SINICIZATION OF MARXISM
The salvoes of the October Revolution in Russia in 1917 brought the theory of Marxism-Leninism to China.
Starting from the May 4th Movement in 1919, the Chinese working class began to cut a striking figure as an advanced social force in the country. In 1921, the CPC emerged just as the times called in the process of applying Marxism-Leninism in the Chinese workers' movement.
Before the 90th anniversary of the CPC's founding, about 1 million copies of a new book on the history of the Communist Party of China (1949-1978) have been sold since being published on Jan. 11.
The book, focusing on the 1949-1978 period, came 20 years after the first book, which documented the history from the birth of the CPC in 1921 to the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949.
The first book was reprinted at the same time and had sold about 766,000 copies as of this May.
"The most essential experience we have drawn from the Party's history is to always persist in integrating the fundamental principles of Marxism-Leninism with the specific situation in China, and unswervingly follow our own development road," said Qin Gang, professor with the Department of Marxism Theory of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee.
The first generation of the collective leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Mao Zedong at the core and the second generation of the collective leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Deng Xiaoping at the core led the Party in persisting in closely combining the basic principles of Marxism-Leninism with China's concrete practice, resulting in the formation of Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory.
To strengthen the Party building, Jiang Zemin proposed the important theory of "Three Represents" - the Party should represent the development trend of China's advanced productive forces, the orientation of China's advanced culture, and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people in China.
Along with the rapid economic and social development, the development mode, featuring "high investment, high consumption, high pollution with low efficiency", challenged the country's ecological environment and sustainable development, therefore General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee Hu Jintao proposed "Scientific Outlook on Development," which puts people first and calls for comprehensive, balanced and sustainable development.
This year, a book, translated as "Why and How the CPC works in China," compiled by Xie Chuntao, professor with the Party School of the CPC Central Committee, is becoming a bestseller. The book tries to seek an answer for why the CPC can maintain vitality 90 years after its founding and more than 60 years after it came to power.
One chapter of the book explains why the Communist Parties in the former Soviet Union and East European countries lost their ruling status, while China has not and will not.
Four reasons are given by the book with "CPC always exploring its own development road" topping the list.
Other three reasons include: it is reform and opening-up that have been changing the country's fate; the Party and the country put reform, development and stability into overall consideration; and the CPC always attaches great importance to the Party building.
