II. Implement the Important Thought of Three Represents in an All-Round Way

二、全面贯彻“三个代表”重要思想

To open up new prospects for the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, we must hold high the great banner of Deng Xiaoping Theory and implement the important thought of Three Represents. As a continuation and development of Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory, this important thought reflects new requirements for the work of the Party and state arising from the changes in China and other parts of the world today. It is a powerful theoretical weapon for strengthening and improving Party building and promoting self-improvement and development of socialism in China. It is the crystallization of the Party's collective wisdom and a guiding ideology the Party must follow for a long time to come. Persistent implementation of the "Three Represents" is the foundation for building our Party, the cornerstone for its governance and the source of its strength.

开创中国特色社会主义事业新局面，必须高举邓小平理论伟大旗帜，坚持贯彻“三个代表”重要思想。“三个代表”重要思想是对马克思列宁主义、毛泽东思想和邓小平理论的继承和发展，反映了当代世界和中国的发展变化对党和国家工作的新要求，是加强和改进党的建设、推进我国社会主义自我完善和发展的强大理论武器，是全党集体智慧的结晶，是党必须长期坚持的指导思想。始终做到“三个代表”，是我们党的立党之本、执政之基、力量之源。

The important thought of Three Represents has been put forward on the basis of a scientific judgment of the Party's historical position. Having gone through the revolution, reconstruction and reform, our Party has evolved from a party that led the people in fighting for state power to a party that has led the people in exercising the power and has long remained in power. It has developed from a party that led national reconstruction under external blockade and a planned economy to a party that is leading national development while the country is opening to the outside world and developing a socialist market economy. Keeping in mind the past, present and future of China and other parts of the world, we must accurately comprehend the characteristics of the times and the Party's tasks, scientifically formulate and correctly implement the Party's line, principles and policies, and study and settle questions concerning the promotion of China's social progress and the improvement of Party building. We should neither approach questions out of their historical context nor lose our bearings, and we should neither fall behind the times nor skip the stages, so as to ensure that our cause will advance from victory to victory.

“三个代表”重要思想，是在科学判断党的历史方位的基础上提出来的。我们党历经革命、建设和改革，已经从领导人民为夺取全国政权而奋斗的党，成为领导人民掌握全国政权并长期执政的党；已经从受到外部封锁和实行计划经济条件下领导国家建设的党，成为对外开放和发展社会主义市场经济条件下领导国家建设的党。我们必须从中国和世界的历史、现状和未来着眼，准确把握时代特点和党的任务，科学制定并正确执行党的路线方针政策，认真研究和解决推动中国社会进步和加强党的建设的问题，做到既不割断历史、又不迷失方向，既不落后于时代、又不超越阶段，使我们的事业不断从胜利走向胜利。

The implementation of the important thought of Three Represents is, in essence, to keep pace with the times, maintain the Party's progressiveness and exercise the state power in the interest of the people. All Party members must be keenly aware of this basic requirement and become more conscious and determined in implementing this important thought.

贯彻“三个代表”重要思想，关键在坚持与时俱进，核心在坚持党的先进性，本质在坚持执政为民。全党同志要牢牢把握这个根本要求，不断增强贯彻“三个代表”重要思想的自觉性和坚定性。

1. To carry out the important thought of Three Represents, the whole Party must maintain the spirit of keeping pace with the times and blaze new trails for the development of the Marxist theory. Upholding the Party's ideological line, emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts and keeping pace with the times are decisive factors for our Party to retain its progressiveness and enhance its creativity. Keeping pace with the times means that all the theory and work of the Party must conform to the times, follow the law of development and display great creativity. Whether we can persist in doing this bears on the future and destiny of the Party and state.

（一）贯彻“三个代表”重要思想，必须使全党始终保持与时俱进的精神状态，不断开拓马克思主义理论发展的新境界。坚持党的思想路线，解放思想、实事求是、与时俱进，是我们党坚持先进性和增强创造力的决定性因素。与时俱进，就是党的全部理论和工作要体现时代性，把握规律性，富于创造性。能否始终做到这一点，决定着党和国家的前途命运。

Innovation sustains the progress of a nation. It is an inexhaustible motive force for the prosperity of a country and the source of the eternal vitality of a political party. The world is changing, China's reform, opening up and modernization drive are advancing and our people's great practice is progressing. All this urgently requires our Party to sum up new experience from practice, draw on the achievements of modern human civilization, broaden its fields of vision in theory and come up with new theses with the courage of the theory of Marxism. Only thus can our Party's ideology and theory guide the whole Party and the entire people forward and inspire them to push ahead the cause of building socialism with Chinese characteristics. Theoretical innovation based on practice precedes social development and changes. Bringing forth new ideas in institutions, science and technology, culture and other fields through theoretical innovation, exploring the way forward in practice, never becoming conceited and never slackening our effort - these are the ways of running the Party and state, which we should follow for a long time to come.

创新是一个民族进步的灵魂，是一个国家兴旺发达的不竭动力，也是一个政党永葆生机的源泉。世界在变化，我国改革开放和现代化建设在前进，人民群众的伟大实践在发展，迫切要求我们党以马克思主义的理论勇气，总结实践的新经验，借鉴当代人类文明的有益成果，在理论上不断扩展新视野，作出新概括。只有这样，党的思想理论才能引导和鼓舞全党和全国人民把中国特色社会主义事业不断推向前进。实践基础上的理论创新是社会发展和变革的先导。通过理论创新推动制度创新、科技创新、文化创新以及其他各方面的创新，不断在实践中探索前进，永不自满，永不懈怠，这是我们要长期坚持的治党治国之道。

Innovation requires emancipating our minds, seeking truth from facts and keeping pace with the times. There is no limit to practice nor to innovation. We will surpass our predecessors, and future generations will certainly surpass us. This is an inexorable law governing social advancement. We must adapt ourselves to the progress of practice and test all things in practice. We must conscientiously free our minds from the shackles of the outdated notions, practices and systems, from the erroneous and dogmatic interpretations of Marxism and from the fetters of subjectivism and metaphysics. While upholding the basic tenets of Marxism, we must add new chapters of theory to it. While carrying forward the revolutionary tradition, we must acquire new experience. We should be good at seeking unity in thinking through the emancipation of our minds and guiding our new practice with the developing Marxism.

创新就要不断解放思想、实事求是、与时俱进。实践没有止境，创新也没有止境。我们要突破前人，后人也必然会突破我们。这是社会前进的必然规律。我们一定要适应实践的发展，以实践来检验一切，自觉地把思想认识从那些不合时宜的观念、做法和体制的束缚中解放出来，从对马克思主义的错误的和教条式的理解中解放出来，从主观主义和形而上学的桎梏中解放出来。要坚持马克思主义基本原理，又要谱写新的理论篇章，要发扬革命传统，又要创造新鲜经验。善于在解放思想中统一思想，用发展着的马克思主义指导新的实践。

2. To carry out the important thought of Three Represents, it is essential for the Party to give top priority to development in governing and rejuvenating the country and open up new prospects for the modernization drive. A Marxist ruling party must attach great importance to the liberation and development of the productive forces. Without development, it would be impossible to maintain the progressiveness of the Party, give play to the superiority of the socialist system and make the people rich and the country strong. The progressiveness of the Party is concrete and historical, and it must be judged by whether the Party promotes the development of the advanced productive forces and culture in present-day China and works to safeguard and realize the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people. In the final analysis, it must be judged by the Party's role in propelling history forward.

（二）贯彻“三个代表”重要思想，必须把发展作为党执政兴国的第一要务，不断开创现代化建设的新局面。马克思主义执政党必须高度重视解放和发展生产力。离开发展，坚持党的先进性、发挥社会主义制度的优越性和实现民富国强都无从谈起。党的先进性是具体的、历史的，必须放到推动当代中国先进生产力和先进文化的发展中去考察，放到维护和实现最广大人民根本利益的奋斗中去考察，归根到底要看党在推动历史前进中的作用。

In China, a large developing country with a backward economy and culture, where our Party is leading the people in the modernization drive, a good solution to the problem of development has a direct bearing on the trend of popular sentiment and the success of our cause. Shouldering the historical responsibility to propel the Chinese society, the Party must always keep a firm grip on development -- the top priority for its governance and rejuvenation of the country. It must maintain its progressiveness and give play to the superiority of the socialist system by developing the advanced productive forces and culture and realizing the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people, speeding up all-round social progress and promoting the all-round development of people. So long as the Party firmly grasps this point, it will have thoroughly understood the aspirations of the people and the essence of the socialist modernization drive, and thus it will be able to keep implementing the important thought of Three Represents and consolidating its position as the ruling party and meet the requirement of making the country strong and the people rich.

我们党在中国这样一个经济文化落后的发展中大国领导人民进行现代化建设，能不能解决好发展问题，直接关系人心向背、事业兴衰。党要承担起推动中国社会进步的历史责任，必须始终紧紧抓住发展这个执政兴国的第一要务，把坚持党的先进性和发挥社会主义制度的优越性，落实到发展先进生产力、发展先进文化、实现最广大人民的根本利益上来，推动社会全面进步，促进人的全面发展。紧紧把握住这一点，就从根本上把握了人民的愿望，把握了社会主义现代化建设的本质，就能使“三个代表”重要思想不断落实，使党的执政地位不断巩固，使强国富民的要求不断得到实现。

Development requires that we always concentrate on economic growth, base ourselves on China's realities, conform to the trend of the times and continue to explore new ways to promote the progress of the advanced productive forces and culture. Development requires that we uphold and deepen the reform. It requires that we do away with all notions which hinder development, change all practices and regulations which impede it and get rid of all the drawbacks of the systems which adversely affect it. Development requires that we trust and rely on the people who are the motive force for pushing forward the advance of history. We will pool the wisdom and strength of the people of the whole country and concentrate on construction and development.

发展必须坚持以经济建设为中心，立足中国现实，顺应时代潮流，不断开拓促进先进生产力和先进文化发展的新途径。发展必须坚持和深化改革。一切妨碍发展的思想观念都要坚决冲破，一切束缚发展的做法和规定都要坚决改变，一切影响发展的体制弊端都要坚决革除。发展必须相信和依靠人民，人民是推动历史前进的动力。要集中全国人民的智慧和力量，聚精会神搞建设，一心一意谋发展。

3. To carry out the important thought of Three Represents, it is essential to bring all positive factors into full play and bring new forces to the great cause of rejuvenating the Chinese nation. The interests of the overwhelming majority of the people and the initiative and creativity of the whole society and the entire nation are always the most decisive factors for advancing the cause of the Party and state. In the process of profound social changes in our country and the rapid development of the cause of the Party and state, it is vitally important to properly balance the interests of all quarters and fully mobilize and rally all positive factors.

（三）贯彻“三个代表”重要思想，必须最广泛最充分地调动一切积极因素，不断为中华民族的伟大复兴增添新力量。最大多数人的利益和全社会全民族的积极性创造性，对党和国家事业的发展始终是最具有决定性的因素。在我国社会深刻变革、党和国家事业快速发展的进程中，妥善处理各方面的利益关系，把一切积极因素充分调动和凝聚起来，至关紧要。

With the deepening of reform and opening up and economic and cultural development, the working class in China has expanded steadily and its quality improved. The working class, with the intellectuals as part of it, and the farmers are always the basic forces for promoting the development of the advanced productive forces and all-round social progress in our country. Emerging in the process of social changes, entrepreneurs and technical personnel employed by non-public scientific and technological enterprises, managerial and technical staff employed by overseas-funded enterprises, the self-employed, private entrepreneurs, employees in intermediaries, free-lance professionals and members of other social strata are all builders of socialism with Chinese characteristics. We should unite with the people of all social strata who help to make the motherland prosperous and strong, encouraging their pioneering spirit, protecting their legitimate rights and interests and commending the outstanding ones in an effort to create a situation in which all people are well positioned, do their best and live in harmony.

随着改革开放的深入和经济文化的发展，我国工人阶级队伍不断壮大，素质不断提高。包括知识分子在内的工人阶级，广大农民，始终是推动我国先进生产力发展和社会全面进步的根本力量。在社会变革中出现的民营科技企业的创业人员和技术人员、受聘于外资企业的管理技术人员、个体户、私营企业主、中介组织的从业人员、自由职业人员等社会阶层，都是中国特色社会主义事业的建设者。对为祖国富强贡献力量的社会各阶层人们都要团结，对他们的创业精神都要鼓励，对他们的合法权益都要保护，对他们中的优秀分子都要表彰，努力形成全体人民各尽其能、各得其所而又和谐相处的局面。

We must respect work, knowledge, competent people and creation. This should be an important policy of the Party and state to be conscientiously implemented in society at large. We need to respect and protect all work that is good for the people and society. All work that contributes to the socialist modernization drive in China, physical or mental and simple or complicated, is glorious and should be acknowledged and respected. All investors at home or from overseas should be encouraged to carry out business activities in China's development. All legitimate income, from work or not, should be protected. It is improper to judge whether people are politically progressive or backward simply by whether they own property or how much property they own. But rather, we should judge them mainly by their political awareness, state of mind and performance, by how they have acquired and used their property, and by how they have contributed to the cause of building socialism with Chinese characteristics through their work. It is necessary to foster notions and form a business mechanism inconformity with the basic economic system in the primary stage of socialism and create a social environment in which people are encouraged to achieve something and helped to make a success of their career, so as to unleash all the vitality contained in work, knowledge, technology, management and capital and give full play to all sources of social wealth for the benefit of the people.

必须尊重劳动、尊重知识、尊重人才、尊重创造，这要作为党和国家的一项重大方针在全社会认真贯彻。要尊重和保护一切有益于人民和社会的劳动。不论是体力劳动还是脑力劳动，不论是简单劳动还是复杂劳动，一切为我国社会主义现代化建设作出贡献的劳动，都是光荣的，都应该得到承认和尊重。海内外各类投资者在我国建设中的创业活动都应该受到鼓励。一切合法的劳动收入和合法的非劳动收入，都应该得到保护。不能简单地把有没有财产、有多少财产当作判断人们政治上先进和落后的标准，而主要应该看他们的思想政治状况和现实表现，看他们的财产是怎么得来的以及对财产怎么支配和使用，看他们以自己的劳动对中国特色社会主义事业所作的贡献。要形成与社会主义初级阶段基本经济制度相适应的思想观念和创业机制，营造鼓励人们干事业、支持人们干成事业的社会氛围，放手让一切劳动、知识、技术、管理和资本的活力竞相迸发，让一切创造社会财富的源泉充分涌流，以造福于人民。

In building socialism with Chinese characteristics, the fundamental interests of the people of the whole country are identical, on the basis of which concrete interest relations and internal contradictions can be adjusted. In the formulation and implementation of the Party's principles and policies, a basic point of departure is that we should represent the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people, and correctly reflect and take into account the interests of different groups of people, enabling the whole people to advance steadily toward the goal of common prosperity. We should protect the vitality for further growth of the developed regions, strong industries and people who have become rich first through hard work and lawful business operations and encouraging them to create social wealth. More importantly, we must pay great attention to less developed areas and the industries and people in straitened circumstances and show concern for them. In particular, we must see to it that the people in financial difficulties have subsistence allowances, and we must take effective measures to help them find jobs and improve their living conditions so that they will truly feel the warmth of our socialist society.

在建设中国特色社会主义的进程中，全国人民的根本利益是一致的，各种具体的利益关系和内部矛盾可以在这个基础上进行调节。制定和贯彻党的方针政策，基本着眼点是要代表最广大人民的根本利益，正确反映和兼顾不同方面群众的利益，使全体人民朝着共同富裕的方向稳步前进。我们要保护发达地区、优势产业和通过辛勤劳动与合法经营先富起来人们的发展活力，鼓励他们积极创造社会财富，更要高度重视和关心欠发达地区以及比较困难的行业和群众，特别要使困难群众的基本生活得到保障，并积极帮助他们解决就业问题和改善生活条件，使他们切实感受到社会主义社会的温暖。