BEIJING: The Communist Party cannot afford to make the same "strategic mistakes" that it made during the Cultural Revolution, the former executive vice president of the Central Party School has said.

He made this statement on Monday in an excerpt published in the school's official newspaper, Study Times.
He said the party needed a "grand strategy" to guide the country through the difficult and turbulent times that we are currently facing.

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In addition to the COVID-19 pandemic and the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, he wrote that "the pace of change in global patterns, global governance and the international order has accelerated." He also warned that "we face many new variables and uncertainties".

This has also increased the fear and fear of the world's strategic competition.
Before his retirement in 2018, he was a renowned thinker. He is currently in charge of the Committee on Social Development of the National People's Congress, which directs the formulation of rules and laws relating to employment, social security and other civil matters.

His was the most recent in a series of articles and speeches by President Xi Jinping and other officials about the big picture and the importance of being a decisive leader in moving the nation forward. They are part of a campaign campaign ahead of next month's Five-Year Party Congress, which is predicted to win Xi an unprecedented third term as party leader.

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He has written twice this month about the need for a more comprehensive strategy; His article in the state-run economic daily in early September highlighted the difficulties facing China globally.

He discussed the enormous cost of the Cultural Revolution in a Study Times article.
The Communist Party of China is a large party that governs a large nation. It cannot make any strategic error under any circumstances," he wrote.

If a strategic error occurs, the consequences will be dire, and the cost will be high. We have learned hard lessons before.
He claimed that the Cultural Revolution, which began in 1966 and plunged China into a decade of chaos and turmoil, was a mistake on the part of the party due to "class [struggles] and miscalculations about the national political situation". Was.

However, he also added that the party's crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989 was justified. He insisted that the party made the right choice in maintaining a one-party rule and retaining Mao Zedong Thought as the party's guiding principles in the wake of the Cultural Revolution and the Tiananmen crackdown.

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He also cited the demise of the Soviet Communist Party, describing it as a tragic error and the former Soviet Union's wrongful involvement in the arms race with America, abandonment of Marxism and economic neglect.

It comes two weeks after the party journal Qiushi published Xi's full speech from last year. According to Xi, the senior activist of the Communist Party of China is now the leader of the global socialist movement. If the party wants to avoid the same fate as the former Soviet Union, it must learn how to continually self-improve, he said in the speech.