(China Focus Face to Face) What is important for the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee? Where is the special? ——Interview with Li Junru, former vice president of the Central Party School
China News Service, Beijing, October 25th. Title: What is the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee?
Where is the special?
——Interview with Li Junru, former vice president of the Central Party School
China News Service reporter Zhang Weiran and Huang Yuqin
The Fifth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China will be held in Beijing from October 26 to 29. The meeting will consider the CPC Central Committee’s recommendations on formulating the "14th Five-Year Plan" and long-term goals for 2035.
At the time when China is at the juncture of the "two centuries" history, what is the special significance of this plenary when the world is experiencing major changes unseen in a century?
What role do the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Plenary Session of the Party play in making planning recommendations and promoting economic and social development?
What does the 2035 long-term goal mean for China?
Li Junru, former vice president of the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, gave an authoritative analysis in an exclusive interview with China News Agency "Focus on China"
Excerpts from the interview are as follows:
China News Agency reporter: The Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee is the ninth Fifth Plenary Session since the reform and opening up.
Since the Fifth Plenary Session of the Fourteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the recommendations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China regarding the five-year plan (plan) have been continuously included in the agenda of the previous Fifth Plenary Sessions of the Party.
How to treat the formation of this regular and normative approach?
Li Junru: China has a development process in formulating its five-year economic and social development plan. This process reflects the exploration of economic development.
The formulation of the "five-year plan (plan)" is a step-by-step exploration in practice.
The first five "five-year plans" were groping forward. Some plans were formulated for a year but were not finished. The old saying at that time was "make one year, make one year", and some were adjusted after the plan was made, called "plan Some plans have not even been issued. The first to the fifth “Five-Year Plan” is a process of exploration. From the beginning of the sixth “Five-Year Plan”, one of our important understandings is that we only consider the economy without considering The society is not good enough, so the "Five-Year Plan" was changed to an economic and social development plan. Starting from the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan", as China shifts from a planned economy to a socialist market economy, it is impossible to carry out so many detailed and detailed plans. , But the state without a plan is not allowed, so we changed the plan to plan.
From inexperienced to relatively experienced, and from a planned economy to a market economy, China has gradually improved the formulation of plans (plans).
Since the reform and opening up, economic and social development has been getting better and better. Under this circumstance, a plan is drawn up every five years, and a plan is drawn up at each Fifth Plenary Session of the Central Committee. This is a very natural conclusion.
Li Junru, former vice president of the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, accepted an exclusive interview with China News Agency "Focus on China".
Photo by China News Agency reporter Sheng Jiapeng
China News Agency reporter: One of the major topics of this plenary meeting is the "14th Five-Year Plan".
From the point of view of procedures, the party’s plenary meeting reviewed and approved the CPC Central Committee’s proposal for formulating a five-year plan, and the next year’s National People’s Congress is expected to discuss what is the logical relationship between the review and approval of relevant plans and why such a procedural and institutional nature arrangement?
Li Junru: In the reform of the economic system, the party recognizes that the functions of the party are different from those of the government and political power. It is necessary to uphold the leadership of the party and to govern the country according to the principle of separating the functions of the party and government.
The way to govern the country is that the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposes a proposal for formulating economic and social development plans. Please note that there is a word "recommendation" here.
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China made recommendations for formulating economic and social development plans in accordance with the needs of national development plans, the needs of problems in economic and social development, and the people's yearning for a better life.
Recommendations are presented to the organs of political power. After receiving the suggestions from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the State Council organizes various ministries and commissions and ministries and commissions to make plans including enterprises, the masses, and social organizations.
Since the government is under the leadership of the highest authority of the National People's Congress, the plan must be reviewed by the National People's Congress, that is, the people will review, modify, and approve the economic and social development plan, and become the will of the state after it is passed.
The party’s suggestions, the government’s planning, the National People’s Congress deliberated and approved the plan, and the national people’s implementation of the National People’s Congress deliberated and approved plans are a very good experience created by the Communist Party of China in national governance.
The party is in charge of this matter, but the party does not take care of everything.
China News Agency reporter: What do you think of the importance of the "14th Five-Year Plan" for China's second century of development?
In particular, the world today is undergoing major changes unseen in a century, and there are more uncertainties in the external environment. In this context, what is the special significance of this plenum?
Li Junru: The significance of this plenary session is extraordinary. It will leave a strong mark in the history of Chinese national rejuvenation and in the history of China's modernization.
The original intention of the Chinese Communist Party was to seek happiness for the Chinese people and to seek rejuvenation for the Chinese nation.
Regardless of "happiness" or "rejuvenation," the essence is to make China catch up with the times, build a backward agricultural country into an advanced industrial country, and move further towards modernization.
After the reform and opening up, we shifted the focus of our work to modernization, and the goal of modernization has been implemented.
The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China stated that a new journey of modernization should be started on the basis of building a well-off society in all respects.
It is necessary to complete the foundation work, that is, to build a well-off society in an all-round way, and to start a new journey of modernization. Therefore, General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward two 15-year goals to achieve modernization at the 19th National Congress. The first 15 years is from 2020. By 2035, socialist modernization will be basically realized; the second 15 years will be from 2035 to the middle of this century, to build China into a prosperous, democratic, civilized, harmonious and beautiful modern socialist country.
The "14th Five-Year Plan" is the first five-year plan to start a new 30-year journey under the premise of building a well-off society in an all-round way.
Therefore, the economic development planning proposal adopted at this plenary session (coming soon) is of extraordinary significance. It is the first document that we have directly engaged in modernization. The preceding is to lay the foundation for modernization.
Whether this five-year plan is well formulated, executed well, and whether it can be completed on schedule or even exceeded, will affect the modernization in the next 25 years.
How to go in the first 5 years of these 30 years depends on today.
Li Junru, former vice president of the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, accepted an exclusive interview with China News Agency "Focus on China".
Photo by China News Agency reporter Sheng Jiapeng
China News Agency reporter: This plenary session will also discuss the long-term goals for 2035.
Looking back on the history of the party, we can see that the Fifth Plenary Session of the 14th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China put forward the proposal of the CPC Central Committee on the long-term goals in 2010, but discussing the long-term goals is not a "must-answer question" of the previous Fifth Plenary Sessions. How to treat the concept of long-term goals ?
Li Junru: The long-term goal is generally to study in a special period and a large historical period.
This time (the Plenary Session) is at a major turning point. On the basis of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, China will turn to a new journey of modernization.
To achieve modernization through two 15 years, it is necessary to formulate a long-term goal for 2035 when formulating a five-year plan. The five-year economic and social development plan should be comprehensively considered in the middle of the 15-year plan. Based on the long-term goals.
These five years are the first five years of the 15 years. Five years and 15 years should be considered as a unified whole. Therefore, in addition to the proposals on the five-year economic and social development plan, this plenary session will also propose 2035 Suggestions for the year’s long-term goals.
China News Agency reporter: What are the considerations of the Chinese Communist Party in choosing to discuss and make recommendations on the long-term goals for 2035?
What does a clear vision of 2035 mean for China's development?
Li Junru: First of all, we must pay attention to 2035, this year is important to "basically realize modernization."
In the 1980s, Deng Xiaoping believed that we would be able to basically realize modernization by 2050 based on the circumstances at the time.
Later, the Party Central Committee made two important strategic decisions.
First, establish a socialist market economic system.
Second, fully participate in globalization and join the WTO.
These two important decisions, coupled with the booming informatization at the time, and reform and opening up measures brought China a leap forward and achieved leapfrog development. In 2010, China became the world's second largest economy.
This allows us to now have a very good foundation, and we can basically realize modernization by 2050 proposed by Deng Xiaoping 15 years ahead of schedule.
2035 is not only the first of the two stages of the new journey of modernization, but it is also a landmark event that China's modernization is realized 15 years ahead of schedule.
We regard 2035 as a long-term goal and consider it in a unified way with the five-year economic and social development plan. In fact, it is a very important historical event and extremely meaningful.
China News Agency reporter: Let us turn our attention to the world. The epidemic is accelerating the evolution of the international pattern. China and the world are facing challenges and opportunities for development.
Can you talk about China's step-by-step formulation of the "14th Five-Year" plan and clear 2035 long-term goals, what impact will it have on the world?
Li Junru: Now General Secretary Xi Jinping asks us to have two overall interests in mind. One is the critical period of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the overall domestic situation.
One is that the world is facing major changes unseen in a century, and it is the overall international situation.
We formulate plans from these two overall situations, which are mutually reinforcing.
We are faced with both opportunities and severe challenges brought about by the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation that have not been changed in a century.
This plenum is not only focused on us, but the world is also watching.
The world encounters an epidemic and encounters many difficulties. Some economists predict that it may be difficult for the world economy to recover in the next three to five years.
China has promoted the resumption of work and production in an orderly manner, and now it has formulated development plans and long-term goals for 2035, but we cannot take it lightly.
The reason why General Secretary Xi Jinping wants to mobilize the power of the entire society and listen to everyone's opinions in all aspects is to find the best plan.
The core of the plan is to realize the biggest strategic shift since the Third Plenary Session of the (Eleventh) Central Committee and the establishment of the market economy system.
The Third Plenary Session shifted from class struggle as the key link to economy as the center. After Deng Xiaoping’s southern talks and the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the planned economy was completely shifted to a market economy and further participation in globalization.
Now China has made it clear that it will promote the transformation of its economy from rapid growth to high-quality development in accordance with the new development concept.
At the same time, the entire economic layout is a new development pattern with internal circulation as the main body and mutual promotion of internal and external circulation. This pattern is formulated in accordance with the great changes unseen in a century and the needs of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
China News Agency reporter: The Communist Party of China is about to usher in its centenary of its founding. Can you talk about the significance of holding this plenary meeting for the party to better summarize the centenary of its founding and to welcome the next centenary?
Li Junru: A century of the party's founding is a century of national rejuvenation.
In the past 100 years, we have done a great thing to build a poor and white old China into a new China where the people are the masters of the country, and further build a well-off society in an all-round way and a modernized new China. We must cherish this century.
The second centenary goal is the one hundred years that started in 1949, and it has been around for 70 years.
One thing I have done in the past 70 years is a well-off life, and the next 30 years are called a good life.
To solve the unbalanced and insufficient development to meet the people's growing needs for a better life, it is necessary to meet the people's needs for a better life through high-quality development.
Whether it’s the 14th Five-Year Plan or the 2035 goal, this plenary session has always been General Secretary Xi Jinping’s idea of shifting from “has it” to “good or not,” taking a better life as our struggle aims.
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