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Since the reform and opening up, our party has been accelerating the development of China in keeping with the trend of the times and seizing historical opportunities. On the new journey, we must rely on further comprehensive deepening of reform to seize historical opportunities, properly respond to challenges, develop and strengthen the power of world peace with our own development, and better promote the building of a community of human destiny.
The the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee meeting held on April 30th proposed that continuing to push forward the reform "is an inevitable requirement to promote the building of a community of human destiny and win the strategic initiative in the increasingly fierce international competition". Today’s world is in a great change that has never happened in a century, and peace and development are facing new challenges. The new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation have developed in depth, which has had a profound impact on the global economic structure. Faced with the instability and uncertainty of the world situation and the new trend of global scientific and technological innovation and industrial development, we must rely on further comprehensive deepening of reforms to seize opportunities and meet challenges, provide a strong impetus for comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and national rejuvenation with Chinese modernization, and contribute China’s strength to promoting the building of a community of human destiny and building a better world.
Seize the opportunity and make better progress in the reform and opening up.
General Secretary of the Supreme Leader emphasized: "Reform and opening up is an important magic weapon for contemporary China to catch up with the times". Since the reform and opening-up, our Party has grasped the overall situation at home and abroad as a whole, insisted on the mutual promotion of reform and opening-up, actively participated in the process of economic globalization, and constantly accelerated China’s own development in keeping with the trend of the times and seizing historical opportunities.
One of the important reasons why our party made the historic decision to implement reform and opening up is based on its profound insight into the trend of the times. In the 1970s, the booming new scientific and technological revolution in the world promoted the world economy to develop at a faster speed, and the gap between China’s economic strength, scientific and technological strength and the international advanced level obviously widened, which made us feel a strong sense of crisis and a sense of urgency to catch up. In December 1978, the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China made a historic decision to shift the work center of the Party and the state to economic construction and implement reform and opening up. generate, the land of China, showed unprecedented development vitality.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, great changes took place in the international situation, with the disintegration of the Soviet Union, drastic changes in Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War. This great change in the world is both an important opportunity and a severe challenge for China. Whether we can unswervingly adhere to the party’s basic line, seize opportunities, accelerate development, and continue to push forward reform, opening up, and socialist modernization has become a major issue that our party urgently needs to answer and solve. In October 1992, the report of the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly stated that the goal of China’s economic system reform is to establish a socialist market economic system. From the traditional planned economy system to the unprecedented socialist market economy system, the reform of keeping pace with the times has greatly stimulated the vitality of China’s economic development.
The development of China benefits from its own reform, and also benefits from connecting its economy with economic globalization through reform and opening up. By connecting the global raw materials, capital, technology and market through peaceful means, China has created a miracle of modernization of peaceful development. In the 21st century, China’s socialist market economic system has been initially established, coastal areas along the Yangtze River and inland central cities have been opened to the outside world, and the level of China’s opening to the outside world has been continuously improved. In December 2001, China officially became a member of the WTO, which marked the beginning of China’s full participation in economic globalization. The courage to deepen reform, participate in global competition, and constantly open wider to the outside world to open up more room for development has become an important reason for China’s rapid economic rise.
In the new era, the popularization of information technology and the deepening development of global value chain have become an important driving force for economic globalization, and the degree of interdependence and interest blending among countries in the world has further deepened. At the same time, unilateralism and protectionism are on the rise, and the international environment is becoming increasingly complex. In November, 2013, the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee was held in Beijing, which opened a new era of comprehensively deepening reform and promoting reform through overall system design. From building a high-level socialist market economy system to deepening the reform of science and technology system, education system and talent system, from setting up a free trade pilot zone to building a free trade port with China characteristics, we have deepened reform and innovation, unswervingly opened wider to the outside world, and the institutional advantages of Socialism with Chinese characteristics have been constantly highlighted, and China’s comprehensive national strength, scientific and technological strength and international influence have been greatly enhanced. History and practice strongly show that if reform and opening-up continue to March in breadth and depth, we can better move with the times and take advantage of the situation, firmly hold the initiative of development in our own hands, and let the cause of the party and the state continue to glow with new vitality.
Win the initiative, win the advantage and win the future by further deepening the reform in an all-round way.
The General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "We should take comprehensively deepening reform as the fundamental driving force for promoting Chinese modernization and as an important starting point for stabilizing the overall situation, coping with emergencies and opening up new opportunities." At present, the international competition is becoming increasingly fierce, and major countries have seized the commanding heights of scientific and technological innovation and competed to lay out emerging industries and future industries. At the same time, economic globalization has encountered countercurrent, and the global governance deficit has expanded. The external environment and conditions facing China’s development have undergone profound and complex changes, and both opportunities and challenges have new changes and new connotations. Only by continuing to push forward the reform can we enhance the competitiveness and sustainability of China’s development and win the initiative, advantage and future in the increasingly fierce international competition.
Reform is the self-improvement and development of the socialist system. China started the reform process when the level of productive forces was very backward, and through the reform, it formed a comparative advantage in the system and mechanism, showing strong competitiveness in international competition. Today, we will continue to improve and develop the Socialism with Chinese characteristics system by further deepening the reform in an all-round way, promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, and win the initiative in international competition with institutional advantages and governance efficiency. For example, at present, China’s advantage of low labor cost in international competition tends to weaken, and to reshape its advantage in international division of labor, we must establish a high-standard market system through reform, innovate the allocation of production factors, and better gather domestic and foreign resource factors. Another example is that scientific and technological innovation is a key variable in the great change that has never happened in a hundred years. Whoever takes the first move of scientific and technological innovation well will take the lead and win the advantage. At present, the situation that key core technologies in some fields in China are controlled by people has not fundamentally changed. It is urgent to deepen the reform of the science and technology system, improve the overall efficiency of the national innovation system, and accelerate the realization of high-level science and technology self-reliance. Only by further deepening the reform in an all-round way, getting rid of the drawbacks of ideological concepts and institutional mechanisms that hinder the promotion of Chinese modernization, cracking the deep-seated institutional and institutional obstacles and structural contradictions, and promoting the better adaptation of production relations with productivity, superstructure and economic base can we continuously consolidate and expand our institutional advantages in international competition.
An important driving force for China’s sustained and rapid economic development is opening to the outside world. In the future, China’s economy must achieve high-quality development under more open conditions. With the development of economic globalization, the policies and measures of global opening have gradually expanded from the traditional border measures of reducing tariffs and non-tariff barriers and other trade and investment liberalization and facilitation to a wider range of post-border measures. Foreign capital not only requires wider market access, but also requires higher protection of rights and interests. This requires us to steadily expand the institutional opening of rules, regulations, management and standards, strive to create a market-oriented, rule-based and international first-class business environment, better adapt to the new situation of economic globalization, effectively enhance the linkage effect of the two resources in the domestic and international markets, and further integrate into the global division of labor system. To build a new development pattern in the new era, it is necessary to improve the efficiency and level of domestic large-scale circulation with international large-scale circulation on the basis of taking domestic large-scale circulation as the main body, enhance China’s influence and voice in the global industrial chain supply chain innovation chain, and shape China’s new advantages in participating in international cooperation and competition. Only by continuously expanding high-level opening-up can we provide a good external environment for realizing Chinese modernization and win the initiative of development and international competition with open initiative.
In order to further comprehensively deepen reform and better promote the building of a community of human destiny.
Since the reform and opening up, China has not only achieved its own development and progress, but also made great contributions to the lofty cause of human peace and development. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed: "Chinese modernization is a modernization that takes the road of peaceful development, which not only benefits the people of China, but also promotes the modernization of all countries in the world." Closely following the theme of promoting Chinese-style modernization and further deepening reform, China will surely develop and strengthen the forces of world peace with its own development, provide a broader market space for all countries in the world, bring more opportunities for win-win cooperation and better promote the building of a community of human destiny.
Inject impetus into world peace and development with high-quality development. As the largest developing country in the world, China has developed from a country with relatively backward productivity to the second largest economy in the world through more than 40 years of reform and opening up, which is not only a great change in China, but also a great contribution to world peace and development. Over the years, China’s contribution rate to world economic growth has remained at around 30%, making it an important engine of global development. China’s economic development will surely reach a new level by further deepening the reform, improving the system and mechanism to promote high-quality development, breaking through the bottlenecks that constrain the development of new-quality productive forces, and forming a new production relationship that is compatible with the development of new-quality productive forces. With the continuous development of China’s high-quality development, we will provide the world with more and better products made in China and created in China, provide the world with a larger demand for China market and China, add more vitality and motivation to the world economy in a difficult recovery stage, and also contribute to the cultivation of new global development capacity, global green and low-carbon transformation and sustainable development of mankind.
Opening up at a high level will provide more opportunities for world peace and development. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "China’s opening to the outside world is not about a one-man show, but about welcoming all parties to participate together; Not to seek spheres of influence, but to support the common development of all countries; It is not to build your own back garden, but to build a hundred gardens shared by all countries. " Over the past 40 years, China has developed itself and benefited the world through opening up. Today, China is a major trading partner of more than 140 countries and regions, and a major source of investment for more and more countries. China’s initiative to jointly build the Belt and Road with high quality has become the widest and largest international cooperation platform in the world today. By further deepening the reform in an all-round way, we will steadily expand institutional opening, actively meet international high-standard economic and trade rules, further expand market access and reduce the negative list of foreign investment access. Under the circumstances that anti-globalization and trade protectionism have brought obstacles and obstacles to the world economic cycle, China’s measures will provide stable growth expectations for the world economy and provide a broader world for the growth of world trade and investment. A more open China with a steady economy will surely bring more new opportunities and hopes to the world.
To participate in global governance and provide China wisdom and China plan for world peace and development. The reform and opening up has made China more deeply integrated into economic globalization and become an active participant in the reform of the global governance system. With China’s further deepening of reform and opening-up, domestic reform and global governance reform will have more interactions, and China will contribute more China wisdom and China’s programs to the development of global governance in a more just and reasonable direction. China advocates an equal and orderly world multipolarization, insists that all countries, big or small, are equal, opposes hegemonism and power politics, and advocates that all countries should participate in global governance on the principle of consultation, joint construction and sharing, and earnestly promote the democratization of international relations. China advocates inclusive economic globalization, conforms to the universal requirements of all countries, especially developing countries, solves the imbalance between countries and within countries caused by the global allocation of resources, promotes the liberalization and facilitation of trade and investment, maintains the stability and smoothness of the global industrial chain supply chain, and urges all parties to work together to solve the structural problems that hinder the healthy development of the world economy and maintain the vitality and motivation of global economic growth. Standing at the forefront of the times, China in the new era will further deepen its reform and open wider to the outside world, and will certainly make greater contributions to building a community of human destiny with its own development.
(The author is a professor at the Foreign Affairs University)
