Lianbo｜Further comprehensively deepening reforms, the General Secretary proposed two more directions

The joint reform and opening up is an important magic weapon for contemporary China to make great strides to catch up with the times, and it is a key move that determines the success or failure of Chinese modernization.

On May 23, during an inspection in Shandong, General Secretary Xi Jinping chaired a symposium with enterprises and experts and emphasized that to further comprehensively deepen reforms, we must anchor the overall goal of improving and developing the socialist system with Chinese characteristics and advancing the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities. goals, closely adhere to the promotion of Chinese-style modernization, adhere to the combination of goal orientation and problem orientation, run towards problems and focus on problem correction.

Goals are the guide to action, and problems are the direction of breakthrough. Adhering to the combination of goal orientation and problem orientation is an important working method that our party has always adhered to in various reform practices. The General Secretary mentioned these two directions again, which has far-reaching implications.

Goal-oriented is based on the premise of meeting the goals, working backwards on resource allocation and time allocation, and then linking strategies, tactics, methods and means.

On November 15, 2012, the first day after he was elected as General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, Xi Jinping said when meeting Chinese and foreign reporters: "The people's yearning for a better life is our goal." In his speech that day, the General Secretary mentioned it 19 times. to "the people." At that time, some commentators believed that “China’s New Deal has already begun to take shape.”

In order to achieve this simple yet ambitious goal, in early 2014, the Central Leading Group for Comprehensively Deepening Reform held its first meeting. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized at the meeting that we must grasp the overall situation, assess the situation, make overall plans, scientifically implement, fully mobilize the enthusiasm of all parties, and unswervingly move towards the goal of comprehensively deepening reforms.

Four years later, according to the "Plan for Deepening the Reform of Party and State Institutions", the Central Leading Group for Comprehensively Deepening Reforms was changed to the Central Committee for Comprehensively Deepening Reforms.

In the past 10 years, from the Central Deep-Reform Group to the Central Deep-Reform Commission, General Secretary Xi Jinping has presided over more than 70 meetings, anchored goals, strengthened the top-level design of reform, and launched a series of reform measures, which has effectively improved the people's sense of happiness, gain, and security. feel.

As a blueprint for further deepening reform, the preparation of the "14th Five-Year Plan" is closely related to the production and life of the people. During the drafting of the "14th Five-Year Plan", General Secretary Xi Jinping personally presided over 7 symposiums to listen to voices from all aspects.

In order to let the people live a better life, the General Secretary often sits around with the people during local inspections and surveys, observing the actual situation, listening to the people's voices, and making good suggestions. Under his guidance and promotion, our country has implemented a series of reform plans, and weaved a dense network of people's livelihood security from all aspects of clothing, food, housing, transportation, education, medical care, and elderly care.

△In recent years, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, we have explored the establishment of a national basic elderly care service list system, established a "Chinese-style" elderly care service system coordinated by home and community institutions, and streamlined the supervision of elderly care services. Mechanism, one after another "practical recruitment" and "hard recruitment" of reforms in the field of elderly care services have been implemented and achieved results. The picture shows an elderly person learning to play musical instruments in the Yaoyang Elderly Care Service Center in Handan District, Handan City, Hebei Province.

At this symposium, General Secretary Xi Jinping made it clear that the ultimate goal of pursuing reform and promoting development is to let the people live a better life. This once again demonstrates that everything in comprehensively deepening reforms is aimed at achieving a better life for the people.

Think long-term - plan and promote reforms based on the overall interests, fundamental interests, and long-term interests of the people, and follow the party's mass line in the new era.

Find breakthroughs - focus on finding the starting point and breakthrough point for reform from the urgent needs and worries of the people such as employment, income increase, school enrollment, medical treatment, housing, services, child care and elderly care, and safety of life and property.

Clear path - Introduce more reform measures that are urgent for the people's livelihood and what the people want, and do more practical things that benefit the people's livelihood, warm the people's hearts, and satisfy the public opinion.

Emphasis on practical results - so that reforms can give the people a greater sense of gain, happiness, and security.

As the practice of reform in various fields continues to deepen, some deep-seated institutional problems and barriers to solidified interests have become increasingly apparent, and the reform has entered a critical period and a deep-water zone.

Problem orientation is based on the premise of discovering problems and the purpose of solving problems. Its core essence is to gain in-depth insight into the nature of the problem based on practical situations.

In the view of General Secretary Xi Jinping, “Every era always has its own problems. As long as these problems are scientifically understood, accurately grasped, and correctly solved, our society can continue to move forward.”

Adhering to a problem-oriented approach has greatly enhanced the initiative and pertinence of comprehensively deepening reforms, and ensured the direction and effectiveness of reforms to the greatest extent.

Looking back on my country's comprehensive deepening of reform, in response to existing problems in the economic layout and structure, General Secretary Xi Jinping focused on deepening supply-side structural reform and promoted the continuous optimization of the layout and structure of the state-owned economy. This lays a solid foundation for the high-quality development of our country's economy.

Faced with the reality that our country once had 832 impoverished counties, 128,000 impoverished villages, and nearly 100 million impoverished people, the General Secretary adopted the strategy of targeted poverty alleviation and led the entire party and people of all ethnic groups in the country to win an eight-year poverty alleviation campaign. Fight hard. This provides stable happiness for hundreds of millions of poor people.

Regarding problems existing in the science and technology system, rural land system, ecological civilization system, etc., the General Secretary has repeatedly conducted in-depth investigations at the grassroots level, deployed and promoted a series of reform measures, and used reform ideas and methods to overcome many long-term unsolved problems and achieve success. Many major and important matters of long-term importance were discussed.

△In recent years, our country has comprehensively deepened reform and opening up, implemented the strategy of upgrading free trade pilot zones, and the construction of 22 free trade pilot zones and Hainan Free Trade Port has been vigorously carried out. The picture shows Yangpu Economic Development Zone, a key park of Hainan Free Trade Port, taken on December 29, 2023.

At present, our country has embarked on a new journey to comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization. Faced with the new situation and new tasks, General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly pointed out at this symposium that we should pursue problems and fix them, resolutely eliminate the ideological concepts and institutional shortcomings that hinder the advancement of Chinese-style modernization, and strive to crack down on deep-seated institutional mechanisms. Obstacles and structural contradictions.

Promoting the reform of the economic system - we must proceed from practical needs, start with the most urgent matters, deepen theoretical innovation and promote institutional innovation while solving practical problems.

Reforms in other fields - We must focus on overall and strategic issues to plan reform measures and achieve the goal of achieving the goal.

Reforms are both broken and established. If you follow the rules, you will get twice the result with half the effort. If you don't follow the rules, you will get twice the result with half the effort or even have negative effects. Goal-oriented and problem-oriented have different tasks and priorities. In the process of further deepening the reform, only through overall coordination and complementation can we continue to achieve new breakthroughs.

Proofreading｜Cai Chunlin, Sun Jie, Song Chunyan, Lou Hao, Li Yingzhuo