Promote Chinese-style modernization by comprehensively deepening reform

Promote Chinese-style modernization by comprehensively deepening reform

Commentator for Qiushi magazine

　　In the land of China, the tide of reform and opening up is rushing forward. On the magnificent journey of Chinese-style modernization, a new chapter is about to be opened in comprehensively deepening reform.

　　On June 27, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee to study the issue of further deepening reform and promoting Chinese-style modernization, and decided that the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee will be held in Beijing from July 15 to 18. The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee listened to a report on the solicitation of opinions on the draft of the "Decision of the CPC Central Committee on Further Comprehensively Deepening Reform and Promoting Chinese-style Modernization" within a certain range of internal and external party opinions, and decided to submit the draft document to the Third Plenary Session of the 20 th CPC Central Committee for deliberation after making amendments in accordance with the opinions discussed at the meeting.

　　The meeting stressed that the overall goal of further comprehensively deepening reform is to continue to improve and develop the socialist system with Chinese characteristics and promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. By 2035, we will build a high-level socialist market economy in an all-round way, further improve the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, basically modernize the national governance system and governance capacity, and basically realize socialist modernization, so as to lay a solid foundation for building China into a great modern socialist country in all respects by the middle of this century.

　　Reform and opening up is a key choice that will determine the fate of contemporary China. In December 1978, our party convened the Third Plenary Session of the 11 th CPC Central Committee and made the historic decision to shift the focus of the work of the party and the state to economic construction and to carry out reform and opening up. Since then, the Chinese Communists and the Chinese people, with their indomitable enterprising spirit and magnificent innovative practices, have constantly overcome all kinds of difficulties and obstacles rarely seen in the world on the way forward, and pushed China's economic strength, comprehensive national strength, and people's living standards to a new level.

　　With the continuous in-depth development of practice, some deep-seated institutional problems and barriers to the solidification of interests have become increasingly apparent, and the reform has entered a period of tackling tough problems and deep waters. Since the beginning of the new era, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has promoted the comprehensive deepening of reform with greater political courage and wisdom, dared to gnaw hard bones, dared to wade into dangerous waters, and opened a great transformation with momentum and far-reaching impact.

　　In December 2012, after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping went to Guangdong, which was "the first to gain popularity" in reform and opening up, and issued a mobilization order for "reform and opening up" in the new era.

　　In November 2013, our party convened the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to make an overall plan for comprehensively deepening reform. The plenary session determined the overall goal, strategic focus, priority, main direction, working mechanism, promotion method, timetable, and roadmap for comprehensively deepening reform, achieved a series of new major breakthroughs in reform theory and policy, and vigorously promoted the vigorous development of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

　　"The Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee was epoch-making and opened a new historical period of reform, opening up and socialist modernization. The Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) was also epoch-making, opening a new era of comprehensively deepening reform and promoting reform through the overall design of the system, and creating a new situation in the mainland's reform and opening up. ”

　　The profound meaning of "epoch-making" is the unprecedented determination and intensity of comprehensively deepening reform, and the bold and great responsibility of the leader.

　　Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has personally led, planned and promoted the comprehensive deepening of reform. Comprehensively deepening reform has been included in the "four comprehensive" strategic layout, personally presided over more than 70 meetings of the Central Leading Group for Comprehensively Deepening Reform and the Central Committee for Comprehensively Deepening Reform, strengthened the top-level design of reform, and built the "four beams and eight pillars" of system construction; systematically summarize the valuable experience of reform and opening up, continuously promote theoretical and practical innovation, and inject strong ideological and action forces into reform; From Shenzhen, Guangdong, the "window and experimental field of reform and opening up", to Xiaogang, Anhui, the birthplace of rural reform, from Hainan, a new highland for opening up to the outside world, to Pudong, Shanghai, a leading area for socialist modernization, we have gone deep into various localities and departments to investigate and investigate the facts, listen to the voices of the people, and seek good policies.

　　The voyage of reform is stormy, and the great power of thought is surging and agitated.

　　With the deep insight, keen judgment and theoretical creativity of Marxist politicians, thinkers and strategists, General Secretary Xi Jinping accurately grasps the laws of reform, scientifically summarizes historical experience, and puts forward a series of original, contemporary and guiding new ideas, new views and new assertions.

　　"Better play the party's role as the core of leadership in controlling the overall situation and coordinating all parties." General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that it is necessary to "resolutely safeguard the authority of the Party Central Committee and centralized and unified leadership, and implement and embody the Party's leadership in various fields such as reform, development and stability, internal affairs, foreign affairs, national defense, governance of the Party, governance of the country and the army"; "Ensure that the ship of reform and opening up is moving forward along the right course and breaking the waves."

　　"Take the comprehensive deepening of reform as the fundamental driving force for promoting Chinese-style modernization". General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that "reform and opening up is the source of vitality for contemporary China's development and progress", and "to promote Chinese-style modernization, it is necessary to further deepen reform and opening up in an all-round way, and constantly liberate and develop social productive forces, liberate and enhance social vitality"; "It is necessary to take the comprehensive deepening of reform as the fundamental driving force for promoting Chinese-style modernization, and as an important starting point for stabilizing the overall situation, responding to the situation, and opening up a new situation."

　　"Promote reform with the people at the center". General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that "reform is meaningful only when it is for the sake of the people; Only by relying on the people to reform can reform be motivated"; "To promote any major reform, we must grasp and handle well the major issues related to reform from the standpoint of the people, and we must plan reform ideas and formulate reform measures based on the interests of the people," and "we must grasp and promote reform what the people care about and expect."

　　"We must adhere to the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics." General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that "our reform is a reform that continues to advance on the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics, neither taking the old road of closure and rigidity, nor taking the evil road of changing the banner"; "It is necessary to adhere to the party's basic line, unify the two basic points of taking economic construction as the center and adhering to the four cardinal principles and persisting in reform and opening up in the great practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, and adhere to it for a long time and never waver."

　　"Improve and develop the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, and promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity". This is the overall goal of comprehensively deepening reform. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that "in the new era, we must adhere to and improve the socialist system with Chinese characteristics and promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity as the main axis". "Transform the advantages of the mainland system into the efficiency of national governance".

　　"Focus on promoting the reform of the economic system". General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that "the reform of the economic system has an important impact and transmission effect on the reform of other aspects, and the progress of major economic system reform determines the progress of many other aspects of the reform of the system, and has the effect of affecting the whole body"; "To promote the reform of the economic system, we must proceed from the practical needs, start from the most urgent things, and deepen theoretical innovation and promote institutional innovation in solving practical problems."

　　"Coordinate the promotion of deep-level reform and high-level opening-up". General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that "reform and opening-up complement each other and promote each other, reform inevitably requires openness, and openness inevitably requires reform"; It is necessary to "unswervingly deepen reform in all fields, unswervingly expand opening up, and make reform and opening up mutually reinforcing and complementing each other."

　　"Maximize the consensus on reform". General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, "What does our party rely on to inspire the people, unify their thinking, and gather strength? What can be relied upon to stimulate the creative spirit and creative vitality of the entire people? What can be relied on to achieve the rapid economic and social development of the mainland and win a comparative advantage in the competition with capitalism? relying on reform and opening up"; "Building consensus is crucial to the success of reform", "We must strengthen confidence in reform, gather joint forces for reform, make persistent efforts, forge ahead, and promote greater breakthroughs and achievements in reform in the new stage of development."

　　"The correct methodology must be adhered to". General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that "we should correctly handle the relationship between reform, development and stability, adhere to the combination of the party's leadership and respect for the people's initiative, adhere to the combination of 'crossing the river by feeling the stones' and top-level design, adhere to the combination of problem-oriented and goal-oriented, adhere to the combination of pilot first and comprehensive promotion, and adhere to the combination of reform decision-making and legislative decision-making"; "We should pay more attention to system integration, and insist on planning and advancing with the overall concept and system thinking."

　　General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition on comprehensively deepening reform systematically expounds on the essence of reform, the role of reform, the direction of reform, the reform goal, the reform task, the driving force of reform, and the reform method, and profoundly answers the major questions of why we should comprehensively deepen reform in the new era and how to promote the comprehensive deepening of reform, constituting a scientific theoretical system with rich connotation, complete system and rigorous logic, providing a powerful ideological and theoretical weapon for comprehensively deepening reform, and guiding the reform and opening up in the new era to achieve historic achievements.

　　It is good to ride the wind, the sky is thousands of miles, and the mountains and rivers are magnificent. Today, China has made all-round efforts to reform the economic system, made breakthroughs at multiple points, made major strides in the reform of democracy and the rule of law, deepened the reform of the cultural system, continuously consolidated the foundation of the people's livelihood security system, basically established the system of ecological civilization, made historic breakthroughs in the reform of the party building system and the discipline inspection and supervision system, and opened up a new situation in the reform of national defense and the armed forces...... The reform has realized the transformation from partial exploration and ice-breaking breakthrough to system integration and comprehensive deepening, and has achieved historic changes, systematic reshaping and overall reconstruction in many fields, injecting inexhaustible impetus into the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country and the all-round promotion of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

　　"But it is arduous, so it is great; But it is arduous, and it is even more glorious. ”

　　The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) drew up a grand blueprint for building a modern socialist country in an all-round way, and established the central task of comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization. This is the banner that gathers the wisdom and strength of the whole party and the people of the whole country on the new journey, and it is also bound to be the theme of further deepening reform in an all-round way. To further deepen reform in an all-round way, it is necessary to summarize and apply the valuable experience of comprehensively deepening reform since the reform and opening up, especially in the new era, and implement the following principles: adhere to the party's overall leadership, firmly safeguard the authority of the party central committee and centralized and unified leadership, give play to the party's core role of leadership in controlling the overall situation and coordinating all parties, and carry out the party's leadership throughout the entire process of reform in all aspects, so as to ensure that reform always moves forward in the correct political direction; Adhere to the people-centered, respect the people's dominant position and initiative, adhere to the people's call and reform, so that reform is for the people, reform relies on the people, and the fruits of reform are shared by the people; Adhere to integrity and innovation, unswervingly adhere to socialism with Chinese characteristics, keep up with the pace of the times, conform to the development of practice, highlight the problem orientation, and promote innovation in theory, practice, system, culture and other aspects of innovation at a new starting point; Adhere to the system construction as the main line, strengthen the top-level design, overall planning, break the establishment at the same time, first establish and then break, build a solid fundamental system, improve the basic system, and innovate important systems; Persist in comprehensively governing the country according to law, deepen reform on the track of the rule of law, promote Chinese-style modernization, achieve the unity of reform and the rule of law, make major reforms based on the law, and promptly elevate the results of reform into a legal system; Adhere to the concept of systems, properly handle the major relationships between the economy and society, government and market, efficiency and fairness, vitality and order, development and security, and enhance the systematic, holistic and coordinated nature of reform.

　　The party's leadership is the fundamental guarantee for further deepening reform in an all-round way and promoting Chinese-style modernization. Let us unite more closely around the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core, deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments", continuously enhance the "four consciousnesses", strengthen the "four self-confidences", and achieve the "two safeguards", insist on comprehensively deepening reform as the fundamental driving force for promoting Chinese-style modernization, and move forward bravely and resolutely on the road of building a strong country and national rejuvenation!

Source: Qiushi 2024/13

Author: Commentator for Qiushi magazine