China Daily | Updated: 2021-07-02 07:43

Editor's note: General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee Xi Jinping, who is also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, delivered a landmark speech on July 1 to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the CPC. Eight scholars from home and abroad analyzed the speech. Excerpts from their analyses follow:

National reunification vital to national rejuvenation

In the significant speech to mark the 100th anniversary of the CPC, General Secretary Xi Jinping, for the first time, made it clear that the national rejuvenation of China has become a historical inevitability.

To resolve the Taiwan question and achieve national reunification is one of the historic missions of the CPC. While President Xi has been reiterating the importance of achieving the historical task, the Chinese mainland has sent a clear warning to "separatist forces" on the island.

In the past years, the ruling Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan has significantly changed the political landscape across the Taiwan Straits. The DPP denies the 1992 Consensus, and it may continue to manipulate the public opinion on the island to push forward its political agenda of "Taiwan independence".

Since assuming power in 2016, the DPP has refused to acknowledge the 1992 Consensus, hindering cross-Straits exchanges and colluding with some countries to contain the mainland's rise, in order to fulfill its dirty political goal.

Therefore, the CPC, which has the responsibility of realizing national reunification and rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, has to appropriately deal with the Taiwan question and decisively put down any attempts to split the country.

The people on both sides of the Straits are confident of thwarting "Taiwan independence" and will never allow any power to sever any part of Chinese territory.

Tang Yonghong, deputy director of the Taiwan Research Center at Xiamen University