China has recently seen a steady flow of feasts in aerospace industry. Chinese astronauts Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming, and Tang Hongbo onboard China’s Shenzhou-12 spaceship entered the Tianhe core module of the country’s space station at 18:48 on June 17, 2021 Beijing time, after Shenzhou-12 completed a fast automated rendezvous and docking with the orbiting Tianhe module, which marked the first time the Chinese have entered their own space station.
Meanwhile, its Tianwen-1 probe landed on Mars last May, which signifies a milestone in China’s interstellar exploration.
China’s achievements in space exploration have mirrored the wisdom and hard work of generations of aerospace engineers, manifested the distinctive advantage of China’s socialist system that enables it to concentrate strength to accomplish big tasks, and at the same time enhanced Chinese people’s sense of national pride and made them more determined to follow the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
The year 2021 marks the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Over the past century, the CPC has surmounted one difficulty after another and brought stupendous changes to China.
The once poor and weak China, which had long been bullied and humiliated, is marching toward prosperity and standing tall in the East with confidence. The country that couldn’t make cars, airplanes, tanks, or tractors is now able to leave its footprints on Mars.
During its one hundred years of history, the CPC has led the Chinese people in creating world-shaking miracles.
“The most important reason for the tremendous accomplishments in China’s development is that we are committed to reform and opening-up in light of China’s national conditions and have embarked on a path of socialism with Chinese characteristics,” said Xi Jinping, Chinese President and General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee.
A country’s direction of development determines its path, and its path determines its future.
China’s remarkable journey in the past 100 years has fully proved that only socialism can save China, only socialism with Chinese characteristics can help China achieve development, and only by adhering to socialism with Chinese characteristics can the Chinese nation realize its great rejuvenation.
Whether the shoe fits or not, only the wearer himself knows. It is the people of a country that are in the best position to judge the path of development they have chosen for themselves.
Socialism with Chinese characteristics did not just fall from the sky. Rather, it is the fundamental achievement that the CPC and people have made at the cost of countless hardships and enormous sacrifices, according to Xi.
In fact, because China has tried and compared different development paths over the past century and found that only the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics proves viable, correct, and good, Chinese people have firmly followed the path and become convinced that it is the only way toward China’s development and prosperity, as well as the right road to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
It is not easy to find a right path, and even more difficult to progress continuously along the path.
Standing on a new starting point and stepping toward a new journey, the Chinese people have realized more than ever that to become masters of their own destiny, they must unswervingly follow the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, which is not only a great cause that they must continually advance, but a fundamental guarantee for their future.
All the goals and tasks along the new journey - be it comprehensively deepening reform to build a high-level socialist market economy, prioritizing the development of agriculture and rural areas to push forward all-round rural vitalization, or promoting the comprehensive development of individuals and common prosperity for everyone - require the Chinese people to unswervingly follow the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
The CPC members and the Chinese people are confident about providing Chinese solutions for mankind’s exploration of ideal social systems.
Under the leadership of the CPC, the Chinese people have overcome numerous obstacles along the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics and witnessed miraculous results. Today, they are marching forward along the path with easy assurance and in high spirits.
China has 9.6 million square kilometers of land and 56 ethnic groups. Its unique national conditions mean that it can’t copy any other country’s development model or allow irresponsible judgments from other countries.
No matter how hard it is, China can only rely on itself for dealing with its own affairs. As it has found a correct path for development, it must stick to it. Only in this way can the country reach new results along the way.