Three Represents

Three Represents
A slogan in Futu, Hubei, which reads: "Practice the Thought of Three Represents, advance the reform on rural tax system", with the word "reform" (改革) blocked by a billboard.
Simplified Chinese	「三个代表」重要思想
Traditional Chinese	「三個代表」重要思想
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin "Sān gè dàibiǎo" zhòngyào sīxiǎng

This article is part of a series about Jiang Zemin
Personal Early life Wang Yeping (wife) Jiang Mianheng (son) Administration 1992 reelection as General Secretary 1997 reelection as General Secretary Shanghai clique Policies and theories Three Represents Socialist market economy Grasping the large, letting go of the small Three Stresses campaign Program 973 Project 211 Project 985 China Western Development Go Out policy Key events Deng Xiaoping's southern tour 1993 constitutional amendment Three Gorges Dam Third Taiwan Strait Crisis Handover of Hong Kong 1998 China floods 1999 constitutional amendment Persecution of Falun Gong Handover of Macau Diplomatic activities International trips 1998 Japan visit US Belgrade embassy bombing 2001 Sino-Russian Treaty of Friendship 2002 Germany, Libya, Nigeria, Tunisia and Iran visit
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The Three Represents, officially the Theory of Three Represents,^[1] is a political doctrine that defines the role of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Chinese society. It legitimized the entry of private business owners and bourgeois elements into the CCP.

The theory was first introduced by Jiang Zemin—then the General Secretary of the CCP—on 25 February 2000, while he was on the inspection tour in Gaozhou, Guangdong. During Jiang's leadership, the Three Represents was officially described as the "Marxism for contemporary China" and the development of Marxism–Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory. The theory was ratified by the party at the 16th Party Congress in November 2002. It was also written to the Chinese Constitution on March 14, 2004.