"Our country will enter a new stage of development."
On the afternoon of August 24, Zhongnanhai, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over a symposium of experts in the economic and social fields and made this important judgment when talking about the new orientation of the "14th Five-Year Plan".
This is another important symposium related to the preparation of the "14th Five-Year Plan" that the general secretary personally presided over the entrepreneurial symposium on July 21. There are economists and sociologists face to face with the general secretary.
Standing at the intersection of the "13th Five-Year Plan" and "14th Five-Year Plan", what is the significance of this extraordinary forum? Facing the medium and long term, how will China lay out the new development stage?
(1) Open the door to ask for strategies and plan the layout of the "14th Five-Year Plan"
To move towards a new stage of development, it is necessary to study new issues and make new plans.
The five-year plan is a navigation mark that leads the times. From 1953 to the present, under the guidance of 13 five-year plans (plans), my country has gone through hundreds of years of industrialization in developed countries in just a few decades, and has become the world's second largest economy.
During the "First Five-Year Plan" period, the production capacity of the first large-scale rolling mill built by Angang has rapidly exceeded the design standard. This is a large number of rails produced by this factory (photographed in April 1957).
Next year, my country will officially start the "14th Five-Year Plan". General Secretary Xi Jinping issued important instructions a few days ago, suggesting that social expectations, the wisdom of the masses, expert opinions, and grassroots experience should be fully absorbed into the preparation of the "14th Five-Year Plan" and work together to prepare the "14th Five-Year" plan.
At the entrepreneurs forum last month, the general secretary told the representatives of the entrepreneurs to "listen to everyone's opinions and suggestions on the current economic situation and the reform and development of enterprises during the 14th Five-Year Plan period."
The guests at this symposium have changed from entrepreneurs to experts and scholars, and the information they brought has also changed from front-line economic pulses to professional analysis and judgments on economic and social development.
Since the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly mentioned on many occasions that “the world is undergoing major changes unseen in a century”. This important judgment also shows the background of China’s 14th Five-Year Plan. .
The global pandemic of the new crown pneumonia epidemic has accelerated major changes, economic globalization has encountered reverse headwinds, geopolitical uncertainties have increased, and domestic development imbalances and insufficient domestic development problems are still prominent...
Focusing on the long-term, grasping the general trend, opening the door to ask for ideas, and brainstorming, there are not only strong people-oriented feelings behind it, but also show the ruling background of the decision-makers. Only by recognizing the general trend of the world and grasping the law of development can we prepare a good plan for the future and open a new game amidst changes.
(2) Six aspects, put forward new issues of the times
The problem is the voice of the times.
The important speech of the General Secretary at this symposium focused on six issues.
"I hope everyone will think deeply and obtain further research results," the general secretary told the experts.
Undoubtedly, these six questions are new topics proposed by the General Secretary to the experts, but together, they are the new examination papers that China must answer for the future.
The "14th Five-Year Plan" period is the first five years in which my country embarked on a new journey of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way and marched toward the second centenary goal. Many medium and long-term issues of future development must be resolved in these five years.
"Look at the new opportunities and challenges in the new stage of development with dialectical thinking" was placed first among the six issues. The in-depth interpretation of the general secretary leads us to dialectically look at the crises and opportunities brought about by the profound changes in the domestic and international environment. Whether we can accurately recognize changes, respond scientifically, and actively seek changes is related to whether we can find opportunities in the crisis and open a new game.
The other five aspects are: building a new development pattern based on unblocking the national economic cycle, catalyzing new development momentum through technological innovation, stimulating new development vitality through deepening reform, creating new advantages in international cooperation and competition through high-level opening Building, co-governance, sharing, and expanding new prospects for social development.
On June 6, 2020, citizens spend leisure time at a night market in Huangpu District, Shanghai. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ding Ting
How to lay out the new development in the new development stage, these aspects are the major issues that we must focus on. The word "new" runs through every aspect of the general secretary's speech, with new ideas and new patterns running through it. The problem orientation and goal orientation are organically unified, which has pointed out the direction for the "14th Five-Year Plan" and even longer-term development.
Standing at the historical intersection of the "two centenary" goals, we are facing more headwinds and headwinds. The six aspects of questions raised teach us the methodology to solve difficult problems, use dialectical thinking to see the problem, and enhance the awareness of opportunities and risks. This is the key to turning crises into opportunities.
(3) New development pattern, strategic choice to reshape advantages
"It is necessary to promote the formation of a new development pattern in which the domestic big cycle is the main body and the domestic and international double cycles promote each other."
At this symposium, the general secretary explained this top-level design in a comprehensive and in-depth manner, calling it "a strategic choice to reshape my country's new advantages in international cooperation and competition."
Since May, the new development pattern repeatedly mentioned by the general secretary is self-evident in the medium and long-term economic and social development of China, and it releases an important signal that China's economic development has accelerated from export-oriented to domestic demand-driven.
This transformation is not a forced move, but an initiative; it is not regaining the old model of closed development, but reshaping new advantages in international cooperation and competition.
As the symposium said, since the 2008 international financial crisis, my country's economy has been transforming to a major domestic cycle. And the current environment of global epidemic and economic recession will undoubtedly speed up the transformation process.
"In the coming period, the domestic market will dominate the cycle of the national economy, and the domestic demand potential of economic growth will continue to be released." General Secretary Xi Jinping said.
How does the new development pattern take root? The symposium pointed out the path: With the domestic cycle as the main body, we must turn to the strategic basis of expanding domestic demand, adhere to the strategic direction of supply-side structural reform, grasp the key to promote scientific and technological innovation, and deepen reform and a higher level Openness as motivation...
This symposium also released another deep meaning under the new pattern-
China will not decouple from the world. On the contrary, China must be an anti-globalist. As the general secretary said, "Any countries, regions and companies willing to cooperate with us, including states, localities and companies in the United States, we must actively cooperate to form a comprehensive, multi-level, and diversified open cooperation pattern."
This is the Shanghai National Convention and Exhibition Center taken on November 9, 2019. The second China International Import Expo will be held in Shanghai from November 5th to 10th. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Peng
At the same time, China will also coordinate development and security in the course of opening up, enhance its own competitiveness, open supervision capabilities, and risk prevention and control capabilities, so as to refine its impeccable body.
This is based on the practice of reform and opening for more than 40 years, and China has a deeper understanding of opening up in the new era.
(4) Innovate theories and steer the big ship of China's economy well
In the turbulent world economic tide, whether we can steer the big ship of our country's economy well is a major test for our party.
At the symposium, the general secretary referred to the rich practice of my country's reform and opening up and socialist modernization in the new era as the "rich mine" of theory and policy research, and proposed that theoretical workers in the economic and social fields "have a lot to do".
The topic of the times is the driving force of theoretical innovation. The more we face big changes, the more we need to deepen our understanding of the laws of development, and the more we need to use rich theories to guide practice.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, our party has continuously summarized development practices and promoted theoretical and institutional innovations, such as: proposing five new development concepts, supply-side structural reforms, high-quality economic development, overall development and security... These theoretical results have not only It effectively guides China's economic development practice, and opens up a new realm of Marxist political economy.
At present, both the world economy and my country's economy are facing many new major issues, and scientific theoretical answers are needed. China's economic development process is magnificent and its achievements have attracted worldwide attention. Many phenomena are beyond the framework of traditional mainstream theory. It is necessary to develop an economic theory system that is more in line with China's national conditions.
Practice is the source of theory. How to make good use of the "rich ore" brought about by rich practice, General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward four hopes: starting from the national conditions, in-depth research, grasping the law, and establishing an international perspective, this puts new and higher requirements on Chinese theoretical workers.
On August 24, 2020, Xi Jinping hosted a symposium of experts in economic and social fields in Zhongnanhai and delivered an important speech. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Xueren
Ask about the "14th Five-Year Plan" and plan the medium and long term. It can be said that this symposium will lead the direction of China's future economic and social development in a critical period, and has added the confidence and motivation to follow the Chinese road.