China News Agency, Beijing, February 24. Question: What new actions will China take in the 45th anniversary of reform and opening up?

  China News Agency reporter Wang Enbo

  This year marks the 45th anniversary of reform and opening up. How this "key move that determines the destiny of contemporary China" will continue and what new actions will be taken will largely affect the direction of internal and external expectations.

The National People's Congress, which kicks off in March, is expected to release multiple signals on this.

Data map: The Great Hall of the People.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Du Yang

maximum certainty

  Show a clear attitude-the century-old situation is superimposed with the century-old epidemic, China's internal and external environment is facing profound changes, and uncertainties are increasing, but the reform and opening up has not "shrunk".

  Expressions such as "adhere to economic construction as the center" and "adhere to deepening reform and opening up" have been included in the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. According to Peng Sen, president of the China Economic System Reform Research Association, this is the greatest certainty. The important tasks are Adhere to market-oriented reforms and continue to promote high-level opening up.

  This certainty also echoes the problems and challenges China is currently facing in its development.

With the transformation of economic growth mode, some systems and mechanisms in China are not well connected with the need to adapt to the establishment of a new development pattern and promote high-quality development. It is inevitable to deepen reform and promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities; despite economic globalization. Against the current, unilateralism and protectionism are on the rise, but international connectivity and economic exchanges are still objective requirements for the development of the world economy. China needs to firmly stand on the right side of history.

  China's policymakers have repeatedly reiterated their clear-cut attitude towards reform and opening up.

The Central Economic Work Conference proposed to "plan a new round of comprehensively deepening reforms" and "adhere to promoting high-level opening up".

The meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held on February 21 discussed the draft "Party and State Institutional Reform Plan", and decided to submit the draft document to the Second Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee for deliberation after revisions based on the opinions discussed at the meeting.

The meeting also called for "comprehensively deepening reform and opening up, vigorously boosting market confidence, and organically combining the implementation of the strategy of expanding domestic demand with deepening supply-side structural reforms."

  From this point of view, this year will be another year of reform, and the vigorous reform and opening up measures that reflect the characteristics of "new round" and "high level" at the two sessions can be expected.

Data map: Shandong Port Qingdao Port.

(UAV photo) Photo by Zhang Jingang

Internal and external double circulation

  Strengthen internal and external coordination - China is accelerating the construction of a new development pattern, which also puts forward new requirements for reform and opening up.

  "It is necessary to implement a new reform idea that is conducive to the mutual promotion of domestic and international dual cycles and the integration of internal and external." Cui Weijie, deputy director of the International Trade and Economic Cooperation Research Institute of the Ministry of Commerce of China, believes that the new round of comprehensively deepening reforms and high-level opening up should be highly unified , more coordinated, to a certain extent, reform is opening up, and opening up is reform.

  To this end, it is necessary not only to break through the institutional barriers that restrict the free flow of high-end factor resources through the international cycle, and to build a bridge for the mutual promotion of the domestic and international dual cycles, but also to stabilize the dominant position of the domestic cycle through a series of reforms and enhance the participation in the international cycle. ability.

  In fact, China's reform and opening up have been mutually reinforcing.

Looking back on the past few years, China has launched major reform measures from the top-level design to deepen the market-oriented reform of factors, build a high-standard market system, and accelerate the construction of a unified national market.

The "puzzle pieces" of the high-level socialist market economic system have been completed piece by piece, providing a strong institutional guarantee for high-level opening up to the outside world.

  In the new development pattern, the domestic and foreign cycles need full power and vitality.

In this context, from improving the fundamental systems of the market economy such as property rights protection, market access, fair competition, and social credit, to promoting institutional opening-up such as rules, regulations, management, and standards, more internal and external synergies, reform and New measures of openness are expected to enter the public eye during the two sessions.

development plus security

  Build a safe iron gate——Standing on a new node, reform and opening up still face new challenges.

The international environment is becoming more complex, domestic tasks are arduous and arduous, and development and security are the principles of China's current plan for new measures.

  As the reform process deepens and the door of opening becomes wider and wider, in some areas, it is inevitable to touch risk points such as systemic financial risks, data security, and privacy security.

How to strengthen risk awareness, carry out risk identification, and formulate corresponding prevention and control measures needs to be paid attention to.

  Yang Changyong, a researcher at the Institute of Foreign Economics of the China Academy of Macroeconomics, reminded that at present, we must not only pay attention to some traditional security issues in the open field, such as trade frictions, export controls, etc., but also pay attention to solving them under the new situation, especially under the new international background. Some new security issues have emerged, including food security, energy resource security, and industrial and supply chain security.

From this point of view, the reform and opening up at the new node needs to simultaneously promote the construction of a risk prevention and control system, and do a good job of stress testing to ensure that it is "both open and manageable."

  At the local two sessions that ended not long ago, many provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities deployed reform and opening up measures while reminding themselves to "be vigilant against unexpected factors."

Focusing on the establishment of a security iron gate that matches the new actions of reform and opening up, what arrangements will be made in the government work report, and what insights will be contributed by representatives and committee members, it is expected to become another highlight of this year's National Two Sessions.

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