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BEIJING, June 29-- As the Communist Party of China (CPC) embraces its 97th anniversary Sunday, many of its achievements are worth looking at: founding a new China, developing the country to the world's second largest economy, lifting 700 million people out of poverty in 40 years, and nearing the first centenary goal of completing building a moderately prosperous society in all respects. "The Chinese nation ... has stood up, grown rich, and is becoming strong," said Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee in his report to the 19th National Congress of the CPC in 2017. The CPC has shown not a single sign of stopping. Xi has repeatedly urged the 89 million-member Party to "carry out self-reform." "To have the courage to carry out self-reform and conduct strict self-governance: this is the most distinctive part of our Party's character," Xi has said. The CPC has laid out a two-step approach for the development of the country: from 2020 to 2035, working to basically realize socialist modernization; from 2035 to the middle of the 21st century, developing China into a great modern socialist country. "The way to the goals can never be smooth," said Li Junru, former vice president of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee. "Faced with challenges and tests, the CPC must continue its tradition of reforming itself to spearhead social revolutions and achieve the goals." PARTY RESHAPED | 
