On the 105th anniversary of the ruling party’s founding, Xi Jinping also warns members to stay vigilant and prepare for challenges
While it is customary for the party chief to tout past achievements – which have transformed China from a struggling nation into a global superpower – this year’s tone was noticeably more confident than Xi’s previous anniversary addresses.
He stressed that the party’s success had fundamentally reshaped global development, offering a new model for other developing nations.
“The Chinese people under the party’s leadership have created a new form of civilisation and broadened the pathways to modernisation for other developing nations,” Xi said, in an anniversary address given once every five years.
“We are promoting the building of an international community with a shared destiny … Socialist China under the party leadership is now universally recognised as a stabiliser of world peace, a contributor to global growth, and a defender of the international order.”