Xinhuanet reporter Wang Zihui
On April 21st, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader presided over the first meeting of the 20th Central Committee for Comprehensively Deepening Reform and delivered an important speech. The significance of this meeting is extraordinary. The press release is extremely informative, releasing many distinct new signals of comprehensively deepening reform. The original brand column "Workshop" of Xinhua News Agency’s "Learning in Progress" launched an article today to learn and understand with you.
On April 21st, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader presided over the first meeting of the 20th Central Committee for Comprehensively Deepening Reform and delivered an important speech. The significance of this meeting is extraordinary. The press release is extremely informative, releasing many distinct new signals of comprehensively deepening reform.
Emphasize the significance of special years and declare the firm will of reform and opening up without stopping.
The important speech of the Supreme Leader General Secretary emphasized the special significance of this year. This year is the first year to fully implement the spirit of the 20th Party Congress, and it is also the 45th anniversary of reform and opening up and the 10th anniversary of the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee.
Special years always give people profound enlightenment. Over the past 45 years, our party has United and led the people to open roads on every mountain and bridge bridges when encountering water, breaking a new and good road and realizing a great leap from "catching up with the times" to "leading the times". In the past 10 years, the momentum of the tough battle for reform has been like a rainbow, Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s system has become more mature and stereotyped, and the modernization level of the national governance system and governance capacity has been significantly improved.
From a new starting point to a new era, practice has fully proved that reform and opening up is the only way for the development and progress of contemporary China and the only way to realize the Chinese dream.
This year is the first year to fully implement the spirit of the 20th Party Congress, which coincides with an important year related to reform and opening up.
Not long before this meeting, the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader came to Guangdong, known as the "vanguard, pioneer and experimental area" of reform and opening up, to conduct the first local inspection after the two sessions of the National People’s Congress this year, and declared the firm will of reform and opening up without stopping.
Clarify the "fundamental driving force" and "important grasping hand" and raise the understanding of comprehensively deepening reform to a new height.
At the meeting, the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader emphasized that to achieve the goals and tasks of the new era and new journey, we should take comprehensively deepening reform as the fundamental driving force for promoting Chinese-style modernization and as an important starting point for stabilizing the overall situation, coping with emergencies and opening up new opportunities.
The Party’s Report to the 20th CPC National Congress proposed to promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation in an all-round way with Chinese modernization. Since the 20th National Congress, the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader has expounded many important theoretical and practical issues of Chinese modernization on different occasions.
At the opening ceremony of the seminar on studying and implementing the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the New Era and the Party’s Twentieth Spiritual Congress held at the beginning of this year, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader emphasized that promoting Chinese modernization is a systematic project, which requires overall consideration, systematic planning and overall promotion, and correctly handles a series of major relationships such as top-level design and practical exploration, strategy and tactics, integrity and innovation, efficiency and fairness, vitality and order, self-reliance and self-improvement and opening up.
Dealing with this series of major relations will inevitably involve reform and innovation at the level of system, mechanism and system, and we must deepen the reform in an all-round way with greater efforts. At the same time, China’s development has entered a period in which strategic opportunities and risk challenges coexist, and uncertainties and unpredictable factors increase. Reform, development and stability are faced with many deep-seated contradictions that cannot be avoided and circumvented. It is an inevitable requirement to constantly break through the barriers of solidification of interests and get rid of the drawbacks of institutional mechanisms by comprehensively deepening reforms.
The "fundamental driving force" and "important grasping hand" put forward by General Secretary of the Supreme Leader have raised the understanding of comprehensively deepening reform to a new height.
Deliberating and passing three reform documents, and persistently holding the "bull nose" of reform.
Holding the "bull’s nose" of reform is an important method for the Supreme Leader General Secretary to comprehensively deepen reform. This meeting clearly embodies this point. The meeting deliberated and adopted three reform documents, namely, Opinions on Strengthening the Subject Position of Enterprise’s Scientific and Technological Innovation, Opinions on Strengthening and Improving the Management of State-owned Economy to Support Chinese Modernization, and Opinions on Promoting the Development and Growth of Private Economy.
Strengthening the dominant position of scientific and technological innovation in enterprises is a key measure to deepen the reform of scientific and technological system and promote the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance; In the new era and new journey, the state-owned economy shoulders the mission, task and functional orientation in serving to build a new development pattern, promoting high-quality development, promoting common prosperity and safeguarding national security; China’s private economy has become the main field of entrepreneurship and employment, an important subject of technological innovation and an important source of national tax revenue, which has played an important role in the development of China’s socialist market economy, the transformation of government functions, the transfer of rural surplus labor force and the development of international markets.
The first meeting of the 20th Central Committee for Deep Reform directly focused on major reforms related to the overall situation and key reforms involving major institutional innovations. The specific deployment of relevant reform measures at the meeting also clarified how to do it and how to grasp it.
These contents have released a strong signal: in the face of the complex situation and heavy tasks of comprehensively deepening reform, we should not only grasp important areas, important tasks and important pilots, but also grasp key subjects, key links and key nodes to focus on driving the overall situation.
Establish a regulation system to further optimize and comprehensively deepen the reform leadership mechanism.
In addition to three specific reform documents, the meeting also reviewed and adopted four documents on the work of the Central Committee for Deepening Reform, including the Working Rules of the Central Committee for Comprehensively Deepening Reform, the Working Rules of the Special Group of the Central Committee for Comprehensively Deepening Reform, the Working Rules of the Office of the Central Committee for Comprehensively Deepening Reform, and the Working Points of the Central Committee for Comprehensively Deepening Reform in 2023.
In the last round of party and state institutional reform, the central leading group for comprehensive deepening reform was changed into a committee, which is an important measure to improve the party’s leadership system and mechanism for major work. The first meeting of the 19th Central Committee for Comprehensively Deepening Reform proposed to improve the system and mechanism of scientific leadership and decision-making, effective management and implementation, strengthen strategic research, overall planning, comprehensive coordination and overall promotion, and strengthen guidance for local and departmental work.
From 2018 to 2022, the 19 th Central Committee for Deep Reform held 27 meetings, and various reforms were invincible, which is inseparable from the scientific and efficient reform leadership mechanism.
The 20th Central Committee for Deep Reform made its debut for the first time, focusing on a series of issues such as working rules, detailed rules and key points, which reflected that our party attached great importance to the leading mechanism of major work, and it was bound to further promote the effectiveness of various reforms, and the main direction, strategic focus and task measures for comprehensively deepening reforms in the coming period would be more clear.
Systematically summarize the reform methodology, and provide important follow-up for continuing to promote comprehensive and deepening reform.
This meeting comprehensively reviewed the historical process of comprehensively deepening the reform since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and emphasized that in the past 10 years in the new era, the reforms we promoted were all-directional, deep-seated and fundamental, and the achievements we made were historic, revolutionary and groundbreaking. Looking around the world, no country or political party can have such political boldness and historical responsibility, dare to make drastic, inward-looking and self-revolution, and no country or political party can promote such a large-scale, large-scale and large-scale reform in such a short time. This is the distinctive feature and obvious advantage of the Socialism with Chinese characteristics system.
In the past, the meeting of the Central Committee for Deep Restructuring and Deep Reform repeatedly emphasized the scientific methods of reform, such as "top leaders" grasping reform and doing a good job of reform inspectors. On the basis of a comprehensive review of the reform process, this meeting put forward five "essentials", which are based on the summary of past reform practices and closely combined with the requirements of the new era, especially the need to strengthen reform investigation and research, attracting attention.
◆ We must uphold and strengthen the leadership of the Party, make the direction of quasi-reform clear, define the objectives and tasks, and do a good job in all work with scientific planning and innovative courage.
◆ We should do a good job in major reform tasks to overcome difficulties, make overall plans, grasp key points, focus on major issues in building a socialist modern country in an all-round way, plan and promote reforms, make good use of favorable conditions created by institutional reforms, and strive to break down some difficulties in all aspects of institutional mechanisms and adjust the deep-seated interest pattern.
◆ It is necessary to strengthen the investigation and study of reform, go to places and departments where contradictions are concentrated, go deep into the grassroots, enter the masses, observe the facts and dissect sparrows, not only study specific problems in depth, but also be good at synthesizing various situations, and use more brains and efforts in overall thinking and overall work.
◆ It is necessary to intensify the implementation of reforms, improve the implementation mechanism of reforms that are coordinated, integrated, accurate and efficient, make greater efforts to do a good job in reform supervision, and promote the effectiveness of reform measures.
◆ It is necessary to mobilize the enthusiasm of all aspects of reform, improve the incentive mechanism for reform and innovation, increase the exchange and promotion of typical reform experiences, strengthen the guidance of public opinion, and respond to the concerns of all parties in a timely manner.
The five "essentials" are a comprehensive and systematic reform methodology, which provides an important follow-up for continuing to promote comprehensive and deepening reform in the new journey.