江泽民总书记1999年1月11日在省部级主要领导干部金融研究班结束时的讲话中说“在本世纪上半叶,我们经过新民主主义建立了社会主义的新中国,从而彻底结束了半殖民地半封建的屈辱历史;在本世纪下半叶,我们经过艰辛的探索,终于成功地走上了建设有中国特色社会主义的伟大道路。现在又到了一个新的世纪 In his speech at the end of the provincial and ministerial leading cadres’ finance seminar on January 11, 1999, General Secretary Jiang Zemin said: ”In the first half of this century, we have completely established the socialist new China through new democracies In the second half of this century, after a painstaking exploration, we finally succeeded in embarking on the great road of building socialism with Chinese characteristics. Now that we have reached a new century