President Hu's speech on Mao birth anniversary published     BEIJING, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- The lengthy speech delivered Friday by President Hu Jintao to mark the 110th anniversary of the birth of Mao Zedong, the founder of new China, the Communist Party of China (CPC), and its armed forces was published as of Monday.     The 10,000-Chinese-character speech was published by the People's Literature Publishing House, and distributed in Beijing and around the country by the state-owned Xinhua Bookstores, the major book distributor in China.     In the speech, Hu, also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, vowed to carry on the great cause of the older generation of Chinese revolutionaries as the best way to commemorate the late Chairman Mao Zedong (Dec. 26, 1893 -- Sept. 9,1976).     Hu recalled Chairman Mao's achievements, and summarized the outstanding contributions made to the revolution and the development of China by the communists with Mao Zedong as their top leader, who have developed Mao Zedong Thought, namely, Marxism with Chinese characteristics.     Hu pledged to continue taking the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics, which was created by Deng Xiaoping, the core of the second-generation central leadership, and continued by Jiang Zemin, the core of the third-generation central leadership.      He said that Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of the "Three Represents" embodied the interests of the overwhelming majority of the Chinese people. They had come down in one line, and must always be adhered to by the Party, he stressed.     Hu called for adherence to the principles of ideological emancipation, seeking truth from facts and keeping pace with the times.      Hu talked about China's priority issues, including the development of a socialist market economy, and implementation of political reforms, the reunification of the motherland, and the country's peace-loving and self-reliant foreign policy.     Prior to his speech on Mao's birthday, Hu and other leading officials paid tribute to late Chairman Mao at his Memorial Hall in Tiananmen Square, central Beijing, where they each bowed three times to a statue of late Chairman Mao.  Enditem