all the practices and theories of our party. A history of China’s revolution, construction and reform is a history of the Communist Party of China (CPC), China people and the Chinese nation seeking truth from facts to understand China, transform China, build China and develop China.

　　Seeking truth from facts is the cornerstone of the Communist Party of China (CPC) people’s world outlook and methodology. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, with great political courage and responsibility, the CPC Central Committee, with the supreme leader as the core, has permeated all aspects and links of governing the country and accumulated new valuable experience in practice, and the Chinese nation has ushered in a great leap from being rich to being strong.

　　● To implement the Party’s ideological line of seeking truth from facts, we must always adhere to the core position of the Party’s leadership and strengthen theoretical armed forces and institutional guarantees. We must resolutely safeguard the core position of the CPC Central Committee and the whole Party, the authority of the CPC Central Committee and centralized and unified leadership, and do a good job of arming the whole Party with Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the new era from a strategic perspective.

　　General Secretary of the Supreme Leader profoundly pointed out: "Seeking truth from facts is the fundamental viewpoint of Marxism, the fundamental requirement for the Communist Party of China (CPC) people to understand and transform the world, and the basic thinking method, working method and leadership method of our party." He stressed that to persist in seeking truth from facts, "we must thoroughly understand the original appearance of things", "we must clearly understand and correctly grasp the basic national condition that China is still in the primary stage of socialism for a long time", "we must persist in upholding the truth and correcting mistakes for the benefit of the people" and "we must constantly promote theoretical innovation based on practice". These important expositions have further enriched and developed the Party’s ideological line of seeking truth from facts. Based on the new era of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, a new historical orientation of China’s development, we should contact the historical process of Marxism in China, the historical process of the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s founding 97 years ago, the historical process of reform and opening up 40 years ago, and what the party and the country are doing. We should thoroughly study and understand the important exposition of the Supreme Leader General Secretary from the combination of theory and practice, and improve our consciousness of implementing the party’s ideological line of seeking truth from facts.

　　　In the final analysis, the ideological line is a philosophical issue.

　　What kind of ideological line we adhere to is what kind of philosophy we adhere to. In the early days of the founding of the Party, our Party highly unified Marxist philosophy with the Party’s ideological line politically and theoretically, and established the guiding position of the ideological line of seeking truth from facts in the whole Party.

　　In 1941, Comrade Mao Zedong made a classic exposition on seeking truth from facts in "Transforming Our Learning". He said: "‘ Practical things ’ Is everything that exists objectively, ‘ Yes ’ Is the internal connection of objective things, that is, regularity, ‘ Seek ’ It is for us to study. " Our party’s ideological line of seeking truth from facts was formed in the long-term struggle against subjectivism with dogmatism as its main feature. In the spring of 1930, Comrade Mao Zedong wrote Anti-bookishness, which discussed the importance of integrating theory with practice, and clearly put forward the ideological line for the first time in the history of the Party. The Zunyi Meeting held on the way to the Long March began to establish the leading position of the correct Marxist line with Comrade Mao Zedong as the main representative in the CPC Central Committee. During the Yan ‘an period, in order to improve the ideological level of the whole party, Comrade Mao Zedong wrote brilliant works such as Strategic Issues of China Revolutionary War, Practice Theory, Contradiction Theory and Protracted War. Focusing on the practical problems of China Revolution, he deeply exposed the ideological and cognitive roots of dogmatism and empiricism by using Marxist philosophical principles, positions, viewpoints and methods, which set a brilliant example for the whole party to integrate theory with practice and greatly unified, improved and armed it.

　　After the founding of New China, our party became the ruling party, and Comrade Mao Zedong paid more attention to the ideological line of seeking truth from facts. In 1959, when talking about the inheritance and development of Marxist theory, Comrade Mao Zedong said in "Talking about Reading the Textbook of Political Economy in the Soviet Union": "The books of these ancestors of Marx must be read. Their basic principles must be observed, which is the first. However, communist party in any country and the ideological circle in any country must create new theories, write new works and produce their own theorists to serve the current politics. It is impossible to rely solely on the ancestors. " In 1963, Comrade Mao Zedong wrote in "Where Does the Right Thought of Man Come from? It is pointed out in the book: "A correct understanding often needs to be repeated from material to spirit, from spirit to material, that is, from practice to understanding, and from realizing practice." Comrade Mao Zedong’s profound exposition of seeking truth from facts from the height of the relationship between theory and practice and from the height of Marxist epistemology is of long-term guiding significance and is the philosophical and ideological line for our party to correctly understand and transform the objective world.

　　Facts have proved that it is precisely because of adhering to the ideological line of seeking truth from facts that our party creatively solved a series of major problems in building a Marxist political party under the special social and historical conditions of China; Creatively solved a series of major problems in creating a people’s armed force under the absolute leadership of the party; Creatively solved a series of major problems of the United front that United the overwhelming majority of the whole nation; Creatively put forward and implemented a series of correct strategic strategies, and solved a series of extremely complicated problems in the process of China revolution in time; Creatively completed the transformation from the new democratic revolution to the socialist revolution, and successfully realized the deepest and greatest social change in the history of China; Creative accumulation of important experience in socialist construction in China, a big eastern country with a very backward level of social productive forces, has created a fundamental premise for the successful development of the cause of our party and people and laid a solid theoretical and practical foundation for the Chinese nation to catch up with the development trend of the times.

　　　Seeking truth from facts is an important experience in the 40 years of reform and opening up

　　Comrade Deng Xiaoping profoundly pointed out: "Seeking truth from facts is the essence of Marxism. We should advocate this, not laptop. The success of our reform and opening up depends not on books, but on practice and seeking truth from facts. " It can be said that seeking truth from facts is an important experience for the success of reform and opening up.

　　In December 1978, Comrade Deng Xiaoping delivered an important speech entitled "Emancipating the Mind, Seeking Truth from Facts, Uniting and Looking Forward" at the Central Working Conference to prepare for the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party, which profoundly expounded the dialectical relationship between emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts. He pointed out: "Emancipate your mind, use your head, seek truth from facts, unite and look forward, first of all, emancipate your mind." "In the past, all our victories in the revolution were achieved by seeking truth from facts; Now, if we want to realize the four modernizations, we must also rely on seeking truth from facts. " Comrade Deng Xiaoping’s speech actually became the theme report of the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party.

　　Since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, it is under the banner of emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts that our party has decisively shifted the focus of the whole party’s work to socialist modernization, made a major decision to implement reform and opening up, and achieved a great turning point with far-reaching significance in the party’s history; Only by systematically summarizing the historical experience since the founding of New China has the correct direction been set for the development of the party and the country. Only by grasping the basic question of "what is socialism and how to build it" can we successfully embark on the road of Socialism with Chinese characteristics; Only then did we correctly understand that China is in the primary stage of socialism and its fundamental task for a long time, and formulated the basic line of persisting in taking economic construction as the center, adhering to the four cardinal principles, and persisting in reform and opening up; Wait a minute.

　　The CPC Central Committee with Comrade Jiang Zemin as the core and Comrade Hu Jintao as the general secretary further enriched and developed the Party’s ideological line of seeking truth from facts. Comrade Jiang Zemin emphasized that adhering to the Party’s ideological line, emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts and keeping pace with the times are the decisive factors for our Party to persist in its advanced nature and enhance its creativity. Keeping pace with the times means that all the theories and work of the party should reflect the times, grasp the regularity and be creative. Whether this can be done all the time determines the future and destiny of the party and the country. Comrade Hu Jintao emphasized that seeking truth and being pragmatic is the consistent scientific spirit of dialectical materialism and historical materialism, the core content of our party’s ideological line, the party’s fine tradition and the political character that communist party people should possess.

　　It can be said that the great victory of 40 years of reform and opening up is the great victory of the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s ideological line of seeking truth from facts. It is precisely because we have always firmly grasped the ideological line of seeking truth from facts that our party has combined the basic principles of Marxism with the concrete reality of China’s reform and opening up, continuously deepened our understanding of communist party’s laws of governance, socialist construction and the development of human society, creatively answered and solved a series of major theoretical and practical problems, and provided creative theoretical guidance for adhering to and developing Socialism with Chinese characteristics, which enabled China to catch up with the times and realize the great leap of the Chinese nation from standing up to becoming rich.

　　　Adhere to and implement the party’s ideological line of seeking truth from facts more consciously

　　Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, with great political courage and responsibility, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has penetrated into all aspects and links of governing the country and accumulated new valuable experience in practice.

　　Always adhere to the comprehensive and strict administration of the party and comprehensively strengthen the party’s leadership. Strictly abide by the party’s political discipline and rules, severely rectify formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism and extravagance, resolutely oppose privilege, adhere to anti-corruption, no restricted area, full coverage and zero tolerance, and constantly highlight the role of the patrol sword. The party’s political construction, ideological construction, organizational construction, work style construction, discipline construction and system construction have opened up a new situation, and political awareness, overall awareness, core awareness and conformity awareness have been continuously enhanced, and Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s road is confident.

　　Always adhere to the people-centered, Do not forget your initiative mind, keep in mind the mission. Practice the fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, implement the party’s mass line in all activities of governing the country, take the people’s longing for a better life as the goal, and rely on the people to create great historical achievements. Always put people’s interests in the supreme position, so that the fruits of reform and development can benefit all people more fairly, constantly promote social fairness and justice, form effective social governance and good social order, and make people’s sense of acquisition, happiness and security more substantial, more secure and more sustainable.

　　Always observe and solve problems strategically. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee has promoted the overall layout of the "five in one" and the "four comprehensive" strategic layout in a coordinated manner, and solved the major, outstanding and urgent problems facing the party and the country. At the same time, our party has always insisted on coordinating the two overall situations at home and abroad, unifying the promotion of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with the promotion of building a community of human destiny, not only based on doing a good job in China first, but also actively contributing to the cause of human progress.

　　Practice has proved that the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has always adhered to the ideological line of seeking truth from facts, further integrated the basic principles of Marxism with the concrete reality of the new era, United and led the people to carry out great struggles, build great projects, advance great undertakings, realize great dreams, and promote the all-round and groundbreaking historical achievements of the party and the state, resulting in profound and fundamental historical changes. The Chinese nation has ushered in a great leap from being rich to being strong.

　　By reviewing and summarizing the historical process of Marxism in China, the historical process of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in the past 97 years and the historical process of reform and opening up in the past 40 years, we can get many profound lessons by connecting with what the party and the country are doing:

　　First, seeking truth from facts is a basic clue that runs through all the practices and theories of our party. A history of China’s revolution, construction and reform, a history of Marxism in China, in the final analysis, is a history of the Communist Party of China (CPC), China people and the Chinese nation seeking truth from facts about China, transforming China, building China and developing China. When we adhere to the ideological line of seeking truth from facts, the party’s cause will develop smoothly and advance triumphantly, and when we deviate from the ideological line of seeking truth from facts, the party’s cause will suffer setbacks.

　　Second, seeking truth from facts is the cornerstone of the Communist Party of China (CPC) people’s world outlook and methodology. In the new era, it is very important for us to achieve a great leap forward and adhere to the party’s ideological line of seeking truth from facts. Only by consciously adhering to and applying the ideological line of seeking truth from facts can we more consciously understand and grasp the profound changes in the world, national conditions and party conditions, and insist on proceeding from the reality of the primary stage of socialism; Only in this way can we correctly handle the relationship between reform, development and stability, the relationship between the overall situation at home and the overall situation at home and abroad, and strive to achieve the strategic arrangement and deployment set by the 19 th National Congress of the Communist Party of China; Only in this way can we more effectively resolve various risk challenges, actively solve various major problems on the road ahead, and always maintain strategic sobriety and strategic initiative; Only by constantly advancing the great social revolution can we deepen the self-revolution, improve the Party’s ruling ability and leadership level, uphold and develop Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and uphold and develop Marxism.

　　Third, adhering to the party’s ideological line of seeking truth from facts is intrinsically linked and unified with adhering to the party’s fundamental working line of the mass line. The mass line is the lifeline and fundamental working line of our party, and it is an important heirloom for our party to maintain its youthful vitality and combat effectiveness forever. Regardless of the past, present and future, we must persist in doing everything for the masses, relying on the masses, coming from the masses and going to the masses, and implementing the mass line in all activities of governing the country.

　　Fourth, to implement the Party’s ideological line of seeking truth from facts, we must always adhere to the core position of the Party’s leadership, and strengthen theoretical arms and institutional guarantees. The party’s ideological line of seeking truth from facts can be unswervingly implemented, thanks to the core role of the party’s leadership and the fact that our party has always firmly grasped the fundamentals of theoretical construction and theoretical armed forces. We must resolutely safeguard the core position of the CPC Central Committee and the whole Party, the authority of the CPC Central Committee and centralized and unified leadership, and do a good job of arming the whole Party with Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the new era from a strategic perspective. Seeking truth from facts, as the ideological line of our party, has never been the individual behavior of a few people, which must be realized through the power of the system. In the new era, in order to provide institutional guarantee for implementing the ideological line of seeking truth from facts, we should focus on the construction of democratic centralism and the rule of law. Democratic centralism is the fundamental organizational system and leadership system of the party and the country, and comprehensively administering the country according to law is an important part of the "four comprehensive" strategic layout. On the basis of adhering to democratic centralism and comprehensively promoting the rule of law, we should more consciously adhere to and implement the party’s ideological line of seeking truth from facts, and strive with perseverance and confidence to realize the strategic arrangements and deployment set by the party’s 19th National Congress. (Written by Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought Research Center of Shanghai Supreme Leader New Era: Li Hongfeng)

　　Guangming Daily (11th edition, September 28th, 2018)