This year is the first year to fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. What is the first lesson of the first year and what is the meaning?
On February 7th, the new Central Committee members, alternate members, and major leading cadres at the provincial and ministerial levels studied and implemented Xi Jinping's new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the spirit of the 20th Party Congress seminar held at the Central Party School (National School of Administration) .
General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered an important speech, focusing on "Chinese-style modernization."
Giving a lecture on "First Lesson of the New Year", the general secretary made it clear: "The generalization and in-depth elaboration of the Chinese-style modernization theory is a major theoretical innovation of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the latest major achievement of scientific socialism." As we all know, Xi Jinping's new era The thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics is a major theoretical innovation of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
The two major theoretical innovations are inherited in one continuous line and integrated into one.
The most important relationship between the two is that Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era provides the fundamental basis for Chinese-style modernization.
There are two dimensions to observe Chinese-style modernization, first look vertically——
Chinese-style modernization does not fall from the sky, but has its inevitability.
From the beginning of its establishment, our party has bravely undertaken the important task of exploring China's modernization path.
The period of the new democratic revolution "created fundamental social conditions for the realization of modernization", the period of socialist revolution and construction "laid the fundamental political premise, valuable experience, theoretical preparation, and material foundation for modernization", and the new period of reform and opening up and socialist construction " It provides Chinese-style modernization with an institutional guarantee full of new vitality and material conditions for rapid development"... Every important stage lays the foundation for advancing Chinese-style modernization.
It is especially worth mentioning that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, our party has successfully promoted and expanded Chinese-style modernization, and further deepened the understanding of the connotation and essence of Chinese-style modernization.
At the same time, Chinese-style modernization has been continuously enriched in practice.
There is a universally recognized case that eliminating absolute poverty and building a well-off society in an all-round way provides Chinese-style modernization with a more complete system guarantee, a more solid material foundation, and a more active spiritual force.
Over the past ten years, my country's GDP has successively exceeded 60 trillion, 70 trillion, 80 trillion, 90 trillion, 100 trillion, 110 trillion, and 120 trillion, and its economic aggregate ranks first in the world. second.
In terms of per capita, my country's per capita GDP has risen from US$6,300 in 2012 to US$12,741 in 2022, and people's living standards have greatly improved.
Opening the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the bright prospect of Chinese-style modernization is very exciting: from 2020 to 2035, socialist modernization will be basically realized; from 2035 to the middle of this century, my country will be built A prosperous, strong, democratic, civilized, harmonious and beautiful socialist modern power.
Looking horizontally again——
There is no one-size-fits-all modernization model in the world. Chinese-style modernization not only learns from and absorbs all the outstanding achievements of human civilization, but also is deeply rooted in the excellent traditional Chinese culture.
General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly pointed out in the first lesson of the first year: "Chinese-style modernization breaks the myth of 'modernization = Westernization', presents another picture of modernization, and expands the path options for developing countries to modernize. , providing a Chinese solution for mankind’s exploration of a better social system.” This assertion profoundly interprets the era significance and world orientation of Chinese-style modernization.
The modernization of western developed countries is a "tandem" development process, with industrialization, urbanization, agricultural modernization, and informatization developing sequentially.
my country's modernization is very different from Western developed countries. It is a "parallel" process, with industrialization, informatization, urbanization, and agricultural modernization superimposed.
Looking at the characteristics of Chinese-style modernization—we insist on "thinking about problems, making decisions, and doing things based on national conditions, neither aiming too high nor following the old ways" and "taking the realization of the people's yearning for a better life as the starting point and goal of modernization. The foothold" "promote the comprehensive enrichment of things and the comprehensive development of people" "unswervingly follow the path of civilized development of production development, affluent life and good ecology" "seek self-development while firmly maintaining world peace and development, and use self-development better safeguard world peace and development".
British political commentator Carlos Martinez said that "the modernization of the West is the modernization of imperialism", while China is carrying out a "peaceful, sustainable and just" modernization, which is a valuable contribution to the collective understanding of mankind.
Chinese-style modernization "shows the world that there is more than one path to modernization."
So far, no more than 30 countries have achieved industrialization in the world, with a total population of no more than 1 billion.
The modernization of China's more than 1.4 billion population will be an unprecedented event in the history of human development, which means that my country has broken the myth that only the Western model can achieve modernization.
Regardless of whether we look at it vertically or horizontally, we can have a deeper understanding of Chinese-style modernization and develop national self-confidence, so that we can unswervingly promote Chinese-style modernization, unswervingly follow our own path, and unswervingly move forward.
"To promote Chinese-style modernization, we must do a good job in the first year." The new journey should have new actions, especially in the first year.
As the general secretary emphasized, it is necessary to fully implement the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee, insist on keeping the word stable and making progress while maintaining stability, better coordinate the overall domestic and international situations, better coordinate epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, and better coordinate development Safety and security, comprehensively deepen reform and opening up, promote high-quality development, further guide business entities to strengthen confidence, stabilize social expectations, and strive to achieve an overall improvement in economic operation.
The spring of the year is the first, and everything goes first.
Seriously study the lesson given by the general secretary, forge ahead, and work hard. We have the confidence, ability, and confidence to start a good game and make a good start, and solidly promote Chinese-style modernization.
Producer丨Geng Zhimin
Producer丨Xing Lai
Editor-in-Chief丨Ning Lili
Edit丨Jin Xing
Vision丨Jiang Yuhang
Proofreading丨Zhang Yanan
(CCTV news client)