十六大是我们党在新世纪召开的第一次代表大会，也是党在全面实施社会主义现代化建设第三步战略部署的新形势下召开的一次十分重要的代表大会。会议把“三个代表”重要思想同马列主义、毛泽东思想、邓小平理论一道确立为党的指导思想，提出了新世纪新阶段党和国家的奋斗目标和? The 16th CPC National Congress is the first congress of our party to be held in the new century and is also a very important congress held under the new situation of the third strategic deployment of the socialist modernization drive. The conference established the important thinking of the ’Three Represents’ along with Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory as the guiding ideology of the party and proposed the goals and objectives for the party and state in the new phase of the new century.