Jiang: "Three Represents" must be followed for a long time   2002-11-08 09:20:54 Jiang Zemin said in his report to the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China （CPC） Friday that the important thought of "Three Represents" is the crystallization of the Party's collective wisdom and a guiding ideology the Party must follow for a long time to come. Jiang said that to open up new prospects for the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the Party must hold high the great banner of Deng Xiaoping Theory and implement the important thought of "Three Represents." Speaking about the CPC history in the past 13 years, Jiang said that the basic experience of the Party can be summarized as "the Party must always represent 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." "They are the inexorable requirements for maintaining and developing socialism and the logical conclusion our Party has reached through hard exploration and great practice," he said. As a continuation and development of Marxism－Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory, this important thought reflects new requirements for the work of the Party and state arising from the changes in China and other parts of the world today, he stressed. It is a powerful theoretical weapon for strengthening and improving Party building and promoting self－improvement and development of socialism in China, he said. It is the crystallization of the Party's collective wisdom and a guiding ideology the Party must follow for a long time to come, and the persistent implementation of the "Three Represents" is the foundation for building the Party, the cornerstone for its governance and the source of its strength, Jiang said.