党的第十五次全国代表大会,是在我国改革开放和社会主义现代化建设事业承前启后、继往开来的重要时期召开的一次历史性会议,是我们党历史上又一个重要的里程碑。江泽民同志在会上作的《高举邓小平理论伟大旗帜,把建设有中国特色社会主义事业全面推向二十一世纪》的重要报告,高举邓小平理论的伟大旗帜,回顾历史,展望未来,认真总结十一届三中全会以来特别是十四大以来的经验,对我国改革开放和现代化建设的跨世纪发展作出战略部署,是我们党带领全国各族人民迈向新世纪的政治宣言和行动纲领。大会最重要的历史功绩,是把邓小平理论确定为党的指导思想,并明确写入中国共产党党章,充分 The 15th National Congress of the CPC is a historic meeting held in the important period of carrying forward the cause of reform, opening up and socialist modernization in our country. It is another important milestone in our party’s history. At the meeting, Comrade Jiang Zemin made an important report titled “Hold High the Great Banner of Deng Xiaoping Theory and Fully Push the Cause of Building Socialism with Chinese Characteristics into the 21st Century,” hold high the great banner of Deng Xiaoping Theory, review history, look to the future and conscientiously summarily. Since the Third Plenary Session of the NPC, especially since the 14th CPC National Congress, China has made strategic plans for the cross-century development of our country’s reform and opening up as well as its modernization drive and is the political declaration and program of action our party leads the people of all nationalities in the country in the new century. The most important historic merit of the General Assembly is to establish Deng Xiaoping Theory as the party’s guiding ideology and to explicitly write down the party constitution of the Chinese Communist Party