Translated by Claude, edited by Sinocism.com

Note: Xi uses both 奋斗 fen4dou4 and 斗争 dou4zheng1 repeatedly. Both can be translated as “struggle”, though 奋斗 can also be translated as “striving”. In this text I kept both as struggle and noted which characters were used. One way to think of the difference is that 奋斗 is struggle toward, 斗争 is struggle against.

Speech at the Ceremony Marking the 105th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China

在庆祝中国共产党成立105周年大会上的讲话

(July 1, 2026)

（2026年7月1日）

Xi Jinping

习近平

Xinhua, Beijing, July 1

新华社北京7月1日电

Comrades, friends:

同志们，朋友们：

Today we gather solemnly to celebrate the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, to look back on the glorious course our Party has traveled, to look ahead to the bright prospects for the cause of the Party and the people, and to rally the whole Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to advance with confidence toward the grand goals of building China into a great modern socialist country in all respects and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

今天，我们隆重集会，庆祝中国共产党成立105周年，回顾我们党走过的光辉历程，展望党和人民事业发展的光明前景，动员全党全国各族人民满怀信心朝着全面建成社会主义现代化强国、实现中华民族伟大复兴的宏伟目标奋勇前进。

First, on behalf of the Party Central Committee, I extend festive greetings to all members of the Communist Party of China. I offer warm congratulations to the recipients of the July 1 Medal and to the national outstanding Party members, outstanding Party affairs workers, and advanced primary-level Party organizations being honored today.

首先，我代表党中央，向全体中国共产党员致以节日的问候！向“七一勋章”获得者，向受表彰的全国优秀共产党员、优秀党务工作者、先进基层党组织表示热烈的祝贺！

Comrades, friends!

同志们、朋友们！

One hundred and five years ago, amid the great awakening of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation and the close integration of Marxism-Leninism with China's workers' movement, the Communist Party of China was born. From that point on, the Chinese people and the Chinese nation had a most reliable backbone, and a China beset by internal turmoil and external aggression and mired in poverty and weakness embarked on an earth-shaking historical transformation.