BEIJING -- Delegates to the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Sunday adopted a resolution on the amendment to the CPC Constitution to enshrine the "scientific outlook on development" and other strategic thoughts advanced since 2002.
The scientific outlook on development was proposed by the 16th CPC Central Committee in 2003, against the backdrop of rapid economic growth and a series of problems including excessive consumption of resources, damages to the environment and a widening gap between the rich and poor.
The scientific outlook on development "takes development as its essence, putting people first as its core, comprehensive, balanced and sustainable development as its basic requirement, and overall consideration as its fundamental approach", reads the resolution on the amendment to the Party Constitution, unanimously passed at Sunday's closing session of the national congress.
This is the fifth amendment to the current edition of the Party Constitution, adopted at the 12th Party Congress in 1982.
Upon its founding in 1921, CPC drafted a document to define the Party's name, nature, guiding principles and ultimate goals, which was to become a prototype of the Constitution.
