Full Text of Hu Jintao's speech at CPC anniversary gathering
胡錦濤在慶祝中國共產黨成立90周年大會上的講話
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| Hu Jintao, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, delivered a speech at a grand gathering to celebrate the Party's 90th anniversary on July 1, 2011. |
| Comrades and Friends, |
同志們，朋友們： |
| Today, together with the entire Party and the people of all ethnic groups in China, we are holding this grand meeting here to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and also to review the great course of China's development and progress and look ahead at the bright future of development and prosperity for the country. |
今天，我們在這里隆重集會，同全黨全國各族人民一道，慶祝中國共產黨成立９０周年，回顧中國發展進步的偉大歷程，瞻望中國發展繁榮的光明前景。 |
| The CPC was founded 90 years ago today, which was an epoch-making event in the history of the Chinese nation. From then on, the Chinese people embarked on the bright road of striving for independence and liberation and began the glorious pursuit of prosperity and strength for the country and themselves. |
９０年前的今天，中國共產黨成立了。這是中華民族發展史上開天辟地的大事變。從此，中國人民踏上了爭取民族獨立、人民解放的光明道路，開啟了實現國家富強、人民富裕的壯麗征程。 |
| Over the past 90 years, Chinese Communists and the people of all ethnic groups in China have, through indomitable struggles, achieved major successes in revolution, development and reform. Today, a vibrant socialist China has emerged in the East, and the 1.3 billion Chinese people are forging ahead full of confidence under the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. |
９０年來，中國共產黨人和全國各族人民前赴后繼、頑強奮斗，不斷奪取革命、建設、改革的重大勝利。今天，一個生機盎然的社會主義中國已經巍然屹立在世界東方，１３億中國人民正在中國特色社會主義偉大旗幟指引下滿懷信心走向中華民族偉大復興。 |
| Comrades and Friends, |
同志們、朋友們！ |
| In the 170 plus years since the Opium War of 1840, our great country has weathered untold hardships, our great nation has waged earthshaking struggles, and our great people have scored splendid achievements in the annals of history. |
１８４０年鴉片戰爭以來中國１７０多年的歷史，概括地說就是，我們偉大的祖國經歷了刻骨銘心的磨難，我們偉大的民族進行了感天動地的奮斗，我們偉大的人民創造了彪炳史冊的偉業。 |
| Following the Opium War, China gradually became a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and foreign powers stepped up their aggression against China. The feudal rule became increasingly corrupt, the country was devastated by incessant wars and turbulence, and the Chinese people suffered from hunger, cold, and oppression. To salvage China from subjugation was an urgent mission for the Chinese nation. And the Chinese people faced the historic tasks of winning independence and liberation, and making China strong and prosperous. |
鴉片戰爭以后，中國逐步成為半殖民地半封建社會，列強對中國的侵略步步進逼，封建統治日益腐敗，祖國山河破碎、戰亂不已，人民饑寒交迫、備受奴役。救亡圖存的民族使命迫在眉睫。爭取民族獨立、人民解放，實現國家富強、人民富裕，成為中國人民必須完成的歷史任務。 |
| In those dark years, in order to change the destiny of the Chinese nation, the Chinese people, led by many leading figures with lofty ideals, waged unyielding struggles to explore a new future against great odds. Not resigned to fate, the Chinese people launched one struggle after another, such as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, the Reform Movement of 1898, and the Yihetuan Movement, but all these struggles ended in failure. The Revolution of 1911 led by Dr. Sun Yat-sen put an end to the autocratic rule that had existed in China for several thousand years. This revolution greatly boosted China's social progress, but it did not change the country's nature as a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society or end the misery of the Chinese people. |
在那個風雨如晦的年代，為改變中華民族的命運，中國人民和無數仁人志士進行了千辛萬苦的探索和不屈不撓的斗爭。太平天國運動，戊戌變法，義和團運動，不甘屈服的中國人民一次次抗爭，但又一次次失敗。孫中山先生領導的辛亥革命，結束了統治中國幾千年的君主專制制度，對推動中國社會進步具有重大意義，但也未能改變中國半殖民地半封建的社會性質和中國人民的悲慘命運。 |
| Facts have shown that neither the mission of striving for national survival nor the historic task of fighting imperialism and feudalism could be accomplished by reformist self-improvement movements which did not touch the foundation of feudal rule, old-style peasant wars, revolutions led by bourgeois revolutionaries, or other attempts to copy Western capitalism. To find a way of achieving China's development and progress, one must, first of all, find an advanced theory that can guide the Chinese people in their revolution against imperialism and feudalism, and an advanced social force must rise that can lead social changes in China. |
事實說明，不觸動封建根基的自強運動和改良主義，舊式的農民戰爭，資產階級革命派領導的革命，照搬西方資本主義的其他種種方案，都不能完成中華民族救亡圖存的民族使命和反帝反封建的歷史任務。要解決中國發展進步問題，必須找到能夠指導中國人民進行反帝反封建革命的先進理論，必須找到能夠領導中國社會變革的先進社會力量。 |
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