Comrades:
Today, we gather here to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the CPC. And this ceremony aims to grant the CPC's highest honor to the outstanding representatives of the CPC members.
First of all, on behalf of the CPC central committee, please allow me to express my congratulations and highest tribute to all the July 1 Medal recipients.
For a century, the CPC has stayed true to its mission and has united the people to blaze the trail, to build a great cause, to forge great spirits and accumulate precious experiences. We have written a splendid chapter in the history of the Chinese nation and entire human race.
For 100 years, generation after generation of CPC members spare no effort and even risk their lives in order to achieve national independence, people's liberation, the national prosperity as well as the well-being of the people. And they have made great contributions and written an epic and heroic chapter.
Today, the July 1st Medal recipients are the outstanding representatives of the CPC members.
They are lively manifests of the CPC members' spirits, commitment, pragmatism, hard working, and integrity.
Commitment – We need to stay true to our mission unswervingly. All CPC members must bear in mind their commitment to their beliefs and the loyalty to the Party and to the people. And they should also honor their commitment in real actions. They need to contribute all they have, even their lives to the Party and the people, and never cease to fight for the party's greater goals.
With beliefs at heart, there will be strength at their hands. All party members must stay true to their beliefs in Marxism and socialism with Chinese characteristics. We should believe in the Party, love the Party, serve the Party and work hard in their respective positions, in order to realize the greater dreams of the Party.
Pragmatism, that means we must put the people's interests first, and work to serve the people, to address their needs, and attend to their problems. We must just stay close to the people and depend on the people, in order to create a better life for the people. These concrete actions are vivid interpretations of the Party members' people-centered philosophy.
The nation is composed of people and people are all that matter to the nation. All party members must be committed to the people-orientedness and put people first, unyieldingly doing practical and good deeds for the people, so that we can always maintain our intimate connection with the people.
Sacrifice, is to take returning to the Party and the nation and honoring commitments as the lifetime goal. Despite hardships and dangers, we are willing to be down to earth in practical terms with fortitude, fully demonstrating the CPC members' selfless, daring and persevering spirits.
The greater the cause is, the more the challenge is, and the more it needs responsibility bearing.
All party members must retain the heroic spirit of forging ahead regardless of hardships and the high spirit of daring to change course. We must make solid efforts to conquer difficulties, struggling to create achievements that live up to the expectations of the Party, the people and this era.
Cleaness, is to carry forward the glorious tradition of the CPC members for being frugal and selfless for the purpose of public goods. We will never install ourselves as heroes and never mind the personal gains and losses. We will never indulge in comfort and enjoyment, instead we will observe disciplines and rules to vividly demonstrate the ethics of CPC.
CPC members naturally have the power of character. That's why we could win over the Chinese people. All Party members must be aware of, observe, practice the ethics. We must aim to be clean people, and do clean deeds. We must devote ourselves wholeheartedly to public duties and maintain the political nature of the Party to be clean.
The July 1 medalists are themselves from the people and are rooted in the people. They are ordinary heroes who have been sacrificing on their posts. Their stories are exemplary and replicable. Their spirits are within reach. With their actions, they testify that, with the firm faith, perseverance, and tenacity, every Party member with shrewd eyes on usual occasions, daring spirit to step forward at critical moments and the gut to risk everything in dangers could actually fulfill themselves in the great cause of the national rejuvenation for the benefits of the Party and Chinese people.
Dear comrades!
This new era is in need of heroes, and will surely give birth to heroes. The CPC in China must always be the pioneer of this era and the backbone of the nation. The team of CPC members must be competent. I do hope that the awarded colleagues could treasure their glory and carry on their achievements for even greater awards. Levels of Party organizations must care for those awarded Party members in work and in life, by aggressively promoting the touching stories and lofty characters of the July 1 medalists, and therefore creating an atmosphere of equaling themselves with those better ones in the Party and in the society as a whole. We hope to encourage their vast Party members and cadres to bear in mind the Party's nature and principles and the initial mission of the Party. We must unswervingly fight for eternity in the cause of building a socialist modern society in an all-round way. We must march forward towards the second centenary goal and the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.