Top leaders attend Long March anniversary 

Source: CCTV.com

10-23-2006 07:44

Related : Grand ceremony held to mark 70th anniversary of Long March

China has celebrated the seventieth anniversary of the Long March victory. And a grand ceremony was held at the Great Hall of the People here in Beijing on Sunday. Those attending included Chinese President and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, Hu Jintao, other top Chinese leaders, as well as Long March veterans, and youth representatives. Pan Deng has the story.

At the gathering, CPC General-Secretary Hu Jintao made the keynote speech.

Hu said the Long March has significant and profound meaning for the development of the Party, the army and the people.

It created a new page in combining the basic principles of Marxism and Leninism and the Chinese revolutionary ideals.

Also, the Long March helped form a mature and strong core leadership for the Chinese revolution.

Now, China is now undergoing reforms and an opening, and is sparing no effort in building a well-off and a socialist harmonious society.

This, Hu Jintao said, is the new Long March.

The Chinese President went on to say that the fine revolutionary traditions of the Red Army should be inherited and carried forward.

To achieve this end, the General-Secretary put forward some proposals:

He said Marxism based on China's own situation should be pushed forward, and Marxism in modern China should be developed.