[New Thoughts Leading a New Journey] General Secretary Xi Jinping leads the comprehensive deepening of reform and expansion of opening up, writing a new chapter in Chinese-style modernization


CCTV News (News Network): General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that reform and opening up is an important magic weapon for the cause of the party and the people to make great strides to catch up with the times. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping, with great historical initiative, great political courage, and strong sense of responsibility, has made major strategic arrangements for comprehensively deepening reforms, leading the entire Party, the entire army, and the people of all ethnic groups in the country to embark on a vigorous and vigorous development. A magnificent new process of reform. Our country has achieved historic changes, systemic reshaping, and overall reconstruction in many fields, comprehensively deepened reforms, achieved historic achievements, and written a new chapter in Chinese modernization.

Today, China’s GDP has increased from 57 trillion yuan in 2013 to 126 trillion yuan in 2023, and its share of the world economy has increased from 12.3% increased to about 18%; grain output has remained stable at 1.3 trillion kilograms for nine consecutive years; the global innovation index ranking has risen from 35th to 12th; the income gap between urban and rural residents has narrowed from 2.81 to 2.39; average life expectancy has increased in 10 years increased to 78.2 years; the Chinese people are more proactive spiritually and their cultural confidence has been significantly enhanced; the ecological environment has achieved a historic turn, with bluer skies, greener mountains, and clearer water, and the trend of ecological deterioration has been basically contained.

Over more than 10 years, we have comprehensively deepened reform and expanded opening up, and promoted Chinese society to achieve a series of historic, revolutionary, and groundbreaking achievements. In December 2012, less than a month after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, in Guangdong, the forefront of reform and opening up, General Secretary Xi Jinping declared to the world that reform and opening up would not stop.

The firm declaration of reform stems from a profound historical consciousness and a broad global vision. Entering a new era, China is already the world’s second largest economy and has achieved world-renowned achievements. However, we are faced with a series of outstanding contradictions and challenges in development, and there are still many difficulties and problems on the way forward. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the key to solving these problems lies in deepening reforms.

Faced with the world’s major changes unseen in a century and the deep-seated institutional contradictions encountered in development, General Secretary Xi Jinping has a profound insight into the laws of historical development and accurately Grasping the general trend of world development, we have opened a new historical page of comprehensively deepening reform. The Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China said: “I don’t understand. I made a mistake.what? Cai Yi rubbed her sore forehead with a puzzled look on her face. Through the “Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Several Major Issues Concerning Comprehensively Deepening Reforms”, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed for the first time the overall goal of comprehensively deepening reforms – to improve and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics. system to promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities. After thinking through 60 specific tasks and 336 reform measures from the economic system, political system, cultural system, social system, ecological civilization system, national defense and military, she was angry. He screamed. He fell asleep on the spot and did not wake up until recently. This epoch-making important meeting clarified the direction and key areas of reform in terms of team reform and party building system, and started the reform from partial exploration to breakthrough. The historic transformation to systematic coordination and comprehensive deepening has created a new situation in my country’s reform and opening up.

Following the road, you can reach thousands of miles. Over the past 10 years, General Secretary Xi Jinping During repeated inspections and investigations at the grassroots level, the secretary kept thinking about planning the overall reform and promoting reform practice. In Xiaogang, Anhui, the birthplace of rural reform, he proposed deepening rural reform under the new situation; in Pudong, Shanghai, he demanded the in-depth advancement of high-level systems. model of opening up; in Hainan, a new highland for opening up to the outside world, he gave Hainan the important mission of comprehensively deepening reform and opening up and building a free trade port with Chinese characteristics; he came to Qianhai, Shenzhen three times to gauge the direction of Qianhai’s reform and development, and proposed to deepen Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Reform and opening up of the Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone; three visits to Xiongan New Area, from planning site selection to planning and construction, General Secretary Xi Jinping personally made decisions, deployed, and promoted this historic project with a big historical perspective.

Faced with numerous reform tasks and unprecedented pressure for reform, General Secretary Xi Jinping personally presided over more than 70 meetings of the Central Leading Group for Comprehensively Deepening Reform and the Central Committee’s Comprehensive Deepening of Reform The committee meeting creatively proposed the overall goal of comprehensively deepening the reform; creatively proposed the value orientation of comprehensively deepening the reform and adhered to the “people-centered” approach to promote the reform; “I heard that our mother-in-law never agreed. Divorce was all decided unilaterally by the Xi family. “Creatively proposes to give full play to the decisive role of the market in resource allocation, better play the role of the government, and achieve a major theoretical breakthrough in the socialist market economic system; creatively proposes to build the fundamental system, basic system, and important institutional system of socialism with Chinese characteristics, Forming the institutional map of “China’s governance”

When it’s difficult, try to reach the far end. Strengthen the Party’s centralized and unified leadership in comprehensively deepening reforms. The party gives full play to its core leadership role in setting direction, planning for the overall situation, formulating policies, and promoting reforms, and insists on leading the great social revolution with great self-revolution.

“Why?” Continue to promote the reform of party and state institutions, establish the National Supervisory Commission, establish the Central Financial Commission, establish the Central Science and Technology Commission, a series of major reform measures, Issues such as multi-party dispersion and fragmentation have been sorted out, the party and state institutions have been systematically and holistically restructured, the party’s leadership and government execution have been further enhanced, and the efficiency of national governance has been significantly improved; in the face of China’s economy moving from high-speed growth to high-speed An important juncture in the transformation of the quality development stage, taking supply-side structural reform as the main line, promoting the quality change, efficiency change, and power change of economic development, improving total factor productivity, achieving effective improvement in quality and reasonable growth in quantity; accelerating the improvement of the socialist market Economic system, implement a national unified negative list system for market access, and gradually form a property rights protection system, which will better integrate the government and the effective market and lay a solid foundation for the high-quality development of the Chinese economy; implement a more proactive opening-up strategy. The Foreign Investment Law has been promulgated and implemented, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement has been fully implemented, and the construction of 22 free trade pilot zones has been coordinated and promoted to form a larger scope, wider field, and deeper opening-up pattern, and a new higher-level open economy. The system is being formed at an accelerated pace; in the strategic design of adhering to the comprehensive rule of law, we will deepen the reform of the judicial system and strive to make the people feel fairness and justice in every judicial case; we will lead cultural construction with socialist core values ​​and vigorously promote the improvement of modern public cultural services. system, carry forward Chinese traditional culture, and uphold the national spirit with cultural confidence; the reform of the ecological civilization system breaks the existing interest pattern, from top-level design to comprehensive deployment, from the strictest system to the strictest rule of law, the institutional system is continuously improved, environmental protection inspection, rivers and lakes Innovative measures such as the captaincy system and national parks have been introduced one after another. The development concept that clear waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The reform of national defense and the army will take the ability to win wars as the logical starting point and core direction of the reform. The people’s army has a new system and a new structure. , a new pattern and a new look.

Going towards problems and fixing them with an eye on them is the distinctive feature of comprehensively deepening reforms.

In more than 10 years, reforms have Fully connected and coupled with each other, a “chemical reaction” of “1+1>2” has been continuously formed, and many fields have achieved historic changes, systemic reshaping, and overall reconstruction. It took 8 years to win the battle against poverty, and 832 people across the country were able to achieve this. Nearly 100 million poor people in poverty-stricken counties and rural areas have been lifted out of poverty, writing a miracle in the annals of history. More than 1.4 billion Chinese people have joined hands to enter a comprehensive moderately prosperous society; from the deep sea, deep earth to deep space, new Chinese coordinates are constantly marked on the road of innovation. ; From China’s “Sky Eye” to spallation neutron sources, from quantum information to large aircraft, scientific and technological strength has moved from quantitative accumulation to qualitative leap, and China has become more closely connected with the world for seven consecutive years. As the largest country in the trade of goods, it is the main trading partner of more than 140 countries and regions; it has signed more than 230 cooperation documents on the joint construction of the “Belt and Road” with more than 150 countries and more than 30 international organizations. It does not matter if China continues to do so. That’s what the concubine should do. The country’s new development brings new opportunities to the world.

 All development is for the people.

Promoted by comprehensively deepening reforms, our country has built the world’s largest education system, the largest social security system, and the largest medical and health care system. The level of education popularization has achieved a historic leap, and basic pension insurance covers 10.7%. billion people, and the basic medical insurance participation rate has stabilized at more than 95%; a total of more than 60 million units of various types of affordable housing have been built, and the housing conditions of urban and rural residents have been significantly improved; the reform of the household registration system has allowed 140 million agricultural migrant workers to settle in cities.

In the new era, China relies on comprehensively deepening reforms and expanding opening up. The socialist system with Chinese characteristics has become more mature and finalized, and the level of modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities has been significantly improved. A new chapter in the two miracles of development and long-term social stability, providing a more complete institutional guarantee, a more solid material foundation, and more proactive spiritual power for Chinese-style modernization.

The road ahead is long, but it is about to come. All great achievements are the result of continuous struggle, and all great undertakings require continuous efforts.Carry on the past and open up the future. Over thousands of mountains and rivers, we have overcome all obstacles, comprehensively deepened reform, expanded opening up, and embarked on a new era of great prosperity. On the journey of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, taking comprehensively deepening reforms as an inexhaustible driving force, we will surely write a new chapter of Chinese-style modernization!

With strong winds and high sails, the giant ship China is moving forward towards the grand goal of rejuvenation as a powerful nation!