Reform and Opening Up: Taking Solid Steps towards Comprehensively Building a Socialist Modernized Country
CCTV News (News Broadcast): Reform and opening up is an important tool for the Party and the people to catch up with the times with great strides, a necessary path to adhere to and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics, and a key move to determine the fate of contemporary China. Led the whole party and the people to create a new situation of reform and opening up, and injected inexhaustible impetus into Chinese path to modernization.
Reform and Opening Up: Taking Solid Steps towards Comprehensively Building a Socialist Modernized Country
This is China struggling to move forward on the road of Chinese path to modernization. Its GDP has grown from 367.9 billion yuan in 1978 to more than 121 trillion yuan in 2022. The average annual contribution rate to world economic growth in the past 10 years has exceeded 30%. It has always been an important driving force for stable growth of the world economy. Since 2017, it has maintained its position as the largest country in goods trade for six consecutive years. In 2022, its international export market share has further increased to 14.7%, ranking first in the world for 14 consecutive years. The per capita disposable income of residents has increased from 171 yuan in 1978 to 36883 yuan in 2022, building the world's largest education system, social security system, and healthcare system.
Over the past 45 years of reform and opening up, China's changes have attracted worldwide attention.
Shenzhen, taking the lead in the trend, once again witnesses a new departure. A few days ago, the State Council officially approved the "Overall Development Plan for Qianhai Shenzhen Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone". Shenzhen Qianhai will further enrich the collaborative and coordinated development model, create a comprehensive deepening reform and innovation experimental platform for the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area, and build a high-level gateway hub for opening up to the outside world.
Reform and Opening Up: Taking Solid Steps towards Comprehensively Building a Socialist Modernized Country
In November 2013, one year later, the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China passed the Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Several Major Issues Concerning Comprehensively Deepening Reform, which proposed the guiding ideology, goals, tasks, and major principles for comprehensively deepening reform. The horn for comprehensively deepening reform was officially sounded.
However, the deeper the reform advances, the deeper and sharper the problems and contradictions encountered. Among all reforms, economic system reform is of utmost importance in comprehensively deepening reforms. Focusing on handling the relationship between the government and the market well, a series of hard and practical measures have hit the key points, promoting the deepening of reform. Taking supply side structural reform as the main line, adhering to innovation driven transformation of development mode; Fully implement the negative list system for market access, streamline administration and delegate power, and optimize the business environment; Accelerate the reform of state-owned assets and enterprises, optimize the development environment of private economy; Expanding domestic demand, implementing the strategy of rural revitalization and regional coordinated development... Where there are bottlenecks and constraints, the main direction of reform lies. With the implementation of a series of reform measures, important areas and key links continue to break through, and market vitality surges out. The total number of market entities has increased from 55 million households in 2012 to over 180 million households now, and the number of private enterprises has doubled.
At the same time as the economic system reform is in full swing, the political system reform is constantly deepening, the cultural system reform is activating spring water, the social system reform is continuously innovating, the ecological civilization system reform is taking strong steps, the national defense and military reform is making bold strides, and the reform of the party building system is solidly advancing. By the end of 2020, a total of 2485 reform plans had been launched in all aspects, and the overall reform goals and tasks proposed at the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China were completed as scheduled, creating a new situation for a modernized socialist country with Chinese characteristics.
Reform and Opening Up: Taking Solid Steps towards Comprehensively Building a Socialist Modernized Country
Nearly 100 million rural impoverished people have achieved poverty alleviation, and the total economic output has increased from 54 trillion yuan to 121 trillion yuan, achieving the first centenary goal and comprehensively building a moderately prosperous society on the land of China. As the world's second largest economy, the largest manufacturing country, and the largest trading country in goods, China's economic strength, technological strength, and comprehensive national strength have reached a new level, with "Shenzhou" flying into the sky, "Zhurong" exploring fire, "Xihe" advancing day by day, "Beidou" networking, and "Jiaolong" diving. We will coordinate the construction of the pilot free trade zone and build the Hainan Free Trade Port with high quality. The door to China's opening up is getting wider and wider, and a new pattern of comprehensive opening up in all aspects, levels, and fields is accelerating. China's development has become an opportunity for the world. The just concluded Central Economic Work Conference proposed that we should plan major measures to further comprehensively deepen reform, and continue to inject strong impetus to promote high-quality development and accelerate the construction of Chinese path to modernization. Reform is always on the way. On the new journey, the 1.4 billion Chinese people are working together to focus on the central task of economic construction and the primary task of high-quality development, and turn the grand blueprint of Chinese path to modernization into a beautiful reality step by step.
