The Historic Background of the Party's Third Generation of Collective Leadership's Theoretical Innovations

The Party's third generation of collective leadership coalesced over a decade ago, and since then there have been major changes internationally and domestically. These epochal developments called for theoretical innovation. Jiang Zemin's Three Represents important thinking has answered the demands of the times,answering the questions of ‘what sort of Party to build and how to build it’ under new historical conditions. Jiang Zemin's Three Represents are the supreme summation of the third generation's theoretical innovations, they are a new expression of scientific socialist theory in contemporary China,and they are a scientific system which is a continuous and unified extension of Marxism Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory.