2002
November 8-14
The 16th CPC National Congress was held. The report entitled "Building a Moderately Prosperous Society in All Respects and Creating a New Situation for Socialism with Chinese Characteristics" adopted in the meeting proposed the goals for building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, and expounded the basic requirement for putting the Important Theory of Three Represents into full effect. The Congress adopted the Constitution of the Communist Party of China (Revised), established the Important Theory of Three Represents as the guiding ideology of the CPC along with Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory, and incorporated it into the Constitution of the Communist Party of China.