江泽民同志提出,党要始终代表中国先进社会生产力的发展要求,始终代表中国先进文化的前进方面,始终代表中国最广大人民的根本利益。“三个代表”的思想从根本经验、根本性质、根本宗旨、根本任务、根本方向五个方面,科学地回答了在挑战与机遇并存的21世纪,建设一个什么样的党和 Comrade Jiang Zemin pointed out that the party must always represent the development requirements of China’s advanced social productive forces and always represent the progress of China’s advanced culture and always represent the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the Chinese people. The thinking of the “three represents” has scientifically answered the question of what kind of party should be built in the 21st century in which both challenges and opportunities should be built from the following five aspects: basic experience, fundamental nature, fundamental purposes, fundamental tasks and basic directions