党的十六大一个历史性贡献,是把“三个代表”重要思想同马克思列宁主义、毛泽东思想、邓小平理论一道,作为在新世纪新阶段中国共产党高举的旗帜,确立为党必须长期坚持的指导思想。十六大修订的党的章程开宗明义:“中国共产党是中国工人阶级的先锋队,同时是中国 As a historic contribution of the 16th CPC National Congress, we should take the important thinking of the ’Three Represents’ along with Marxism-Leninarism, Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory as the banner of the CPC’s holding high in the new phase of the new century and establish as the party’s long-standing guiding ideology. The 16th revised constitution of the party made it clear: "The Chinese Communist Party is the vanguard of the Chinese working class and at the same time is China