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The " third generation " of leadership under Jiang Zemin, Zhu Rongji, and associates largely continued Deng's progressive economic vision while overseeing the re-emergence of Chinese nationalism in the 1990s.

Nationalist sentiment has seemingly also evolved to become informally the part of the Party's guiding doctrine.

As part of Jiang's nominal legacy, the CPC ratified the Three Represents into the 2003 revision of the Party Constitution as a " guiding ideology ", encouraging the Party to represent " advanced productive forces, the progressive course of China's culture, and the fundamental interests of the people.

" There are various interpretations of the Three Represents.

Most notably, the theory has legitimized the entry of private business owners and quasi -" bourgeois " elements into the party.