中国发生的巨大变化已经引起了世界的兴趣和关注，而一个开放的中国也需要得到外部世界的理解。章百家编著的《中国共产党与中国的发展进步》正是一本关于介绍“中国共产党与中国社会的发展进步”的专著，书中具体收录了：实现民族独立和人民解放、走上建设中国特色社会主义的道路等方面的内容。作者衷心希望，这本小册子能为您了解中国的历史与现状、中国社会的进步和中国共产党的作用提供帮助。

1 Realizing National Independence and People's Liberation

 The National Crisis in Modern Times and the Rise of Revolutionary Movements

 The Spread of Marxism and Leninism and the Founding of the Communist Party of China

 National Revolution against the Western Powers and Chinese Warlords

 Opening a Revolutionary Road: Armed Struggles and Enclosing Cities with Rural Areas

 Organizing the Broad Masses to Fight the Japanese Invaders

 The Founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC)

2 Establishing the Socialist System; Beginning Large-scale Construction

 Consolidating the New Government and Restoring the NationalEconomy

 Land Reform and Social Reform

 Initial Efforts to Turn a Backward Agricultural Country into an Advanced Industrial One

 The Fundamental Socialist Political System

 The people's congress system

 Multi-party cooperation and political consultation

 Ethnic autonomy

 Independent, Self-determined Foreign Policies of Peace

 Seeking a Road of Chinese Socialist Construction and Initial Success of Economic Work

3 Onto the Socialist Road of Construction with Chinese

 Characteristics

 Turning Point in the History of the PRC

 Realization of a great turn

 Significant changes in economic and political fields

 Reform and Opening-up, and the Establishment of Socialist Market Economy

 Breakthrough in the countryside

 Economic reform in the cities

 From the first special economic zone t all-round opening to the outside world

 Beginning of a socialist market-economy system

 Political Structure Reform and Establishment of Democracy and Rule of Law

 The beginning of political structure reform and the setting up of its objectives

 Improving the fundamental political system

 Grass-roots autonomy and increasing democracy

 Gradually realizing the rule of law

 Reform of government departments

 Policy of freedom of religious belief

 Beginning of a New Diplomatic Situation

 Independent and self-determined diplomatic policy of peace

 Good-neighborly diplomacy

 Relations with big countries and developing countries

 Multilateral diplomacy

 Building Modernized National Defense

 Strategic change in guiding principle

 Cooperation for international security

 Promoting the State Reunification Process

 The "one country, two systems" concept

 The return of Hong Kong and Macao

 Changes in the relations across the Taiwan Straits

 Construction of an All-round Well-off and Harmonious Socialist Society

 Building an all-round well-offsociety

 Scientific development, unified planning

 Reform and development in fields of science, education, culture

 Building a harmonious socialist society