The Chinese Communist Party officially held the "Commemorative Conference to Commemorate the 160th Anniversary of the Birth of Sun Yat-sen" in Beijing today. Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping delivered an important speech. He claimed that the "complete reunification of the motherland" must be achieved and that resolving the Taiwan issue is an unshakable historical task of the Chinese Communist Party. Mainland Affairs Council spokesman Liang Wenjie criticized today that the CCP uses commemoration of Sun Yat-sen's birthday as an excuse to establish the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party's rule and the correctness and greatness of "Xi Jinping Thought."
The "Conference to Commemorate the 160th Anniversary of the Birth of Dr. Sun Yat-sen" was held grandly in Beijing this morning. Xi Jinping attended and delivered an important speech. Members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang and Li Xi attended the conference.
Xi Jinping pointed out that Mr. Sun Yat-sen has always insisted on safeguarding "national unity and ethnic unity" and resolutely opposed all remarks and actions that split the country and the nation. "The Communists of China are the staunchest supporters, most loyal collaborators, and most loyal successors of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary cause," and stressed that the CCP's governance achievements "can fully comfort Mr. Sun Yat-sen's heroic spirit."
Xi Jinping also said that "resolving the Taiwan issue and realizing the complete reunification of the motherland" is an unswerving historical mission of the Chinese Communist Party. In the future, it will adhere to the policy of "peaceful reunification and one country, two systems" and conduct dialogue and consultation on cross-strait relations and "national reunification" on the basis of adhering to the "one China principle" and the "1992 Consensus", but will never leave any room for various forms of "Taiwan independence separatist activities."
In this regard, Liang Wenjie said at the Mainland Affairs Council press conference that we have all seen the speeches at this commemorative meeting. In fact, this speech does not talk much about cross-strait reunification. It mainly talks about two things: one is to declare that the CCP is the orthodox successor to Sun Yat-sen’s revolutionary ideas, which is to establish the legitimacy of the CCP’s regime.
Liang Wenjie criticized that the other part was to reaffirm the correctness, greatness and glory of "Xi Jinping Thought" through the commemoration of Sun Yat-sen's birth. Among them, Xi made many appeals, such as adhering to patriotism, love for the party, and love for socialism, upholding the party's overall leadership and the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, and insisting on integrating the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific reality.
Liang Wenjie mentioned that in fact, the CCP used the commemoration of Sun Yat-sen’s birthday as a reason to establish the legitimacy of the rule of the Chinese Communist Party and the correctness and greatness of “Xi Jinping Thought.” As for the part about reunifying Taiwan, the wording is not much different from the past.
The media asked whether the government is worried about China using Sun Yat-sen as a symbol of its united front against Taiwan? Will the portrait of Sun Wen, the founding father of the Republic of China, still be hung in the future? Liang Wenjie responded that the Chinese Communist Party has used Sun Yat-sen as a symbol of united front. In fact, it has been since the 1950s, and the government will not take corresponding measures just because it commemorates the 160th anniversary of his birth.
