"China's development is still in a period of important strategic opportunities. We must strengthen our confidence, proceed from the current staged characteristics of China's economic development, adapt to the new normal, and maintain the strategic mentality." On May 10, six years ago, General Secretary Xi Jinping During his inspection in Henan, he made the first clear statement about the "new normal" of economic development.
In his speech, General Secretary Xi Jinping expounded the connotation of "new normal" many times, that is, economic growth shifted from high speed to medium and high speed, the economic structure was continuously optimized and upgraded, and the power was shifted from factor-driven and investment-driven to innovation-driven. His profound analysis of "speed changes, structural optimization, and power conversion" under the new normal of economic development has provided fundamental strategic guidance for China's economic development.
△ From April 20 to 23, 2020, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, State President, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, emphasized that during the inspection in Shaanxi, it should do a good job in "six stability", implement the "six guarantees" task, and strive to write a new era in Shaanxi Catch up beyond the new chapter.
At the beginning of 2020, the sudden new coronary pneumonia epidemic has brought unprecedented impact on China's economic and social development. On April 17, the Politburo held a meeting, not only stressing the need to intensify the "six stability" work, but also clearly proposing the "six guarantees" task. In late April, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized in his inspection in Shaanxi that it is necessary to do a good job of "six stability", fully implement the "six guarantees" task, strive to overcome the adverse effects of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, and ensure the completion of the decisive battle to overcome poverty To build a well-off society in an all-round way.
△ On January 18, 2016, major provincial and ministerial leading cadres learned and implemented the spirit of the 18th Fifth Plenary Session of the Seminar in the Central Party School. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, State President, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, delivered an important speech at the opening ceremony.
On January 18, 2016, at the provincial and ministerial level leading cadres to study and implement the spirit of the party's 18th Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee, Xi Jinping said: "Economic development is faced with speed shift nodes, like a person, 10 to 18 During the year of the year, the body grows rapidly. After 18 years of age, the rate of growth slows down. "This is an objective, inevitable, and trending phenomenon in economic development.
Affected by the epidemic, the GDP fell by 6.8% in the first quarter of this year, and the main economic indicators declined significantly. However, the data also showed that the main economic indicators showed a rebound momentum in March, and the decline narrowed significantly.
△ Workers work in Shenzhen Guangming District Pulian Technology Co., Ltd. export product production workshop. In March, the scale of industrial output was close to the level of the same period last year; the year-on-year growth rate of national freight turnover and passenger turnover increased by 9.9 and 14.3 percentage points respectively from the previous month; the unemployment rate of the national urban survey decreased by 0.3 percentage points to 5.9%.
△ A staff member puts the goods in the rookie logistics warehouse in Shunyi District, Beijing. In the first quarter, the added value of online meetings, online transactions, online education and other information transmission, software and information technology service industries increased by 13.2% year-on-year; the online retail sales of physical goods increased by 5.9% year-on-year.
△ In a robot manufacturing enterprise in Ganzhou District, Zhangye City, Gansu Province, staff are refitting medical robots. In March, the added value of high-tech manufacturing increased by 8.9% year-on-year; smart watches, 3D printing equipment, servers, semiconductor discrete devices and other electronic products continued to maintain rapid growth.
On February 23, Xi Jinping pointed out at the conference on the overall deployment of the prevention and control of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic situation and economic and social development that the fundamentals of China ’s long-term economic improvement have not changed, and the impact of the epidemic situation is short-term and generally controllable.
Under the premise of normalization of epidemic prevention and control, and insisting on the overall tone of steady progress, China's economy is showing great resilience. Resuming production and resuming production is gradually approaching or reaching normal levels, responding to the outbreak and promoting the rapid development of many new industries and new formats.
The China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing announced on May 6 that with the effective control of the domestic epidemic situation, the process of resuming production and production of enterprises has accelerated, and market demand has been continuously released. The logistics industry prosperity index in April was 53.6%, up 2.1 percentage points from the previous month. Overall efforts were made to promote epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development and achieved positive results.
During his inspection in Shaanxi, Xi Jinping emphasized that it is necessary to strengthen confidence, maintain strength, accelerate the transformation of economic development mode, make the real economy especially the manufacturing industry stronger and better, deploy the innovation chain around the industrial chain, and lay out the industry chain around the innovation chain to promote The high-quality development of the economy has taken greater steps.
△ From April 20 to 23, 2020, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, State President, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, inspected Shaanxi. This is April 22, when Xi Jinping visited Shaanxi Automobile Holding Group Co., Ltd., he had a cordial exchange with employees of the enterprise.
"Promoting high-quality economic development to take greater steps", this is the direction and requirements that the General Secretary has indicated for us. Promoting high-quality economic development is an inevitable requirement to follow the laws of economic development and maintain sustained and healthy economic development. It is also an inevitable requirement to adapt to changes in the main contradictions of our society and to build a well-off society in an all-round way.
China's economy has shifted from a stage of high-speed growth to a stage of high-quality development. It is in a critical period of transforming its development mode, optimizing its economic structure, and transforming its growth momentum. Promoting high-quality economic development will not be interrupted or delayed by the sudden new coronary pneumonia epidemic. On the contrary, greater steps will be taken.
Crisis machines always coexist with each other. Overcoming danger is opportunity. With the accelerated spread of overseas epidemics, international economic and trade activities have been severely affected, and China's economic development is facing new challenges. At the same time, it also brings new opportunities for China to accelerate the development of science and technology and promote the optimization and upgrading of industries.
△ From March 29 to April 1, 2020, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, State President, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, inspected Zhejiang. This is March 29, Xi Jinping was in the Chuanshan Port Area of Zhoushan Port, Ningbo, and had a cordial exchange with representatives of port employees.
From March 29th to April 1st, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed during the inspection in Zhejiang that he should seize the opportunities afforded by industrial digitalization and digital industrialization, accelerate the construction of new infrastructure such as 5G networks and data centers, and seize the layout of the digital economy and life. Strategic emerging industries such as health and new materials, and future industries, vigorously promote technological innovation, focus on expanding new growth points, and forming new development momentum.
In the process of responding to the epidemic, new technologies such as 5G, cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence have created more diverse and richer application scenarios, spawning and promoting the rapid development of many emerging industries.
General Secretary Xi Jinping once pointed out profoundly that the development concept of "innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing" is a prescription for China's economic development to enter the new normal and the world economic recovery downturn. The central government has repeatedly emphasized when deploying and coordinating the work of epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development that we must firmly implement these five development concepts.
Innovation ranks first among the five development concepts and is the first driving force for development. The driving force for development determines the speed, efficiency and sustainability of development. To turn crises into opportunities under the current situation and cultivate new impetus for development, we must rely on innovation.
Under the new normal, China's economy is gradually evolving to a more advanced form, more complicated division of labor, and more reasonable structure. This major strategic judgment and deployment made by Xi Jinping on China's economic development not only leads the current economic development, but also indicates the direction for future development.
In this severe struggle against the epidemic, China's economy has withstood the impact and demonstrated great resilience. We must strengthen our confidence, stay focused, work hard, make progress steadily, win a well-off society in an all-round way, fight against poverty, and ushered in better development.
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