Editing Three Represents (section)

==History and development==
{{Further|Ideology of the Chinese Communist Party}}
Following the tenure of [[Deng Xiaoping]], Jiang Zemin articulated a new theory to define the new relationship between the party and the people, which is named Three Represents.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal |last=Bo |first=Zhiyue |date=September 2004 |title=Hu Jintao and the CCP's ideology: A historical perspective |url= |journal=[[Journal of Chinese Political Science]] |language=en |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=27–45 |doi=10.1007/BF02877001 |s2cid=148491989 |issn=1080-6954}}</ref> The Three Represents was devised by a small team including the political theorist [[Wang Huning]].<ref name=":13">{{Cite news |last=Page |first=Jeremy |date=5 June 2013 |title=The Wonk With the Ear of Chinese President Xi Jinping |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323728204578513422637924256 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210221005604/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323728204578513422637924256 |archive-date=21 February 2021 |access-date=15 October 2019 |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |language=en-US |issn=0099-9660}}</ref> Jiang first delivered a speech about the Three Represents on 25 February 2000 during a symposium on party building in Guangzhou.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Huang |first=Yibing |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1165409653 |title=An ideological history of the Communist Party of China |date=2020 |others=Qian Zheng, Guoyou Wu, Xuemei Ding, Li Sun, Shelly Bryant |isbn=978-1-4878-0425-1 |edition= |volume=3 |location=Montreal, Quebec |pages=468–469 |oclc=1165409653}}</ref> It brought wide attention and many interpretations of the meaning of the speech.<ref name="改革开放以来意识形态创新的历史考察 - 中国知网">{{Cite journal |last=萧 |first=功秦 |date=2006 |title=改革开放以来意识形态创新的历史考察 - 中国知网 |url=https://www.cnki.net/kcms/doi/10.16240/j.cnki.1002-3976.2006.04.008.html |journal=天津社会科学 |publisher=天津社会科学. (04) |issue=4 |pages=45–49 |doi=10.16240/j.cnki.1002-3976.2006.04.008 |access-date=2021-04-17}}</ref>

The Three Represents results from Jiang Zemin's efforts to grapple with the diverse class backgrounds of party members and their sometimes conflicting material interests.<ref>{{Cite book |title=CPC Futures The New Era of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics |date=2022 |publisher=[[National University of Singapore Press]] |isbn=978-981-18-5206-0 |location=Singapore |pages=49 |doi=10.56159/eai.52060 |oclc=1354535847 |doi-access=free|editor-last1=Pieke |editor-last2=Hofman |editor-first1=Frank N |editor-first2=Bert }}</ref> Based on Mao's premise that the Communist Party should serve the people, it became important as China's private sector grew to bring "worthy people from all sectors who are loyal to the motherland and to socialism" into the Party.<ref name=":92">{{Cite book |last1=Marquis |first1=Christopher |author-link=Christopher Marquis |url= |title=Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise |last2=Qiao |first2=Kunyuan |date=2022 |publisher=[[Yale University Press]] |isbn=978-0-300-26883-6 |location=New Haven |doi=10.2307/j.ctv3006z6k |jstor=j.ctv3006z6k |oclc=1348572572 |s2cid=253067190}}</ref>{{Rp|page=50}}

In Jiang's speech on the Three Represents on the 80th anniversary of the founding of the CCP in 2001, he claimed that the expansion of "working class" would help the party remain advanced as the vanguard of the working class by expanding its popular support and increasing its social influence. Jiang made a statement on the concept of the working class that it includes intellectuals:<blockquote>"With intellectuals being part of the working class, the scientific, technical and educational level of the working class has been raised considerably... Consequently some workers have changed their jobs. But this has not changed the status of the Chinese working class. On the contrary, this will serve to improve the overall quality of the working class and give play to its advantages as a group in the long run. The Chinese working class has always been the basic force for promoting the advanced productive forces in China. Our Party must remain the vanguard of the working class and unswervingly and wholeheartedly rely on the working class."<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2001-07-01 |title=Jiang Zemin's Speech at the Meeting Celebrating the 80th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China China |url=http://www.china.org.cn/e-speech/a.htm |access-date=2021-04-17 |website=[[China Internet Information Center]] |publisher=}}</ref></blockquote>The Three Represents were written into the [[Constitution of the Chinese Communist Party|CCP constitution]] to be part of CCP's guiding ideology during the [[16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party|16th Party National Congress]] in November 2002.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Huang |first=Yibing |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1165409653 |title=An ideological history of the Communist Party of China |date=2020 |others=Qian Zheng, Guoyou Wu, Xuemei Ding, Li Sun, Shelly Bryant |isbn=978-1-4878-0425-1 |edition= |volume=3 |location=Montreal, Quebec |pages=474–475 |oclc=1165409653}}</ref> It was also [[2004 amendment to the Constitution of China|written]] to the [[Constitution of China|Chinese Constitution]] on March 14, 2004.<ref name="bhr">{{cite book |last1=Zhong |first1=Huang |url=https://www.business-humanrights.org/sites/default/files/documents/Merging%20Business%20and%20Human%20Rights%20in%20China.pdf |title=Bridging Human Rights Principles and Business Realities in Northeast Asia |last2=Qian |first2=Cheng |date=2014 |publisher=Vinlin Press |editor1-last=Plantilla |editor1-first=Jefferson R. |location=Malaysia |pages=21–53 |chapter=The Disappearance of Hong Kong in Comics, Advertising and Graphic Design}}</ref>