China Wednesday published the Resolution on Major Issues
Regarding the Building of a Harmonious Socialist Society, which was
adopted at the conclusion of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 16th
Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on October
11.
The resolution highlights the importance, guidelines, goals and
principles of building a socialist harmonious society; coordinated
development; social equity and justice; cultural harmony and
consolidating the ideological and ethical foundations for social
harmony; and improving public administration to build a society of
vigor and order.
It says social harmony is the intrinsic nature of socialism with
Chinese characteristics and an important guarantee of the country's
prosperity, the nation's rejuvenation and the people's
happiness.
The resolution stresses the harmonious socialist society is to
be built and shared by all Chinese along the road of socialism with
Chinese characteristics and under the leadership of the CPC.
"We must always remain sober minded, vigilant, thoroughly
understand the situation of the country in the current phase of
development, study and analyze the contradictions and problems and
their origins in a scientific way, be more active in facing up to
the conflicts and solving them, and try our utmost to increase
harmonious factors and reduce disharmonious factors to consistently
boost social harmony," it says.
The resolution also puts forward the principles to be followed,
the main objectives and tasks for building a harmonious socialist
society by 2020.
(Xinhua News Agency October 18, 2006)