-- Over the past century, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has transformed the once shattered and impoverished country into the world's second-largest economy. The CPC has led China to achieve miracles of rapid economic growth and long-term social stability, which has had profound global implications.

-- The CPC has made it clear to all that the greatest political achievement for itself is improving the well-being of the people.

-- The Party, which believes that China has no need for the model of democracy found in the West, has established a democracy that suits the country itself.

by Xinhua writers Gui Tao, Jiang Jiang, Wang Zichen and Li Zhihui

BEIJING, June 26  -- At an altitude of 3,300 meters, Sonam Tsering offered a hada, a traditional Tibetan silk scarf that symbolizes purity and auspiciousness, to a guest who had come from afar -- Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.

The Tibetan herdsman, whose family previously struggled to make ends meet in a mountainous rural village in northwest China's Qinghai Province, now owns 80 sheep and 20 cattle thanks to poverty-alleviation subsidies and loans from the government.

Sonam Tsering, who had bid farewell to his former home, a dilapidated adobe structure surrounded by uneven stone walls, welcomed Xi outside his new house that is equipped with a flush toilet and a driveway that leads up to the front door.

"Thanks to the Party's favorable policies, the lives of us herders are getting better every day," Sonam Tsering said.