People's Financial Review: Persist in and improve the party's institutional mechanism for leading economic and social development
——One of the series of "How to Achieve Stable Progress in Economic Work in the Second Half of the Year"
Shen Shen
In the face of a complex and severe economic situation, how to cultivate new opportunities in the crisis and open up a new game in the changing situation? Focusing on the urgent requirements for high-quality economic development, how to do the economic work in the second half of the year? The Politburo meeting held a few days ago analyzed and studied the current economic situation and economic work, and emphasized the need to uphold and improve the party's institutional mechanisms for leading economic and social development.
In the east, west, south and north, the party leads everything, and China's economic and social development is no exception. Since the reform and opening up, China’s economy has grown leaps and bounds and has grown into the world’s second largest economy. The people’s living standards have continued to improve, and the social outlook has changed with each passing day. The fundamental reason lies in our adherence to the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, maintaining strategic determination, and adhering to stability and deepening. Reform and opening up, give full play to the initiative of the central and local governments. Since the beginning of this year, in the face of the sudden impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, we have focused on prevention and control of the epidemic and economic and social development on the other. The economy has steadily recovered, and the resumption of work and production has improved month by month. The economic growth in the second quarter was significantly better than expected. All this fully shows that the leadership of the party is the fundamental guarantee for us to resist risks and challenges and lead China's economy in a stable and long-term development.
The Chinese economy is a huge ship. The larger the volume, the greater the wind and waves, and the more important it is to steer and navigate. The more complex the situation and the more severe the challenges, the more we must give play to the central and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee. At present and in the future, my country's development is still in a period of strategic opportunities, but there are new developments and changes in opportunities and challenges. The world today is undergoing major changes unseen in a century. Peace and development are still the themes of the times. At the same time, the international environment is becoming increasingly complex, and instability and uncertainty are obviously increasing. To scientifically grasp the "time" and "trend" of China's economy, to maximize the advantages and conditions of China's development, to be calm and unhurried in the turbulent clouds, and to face difficulties. The most important thing is to uphold and improve the party's system and mechanism for leading economic and social development. .
It is a dialectical requirement for planning economic and social development to maintain strategic determination based on long-term goals and overcome difficulties based on current tasks. To uphold and improve the party's system and mechanism for leading economic and social development, we must first transform institutional advantages into governance efficiency. For a long time, the party's leadership in economic and social development has mainly been to grasp the direction, plan the overall situation, propose strategies, formulate policies, promote legislation, and create a good environment. In this process, a collective decision-making mechanism, implementation mechanism, and supervision mechanism concerning important issues such as the national economy and the people’s livelihood have been formed, including economic and social development plans, major guidelines and policies, overall work deployment. These systems and mechanisms have significant advantages and must be adhered to for a long time. At the same time, new situations, new contradictions, and new challenges are emerging in an endless stream. We must work hard on reforms and transformation, eliminate links that are not compatible with practice, and accelerate the completion of system shortcomings, so as to continue to enhance development motivation and vitality.
Upholding and improving the party's leadership of the economic and social development system and mechanism is also an important link in advancing the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities. This requires that the party's ability and level of leading economic work must be improved, the relationship between the party and the government, the relationship between the government and the enterprise must be straightened out, governing by law, and acting in accordance with economic laws. It must be realized that strengthening the party’s leadership over economic work is not about taking care of everything, but about managing major issues, discussing major issues, and playing the role of steering, managing the overall situation, and ensuring implementation. From the central level, it is necessary to strengthen forward-looking thinking, overall planning, strategic layout, and overall advancement to achieve the unity of development scale, speed, quality, structure, efficiency, and safety. As far as the local party committee is concerned, it is mainly to determine the basic ideas and work priorities for economic and social development in accordance with local conditions to ensure the implementation of various policy arrangements.
To respond to multiple events in the complicated world, beat the drums to urge the Zheng Zheng to control the boat. This year is the final year of building a well-off society in an all-round way and the 13th Five-Year Plan. The impact of the epidemic has brought no small challenges. Faced with more difficult tasks and more glorious missions, adhere to the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, uphold and improve the Party’s system and mechanism for leading economic and social development, and continuously improve the Party’s leadership economic work ability and level. We will surely achieve this year as scheduled. The task of promoting China’s economy to ride the winds and waves, and move forward with stability.