The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China made a strategic plan for the development of Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era from the overall height and long-term perspective of the development of the cause of the party and the country, demanding that the first century-long struggle goal be achieved by building a well-off society in an all-round way, and that a new journey of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way be started to March towards the second century-long struggle goal. The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is a political declaration and program of action for our party to enter a new era, start a new journey and continue to write a new chapter, which points out the way forward for the further development of the cause of the party and the country. Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, which is a new historical orientation of our country. Under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, we should conscientiously implement it with practical actions and constantly push forward the great cause of Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era.
First, work hard and work hard to build a well-off society in an all-round way.
Building a well-off society in an all-round way is an important milestone in the process of socialist modernization in China. At the beginning of reform and opening-up, Comrade Deng Xiaoping put forward the strategic idea of building a well-off society. According to this idea, our party made strategic arrangements for China’s socialist modernization and put forward the strategic goal of "three steps". Among them, the two strategic goals of solving the problem of people’s food and clothing and achieving a well-off life in general have been successfully achieved in the late 1980s and the end of the last century respectively. The 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed that a well-off society with a higher level should be built in an all-round way in the first two decades of this century, and the 17th and 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward a series of new requirements for the goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way.
Significant progress has been made in building a well-off society in an all-round way. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, we have actively promoted socialist economic construction, political construction, cultural construction, social construction and ecological civilization construction, and made new significant progress in building a well-off society in an all-round way. With great political courage and strong responsibility, the CPC Central Committee has put forward a series of new ideas, new ideas and new strategies, promulgated a series of major principles and policies, launched a series of major measures, promoted a series of major tasks, solved many long-term unsolved problems, and accomplished many major events that we wanted to do in the past. On the basis of the great achievements made in China’s development since the founding of New China, especially since the reform and opening up, it has promoted historic changes in the cause of the party and the state, and the country’s economic strength, scientific and technological strength, national defense strength, and integration.
From the perspective of economic and social development: First, the economy is developing steadily and healthily. With the increasing base, 2013— In 2016, the GDP grew at an average annual rate of 7.2%, contributing more than 30% to the world economic growth. At present, the economic development is stable and improving. In 2017, China’s total economic output will reach 80 trillion yuan, accounting for 12 trillion US dollars, ranking second in the world. Second, the economic structure has been continuously optimized. 2013— In 2016, the proportion of service industry increased from 46.7% to 51.6%, the contribution rate of consumption to economic growth increased from 47% to 64.6%, the added value of high-tech industries increased from 9.9% to 12.4%, and the urbanization rate of permanent residents increased from 53.7% to 57.4%. The Belt and Road Initiative, the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, and the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt have achieved remarkable results. xiong’an new area’s planning and construction have been solidly promoted, and the construction of an innovative country has achieved fruitful results. Third, a major breakthrough has been made in comprehensively deepening reform. Over the past five years, more than 1,500 reform initiatives have been launched, including reforms in finance and taxation, finance, state-owned enterprises and the "streamline administration, delegate power, strengthen regulation and improve services", with unprecedented strength, which has enhanced the impetus for economic and social development. Fourth, the people’s sense of gain has been significantly enhanced. 2013— In 2016, the number of new jobs in cities and towns remained at more than 13 million per year, and the average annual real income of the national residents increased by 7.4%, exceeding the economic growth rate.The number of poor people in rural areas decreased from 82.49 million to 43.35 million, and the incidence of poverty decreased from 8.5% to 4.5%. The average life expectancy increased from 74.83 years in 2010 to 76.5 years in 2016. Fifth, the construction of ecological civilization has achieved remarkable results. The concept of green development was deeply rooted in people’s hearts, and the system of ecological civilization system was accelerated. The action plan for the prevention and control of air, water and soil pollution was formulated and thoroughly implemented. The average concentration of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in 74 key cities decreased from 72 μ g/m3 in 2013 to 50 μ g/m3 in 2016, with a cumulative decrease of 30.6%. Continue to promote energy conservation and emission reduction, 2013— In 2016, the energy consumption per unit of GDP decreased by 17.9%. Sixth, opening up to the outside world has been deepening. The new system of open economy has been gradually improved. In 2016, the total import and export value of goods trade reached 3.68 trillion US dollars, foreign capital utilization reached 126 billion US dollars, foreign direct investment reached 170.1 billion US dollars, and 122 million people traveled abroad. At the end of the year, foreign exchange reserves reached 3,010.5 billion US dollars, ranking among the top in the world. At the same time, great strides have been made in the construction of democracy and the rule of law, great progress has been made in ideological and cultural construction, new progress has been made in the work of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, the all-round diplomatic layout has been carried out in depth, and the party has been strictly managed in an all-round way. These historic achievements and changes mark that China’s development has reached a new historical starting point and laid a decisive foundation for building a well-off society in an all-round way as scheduled.
Shortcomings and weaknesses in building a well-off society in an all-round way. The main reasons are that some outstanding problems of insufficient unbalanced development have not been solved, the quality and efficiency of development are not high, the innovation ability is not strong enough, the level of real economy needs to be improved, and financial risks have accumulated; There are still many shortcomings in the field of people’s livelihood. At present, there are still more than 40 million rural poor people, and the task of getting rid of poverty is arduous. The gap between urban and rural regional development and income distribution is still large, and the people face many problems in employment, education, medical care, housing and old-age care. Ecological environmental protection has a long way to go. It takes long-term hard work to control high-consumption and high-pollution industries and eliminate excess and backward production capacity. There are still many debts in ecological restoration. Heavy polluted weather occurs from time to time in autumn and winter in the north, which is still far from the people’s expectations for a beautiful ecological environment. The level of social civilization needs to be improved, social contradictions and problems are intertwined, the task of comprehensively governing the country according to law is still arduous, and the national governance system and governance capacity need to be strengthened. We must adhere to the problem orientation, focus on solving the outstanding contradictions and problems according to the requirements of building a well-off society in an all-round way.
Ensure that the goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way is achieved as scheduled. From now until 2020, it is the decisive period for building a well-off society in an all-round way, and the task is arduous and arduous. In accordance with the requirements for building a well-off society in an all-round way put forward by the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we should adhere to the development concept of innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing, closely follow the major contradictions and changes in our society, focus on key points, make up for shortcomings, strengths and weaknesses, and take more effective measures to win a great victory in building a well-off society in an all-round way. First, we should promote economic construction, political construction, cultural construction, social construction and ecological civilization construction as a whole. Unify the "five in one" construction with the process of building a well-off society in an all-round way, and promote the mutual promotion and complement each other. Second, we should implement the strategies of rejuvenating the country through science and education, strengthening the country through talents, innovation-driven development, rural revitalization, regional coordinated development, sustainable development and integration of defense and civilian technologies development to provide important strategic support for building a well-off society in an all-round way. Third, we must promote sustained and healthy economic development. Adhere to the general tone of striving for progress while maintaining stability, deepen structural reform on the supply side, accelerate the transformation of development mode, optimize economic structure, and transform growth momentum, and continuously enhance the endogenous motivation of economic development. We will implement a proactive fiscal policy and a prudent monetary policy, make timely and moderate pre-adjustments and fine-adjustments, and keep the economy running in a reasonable range. Fourth, we must resolutely fight hard to prevent and resolve major risks. Attach great importance to potential risks in the fields of finance, local debt, information security and social stability, and enhance the sense of hardship and bottom line thinking.Actively take effective measures to effectively curb incremental risks, orderly resolve stock risks, and resolutely hold the bottom line of no systematic risks. Fifth, we must resolutely win the battle against poverty. Adhere to precise poverty alleviation and precise poverty alleviation, continue to concentrate on increasing investment, overcome difficulties, and have the courage to bite hard bones to ensure that by 2020, the rural poor will be lifted out of poverty under the current standards, and all poverty-stricken counties will be stripped of their hats to solve regional overall poverty and make up for the biggest shortcoming of building a well-off society in an all-round way. Sixth, we must resolutely fight the battle against pollution. Adhere to Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets, promote green development, strengthen energy conservation and emission reduction, continue to implement the action plan for the prevention and control of air, water and soil pollution, focus on solving outstanding environmental problems, strengthen the protection and restoration of important ecosystems, reform the ecological environment supervision mechanism, and promote the formation of a new pattern of harmonious development and modernization between man and nature.
He who travels a hundred miles is half ninety. Building a well-off society in an all-round way is a solemn commitment made by our party to the people and history. We should complete all tasks with the spirit of final sprint and courage to take responsibility, so that building a well-off society in an all-round way can be recognized by the people and stand the test of history.
Second, Do not forget your initiative mind, keep in mind the mission and describe the grand blueprint for building a socialist modern country in an all-round way
The five years from the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is the historical intersection of the goal of "two hundred years". Based on a comprehensive analysis of the international and domestic situation and China’s development conditions, on the basis of in-depth study and repeated argumentation, the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China made it clear that in the 30 years from 2020 to the middle of this century, the comprehensive construction of a socialist modern country will be arranged in two stages, with each stage being 15 years.
In the first stage, from 2020 to 2035, on the basis of building a well-off society in an all-round way, we will struggle for another 15 years and basically realize socialist modernization. This means that the third step of the "three-step" strategy originally proposed by our party, that is, basically realizing modernization, will be realized 15 years ahead of schedule. This is because in the past 40 years of reform and opening up, China’s economy has developed continuously and rapidly, industrialization and urbanization have advanced rapidly, various undertakings have made all-round progress, and the country’s appearance has undergone unprecedented tremendous changes. With the current good foundation and development momentum, it is certain to basically realize socialist modernization by 2035.
The main objectives and requirements for basically realizing socialist modernization are:
— — In terms of economic construction, China’s economic strength and scientific and technological strength will greatly jump and rank among the forefront of innovative countries. China’s economy will maintain medium-to-high-speed growth, the industry will move towards the middle and high-end level, and the economic development will realize a fundamental change from quantity and scale expansion to quality and efficiency improvement. The socialist market economic system will be more perfect, the new pattern of all-round opening-up will be accelerated, and the economic vitality will be significantly enhanced. A number of world-class advanced manufacturing clusters have been formed, the total factor productivity has been significantly improved, and a modern economic system has basically been built. The spatial pattern of development has been optimized, the urbanization pattern with urban agglomeration as the main body and coordinated development of large, medium and small cities and small towns has basically taken shape, the infrastructure system has been more complete, and the quality of cities has been significantly improved. The ability of scientific and technological innovation has been continuously enhanced. After building an innovative country in 2020, it will jump to the forefront of innovative countries in 2035.
— — In terms of political construction, the people’s rights to equal participation and equal development have been fully guaranteed, a country ruled by law, a government ruled by law and a society ruled by law have been basically established, all aspects of the system have been improved, and the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity has been basically realized. The leadership of the party, the people being the masters of the country and the rule of law have achieved a high degree of organic unity. People’s democracy has developed more fully, the system of people’s congresses and CPPCC has been improved, democratic elections, democratic consultations, democratic decision-making, democratic management and democratic supervision have been effectively implemented, human rights have been fully guaranteed, and people’s enthusiasm, initiative and creativity have been further exerted. The credibility and execution of the government have been greatly enhanced, and a service-oriented government that the people are satisfied with has been basically completed. The rule of law has been fully implemented, and the situation of scientific legislation, strict law enforcement, fair justice and law-abiding for all people has basically taken shape.
— — In terms of cultural construction, the degree of social civilization has reached a new height, the country’s cultural soft power has been significantly enhanced, and the influence of Chinese culture has been more extensive and in-depth. The Chinese dream and socialist core values are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, patriotism, collectivism and socialist ideas are widely promoted, and the cultural self-confidence, cultural consciousness and cultural cohesion of all people are constantly improving. Social customs that attach importance to social morality, professional ethics, family virtues and personal morality have basically been cultivated, and people’s ideological and moral quality, scientific and cultural quality and health quality have been significantly improved. The public cultural service system, modern cultural industry system and market system have been basically completed, cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries have been more extensive, and Chinese culture has reached a new level by going abroad.
— — In terms of people’s livelihood and social construction, people’s lives are more affluent, the proportion of middle-income groups has increased significantly, the gap between urban and rural regional development and the gap between residents’ living standards has narrowed significantly, the equalization of basic public services has basically been realized, and all people have taken solid steps towards common prosperity. Realize the beautiful vision of being educated for young children, learning to teach, earning from hard work, getting medical care for illness, providing for the old, living and supporting the weak, and achieving higher quality and full employment. China has entered the ranks of high-income countries, and its life expectancy and national education level have reached the advanced level in the world. The governance pattern of modern society has basically taken shape, and the society is full of vitality and harmonious and orderly. The benign interaction between government governance, social regulation and residents’ autonomy fully demonstrates fairness and justice, and people’s sense of acquisition, happiness and security is more substantial, more secure and more sustainable.
— — In terms of ecological civilization construction, the ecological environment has fundamentally improved, and the goal of a beautiful China has basically been achieved. A clean, low-carbon, safe and efficient energy system and a green and low-carbon circular economic system have been basically established, and system of ecological civilization has become more sound. The production mode and lifestyle of green development have basically taken shape, and the utilization efficiency of resources such as energy and water has reached the international advanced level. The environmental conditions such as atmosphere, water and soil have obviously improved, the ecological security barrier system has been basically established, the land development pattern of safe and efficient production space, comfortable and livable living space and green ecological space has been formed, and the quality and stability of natural ecosystems such as forests, rivers, lakes, wetlands, grasslands and oceans have been significantly improved. China’s total carbon emissions will show a downward trend after reaching the peak around 2030, which will play an important role in coping with global climate change and promoting green development.
In the second stage, from 2035 to the middle of this century, on the basis of basically realizing modernization, we will strive for another 15 years to build China into a prosperous, strong, democratic, civilized, harmonious and beautiful socialist modernization power. Looking forward to China at that time, by persistently promoting the "five in one" construction, China’s socialist material civilization, political civilization, spiritual civilization, social civilization and ecological civilization will be comprehensively promoted. First, China will have a high level of material civilization, the level of social productivity will be greatly improved, its core competitiveness will rank among the best in the world, its economic aggregate and market scale will surpass other countries, and it will become a prosperous and powerful socialist modernization power. Second, China will have a high degree of political civilization, form a lively political situation with centralization, democracy, discipline, freedom, unified will and personal comfort, and organically combine the rule of law with the rule of virtue to build a democratic socialist modernization power. Third, China will have a high level of spiritual civilization, and the practice of socialist core values will become the conscious action of the whole society, and the quality of the people will be significantly improved. China spirit, China values and China’s strength will become the important influence and driving force for China’s development and build a civilized socialist modernization power. Fourth, China will have a high degree of social civilization, urban and rural residents will generally have a higher income, a well-off life, sound basic public services, and enjoy a happier and healthier life. All people will basically achieve common prosperity, fairness and justice will be generally manifested, and the society will be full of vitality, standardized and orderly, and a harmonious socialist modernization power will be built.Fifth, China will have a high degree of ecological civilization, and the beautiful ecological environment with sky blue, green land and clear water will become the general norm, creating a new realm of harmonious coexistence between man and nature and building a beautiful socialist modernization power. At that time, China, as an ancient country with a history of more than 5,000 years of civilization, will glow with unprecedented vitality, modernize its national governance system and capacity, become a country with leading comprehensive national strength and international influence, and make greater contributions to building a community of human destiny and promoting world peace and development. The Chinese nation will stand among the nations of the world with a more high-spirited attitude and realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
3. Perseverance and perseverance, and strive to advance the great cause of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way.
It is a strategic arrangement to build a socialist modern country in an all-round way from building a well-off society in an all-round way to basically realizing modernization, and then to building a prosperous, strong, democratic, civilized, harmonious and beautiful socialist modern power in an all-round way. The blueprint is grand and the goal is ambitious. One point for deployment and nine points for implementation. To turn blueprints and goals into reality, we must follow the decision-making arrangements of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, grasp the iron and mark the stone, and do a good job of implementation with the spirit of nailing.
First, we should study, understand and implement Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the new era, and better lead the development of the cause of the Party and the people. Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era is the inheritance and development of Marxism–Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, Theory of Three Represents and Scientific Outlook on Development, the latest achievement of Marxism in China, the crystallization of the practical experience and collective wisdom of the Party and the people, an important part of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s theoretical system, and an action guide for the whole party and people to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, which must be adhered to and continuously developed for a long time. It is necessary to carry out the education on the theme of "Do not forget your initiative mind, Remember Mission" in the whole party, enhance the consciousness and firmness of study and implementation, deeply understand and grasp the scientific system, spiritual essence, rich connotation and practical requirements of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the new era, implement Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the new era in the whole process of socialist modernization and embody it in all aspects of party building, better coordinate and promote the overall layout of "five in one" and the strategic layout of "four comprehensiveness".
Second, we must closely follow the changes in the main contradictions in our society and do a good job in developing this party’s top priority in governing and rejuvenating the country. In the past 40 years of reform and opening up, China’s economy has developed rapidly, and its social production capacity has entered the forefront of the world in many aspects. The output of more than 220 industrial and agricultural products ranks first in the world. At present, the more prominent problem is insufficient development imbalance. The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China made a major judgment, pointing out that the main contradiction in our society has been transformed into the contradiction between the people’s growing needs for a better life and the unbalanced development. At the same time, the basic national conditions that China is still in the primary stage of socialism for a long time have not changed, and China’s international status as the largest developing country in the world has not changed. The change of the principal contradiction in our society is a historic change that concerns the overall situation and puts forward many new requirements for the work of the party and the state. We should take economic construction as the center, adhere to the general tone of striving for progress while maintaining stability, implement new development concepts, build a modern economic system, put quality first and benefit first, take supply-side structural reform as the main line, make efforts to accelerate the construction of an industrial system with coordinated development of real economy, scientific and technological innovation, modern finance and human resources, make efforts to build an economic system with effective market mechanism, dynamic micro-subjects and moderate macro-control, and continuously enhance China’s economic innovation and competitiveness. It is necessary to deepen the supply-side structural reform, accelerate the construction of an innovative country, implement the rural revitalization strategy, promote coordinated regional development, and promote the formation of a new pattern of all-round opening up. Insist on deepening reform in an all-round way and speed up the improvement of the socialist market economic system.Promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. Adhere to the people-centered development thought, effectively protect and improve people’s livelihood, and constantly promote the all-round development of people and the common prosperity of all people. Adhere to the principle of giving priority to conservation, giving priority to protection and giving priority to natural restoration, and form a spatial pattern, industrial structure, production mode and lifestyle of saving resources and protecting the environment. We should be good at planning development from the changed main social contradictions in our country, organically unify the problems of unbalanced development and insufficient development, constantly improve the level of social productive forces, better meet the growing needs of the people in many aspects, and better promote the all-round development of people and social progress.
Third, we must earnestly strengthen party leadership and party building to provide a fundamental guarantee for building a socialist modern country in an all-round way. The Communist Party of China (CPC)’s leadership is the most essential feature of Socialism with Chinese characteristics and the greatest advantage of the Socialism with Chinese characteristics system. Party, government, military and civilian studies, east, west, north and south, the party is the leader of everything. Carry out great struggles, build great projects, advance great undertakings and realize great dreams, among which the new great project of party building plays a decisive role. We must strengthen our political awareness, overall situation awareness, core awareness and conformity awareness, strengthen our road confidence, theoretical confidence, institutional confidence and cultural confidence, resolutely safeguard the authority of the CPC Central Committee and centralize and unify leadership, implement the "Four Consciousnesses" in our posts and actions, carry out the decision-making and deployment of the CPC Central Committee to the letter, and always maintain a high degree of ideological and political consistency with the CPC Central Committee with the supreme leader as the core, so as to ensure that socialist modernization is progressing in the right direction. We will earnestly strengthen the building of the Party’s long-term ruling ability, advancement and purity, comprehensively promote the Party’s political construction, ideological construction, organizational construction, work style construction and discipline construction, run through the system construction, deepen the anti-corruption struggle, promote the comprehensive and strict management of the Party, continuously improve the Party’s ability and determination to take the direction, seek the overall situation, formulate policies and promote reform, and continuously improve its ability to lead economic and social development.
The blueprint has been drawn and the prospect is very bright. We should closely unite around the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, hold high the great banner of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, emancipate our minds, carry out reform and innovation, forge ahead with determination, work hard, fully implement the Party’s basic theory, line and general plan, and make unremitting efforts to win the victory in building a well-off society in an all-round way, win the great victory of Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and realize the people’s yearning for a better life.
Zhang Gaoli
