By Jose Luis Centella Gomez | China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-07-09 09:09 Share CLOSE Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, delivers an important speech at a ceremony marking the centenary of the CPC in Beijing, July 1, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua] On July 1, Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, delivered an important speech at a grand gathering in Beijing to celebrate the centenary of the Party's founding. His words should be valued not only for their message to the Party's more than 95 million members, but also for what they mean for the whole world.