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An article in Study Times, a publication of the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party, emphasized the importance of ideology in China’s development. The article stated, "China has gone through more than 30 years of socialist reform and development as well as a rapid rise as a major socialist country. These happenings fully demonstrate … that socialist ideology is still the fundamental value that will guide us in actualizing the future ideal society and civilization. In order to establish the ‘socialist path’ as an important movement in human society’s progress and an important choice in the future direction of human civilization, China, as a major socialist country, shoulders a great historic responsibility for the fate of socialist development. As such, in the future, our socialist reform must use the core value of socialist ideology as our guide."

"All in all, using ideology as the ‘national belief’ makes it not only the guiding principle of a nation’s development, but also a fundamental manifestation of a country’s ‘autonomy.’ The essence of the establishment of China’s status in modern international civilization represents the splendor of our socialist ideology."
 
Source: Study Times, October 3, 2011
http://www.studytimes.com.cn:9999/epaper/xxsb/html/2011/10/03/03/03_30.htm

In his speech on July 1, 2011, the 90th anniversary of Chinese Communist Party, Hu Jintao said, “The entire Party must be keenly aware that at a time of profound changes in global, national, and intra-Party conditions, we are faced with many new developments, problems, and challenges in our efforts to enhance the Party’s leadership and governance and its ability to resist corruption and degeneration, to withstand risks, and to strengthen its governance capacity and advanced nature. … The whole Party is confronted with a growing danger coming from a lack of drive, incompetence, being separated from the people, lacking initiative, and corruption. It has thus become even more important and urgent than ever before for the Party to police itself and impose strict discipline on its members.”

On October 2, 2011, Guangming Daily published an article “On High Alert for the Danger of Lacking Drive,” which enumerates the causes, manifestations, and consequences of the “growing danger from the lack of drive.” The article lists the causes for the lack of the drive among CCP cadres, including a “feeling of achievement,” a “feeling of safety,” “inertia in governance,” and “the effects of wealth.” The lack of drive is exhibited among CCP cadres as mental and spiritual emptiness, being lazy, being content with mediocre performance, and spending extravagantly.

The article warns that, if the lack of drive continues, the Party will lose its popularity and its social base; by doing nothing, it will lose its leading and governing position. “Being slack will cause a chain reaction, resulting in a rigid way of thinking, stagnation in theory, moral decline, the collapse of ideology, and the death of the spirit of enterprise. It is an important reason for the Communist Party in some countries to have lost their advanced nature, lost popularity, lost their social base, and lost their leading and ruling position. These tragedies, involving the demise of the Party and loss of the country, were not so long ago. We must not repeat the same mistake.”

Source: Guangming Daily, October 2, 2011
http://epaper.gmw.cn/gmrb/html/2011-10/02/nw.D110000gmrb_20111002_2-01.htm?div=-1

On October 1, 2011, the website of Qiushi Theory launched its English edition at http://english.qstheory.cn/. The selections at the new site include news, leaders, politics, economics, culture, science and education, law, society, Party information, and letters to the editor.

According to Qiushi Theory, the mission of the English site is to “carry out the ‘Going Global’ strategy of central government media. It will further enable the publications of the Party’s central organs to improve their influence by timely and effectively broadcasting China’s voice to the world.” “In addition, it will carry political news and important articles from other key government news websites. Qiushi Theory English edition provides a new channel to enable international society to gain accurate and in-depth understanding of the ruling ideology, decision making, and development path of the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese government.”

Source: Qiushi Theory, September 30, 2011
http://www.qstheory.cn/llzx/201109/t20110930_114423.htm

Liu Yunshan, a Communist Politburo member and head of the Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party met with members of the Presidium of the World Media Summit held in Beijing. According to People’s Daily, he said, “The Chinese government places a high priority on media development and proactively supports in-depth exchanges and cooperation between Chinese media and foreign media in terms of news products, human resources, information technology and business development. At the same time, China will continue to protect the legitimate rights and interests of foreign news agencies and correspondents, and to facilitate foreign media in conducting interviews and reporting in China.”

[Ed: Media from mainland China have received 650 I-visas (international journalism) from the U.S., whereas the U.S. has received only 2 from China, leading to proposed U.S. legislation. On September 13, 2011, Representatives Dana Rohrabacher (R–CA), Randy Forbes (R–VA), and Ted Poe (R–TX) introduced H.R. 2899, the Chinese Media Reciprocity Act of 2011, as an amendment to the Immigration and Nationality Act.]

Source: People’s Daily, September 29, 2011
http://politics.people.com.cn/GB/1026/15780796.html
U.S. Government Printing House
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr2899ih/content-detail.html

Red Flag Manuscript published an analytical article about the relationship between the China Model and Socialism. The article summarized four features of the relationship. 1) The China Model is based on a foundation of the great experience of the development of socialism with Chinese characteristics; 2) The China Model is a socialist model at the primary stage of China’s socialism; 3) Persisting in the socialist principle and direction is the guarantee of the China Model’s continued success; 4) The future and fate of world socialism is determined by the success and failure of the China Model.

The author believes that “socialism replacing capitalism is inevitable in human development. … The world is paying more and more attention to the China Model and it is becoming more and more attractive.” The article concluded, “The ultimate success of a model lies not only in its success at home, but also in whether it inspires the world. The attraction of a model is not only in the success of economic development, but more so in whether it is founded on high moral ground. Economic success is the basis, whereas the soft power of values is where the real strength lies.”

Source: Red Flag Manuscript, September 22, 2011
http://www.qstheory.cn/hqwg/2011/201118/201109/t20110922_112024.htm

Qiushi published an article that compared China’s political system with the capitalist system and proclaimed that China’s political system is far superior to capitalist democracy. According to the article, the capitalist democratic system has three major defects: money is in charge, as it is the capitalists who control the power; politics is driven by vested interest groups because the checks and balances system creates multi-centered and multi-layered decision mechanisms leading to short-term policies and conflicts between vested interest groups and the national interest; and the enormous amount of money that must be raised in connection with elections leads to political corruption. On the other hand, China’s socialist democracy is superior as it is conducive to 1) policies that benefit the entire nation because the Communist Party is the political representative of all the people; 2) a balance between the interests of various social groups through the use of the law and policies; and 3) political and social stability.

Source: Qiushi, September 27, 2011
http://www.qstheory.cn/zz/shzyzzzd/201109/t20110927_113096.htm

In a recent meeting, Zhou Yongkang, a Politburo Standing Committee member and secretary of the Chinese Communist Party’s Committee on Political and Legislative Affairs, stressed the importance of adhering to the Party’s leadership over the work of prosecution and investigation. 

Qiushi, a Journal of the CCP Central Committee, published an article on a special topic, “Western Countries and Modern Warfare.” Below is Qiushi’s introduction to the topic:

“After the end of the cold war, the world did not win peace. On the contrary, since then many wars have been fought, killing many lives. …  Western countries led by the U.S. were involved in every war. All of the wars targeted weak countries, unable to defend themselves. Why are Western countries so fond of getting involved in and creating modern wars? What do they obtain from these wars? What on earth are the social factors behind these wars?”

“By analyzing these question, the current special topic elucidates the relationship between Western countries and modern wars. From these solid materials, we can see that Western countries have two faces. They are not what they appear to be and use a double standard to treat themselves and others differently. (We) can see their essence of being for their interests only; they bully the weak and fear the strong; they fear not creating enough chaos around the world. The Western countries label themselves as standing for the universal values of democracy, freedom, human rights, and so on, so as to use them as a banner and slogan to interfere with other countries’ internal affairs. If we understand the main factors behind the Western countries’ politics, the practical implications will enable us to handle world issues profoundly and accurately; to play a masterful role in the international community; and to protect our national sovereignty effectively and with dignity. This is our purpose in publishing an article on this special topic.”

Source: Qiushi, September 21, 2011
http://www.qstheory.cn/llzx/201109/t20110921_111670.htm