China News Agency, Beijing, March 6th: The first year talks about "new", Xi Jinping points out high-quality development
China News Agency reporter Huang Yuqin
"High-quality development is the primary task of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way."
On the 5th, at the first National People's Congress after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, came to his Jiangsu delegation to participate in the deliberations, and focused on "high-quality development" with the "four musts" .
On March 5, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, participated in the deliberation of the Jiangsu delegation at the First Session of the Fourteenth National People's Congress.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Xueren
"High-quality development" has continuously appeared in the reports of the 19th and 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and is listed as one of the essential requirements of Chinese-style modernization.
Foreign media commented that this concept is the key to the transformation and upgrading of China's economic structure, and will determine the temperament of China's economy, which has the meaning of "watershed".
In the first year of the National People's Congress and the National People's Congress, Xi Jinping took high-quality development as the theme and elaborated on the focus of China's future governance.
In his speech, Xi Jinping especially emphasized the word "new", and the idea of promoting high-quality development is specific and clear.
"New" lies first in "scientific and technological innovation".
In discussing the country together with the representatives, the new fields, new tracks, new kinetic energy, and new advantages mentioned by Xi Jinping all point to technological innovation as the core behind them.
To promote high-quality development, high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement are the only way.
In a dialogue with workers representatives from Xugong Group, Xi Jinping specifically asked about domestic chips.
This dialogue is also reminiscent of his inspection in Xuzhou, Jiangsu in 2017, and the first stop was Xugong Group.
At that time, Xi Jinping told enterprises that "many core technologies cannot be obtained or bought" and "must have confidence, patience, and determination to do a good job in independent innovation."
On March 5, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, participated in the deliberation of the Jiangsu delegation at the First Session of the Fourteenth National People's Congress.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Huang Jingwen
"New" also lies in the "new development pattern".
Accelerating the construction of a new development pattern is the strategic basis for promoting high-quality development, and it is especially necessary to focus on the relationship between development and security.
Before the National Two Sessions this year, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee conducted collective learning on the theme of "accelerating the construction of a new development pattern".
In the Jiangsu delegation this time, Xi Jinping not only further deployed tasks for this purpose, but also mentioned the dialectics of development and security again——
"A large country with a population of more than 1.4 billion cannot rely on the international market, nor can it rely solely on 'one trick to eat everywhere'. It must rely on itself to solve its own problems."
The outside world immediately caught new signals of China's development from this image expression.
When the century-old changes are accelerating, only by speeding up the construction of a new development pattern can China enhance its viability, competitiveness, development, and sustainability in various foreseeable and unforeseen storms and turbulent waves.
"New" also lies in "new countryside".
As the saying goes, "Suhu is ripe, the world is full." Xi Jinping's talk about agriculture in Jiangsu has more practical significance.
This coastal land of fish and rice is not only the "granary of the world" in history, but also the "forerunner" of agricultural modernization today.
From cultivating and developing new rural industries and new forms of business, to accelerating the construction of livable and beautiful villages, and then to developing a new type of rural collective economy, Xi Jinping's thinking on rural revitalization also revolves around the word "new".
Without agricultural modernization, national modernization is incomplete, and promoting agricultural modernization is an inevitable requirement for high-quality development.
"New" lies in the "new team".
Promoting the "primary task" ultimately needs to be implemented and down to the details.
Xi Jinping put forward clear requirements for the construction of leading groups and cadres at all levels after the change of term. We must uphold and strengthen the party's overall leadership, and unswervingly and comprehensively govern the party strictly.
In 2014, it was during his investigation in Jiangsu that Xi Jinping first proposed "comprehensive and strict governance of the party."
This time in the Jiangsu delegation, Xi Jinping recalled this past incident in particular, and warned the new team with the advice at the Second Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, not to have the urge to do things quickly, not to act in accordance with the rules, eager for quick success, and eager to get ahead. To make achievements, we must carry out modernization construction in a down-to-earth manner.
Why did Xi Jinping focus on high-quality development in the Jiangsu delegation?
In the eyes of the outside world, this choice also has a "new" meaning.
In China's economic map, Jiangsu plays a pivotal role.
As a major coastal economic province, Jiangsu's GDP in 2022 will rank second in the country, exceeding 12 trillion yuan, and it will undertake the task of realizing high-quality development as a "model room" and a "ballast stone" for national development.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping has participated in the deliberations of the Jiangsu delegation twice during the two sessions of the country, and has visited Jiangsu three times for investigation and research.
This time, he even put forward the expectation of writing a new chapter in the modernization of New Jiangsu.
In the first year of the National People's Congress, the "new blueprint" needs to be concreted into operable "construction drawings".
From the "new" mentioned dozens of times in Xi Jinping's speech at the Jiangsu delegation, we can get a glimpse of China's specific thinking towards high-quality development.
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