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"Achieving high-quality development" is one of the essential requirements of Chinese path to modernization summarized in the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Development is the top priority of the Party's governance and national rejuvenation, and high-quality development is the primary task of comprehensively building a socialist modernized country. China is a developing country still in the primary stage of socialism. Only by adhering to the theme of promoting high-quality development, prioritizing quality and efficiency, and promoting changes in the quality, efficiency, and driving force of economic development, can we continuously strengthen China's economic, technological, and comprehensive national strength, and comprehensively build a socialist modernized strong country. This observation edition focuses on this theme.
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Promote Chinese path to modernization with high-quality development
Hong Yinxing
Chinese path to modernization is the grand road for our country building and national rejuvenation. The report of the Twentieth National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward the essential requirements of Chinese path to modernization, of which the third is "achieving high-quality development". In the face of the development environment in which today's world is intertwined with turmoil, changes in the past century are accelerating, China's development strategic opportunities and challenges coexist, and uncertainties and unpredictable factors increase, we must firmly grasp the primary task of high-quality development, and promote Chinese path to modernization with high-quality development.
Achieving high-quality development is one of the essential requirements of Chinese path to modernization
Since the reform and opening up, after decades of rapid economic development, the vitality of China's production factors has been fully unleashed, and the total economic output has jumped to the second place in the world. At the same time, it is also facing situations such as tightening resource and environmental constraints, and difficulty in sustaining traditional development models. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposes that by 2035, socialist modernization will be basically achieved, and China's per capita gross domestic product will reach the level of a moderately developed country. To achieve this goal, it is not only necessary to maintain a certain rate of economic growth, but also to shift the focus of promoting development to improving quality and efficiency, and to push China's economy onto a path of higher quality, more efficient, more equitable, more sustainable, and safer development, achieving high-quality development.
High quality development is a development that follows economic and natural laws.Following economic laws means based on the new stage of development, transforming the mode of economic development, focusing on improving quality and efficiency, and meeting the growing needs of the people for a better life as the starting point and foothold, promoting the effective improvement of quality and reasonable growth of quantity in the economy. Following the laws of nature means attaching great importance to the rigid constraints of resources, environment, and ecology, pursuing a civilized development path of production development, prosperous life, and good ecology, accelerating the construction of a resource-saving and environmentally friendly society, and achieving harmonious coexistence between humans and nature.
High quality development reflects the guiding principles of China's modernization construction.The new development concept answers a series of theoretical and practical questions about the purpose, driving force, method, and path of development. Implementing the new development concept is the only way for China to grow and develop in the new era. High quality development is a development that reflects the new development concept, and it is inevitably a development that reflects the guiding principles of China's modernization construction. Among them, innovative development focuses on solving the problem of development motivation, coordinated development focuses on solving the problem of development imbalance, green development focuses on solving the problem of harmony between humans and nature, open development focuses on solving the problem of internal and external linkage in development, and shared development focuses on solving the problem of social fairness and justice.
High quality development ensures the stability and long-term development of Chinese path to modernization.Total factor productivity is an important evaluation indicator for high-quality development, and its influencing factors mainly include: factor allocation and organizational improvement, economies of scale, development and widespread application of knowledge and technology, and so on. Promoting high-quality development means optimizing the allocation and combination of production factors, improving the utilization level of production factors, promoting the improvement of total factor productivity, and continuously enhancing the endogenous growth momentum of the economy. High quality development with surging momentum will ensure the steady progress of Chinese path to modernization.
Several key points of promoting Chinese path to modernization with high-quality development
As the primary task of comprehensively building a socialist modernized country, high-quality development is a comprehensive requirement for all aspects of economic and social development, with rich connotations. Here are only a few areas of focus.
Promote the synchronous development of the "New Four Modernizations". Modernization involves industrialization, urbanization, agricultural modernization, informatization, etc. The industrialization, urbanization, agricultural modernization, and informatization of developed Western countries are a series of sequential development processes that have taken over 200 years to reach the current level. China's industrialization, informatization, urbanization, and agricultural modernization are a parallel process of overlapping development. China adheres to the principle of "synchronizing the four modernizations" and has completed the industrialization process that developed Western countries have gone through for hundreds of years in just a few decades, creating a miracle of rapid economic development and long-term social stability. To promote Chinese path to modernization with high-quality development, we still need to adhere to the simultaneous development of the "new four modernizations".
On the new journey, the connotation of "New Four Modernizations" is further enriched and developed. In terms of new industrialization, we need to accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system, which mainly includes promoting the high-end, intelligent, and green development of the manufacturing industry, building a high-quality and efficient new service industry system, promoting the advancement of industrial foundation and modernization of industrial chains, and so on. In terms of informatization, we should seize the opportunity of digital technology and digital economy, which are the forefront of today's world technological revolution and industrial transformation, to promote the healthy development of the digital economy and build new competitive advantages for the country. In terms of new urbanization, we will continue to accelerate the promotion of people-centered new urbanization. Through implementing urban renewal actions, strengthening urban infrastructure construction, etc., we will create livable, resilient, and smart cities, promote urbanization construction with county towns as important carriers, promote urban-rural integration and development, accelerate the urbanization of agricultural transfer population, and enable the people to enjoy a higher quality of urban life. In terms of agricultural modernization, we will accelerate the construction of a strong agricultural country by developing high-yield, high-quality, efficient, ecological, and safe agriculture, optimizing the agricultural industry system, production system, and management system, accelerating the transformation of agriculture towards improving quality, efficiency, and sustainable development, promoting high-quality and efficient agriculture, livable and business friendly rural areas, and prosperous farmers. We will promote the deep integration of informatization and industrialization, the positive interaction between industrialization and urbanization, and the coordination between urbanization and agricultural modernization. By 2035, we will basically achieve new industrialization, informatization, urbanization, and agricultural modernization, laying a solid foundation for achieving high-quality development.
Accelerate the construction of a new development pattern. This is the strategic cornerstone for promoting high-quality development. Only by accelerating the construction of a new development pattern can we solidify the foundation of China's economic development, enhance the security and stability of development, and smoothly achieve the goal of building a socialist modernized strong country in all respects. Rely on the super large domestic market, seize the strategic basis of expanding domestic demand, make production, distribution, circulation and consumption more dependent on the domestic market, improve the adaptability of the supply system to domestic demand, and form a higher level dynamic balance of demand pulling supply and supply creating demand, which will greatly enhance the endogenous power of high-quality development to promote Chinese path to modernization.
From the perspective of consumption, building a new development pattern and promoting high-quality development requires leveraging the fundamental role of consumption in economic development. Consumption is the ultimate demand and a key link and important engine for smooth domestic circulation. Expanding consumption not only includes expanding the scale of consumption, but more importantly, promoting the upgrading of consumption structure and continuously meeting the growing needs of the people for a better life. This not only requires efforts in the consumption sector, but also requires the joint efforts of all sectors of social reproduction to establish and improve a long-term mechanism to expand household consumption, improve relevant systems in the production and distribution sectors, and enable residents to have stable income to consume; Strengthen the construction of the social security system, so that residents have no worries and dare to consume; Optimize the environment in circulation and service links to enable residents to have a strong sense of willingness to consume.
From the perspective of investment, building a new development pattern and promoting high-quality development requires the key role of effective investment. Firstly, investment provides support for increasing household income and promoting consumption by promoting employment and other means. Secondly, investment is an important way to solve the problem of supply and demand mismatch, which can meet existing demand with self controlled and high-quality supply, and create and lead new demand. Thirdly, fully leveraging the role of innovation as the primary driving force for development also requires expanding investment in the field of innovation and providing sufficient financial support for innovation activities. Therefore, it is necessary to continuously optimize the investment structure, strengthen investment in infrastructure construction and industry, and increase investment in human capital and technological innovation to promote structural adjustment and optimization, and promote high-quality development.
Accelerate the realization of high-level technological self-reliance and self-improvement. This is the only way to promote high-quality development. Since modern times, an important reason why Western countries have been able to dominate the world is their mastery of high-end technology. At present, the overall level of science and technology in China has significantly improved, and it is in an important period of transformation from quantitative growth to qualitative improvement. However, at the same time, the situation where key core technologies in China are subject to human control has not fundamentally changed, and the industrial chain is still at the middle and low end of the global value chain. This requires us to place innovation in a prominent position in the overall development of the country, accelerate the realization of high-level technological self-reliance and self-improvement, break through the bottleneck technology, cultivate new driving forces for development, and shape more leading development that leverages the first mover advantage.
To achieve high-level technological self-reliance and self-improvement, the following points need to be achieved: first, to run parallel in key common technology areas. Seize the opportunity of deep integration of new technologies and industries represented by digitization, intelligence, and greening, promote the development of key common technologies, enhance our own technological innovation capabilities in promoting international scientific and technological exchanges and dialogue, and solve the bottleneck problem of industrial development. The second is to lead in important technological fields. Aiming at the forefront of technology, achieving significant breakthroughs in forward-looking basic research and leading original achievements, making China a global leader in important scientific and technological fields, a pioneer in cutting-edge interdisciplinary fields, and a major scientific center and innovation highland in the world. The third is to form a modern industrial system that is independent, controllable, safe, reliable, and highly competitive. Strengthen collaborative innovation, deploy innovation chains around the industrial chain, layout the industrial chain around the innovation chain, and enhance the modernization level of the industrial chain and supply chain.
To accelerate the realization of high-level technological self-reliance and self-improvement, it is necessary to improve the new national system for tackling key core technologies, fully leverage the institutional advantages and large-scale market advantages of concentrating efforts to accomplish major tasks, scientifically coordinate, concentrate efforts, optimize mechanisms, and coordinate research and development. We will adhere to the principle that technology is the primary productive force, talent is the primary resource, and innovation is the primary driving force. We will deeply implement the strategies of revitalizing the country through science and education, strengthening the country through talent, and driving development through innovation, and improve the national innovation system. Strengthen the construction of new infrastructure, including information infrastructure, integrated infrastructure, and innovative infrastructure, to provide support for the development of new formats, industries, and services.
Implement high-level opening-up to the outside world. To promote Chinese path to modernization with high-quality development, we need to improve the level of open economy in a broader range, broader areas and deeper levels. Specifically, building a new development pattern requires improving the quality and level of international circulation, enhancing the driving force and vitality of domestic and international circulation; Enhancing technological innovation capabilities and cultivating industrial advantages require greater efforts to attract and utilize foreign investment, fully utilizing global technological resources and innovation factors; Accelerating the construction of a trading powerhouse requires implementing high-level policies of trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, attracting global resource factors through domestic circulation, improving the quality and level of trade and investment cooperation, and maintaining a diverse and stable international economic pattern and economic and trade relations.
As China enters a new stage of development, the way in which it participates in economic globalization is also undergoing corresponding changes. It is shifting from leveraging comparative advantages determined by resource endowments in the past to cultivating new comparative advantages based on technological innovation and talent as a strong country. In this context, the key to implementing high-level opening-up to the outside world lies in cultivating and forming an open innovation ecosystem with global competitiveness. Its main characteristics include: firstly, shifting from the previous focus on "bringing in" international resources to optimizing the business environment, building laboratory incubators and other innovation platforms to attract international high-quality resources, high-end technology and management talents, and emphasizing strengthening collaborative innovation; Secondly, we will steadily expand institutional openness in areas such as rules, regulations, management, and standards, pay more attention to strengthening the legal protection of intellectual property rights, and support platforms such as free trade pilot zones to orderly relax market access; The third is to optimize the structure of foreign investment, guide more foreign investment in key areas such as advanced manufacturing, modern services, high-tech, energy conservation and environmental protection, participate in investment and operation of new infrastructure, support participation in undertaking national science and technology plan projects, encourage foreign investment to establish research and development centers in China, and carry out scientific and technological research and development activities.
At the same time, it should be noted that the current international economic cooperation and competition pattern is undergoing profound changes, and the global economic governance system and rules are facing significant adjustments. The pressure to cope with external economic risks and maintain national economic security is incomparable to the past. For example, risks such as exchange rate fluctuations and global supply chain disruptions may affect China's economic security. The more open we are, the more we must attach importance to security, coordinate development and security, enhance our competitiveness, open supervision, and risk prevention and control capabilities; Focusing on key areas and overall planning, effectively preventing various types of risk chain linkage, and creating a favorable external environment for China's reform, development, and stability.
