"The Force at the Core Leading Our Cause Forward"*
Music : Jie Fu
Performed by the Central Broadcast Song and Dance Ensemble

The force at the core leading our cause forward,
The force at the core leading our cause forward
is the Chinese Communist Party.
The theoretical basis guiding our thinking
is Marxism-Leninism.

*This quote is from Mao's opening address at the First Session of the First National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China, on September 15, 1954. "The Force at the Core Leading Our Cause Forward," one of the first songs of Mao quotations set to music, was published in the People's Daily on September 30, 1966.