China Daily:

One of the important tasks of the Institute of Party History and Literature of the CPC Central Committee is to compile and publish important works of General Secretary Xi Jinping, and research and publicize Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. What work has the institute done in this regard? What have been the results? Thank you. 

Qu Qingshan:

Thank you for your questions. I will answer them. The major and basic responsibility of the institute is to compile and translate the important works of General Secretary Xi Jinping, and to study and disseminate Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. The Institute of Party History and Literature of the CPC Central Committee consists of the former Party Literature Research Center of the CPC Central Committee, the former Party History Research Center of the CPC Central Committee, and the former Central Compilation and Translation Bureau. The tasks of compiling, publishing, studying and interpreting works of General Secretary Xi Jinping, previously undertaken by the former Party Literature Research Center of the CPC Central Committee, have been our important work since the inception of the institute. 

Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, focusing on what kind of socialism with Chinese characteristics the new era requires us to uphold and develop, and how we should go about doing it, has constantly innovated in theory on the basis of practice, and initiated Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. The institute, keeping up with the theoretical innovation of the CPC Central Committee, and reflecting the scientific connotations, core ideas and practical requirements of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era in a holistic and systematic way, has compiled and published the important works of General Secretary Xi Jinping. The works can be categorized into the following types: comprehensive articles, themed collections of articles, and extracts of expositions. Over the past several years, we have compiled 66 works of General Secretary Xi Jinping, of which 41 have been published since March 2018, when the institute was founded. 

For example, in accordance with General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on the Chinese Dream, we have edited and published Xi Jinping: The Chinese Dream of the Great Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation. Centering on the five-sphere integrated plan, which promotes coordinated economic, political, cultural, social, and ecological advancement, as well as the four-pronged comprehensive strategy, which makes comprehensive moves to finish building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, deepen reform, advance law-based governance, and strengthen Party self-governance, we have also edited and published Xi Jinping: Building a Moderately Prosperous Society in All Respects."

The report of the 19th CPC National Congress notes that specifying eight fundamental issues and upholding 14-point fundamental principles are important parts of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. Regarding this, we have edited and published some themed collected works of General Secretary Xi Jinping, such as On Ensuing CPC Leadership over All Work, On Continuing to Comprehensively Deepen Reform, On Ensuring Every Dimension of Governance is Law-based, On Building a Human Community with a Shared Future, as well as, Xi Jinping: Holistic Approach to National Security.

Based on General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions on relevant work, we have edited and published compilations of discourses of Xi Jinping on taking tough action against the practice of formalities for formalities' sake and bureaucratism, on forestalling risks and challenges, and responding to emergencies, and on coordinating epidemic control with economic and social development, to name a few. We have also edited other works of General Secretary Xi Jinping to cooperate in the campaign on Party-related learning and education. For example, regarding the initiative to raise awareness of the need to stay true to the Party's founding mission, we have worked with relevant departments and edited the book of extracts from the discourses on "staying true to our founding mission" by Xi Jinping. As part of this year's Party-wide campaign on Party history learning and education, we have also worked in accordance with the deployments being made by the CPC Central Committee and edited and published General Secretary Xi Jinping's works such as On the History of the CPC.

These important works highlight the development and main content of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, vividly recording the great endeavors of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core to rally the Party and the Chinese people and lead them to uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. We have also provided basic textbooks for the Party and all sectors of the society to study and put into practice Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. Thank you.