General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly pointed out: "We must realize that the changes in the main contradictions in our society have not changed our judgment on the historical stage of socialism in our country, the basic national conditions that our country is still in the primary stage of socialism and will remain for a long time have not changed, and the international status of China as the world's largest developing country has not changed." "So, how should we understand the relationship between the changes in the principal contradictions in our society and the initial stage of socialism?

First, the initial stage of socialism is an underdeveloped stage, and although China has made development achievements that have attracted worldwide attention, it is still the largest developing country in the world, and it is still facing a series of severe challenges and many problems that need to be solved.

At this stage, the level of economic development plays an important role, but it cannot be considered that the level of economic development is the only condition for determining the primary stage.

Our party's understanding of the initial stage of socialism has never been viewed solely from the level of economic development as a factor, but from the overall situation of the development of the entire socialist cause, involving the productive forces and production relations, the economic foundation and superstructure, the building of material and spiritual civilizations, and all aspects of economic, political, cultural, social, ecological civilization, and party building.

In this regard, we must fully grasp and consider it comprehensively. Second, in the long historical process of the primary stage of socialism, the principal contradictions in our society will not remain unchanged and will inevitably change along with social development, but these changes are changes that have taken place in the historical stage of the primary stage of socialism.

To make the major political judgment that the principal contradictions in our society have changed, it is necessary to more accurately grasp the changing characteristics of the primary stage of socialism in our country, better adhere to the theory of the primary stage of socialism, and while continuing to promote economic development, we should better solve all kinds of problems that have arisen in our society, better realize the comprehensive development of all undertakings, and better develop the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

Third, in understanding the principal contradictions in our society in the new era, we must unify the issue of changes in the principal contradictions in society with the issue that China is still in and will remain in the primary stage of socialism for a long time to come, and that China's international status as the largest developing country in the world has not changed

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The two assertions of "immutability" are unified to understand and grasp. In planning development and formulating policies, we must always firmly grasp the basic national conditions of the primary stage of socialism, firmly base ourselves on the greatest reality of the primary stage of socialism, and firmly adhere to the party's basic line, which is the lifeline of the party and the country and the happiness of the people.