[New ideas lead a new journey] General Secretary Xi Jinping leads the comprehensive deepening of reform and expansion of opening up to write a new chapter of Chinese-style modernization

News: 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 catch up with the times. Since the 18th CPC National Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping has made major strategic arrangements for comprehensively deepening reform with great historical initiative, great political courage and strong sense of responsibility, and led the whole Party, the whole army and the people of all ethnic groups in the country to start a new reform process with great momentum and great waves. my country has achieved historic changes, systematic remodeling and overall reconstruction in many fields, and has made historic and great achievements in comprehensively deepening reform, writing a new chapter in Chinese-style modernization.

Today, China's GDP has increased from 5.7 trillion yuan in 2013 to 12.6 trillion yuan in 2023, and its share of the world economy has increased from 12.3% to about 18%; grain output has remained at 1.3 trillion jin 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; life expectancy per capita has increased to 78.2 years in 10 years; the Chinese people are more proactive in spirit and their cultural confidence has been significantly enhanced; the ecological environment has achieved a historic turning point, with bluer skies, greener mountains, and clearer waters, and the trend of ecological deterioration has been basically curbed.

Over the past 10 years, China has comprehensively deepened reform and expanded opening up, driving a series of historic, revolutionary and groundbreaking achievements in Chinese society. In December 2012, less than a month after the 18th CPC National Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping declared to the world in Guangdong, the forefront of reform and opening up, that reform and opening up will not stop.

The firm reform declaration stems from a profound historical consciousness and a broad global vision. Entering the new era, China has become the world's second largest economy and has achieved remarkable achievements. However, it faces a series of prominent contradictions and challenges in its development, and there are still many difficulties and problems on the road ahead. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the key to solving these problems lies in deepening reform.

Faced with the great changes in the world that have not been seen in a century, and the deep-seated institutional and mechanism contradictions encountered in development, General Secretary Xi Jinping has a profound insight into the laws of historical development, accurately grasped the general trend of world development, and opened a new historical page of comprehensively deepening reform. The Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee adopted the "Decision of the CPC Central Committee on Several Major Issues Concerning Comprehensively Deepening Reform". General Secretary Xi Jinping first proposed the overall goal of comprehensively deepening reform - to improve and develop the socialist system with Chinese characteristics and promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities. 60 specific tasks and 336 reform measures have clarified the direction and key areas of reform in terms of economic system, political system, cultural system, social system, ecological civilization system, national defense and military reform, and party building system. This epoch-making and important meeting opened a historic transformation of reform from local exploration and breaking through the ice to systematic coordination and comprehensive deepening, creating a new situation for my country's reform and opening up.

If you follow the right path, you can reach a thousand miles. Over the past 10 years, General Secretary Xi Jinping has been constantly thinking about and planning the overall reform and promoting reform practice in his visits to the grassroots. 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 promotion of high-level institutional opening-up; in Hainan, a new frontier of 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 visited Qianhai, Shenzhen three times to diagnose and orient Qianhai's reform and development, and proposed deepening the reform and opening up of the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone; he visited Xiongan New Area three times. From planning the site selection to planning and construction, General Secretary Xi Jinping personally made decisions, deployed and promoted it, and outlined this historic project with a broad historical perspective.

Faced with numerous reform tasks and unprecedented reform pressure, General Secretary Xi Jinping personally presided over more than 70 meetings of the Central Leading Group for Comprehensively Deepening Reform and the Central Committee for Comprehensively Deepening Reform, pushing forward the comprehensive deepening reform. He creatively proposed the overall goal of comprehensively deepening reform; creatively proposed the value orientation of comprehensively deepening reform, and insisted on promoting reform with the "people-centered" approach; creatively proposed giving full play to the decisive role of the market in resource allocation, better playing the role of the government, and achieving a major theoretical breakthrough in the socialist market economic system; creatively proposed building a fundamental system, basic system, and important system of socialism with Chinese characteristics, forming an institutional map of "China's governance."

We must take on the most difficult tasks and strive for the most ambitious goals. We must strengthen the Party’s centralized and unified leadership over the comprehensive deepening of reform. The Party must fully play its core leadership role in setting the direction, planning the overall situation, formulating policies, and promoting reform, and must persist in leading the great social revolution with the great self-revolution.

We have continued to advance the reform of the Party and state institutions, established the National Supervisory Commission, formed the Central Financial Committee, and established the Central Science and Technology Committee. A series of major reform measures have straightened out problems such as multiple and scattered entities and departmental fragmentation. The Party and state institutions have achieved systematic and holistic reconstruction, the Party's leadership and government execution have been further enhanced, and the effectiveness of state governance has been significantly improved. Facing the important juncture of China's economy's transition from high-speed growth to high-quality development, we will take supply-side structural reform as the main line, promote changes in the quality, efficiency, and driving force of economic development, improve total factor productivity, and achieve effective improvement in quality and reasonable growth in quantity. We will accelerate the improvement of the socialist market economic system, implement a nationwide negative list system for market access, and gradually form a property rights protection system to better combine effective government and effective market, laying a solid foundation for the high-quality development of China's economy. We will implement a more proactive and active opening-up strategy. The Foreign Investment Law was promulgated and implemented, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement was fully implemented, and the construction of 22 free trade pilot zones was coordinated and promoted, forming a pattern of opening up on a larger scale, wider areas and deeper levels, and a new open economy system with a higher level was accelerated; in the strategic design of adhering to the rule of law in all respects, the judicial system reform was deepened, and efforts were made to make the people feel fairness and justice in every judicial case; the socialist core values ​​were used to guide cultural construction, and efforts were made to improve the modern public cultural service system, promote Chinese traditional culture, and uphold the national spirit with cultural confidence; the reform of the ecological civilization system broke the existing interest pattern, from top-level design to comprehensive deployment, from the strictest system to the most stringent rule of law, the system has been continuously improved, and innovative measures such as environmental protection supervision, the river and lake chief system, and national parks have been introduced one after another, and the development concept that green waters and green mountains are gold and silver mountains has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people; national defense and military reform will take the ability to win battles as the logical starting point and core direction of reform, and the people's army has a new system, structure, pattern, and look.

Going to the problems and focusing on solving them is the distinctive feature of comprehensively deepening reform.

Over the past 10 years, reforms have been fully connected and coupled, forming a "chemical reaction" of "11>2", and many fields have achieved historic changes, systematic reshaping, and overall reconstruction. It took 8 years to win the battle against poverty. 832 impoverished counties and nearly 100 million rural poor people in the country have escaped poverty, writing a miracle in the history of mankind. More than 1.4 billion Chinese people have joined hands to enter a well-off society in an all-round way; from deep sea, deep earth to deep space, new coordinates of China are constantly marked on the road of innovation; from China's "Sky Eye" to spallation neutron source, from quantum information to large aircraft, scientific and technological strength has made a qualitative leap from quantitative accumulation, and China has entered the ranks of innovative countries. Closer ties with the world. China has maintained its position as the largest country in goods trade for 7 consecutive years and 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, and continuously brought new opportunities to the world with China's new development.

Driven by the comprehensive and in-depth reform, my country has built the world's largest education system, the largest social security system, and the largest medical and health system. The level of education popularization has achieved a historic leap, basic pension insurance covers 1.07 billion people, and the basic medical insurance participation rate has remained stable 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 migrant workers from rural areas to settle in cities and towns.

In the new era, China has relied on comprehensively deepening reform and expanding opening up, and the socialist system with Chinese characteristics has become more mature and more established, and the modernization level of the national governance system and governance capacity has been significantly improved. It has written a new chapter of the two miracles of rapid economic development and long-term social stability, providing a more complete institutional guarantee, a more solid material foundation, and a more proactive spiritual force for China's modernization.

The road ahead is long and arduous, but we will reach our destination if we keep going. All great achievements are the result of continuous struggle, and all great undertakings need to be advanced in the spirit of carrying forward the past and opening up the future. We have overcome many difficulties and obstacles, and have comprehensively deepened reform and expanded opening up to usher in the magnificent new era. On the journey of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, we will write a new chapter of Chinese-style modernization with the inexhaustible power of comprehensively deepening reform!

The wind is strong, the sails are hoisted high, and the giant ship of China is moving forward towards the grand goal of becoming a strong and rejuvenated country!