“以德治国”,是以江泽民同志为核心的党中央第三代领导集体在21世纪我国社会经济步入新的发展时期提出的重大治国方略。这一治国方略,不仅是对马列主义、毛泽东思想的继承和发展,更是对邓小平同志建设有中国特色社会主义理论体系,特别是对邓小平同志关于社会主义精神文明建设思想的继承和发展,具有极其重要的理论探索和理论创新意义。认真领会和从理论上研究这一治国方略的深刻内 “Governing the Country by Virtue” is a major strategy for running for a country governed by the third generation of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Jiang Zemin at the core as China’s social economy stepped into a new development in the 21st century. This strategy for governing the country not only inherits and develops Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought, but also inherits and develops Comrade Deng Xiaoping’s theory of building socialism with Chinese characteristics, and especially of Deng Xiaoping’s thinking on the construction of socialist spiritual civilization. Extremely important theoretical exploration and theoretical innovation. We should conscientiously understand and study this profound theory of governing the country