Why are these three "points" crucial?,

Shanghai has always been a city that undertakes special missions.When the world's unprecedented changes accelerate and the domestic and international development environment undergoes significant changes, and paradigms in fields such as technology and industry are updated, "pioneers" also need to inject new connotations and demonstrate new attitudes and achievements in response to the challenges of the times.

The just held Third Plenary Session of the 12th Municipal Party Committee focused on high-level reform and opening up and high-quality development. It is precisely in this context that the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China has clarified that high-quality development is the primary task of comprehensively building a socialist modernized country, and has made new arrangements for deepening high-level reform and opening up. This year is a year with a strong mark of reform and opening up - coinciding with the 45th anniversary of reform and opening up, the 10th anniversary of the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, which deployed comprehensive deepening of reform, and the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone. At such a moment, starting with deepening high-level reform and opening up, fully stimulating the driving force and vitality of high-quality development, is of great significance for Shanghai to better shoulder the strategic mission and tasks entrusted by the country and accelerate modernization construction.

This is a document widely recognized as highly pragmatic, concise, and focused on issues.And each of the entries points to the key issues and shortcomings highlighted in Shanghai's deepening of high-level reform and opening up, and promotion of high-quality development. In the process of analyzing and responding to these issues, it interprets the mission and responsibility that Shanghai should have.

Strengthening problem awareness is the distinctive feature of this Opinion, and it is also the clear direction that should be followed to promote Shanghai's reform, opening up, and innovative development today. Shanghai has relied on "eating reform, following the path of opening up, and playing the card of innovation" to reach today, repeatedly making strategic and correct choices at critical moments in history, and repeatedly creating miracles under limited resource conditions. In addition to the emphasis on liberating the mind, seeking truth from facts, keeping up with the times, and the courage, sharpness, and vitality that reformers should possess, an important aspect of the experience during this period is to demonstrate the pursuit of "reality" through a strong problem awareness and problem orientation, opening up the situation, revitalizing the overall situation, and creating a new situation in solving one bottleneck problem after another and outdated problems.

Being good at grasping problems, especially the key core issues that are at important nodes in the development system architecture and have traction and driving significance, is a foundation for us to learn, understand, and implement the spirit of the plenary session. This undoubtedly requires a clear understanding of the underlying logic of development, as well as a clear understanding of the world's highest standards and best practices, and constantly benchmarking against central requirements. We need to discover our own shortcomings and deficiencies in such a reference frame, truly study the problems thoroughly, and focus on grasping the key points, overcoming difficulties, and overcoming obstacles.

Since the beginning of this year, the theme education has emphasized this kind of problem awareness - the more difficult, painful, and complex problems are in development, the more we cannot take detours, and the more we must be brave enough to take action and face challenges. Only in this way can we truly open up a new situation, better unite people's hearts, stabilize expectations, and boost confidence.