Opinion | China’s sixth plenum: four insights from the Communist Party’s 100 years
- The history of the Communist Party is important to decode China’s success, which means that to understand China, we must first understand the party
- Choosing its own development path and putting people first are among the secrets of the party’s success
Revisiting history helps to shed light on the future. At the plenum, a landmark resolution was passed: the Resolution on the Major Achievements and Historical Experience of the Party over the Past Century.
The history of the Communist Party is important to decode China’s success, which means that to understand China, we must first understand the party. Here are some insights that other countries and political parties can glean from the party’s 100-year experience.
First, always be an explorer following your own path. As China “stood up”, “became rich” and now “becomes strong”, the Communist Party has led the people in pioneering a Chinese development path and creating a new model for human advancement and the modernisation of developing countries.
The Communist Party is clear that China’s political civilisation and system must be rooted in Chinese society and that other systems simply will not work for us. Even worse, cloning other systems could result in the collapse of a state. Instead, the party has created a successful path for the country over the past century and is leading Chinese people along that path to national revival.
