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On December 29, Deng Chundong, Dean and Party Secretary, spoke on behalf of special research fellows at the establishment ceremony of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era

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On December 29, the inaugural conference for the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era Research Center was held in Beijing.

Wang Weiguang, President and Secretary of the Leading Party Members’ Group [1] of CASS, and Wang Xinfu, Inspector and Deputy Director of the Theory Bureau of the Central Propaganda Department [2], unveiled the plaque for the CASS Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era Research Center. Wang Jingqing, Vice President and Deputy Secretary of the Leading Party Members’ Group of CASS, presided over the meeting and announced the decision of the CASS Leading Party Members’ Group to establish the Research Center. Deng Zhonghua, Leader of the Discipline Inspection Group [3] dispatched by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) to CASS and member of the CASS Leading Party Members’ Group, announced the list of academic advisors, academic steering committee members, and representatives of specially invited researchers for the Center. Attending leadership presented letters of appointment to these representatives.

The conference was attended by Qu Qingshan, Director of the Party History Research Center of the CPC Central Committee; Zhang Quanjing, former head of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee [4]; Teng Wensheng, former Director of the Central Policy Research Office; Xu Guangchun, Director of the Advisory Committee for the Marxist Theory Research and Construction Project [5]; Ru Xin, former Vice President of CASS; Zheng Keyang, former Deputy Director of the Central Policy Research Office; Sha Jiansun, former Deputy Director of the Party History Research Center of the CPC Central Committee; Shao Weizheng, Major General and Professor at the Joint Logistics Academy of the National Defense University; Li Shenming, former Vice President of CASS; Fang Li, former Deputy Director of the Central Policy Research Office; Kong Dan, former Chairman of CITIC Group and Chairman of the CITIC Foundation for Reform and Development Studies; Zhang Qihua, former Deputy Director of the Party History Research Center of the CPC Central Committee; Gao Yongzhong, former Deputy Director of the Party History Research Center of the CPC Central Committee; Huang Haotao, Vice President of the Central Party School; Zhang Shouying, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of People’s Daily and Director of its Theory Department; and Zhu Xiaoming, former Secretary of the Leading Party Members’ Group of the China Tibetology Research Center.

Deng Chundong, Director and Secretary of the Party Committee of the Institute of Marxism Studies at CASS, delivered a speech at the meeting on behalf of the internal specially invited researchers.

It is reported that in order to fully leverage the role of CASS as a formidable fortress of Marxism and a base for theoretical innovation, the CASS Leading Party Members’ Group decided on October 26 to establish the Research Center. Its purpose is to organize specialized forces to conduct comprehensive, systematic, and in-depth research on Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. Recently, this Center was included in the first national batch of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era research centers (institutes) established with the approval of the CPC Central Committee.

Approximately 300 people attended the inaugural conference, including members of the CASS Leading Party Members’ Group, the Deputy Secretary-General, responsible comrades from the Theory Bureau of the Central Propaganda Department, academic advisors, academic steering committee members, and specially invited researchers of the Center, as well as the entire staff of the CASS National Institute of Social Development and the Research Center for the Theoretical System of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, and partial staff from the CASS Institute of Marxism Studies.