On the morning of the 16th, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a symposium at the Great Hall of the People to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Comrade Qiao Shi's birth. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, delivered an important speech emphasizing that now, the entire Party and people of all ethnic groups in the country are full of confidence in comprehensively building a socialist modernized country and promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The beautiful ideals that generations of Chinese Communists have been striving for are being gradually realized. We must hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, remember the original aspiration and mission of the Party, work together with one heart and one mind, strive for progress, and constantly create new achievements that are worthy of history, the times, and the people.
Zhao Leji, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, presided over the symposium, while Cai Qi and Li Xi, members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, attended the symposium.
His life was a life of revolution, struggle, and glory, a life of pursuing truth, progress, and striving for the cause of communism. His achievements in establishing the Party and the people are worth remembering, and his revolutionary spirit and noble demeanor are worth learning from.
Xi Jinping emphasized that we commemorate Comrade Qiao Shi by learning from his noble character of adhering to faith and dedicating himself to ideals. We must take firm ideals and beliefs as a lifelong task, constantly cultivate and refine, constantly comprehend and advance, always adhere to the lofty ideal of communism and the common ideal of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and withstand the test of the waves.
Xi Jinping pointed out that in commemorating Comrade Qiao Shi, we must learn from his strong Party spirit of rectifying Party conduct and enforcing Party discipline. We must always adhere to the overall leadership of the Party and the centralized and unified leadership of the Central Committee of the Party, unswervingly and strictly govern the Party in an all-round way, deeply promote the construction of a clean and honest government and the fight against corruption, and always maintain the progressiveness and purity of the Party.
Xi Jinping emphasized that in commemorating Comrade Qiao Shi, we must learn from his valuable qualities of remembering his original intention and being diligent in serving the people. We must always adhere to the fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, uphold the development ideology centered on the people, effectively safeguard the fundamental interests of the people, strive to benefit the people, and ensure that the achievements of modernization construction benefit all the people more and fairly.
Xi Jinping pointed out that in commemorating Comrade Qiao Shi, we must learn from his political responsibility of being determined to reform and daring to take action. We must unswervingly hold high the banner of reform and opening up, adhere to integrity and innovation, and work hard to write a new chapter of reform and opening up by closely focusing on Chinese path to modernization to further comprehensively deepen reform and promote high-level opening up.
Xi Jinping emphasized that we commemorate Comrade Qiao Shi by learning from his persistent pursuit of respecting and enforcing the rule of law. We must always adhere to the path of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics, comprehensively promote scientific legislation, strict law enforcement, fair judiciary, and universal compliance with the law, and comprehensively build a socialist modernized country on the track of rule of law.
Xi Jinping pointed out that in commemorating Comrade Qiao Shi, we must learn from his work style of seeking truth from facts and being pragmatic. We should always integrate theory with practice, resolutely oppose formalism and bureaucracy, concentrate on promoting development, and solidly promote Chinese path to modernization.
Zhao Leji said during the symposium that General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech highly praised Comrade Qiao Shi's outstanding contributions to the cause of the Party and the country, and put forward clear requirements for learning from Comrade Qiao Shi's revolutionary spirit and noble demeanor. The speech is of great guiding significance for us to inherit and develop the cause created by generations of the CPC, and to realize the goal of the party and the people in the new era and new journey.  
At the symposium, Qu Qingshan, President of the Central Institute of Party History and Literature, Sun Xinyang, Deputy Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, Liu Qi, Secretary General of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and Gong Zheng, Mayor of Shanghai, delivered speeches first and then.
Li Ganjie, Li Shulei, Li Hongzhong, Chen Wenqing, Wang Xiaohong, Hao Mingjin, and Su Hui attended the symposium.
Officials from relevant departments of the central and state organs, responsible officials from Shanghai and Zhejiang provinces, relatives of Comrade Qiao Shi, former friends, former staff members, and representatives from his hometown attended the symposium.