Xi's speech on new development stage, philosophy, paradigm to be published

BEIJING -- A speech by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on China's new development stage, new development philosophy, and new development paradigm, will be published on Thursday.

The speech by Xi, also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, will be published in this year's 17th issue of the Qiushi Journal, a flagship magazine of the CPC Central Committee.

China remains in an important period of strategic opportunity for development, but there are new changes in the opportunities and challenges the country faces, according to the speech delivered at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee.

Defining the new development stage as one toward building a modern socialist country in all respects, and toward the Second Centenary Goal, the speech calls the country's entry into this development stage as a significant stride in the historical process of national rejuvenation.

It says that China's socialist modernization has many important features. The Chinese path to modernization is based on China's conditions, and reflects the evolution of human society as a whole.

Calling for understanding the strategic conception of accelerating the construction of a new development paradigm from an overall and strategic perspective, the speech lists several focuses in the process.

It stresses improving the Party's leadership in applying the new development philosophy and fostering the new development paradigm.

The whole Party must be fully aware of the long-term, complex and arduous nature of the great struggle on the road ahead, it adds.