(A closer look at China) Xi Jinping opens the door to ask about the "New Development Stage"
China News Service, Beijing, August 25th, title: Xi Jinping opens the door and asks for the "New Development Stage"
China News Agency reporter Zhang Su Zhang Weiran
Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission presided over a symposium of experts in economic and social fields on the 24th and delivered an important speech. Regarding the upcoming "14th Five-Year Plan" period, he said that China will enter a new stage of development.
Since 1953, China has formulated and implemented 13 five-year plans (plans). The "14th Five-Year Plan" period is the first five years in which China has built a moderately prosperous society in all respects and achieved its first centenary goal, and then took advantage of the momentum to embark on a new journey of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way and march towards the second centenary goal. Its importance speaks for itself.
Predict everything. In early August, Xi Jinping gave important instructions on the preparation of the "14th Five-Year Plan", requiring that the door be opened to ask for strategies and brainstorming, so as to fully absorb social expectations, the wisdom of the people, expert opinions, and grassroots experience into the preparation of the "14th Five-Year" plan. . Today, Lin Yifu, Honorary Dean of the National Development Research Institute of Peking University, Zheng Yongnian, Dean of the Global and Contemporary China Advanced Studies Institute of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), and other expert representatives walk into Zhongnanhai to provide opinions and suggestions on the formulation of the "14th Five-Year Plan" .
Observations believe that, aiming at the new stage of development, Chinese leaders have a long-term view, grasp the general trend, open the door to ask strategies, brainstorm ideas, study new situations to respond to concerns, and make new plans to provide follow. "This move reflects a forward-looking vision and a responsible attitude towards development." Zhu Lijia, a professor at the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (National School of Administration), told a reporter from China News Agency that, judging from the topics involved at the meeting, the senior management is preparing " During the 14th Five-Year Plan, the domestic and international background of changes was fully taken into consideration.
Chen Fengying, a researcher at the Institute of World Economics of the China Institute of Modern International Relations, said that the Politburo meeting of the CPC Central Committee held on July 30 was to set the tone for China’s economic trends in the second half of this year, and this symposium focused on China during the 14th Five-Year Plan period. Setting the tone for development goals, soliciting opinions, unifying thinking, and transmitting signals is of great significance.
In Xi Jinping's view, entering a new stage of development, the profound changes in the domestic and international environment have brought both a series of new opportunities and a series of new challenges. He requested that new opportunities and challenges should be viewed with dialectical thinking. Specifically, it is necessary to have a deep understanding of the new characteristics and requirements brought about by the development and changes of the main contradictions in Chinese society, as well as the new contradictions and challenges brought about by the complex international environment.
Before entering the new stage of development, Xi Jinping has expounded on the gradual formation of a new development pattern with the domestic cycle as the main body and the mutual promotion of the domestic and international dual cycles. This time, he emphasized the need to build a new development pattern based on the smooth circulation of the national economy.
Since the 2008 international financial crisis, China's economy has been transforming to a major domestic cycle. Statistics show that the ratio of current account surplus to GDP has dropped from 9.9% in 2007 to less than 1% now. Domestic demand has contributed more than 100% to economic growth in seven years. Chen Fengying analyzed that the epidemic has highlighted the problem of "unsmooth circulation" in reality. For example, foreign trade companies that encounter obstacles in export sales cannot smoothly export to domestic sales, and the domestic market has not yet fully integrated. Obviously, the "two cycles" is a strategic choice based on China's development stage, environment, and changes in conditions to reshape China's new advantages in international cooperation and competition.
At present, the global pandemic of the new crown pneumonia epidemic has accelerated the world's major changes unseen in a century, protectionism and unilateralism have risen, and the world economy is in a downturn. At this symposium, Xi Jinping once again stated that the new development pattern is by no means a closed domestic cycle, but an open domestic and international double cycle. He also pointed out that it is necessary to comprehensively improve the level of opening to the outside world, build a new higher-level open economic system, and form new advantages in international cooperation and competition.
"These arguments have responded well to the concerns of the outside world about how to do a good job in the "circulation" of China's development, and they have also released the signal that China is opening up more vigorously to promote interaction with the world and firmly responding to the protectionist headwinds in the global structure." Zhu Li Home said.
The interviewed experts said that Xi Jinping not only responded to the "what to do" but also pointed out the "how". Among them, in order to achieve higher quality, more efficient, fairer, more sustainable, and safer development, he proposed to use technological innovation to generate new development momentum and deepen reform to stimulate new development vitality.
Zhu Lijia explained that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Chinese officials have always placed scientific and technological innovation in an important position for development. Now further deployment of technological innovation will not only help inject more technological momentum into the economy, but also contribute to China’s safe and stable development. Consolidate the foundation of science and technology. Chen Fengying has the same view. She added that in the past few decades, China had demanded productivity from land and population, and in the future, it should rely on technology to overcome the "middle income trap".
Some commentators believe that Xi Jinping put forward the problems facing China in the current historical position, and pointed out the direction of the answers, and provided fundamental follow-up for the promotion of high-quality development. What is particularly striking is that, facing more headwinds and headwinds, Chinese leaders emphasized that "the courage to open sailboats and be good at turning crises into opportunities" may become the "code" for a good start on the new journey. (Finish)