Full text of resolution on amendment to CPC Constitution （1）   2002-11-14 20:04:44 The following is the full text of the resolution of the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China （CPC） on the amendment to the Constitution of the CPC, adopted by the 16th CPC National Congress on November 14, 2002: The 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China （CPC） has examined and unanimously adopted the amendment to the Constitution of the Communist Party of China proposed by the 15th CPC Central Committee and decided that it shall come into force as from the date of its adoption. The Congress unanimously agrees to make it clear in the Constitution that the Communist Party of China is the vanguard both of the Chinese working class and of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation as well as the core of leadership for the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics and that it represents the development trend of China's advanced productive forces, the orientation of China's advanced culture and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the Chinese people. The realization of communism is the highest ideal and ultimate goal of the Party. The Congress holds that such a definition of the Party's nature accords with the history and realities of our Party and conforms to the requirements of the times. It can help bring into play all Party members' enthusiasm, initiative and creativity to the broadest possible extent and enable the Party to unite with and lead the people in a joint effort to build socialism with Chinese characteristics. The Congress calls on all Party comrades to deepen their understanding of the fact that the development and improvement of the socialist system is a long historical process, persist in integrating the basic tenets of Marxism－Leninism with the concrete practice of China, and keep with great confidence to the road to socialism with Chinese characteristics. The Congress holds that since the Fourth Plenary Session of the 13th CPC Central Committee, the Chinese Communists, with Comrade Jiang Zemin as their chief representative, have acquired through the practice of building socialism with Chinese characteristics a deeper understanding of what socialism is, how to build it and what kind of a party to build and how to build it, accumulated new valuable experience in running the Party and state and formed the important thought of Three Represents. The Congress unanimously agrees to make it clear in the Constitution that the Communist Party of China takes Marxism－Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of Three Represents as its guide to action and that the important thought of Three Represents is a guiding ideology that the Party must uphold for a long time to come. Such a provision is of great and far－reaching significance for ensuring unity in thinking and action of the Party and for enabling our Party to unite with and lead the Chinese people of all ethnic groups in accomplishing the three major historical tasks: to propel the modernization drive, to achieve national reunification, and to safeguard world peace and promote common development, and in bringing about the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on its road to socialism with Chinese characteristics.