2006
October 11
The 6th Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee adopted the Decision on Several Major Issues of Building a Harmonious Socialist Society. The Decision stipulated that social harmony was the essence of socialism with Chinese characteristics and emphasized that it was imperative to build a harmonious socialist society in accordance with the general requirements for democracy and the rule of law, equity and justice, honesty and fraternity, vigor and vitality, stability and order, and harmony between man and nature, so as to promote the coordinated development of social and economic, political and cultural construction.