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The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China regards "achieving high-quality development" as one of the essential requirements of Chinese path to modernization, and clearly puts forward that "high-quality development is the primary task of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way". Standing at a new historical starting point, we need to deeply understand the significance of high-quality development, adhere to the current and long-term perspective, grasp the main contradictions, highlight the work priorities, continue to promote Chinese path to modernization with high-quality development, and make a good start for building a socialist modern country in an all-round way.

Achieving high-quality development is the essential requirement of Chinese path to modernization

Achieving high-quality development is one of the essential requirements of Chinese path to modernization, which contains rich historical logic, theoretical logic and practical logic.

From a historical perspective, the shift towards high-quality development is an inevitable process for China's economic construction to move towards a higher level. Since the establishment of the People's Republic of China, especially since the reform and opening up, the Party has led the people to create two rare miracles: rapid economic development and long-term social stability. At the same time, China's development is also facing problems such as rising labor costs and increasing resource and environmental constraints, making it increasingly difficult to sustain an extensive development model. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era. The main contradiction in Chinese society has been transformed into a contradiction between the people's growing needs for a better life and unbalanced and insufficient development. The Party Central Committee has proposed to firmly implement the new development concept, which inevitably requires transforming the development mode, optimizing the economic structure, and transforming the growth momentum through high-quality development.

From a theoretical perspective, high-quality development is a significant innovation of our party's economic development theory. Since the reform and opening up, the Party has always regarded development as the key to solving all problems and continuously promoted innovation in economic development theory. From "development is the absolute principle" to "development is the first priority of the Party's governance and rejuvenation of the country" and then to "new development concepts", the concept of promoting development is constantly advancing with the times. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) identified high-quality development as the primary task of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way and one of the essential requirements of Chinese path to modernization. These important statements have once again made significant contributions to the development of theoretical innovation. Adhering to high-quality development to promote Chinese path to modernization, the theoretical logic of development economics with Chinese characteristics demonstrates our theoretical confidence in achieving socialist modernization.

From a practical perspective, high-quality development is the correct choice for China to cope with various risks and challenges in the new stage of development. From a domestic perspective, China's economy has shifted from a stage of high-speed growth to a stage of high-quality development. The investment, consumption, and demand structures are facing new trends, the industrial structure is facing new adjustment and transformation pressures, and the development of urban and rural areas is also facing new path choices. Only by adhering to the path of high-quality development can we solve various difficulties and problems faced in the new stage of development, achieve quality, efficiency, and driving force changes. From an international perspective, the current growth momentum of the world economy and trade is weakening, and external suppression and containment are constantly increasing. Only by persistently promoting high-quality development can we effectively respond to and resolve various external challenges, and smoothly advance socialist modernization construction.

Implementing the primary task of high-quality development

The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed the overall goal of basically achieving socialist modernization by 2035, including taking the per capita gross domestic product to a new level, reaching the level of moderately developed countries, achieving more significant substantive progress in comprehensive human development and common prosperity for all people, and so on. The task of achieving the above goals is extremely arduous. Only by implementing the primary task of high-quality development can we better promote Chinese path to modernization and create conditions for building a modern socialist country in an all-round way.

Firstly, we must adhere to promoting a significant leap in economic strength through high-quality development, and achieve the goal of per capita GDP reaching the level of moderately developed countries. China's population of over 1.4 billion has entered a modern society, with a scale exceeding the total population of existing developed countries. The difficulty and complexity are unprecedented, and the development path and promotion method will inevitably have their own characteristics. A major challenge in advancing modernization with a huge population is the difficulty of increasing per capita income and crossing economic development stages. It requires long-term stable and rapid economic growth, and continuous improvement of development quality to enhance the momentum of economic growth. Therefore, it is necessary to regard high-quality development as the basic driving force of modernization construction, pay more attention to high-quality development as the theme, and promote new breakthroughs in per capita income levels. This not only requires maintaining a high economic growth rate, but also driving the stable appreciation of the RMB exchange rate through improving the quality of development, maintaining basic stability in the overall price level, and pushing the per capita gross domestic product to a new level.

It should also be noted that the quality of economic development is mainly reflected in the improvement of total factor productivity. Turning to the stage of high-quality development, factors such as capital and labor, as well as marginal output, undergo changes in the production function. At the same time, the hard constraints of resources and environment continue to strengthen. It is no longer possible to rely mainly on factor inputs to drive economic growth like in the high-speed growth stage, and it is necessary to shift to relying more on the improvement of productivity. From an international comparison, there is still a significant gap between China's total factor productivity and that of developed countries. To gradually catch up with the level of developed countries, total factor productivity needs to be improved at a faster pace. The level of moderately developed countries is dynamic, and we aim to reach the level of moderately developed countries by 2035. This requires us to strive for a faster growth rate of GDP as much as possible, and on the other hand, focus on improving total factor productivity to achieve effective improvement in economic quality and reasonable growth in quantity. Especially in the context of potential economic growth fluctuations decreasing, improving total factor productivity and its contribution to economic growth is particularly important for achieving the goal of per capita GDP reaching the level of moderately developed countries.

Secondly, we must adhere to promoting coordinated development between urban and rural areas in high-quality development, and solidly promote common prosperity. Common prosperity is the essential requirement of socialism and an important feature of Chinese path to modernization. Development is the key and foundation for solving all problems in our country, and high-quality development is a solid cornerstone for promoting the modernization of "common prosperity for all people". It is necessary to solidly promote common prosperity in high-quality development.

The so-called high-quality development, in layman's terms, refers to the shift from "existence" to "good or bad". It not only needs to meet the people's needs in material, ecological, cultural, and other aspects, but also needs to enhance the balance, coordination, and inclusiveness of development by narrowing the urban-rural gap, regional gap, and income gap, and gradually achieve common prosperity. To solidly promote common prosperity in high-quality development, firstly, we need to integrate the promotion of common prosperity into regional coordinated development strategies, and give full play to the effect of promoting wealth first and then. To improve the mechanism for regional coordinated development and tap into the enormous potential for China to achieve common prosperity; Encourage regions such as the Beijing Tianjin Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area to play a demonstrative role in promoting common prosperity; Improve the intergovernmental fiscal transfer payment mechanism, increase support for underdeveloped areas, and enhance the development capacity of underdeveloped regions; Deepen the system of targeted assistance and achieve a higher level of common prosperity on the basis of regional common development. The second is to integrate the promotion of common prosperity into the rural revitalization strategy and consolidate the achievements of poverty alleviation. Establish a sound monitoring and assistance mechanism to prevent poverty return, promote the upgrading of industries in poverty-stricken areas, and promote the development and growth of rural characteristic industries in poverty-stricken areas. Widely mobilize social forces, actively support and participate in rural revitalization. Coordinate the improvement of rural living environment and rural governance, and create a number of beautiful and livable villages. Thirdly, we need to integrate the promotion of common prosperity into the new urbanization strategy and optimize the pattern of urban areas leading rural areas. Give full play to the radiation function of urban agglomerations and urban agglomerations, and drive the coordinated development of small towns and rural areas. We should work together to promote the reform of the registered residence system and the full coverage of the permanent population of urban basic public services, and improve the quality of the citizenization of the agricultural transfer population. Based on the needs of the permanent population, with the central urban area, central towns, and other areas as the core, and with a focus on transportation networks and municipal public facilities, we will carry out integrated planning, construction, and management of infrastructure throughout the region.

Thirdly, we must adhere to promoting the healthy development of social undertakings in high-quality development and achieving comprehensive human development.High quality development is a complete and systematic concept closely related to socialist modernization construction. It includes both high-quality economic development and high-quality development in social fields such as science and technology, education, culture and health. It is a high-quality development that combines and coordinates material civilization and spiritual civilization.

Material abundance and spiritual richness are the fundamental requirements of socialist modernization. In the new stage of development, it is necessary to achieve a significant increase in material wealth by promoting new industrialization, informatization, urbanization, and agricultural modernization; We must adhere to the priority of education development, technological self-reliance and self-improvement, and talent driven development, provide education that satisfies the people, strengthen education on ideals and beliefs, vigorously develop advanced socialist culture, prosper and develop cultural undertakings and industries, comprehensively promote the construction of a healthy China, and continuously promote new progress in providing education for young children, education for learning, income for labor, medical treatment for illness, care for the elderly, housing for the weak, and assistance for the weak. As long as we adhere to the new development concept of innovation, coordination, green, openness, and sharing, and promote the coordinated development of material civilization and spiritual civilization in high-quality development, we can continuously cultivate the material foundation of modernization, continuously consolidate the material conditions for people's happy lives, and better inherit Chinese civilization, promote the comprehensive enrichment of things and the comprehensive development of people.

Fourthly, we must adhere to promoting environmental protection and ecological optimization in high-quality development, and achieve harmonious coexistence between humans and nature. Our country cannot continue to follow the old path of Western countries in promoting modernization, and must not sacrifice the ecological environment. We must firmly establish and practice the concept that green mountains and clear waters are invaluable assets, and plan development from the perspective of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature. High quality development is essential for promoting the modernization of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature. Similarly, promoting green and low-carbon economic and social development is an important aspect of achieving high-quality development. In promoting high-quality development, it is necessary to promote the development and application of green technologies, reduce the proportion of energy resource investment and pollution emissions during the development process; To accelerate the adjustment and optimization of industrial structure, energy structure, etc., and promote the green transformation of economic and social development mode; To promote the formation of green and low-carbon production and lifestyle, fundamentally alleviate the contradiction between economic development and resource and environmental constraints, and embark on a civilized development path of production development, prosperity, and good ecology, continuously expanding the new realm of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature.

Fifth, we must adhere to promoting high-level opening up to the outside world in high-quality development, and coordinate development and security. China is facing increasing international environmental uncertainty and instability in modernization construction, and major risks and challenges are increasing day by day. It is necessary to create a peaceful and stable external environment for high-quality development through high-level opening up to seek benefits and avoid harm. Deepening the high-level opening-up to the outside world is not only necessary for building new advantages in international cooperation and competition, but also for promoting high-quality development. In this process, we must steadily expand institutional openness such as rules, regulations, management, and standards, reasonably reduce the negative list of foreign investment access, protect the rights and interests of foreign investment in accordance with the law, and create a market-oriented, legal, and internationalized first-class business environment; Innovate the development mechanism of service trade, develop digital trade, and accelerate the construction of a strong trading country; Optimize the layout of regional opening up, consolidate the leading position of opening up in the eastern coastal areas, and improve the level of opening up in the central, western, and northeastern regions; Implement the strategy of upgrading free trade pilot zones and expand the network of high standard free trade zones facing the world; Deeply participate in global industrial division of labor and cooperation, maintain a diverse and stable international economic pattern and economic and trade relations.