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Stay True to the Party's Original Aspiration and Founding Mission and Carry Out Self-Reform

读书嘉宾：胥国红，北京航空航天大学外国语学院教学指导委员会主任，修辞系系主任，第13届北京市高等教育教学名师，北京市大学英语教学指导委员会成员。主要研究方向包括：社会语言学、多模态话语分析、外语教学、英语演讲与修辞。近年来主持并参与“2017年北京市人才共建项目”、“大类培养模式下的大学英语教学改革”等教改项目，出版《优秀大学英语教师的多模态课堂话语分析》、《计算机职业英语》等专著，发表“教师课堂上的“言”与“行”：对一堂大学英语精读课的多模态话语分析”等教学论文十余篇，录制慕课《公共演讲与修辞》，带领北航《高级英语》教学团队荣获2019外研社“教学之星”全国总决赛亚军以及2019北京市优质本科课程奖。

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Stay True to the Party's Original Aspiration and Founding Mission and Carry Out Self-Reform

How will our Party, a party with a century of history, maintain its progressive nature, integrity and vigor? How will it always keep the trust and support of the people? How will our Party continue to lead the country? These are fundamental questions that we must answer and solve properly. The requirement to stay true to the Party’s original aspiration and founding mission is to remind all Party members that the Party’s nature, ideals, convictions, and goals manifest themselves in the aspiration and the mission. The longer our Party is in power, the more it should stick to its nature as a Marxist party, the more it should remember its original aspiration and founding mission, and the more it should carry out self-reform.

The original aspiration and founding mission of our Party are based on Marxism. Marx and Engels wrote in the Manifesto of the Communist Party that, “All previous historical movements were movements of minorities, or in the interest of minorities.The proletarian movement is the self-conscious, independent movement of the immense majority, in the interests of the immense majority.” As a Marxist party, the CPC has always taken it as its original aspiration and founding mission, and made it the focus of its efforts, to work towards a happy life for the Chinese people and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. If it failed to stay true to the original aspiration and founding mission, it would change its nature and color, lose the support of the people, and fail to survive. Our Party will prevail so long as it adheres to its commitment to serving the public good and exercising power in the interests of the people,ensures that the Chinese people are happy, works to rejuvenate the Chinese nation, examines itself, faces up to its mistakes, and fights against all the problems that may tarnish its progressive and wholesome nature or endanger its health.

In retrospect, how could our Party flourish from small roots,survive every crucial test, surmount so many difficulties, and advance from victory to victory? The fundamental reason is that our Party is always committed to its original aspiration and founding mission whether in good or bad times and perseveres in marching towards its goal, winning wholehearted support of the people. During the revolutionary wars, in order to win national independence and people’s liberation, our Party led the people to succeed in the New Democratic Revolution and establish the People’s Republic of China, and made it possible for the people to be the masters of the country after years of painful struggle. After the founding of the People’s Republic, in order to modernize the country, our Party led the people to establish social-ism as China’s fundamental system and advance socialist construction by working hard and rising to challenges.

During the years of promoting reform, opening up, and socialist modernization, our Party led the people to open up a socialist path with Chinese characteristics by freeing the mind and seeking truth from facts, and enabled the country to catch up with, and stand proud among, the nations of the world.

Now in the new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics,we are closer to, more confident, and more capable than ever before of making national rejuvenation a reality. Our achievements are impressive. This is a reason for pride, but never complacency. I have emphasized, “After achieving success it’s not easy to keep the entrepreneurial drive and be mindful of possible problems; after taking power, it’s not easy to stay frugal and restrained; during peacetime, it’s not easy to discipline officials, and to prevent corruption and extravagant life; in the critical moments of reform,it’s not easy to follow the tide and the people’s aspirations.” We can never allow ourselves to lose our revolutionary spirit and to indulge in complacency and pleasure-seeking amidst flattery and praise. Rather, we must remember that midstream is where the current is the strongest and the road halfway up the hill is steeper. So it is necessary to take “staying true to the Party’s original aspiration and founding mission” as our eternal theme in strengthening the Party, and a lifelong task for all Party members and officials.