在纪念建党八十一周年、江总书记“七一”讲话发表一周年、党的十六大召开的前夕,江总书记发表了“5·31” 重要讲话,为十六大胜利召开奠定了坚实的政治、思想、理论基础。这篇讲话除了对“三个代表”重要思想进行了新的阐述之外,还对党和国家在新世纪的奋斗目标、经济建设和经济体制改革、民主政治、精神文明建设、党的建设、群众 On the commemoration of the 81st anniversary of the founding of the party, on the first anniversary of the release of General Secretary Jiang Zemin’s “1 July” speech and on the eve of the 16th CPC National Congress, General Secretary Jiang Zemin delivered an important speech on “May 31” Victory held to lay a solid political, ideological, theoretical basis. In addition to a new exposition on the important thinking of the ’Three Represents,’ this speech also expounds the party’s and state’s goals in the new century, economic construction and economic restructuring, democratic politics and spiritual civilization, and the party’s Construction, the masses