江泽民同志在十六大报告中明确指出,我国正处于并将长期处于社会主义初级阶段,人民日益增长的物质文化需要同落后的社会生产之间的矛盾仍然是我国现阶段的主要矛盾,这个主要矛盾贯穿于社会主义初级阶段的整个过程和社会生活的各个方面。“三个代表”重要思想的提出,正是基于对社会主义 Comrade Jiang Zemin made it clear in his report at the 16th National Congress that the contradiction between the growing material and cultural needs of the people and the backward social production remains and will remain at the primary stage of socialism for a long time to come. This is still the major contradiction in our country at this stage. Conflict runs through the whole process of the primary stage of socialism and all aspects of social life. The proposal of the important thinking of the ’Three Represents’ is based on socialism