Fight for a Bright New Future

Fight for a Bright New Future*

March 1, 2021

Being ready for the fray is a distinctive quality of our Party. It is through struggle that our Party has developed to its present state, and that is what will create a bright future. The risks and challenges confronting us now are no less than those we faced in the past, as we enter a new stage of building an all-round modern socialist country and create a new development dynamic under the guidance of the new development philosophy.

You younger officials should broaden your experience of struggle, hone your skills in work and improve yourselves during this process, and finally become brave and capable fighters. Strengthen your resolve with a resilient and indomitable spirit, and stand firm in the face of difficulties and setbacks. Be adept in the struggle, with an ability to identify the general trend from the tiniest of clues, an ability to perceive the essence through the appearance, an ability to accurately identify the need for, successfully respond to, and actively bring about change, and an ability to spot opportunities before others to gain the initiative.

You must improve your strategic planning, grasp overall trends, address principal challenges and the key aspects of challenges in order of importance and urgency, and make judicious arrangements to gain firm control in any struggle.

You should have plans in place for worst-case scenarios, and conduct regular, comprehensive analyses to identify possible risks. Learn from experience and past mistakes, understand how different phenomena interact, and draw inferences about general cases from particular instances, so as to build up your fighting skills.

* Main points of the speech at the opening ceremony of a training program for younger officials at the Central Party School (National Academy of Governance) during its 2021 spring semester.

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