explanation on the "decision of the central committee of the communist party of china on further comprehensively deepening reform and promoting chinese-style modernization"

xi jinping

comrades:

entrusted by the political bureau of the cpc central committee, i gave an explanation to the plenary session on the drafting of the "decision of the central committee of the communist party of china on further comprehensively deepening reform and promoting chinese modernization."

1. considerations on determining the topics for the plenary session

planning and deploying reforms around the party's central tasks is the successful experience of the party's leadership in reform and opening up. based on practical experience and practical needs, the political bureau of the central committee of the communist party of china decided that the third plenary session of the 20th central committee of the communist party of china will study the issue of further comprehensively deepening reforms and promoting chinese-style modernization, mainly considering the following aspects.

first, this is an urgent need to unite people's hearts and gather strength to realize the party's central task in the new era and new journey. practice has fully proved that in the new era of reform, opening up and socialist modernization, our country has made great strides to catch up with the times, relying on reform and opening up. since the 18th national congress of the communist party of china, the cause of the party and the country has achieved historic achievements and undergone historic changes, which also rely on reform and opening up. in the new era and new journey, to create a new situation in chinese-style modernization, we still need to rely on reform and opening up. the 20th national congress of the communist party of china established the central task of building a modern and powerful socialist country in an all-round way, realizing the second centenary goal, and comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the chinese nation with chinese-style modernization. it elaborated on the chinese characteristics, essential requirements, and major principles of chinese-style modernization. etc., and make strategic arrangements for promoting chinese-style modernization. to implement these strategic deployments and turn the blueprint for chinese-style modernization into reality, it is fundamental to further comprehensively deepen reforms, continuously improve all aspects of systems and mechanisms, and provide institutional guarantees for promoting chinese-style modernization.

second, this is an urgent need to improve and develop the socialist system with chinese characteristics and promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities. since the 18th national congress of the communist party of china, we have highlighted the main line of system construction, improved all aspects of systems through comprehensively deepening reforms, promoted the socialist system with chinese characteristics to become more mature and finalized, and significantly improved the modernization level of the national governance system and governance capabilities, laying the foundation for building a moderately prosperous society in all respects. the society provides strong institutional guarantees. at the same time, we must be clearly aware that improving the socialist system with chinese characteristics is a dynamic process that will inevitably develop with the development of practice. existing systems need to be continuously improved, and new fields and new practices need to promote system innovation and fill system gaps. facing the new situation and tasks, we must further comprehensively deepen reforms, continue to improve all aspects of systems and mechanisms, consolidate the foundation, promote advantages, make up for shortcomings, strengthen and weak areas, and continue to better transform our country's institutional advantages into national governance effectiveness.

third, this is an urgent need to promote high-quality development and better adapt to changes in the main contradictions of our society. at present, the prominent problem facing the promotion of high-quality development is still unbalanced and inadequate development. for example, the market system is still incomplete, the market is not fully developed, the relationship between the government and the market has not been completely straightened out, innovation capabilities do not meet the requirements of high-quality development, the overall industrial system is large but not strong, comprehensive but not refined, and key core technologies are controlled by human conditions. there are no fundamental changes, the agricultural foundation is not yet solid, the gap between urban and rural regional development and income distribution is still large, there are still shortcomings in people's livelihood security, ecological environment protection, etc. in summary, these problems are reflections of changes in the principal contradictions in society and are problems in development that must be further comprehensively deepened and resolved through institutional mechanisms.

fourth, this is an urgent need to deal with major risks and challenges and promote the stability and long-term development of the party and the country. promoting chinese-style modernization is a brand-new undertaking, and we are bound to encounter various contradictions, risks and challenges on the way forward. in particular, the world is currently undergoing major changes unseen in a century, with local conflicts and turbulence occurring frequently, global problems intensifying, and suppression and containment from the outside escalating. my country's development has entered an era where strategic opportunities and risks and challenges coexist, and uncertainties and unpredictable factors are increasing. during this period, various "black swan" and "grey rhino" events may occur at any time. to effectively deal with these risks and challenges and win strategic initiative in the increasingly fierce international competition, we need to further comprehensively deepen reforms, use sound systems to prevent and resolve risks, effectively respond to challenges, cultivate new opportunities in crises, and open up new prospects in changes.

2. regarding the drafting process of the decision draft

in november 2023, the political bureau of the cpc central committee decided to establish a document drafting group for the third plenary session of the 20th cpc central committee, with me as the group leader and comrades wang huning, cai qi, and ding xuexiang as deputy group leaders. under the leadership of the standing committee of the political bureau of the cpc central committee, responsible for drafting documents. on december 8, the document drafting group held its first plenary meeting, and the document drafting work was officially launched. for more than seven months, the document drafting team conducted in-depth investigations and studies, solicited opinions extensively, carried out special demonstrations, and repeatedly discussed and revised the document.

in the process of drafting the decision, we focused on the following points: first, we summarized and applied the valuable experience of comprehensively deepening reform since the reform and opening up, especially in the new era, determined to follow the principles, and adhere to the correct political direction. the second is to plan to further comprehensively deepen reforms and adhere to a problem-oriented approach, focusing on promoting chinese-style modernization and implementing the party's 20th national congress of the communist party of china's strategic deployment. the third is to seize the key points, highlight the reform of systems and mechanisms, highlight strategic and overall major reforms, highlight the driving role of economic system reform, and highlight the leading role of reform. the fourth is to adhere to the supremacy of the people and plan and promote reforms based on the overall interests, fundamental interests, and long-term interests of the people. the fifth is to strengthen system integration, strengthen the overall planning and system layout of reforms, and make all aspects of reforms cooperate with each other and be collaborative and efficient.

the drafting of documents for this plenary session included promoting democracy and brainstorming throughout the entire process. on november 27, 2023, the party central committee issued a notice to solicit opinions from all regions, departments, all aspects and some cadres and the masses on the issues of the third plenary session of the 20th central committee of the party. everyone agreed that the party central committee decided that the third plenary session of the 20th central committee of the party would focus on further comprehensively deepening reforms and promoting chinese-style modernization, which demonstrated the strong determination and strong mission to carry the reforms to the end. it is a good start for the new era and new journey. the re-declaration of the flag and the path to take is of great and far-reaching significance for comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation with chinese-style modernization. various regions and departments put forward many valuable suggestions on the theme, framework, important measures, etc. of the document, which provided important reference for the drafting of the decision.

on may 7, 2024, the draft decision was circulated to solicit opinions within a certain range within the party, soliciting the opinions of veteran comrades in the party, specifically listening to the opinions of the central committees of the democratic parties, leaders of the all-china federation of industry and commerce and representatives of people without party affiliation, and listening to relevant enterprises, experts and scholars opinion. judging from the feedback, everyone agreed that the decision draft closely focused on the theme of promoting chinese-style modernization to outline strategic measures to further comprehensively deepen the reform, adhere to the correct political direction, and focus on grasping the major institutional and institutional issues that need to be solved to promote chinese-style modernization to plan reforms. , clear theme, highlighted focus, action tasks practical and feasible, it is the general mobilization and general deployment to promote the comprehensive deepening of reforms to the breadth and depth in the new era and new journey. it fully embodies the historical initiative to improve and develop the socialist system with chinese characteristics and promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities. it will surely provide strong driving force and institutional guarantee for chinese-style modernization. at the same time, various parties put forward 1,911 revision opinions and suggestions. the document drafting team carefully studied these opinions and suggestions, absorbed them as much as possible, and made 221 modifications.

during the drafting process, the standing committee of the political bureau of the cpc central committee held three meetings and the political bureau of the cpc central committee held two meetings to review and revise the draft decision, which was submitted to the plenary session for review.

3. regarding the basic framework and main contents of the decision draft

in addition to the introduction and conclusion, the decision draft has 15 parts, divided into three major sections. the first part is the first section, which is an overview, mainly elaborating on the significance and overall requirements of further comprehensively deepening reforms and promoting chinese-style modernization. parts 2 to 14 are the second section, which are divided into chapters, mainly deploying reforms from the aspects of economy, politics, culture, society, ecological civilization, national security, national defense and military. part 15 is the third section, which mainly talks about strengthening the party’s leadership on reform, deepening the reform of the party building system, building party style and clean government, and fighting against corruption. content items are sorted throughout, with 60 items listed.

the decision draft anchors the goal of basically realizing socialist modernization by 2035 and focuses on deploying major reform measures in the next five years. it has the following characteristics in terms of content.

first, focus on giving full play to the leading role of economic system reform. deepening the reform of the economic system remains the focus of further comprehensively deepening the reform. the main tasks are to improve the systems and mechanisms that are conducive to promoting high-quality development, create new drivers of development and new advantages, adhere to and implement the "two unwavering principles", and build a unified national market. , improve the basic system of market economy.

the draft decision focuses on the core issue of properly handling the relationship between the government and the market, puts the construction of a high-level socialist market economic system in a prominent position, and makes arrangements for key areas and key links in the reform of the economic system. focusing on enhancing the core functions of state-owned enterprises and enhancing core competitiveness, it is proposed to enhance strategic coordination among relevant management departments, promote the optimization and structural adjustment of the state-owned economic layout, and promote state-owned capital and state-owned enterprises to become stronger, better, and bigger; with an eye on promoting the development of the non-public economy, it is proposed to formulate a private economy promotion law to strengthen the judicial protection of property rights law enforcement and prevent and correct the use of administrative and criminal means to interfere in economic disputes. it is proposed to strengthen the rigid constraints of fair competition review, clean up and abolish various regulations and practices that hinder the national unified market and fair competition, improve factor market systems and rules, etc. these measures will better stimulate the endogenous motivation and innovative vitality of the whole society.

the decision draft makes arrangements for improving the systems and mechanisms for promoting high-quality economic development and promoting the development of new-quality productive forces. focusing on the development of productivity characterized by high technology, high efficiency and high quality, it is proposed to strengthen the supply of new fields and new track systems, establish a future industrial investment growth mechanism, lead the optimization and upgrading of traditional industries with the improvement of national standards, and promote the development of various advanced production factors. develop new productive forces.

the draft decision makes arrangements for improving the macroeconomic governance system. it is proposed to improve the national strategic planning system and policy coordination mechanism; coordinate and promote the reform of the fiscal and taxation system, increase local independent financial resources, expand local tax sources, reasonably expand the scope of local government special bond support, appropriately strengthen the power of the central government, and increase the proportion of central fiscal expenditure; improve financial institutions positioning and governance, improving the capital market functions that coordinate investment and financing, and improving the financial supervision system.

the decision draft makes arrangements for improving the system and mechanisms for integrated urban and rural development. it is proposed to improve the system and mechanism for promoting new urbanization; consolidate and improve the basic rural management system; improve the support system for strengthening agriculture, benefiting farmers and enriching farmers; and deepen the reform of the land system.

the decision draft makes arrangements for improving high-level opening-up systems and mechanisms. it is proposed to steadily expand institutional opening up; deepen the reform of the foreign trade system; deepen the reform of the foreign investment and outbound investment management system; optimize the layout of regional opening up; and improve and promote high-quality joint construction of the "belt and road" mechanism.

second, focus on building systems and mechanisms to support comprehensive innovation. the decision draft coordinates the promotion of the integrated reform of education, science and technology talent systems and mechanisms, emphasizing deepening the comprehensive reform of education, deepening the reform of science and technology systems, deepening the reform of talent development systems and mechanisms, and improving the overall effectiveness of the national innovation system.

in terms of education system reform, it is proposed to promote the reform of colleges and universities by category, establish a subject setting adjustment mechanism and talent training model driven by scientific and technological development and national strategic needs, and lay out urgently needed disciplines and majors; improve the scientific and technological innovation mechanism of colleges and universities, and improve the efficiency of achievement transformation.

in terms of the reform of the science and technology system, it is proposed to strengthen the construction of national strategic science and technology capabilities, optimize the positioning and layout of national scientific research institutions, high-level research universities, and leading science and technology enterprises, improve science and technology plan management, and strengthen the foresight of basic research fields, cross-cutting frontier fields, and key areas. , leading layout; strengthen the main position of enterprises in scientific and technological innovation, establish a mechanism to cultivate and strengthen leading scientific and technological enterprises; allow scientific research institutions to implement a more flexible management system than ordinary institutions, explore the implementation of enterprise management; deepen the reform of the empowerment of job scientific and technological achievements.

in terms of the reform of the talent development system and mechanism, it is proposed to accelerate the construction of national strategic talent forces and improve the quality of all types of talents; improve the discovery, selection, and training mechanisms for young innovative talents to better protect the treatment of young scientific and technological personnel; strengthen the talent incentive mechanism and insist on focusing on the employer authorize and untie talents; improve the support and guarantee mechanism for overseas talent introduction.

third, focus on comprehensive reform. the decision draft plans to further comprehensively deepen reforms under the framework of coordinating and promoting the "five-in-one" overall layout and coordinating the promotion of the "four comprehensives" strategic layout, and coordinates the deployment of economic system reform and reforms in other fields.

in terms of reform in the fields of democracy and rule of law, arrangements have been made for improving the full-process people's democratic system and improving the socialist rule of law system with chinese characteristics. it is proposed to strengthen the construction of the system of people being the masters of the country; improve the mechanism of consultative democracy; improve the grassroots democratic system; and improve the work pattern of the united front. it is proposed to strengthen legislation in key areas, emerging areas, and foreign-related fields; to improve the supervisory organs, public security organs, procuratorial organs, judicial organs, and judicial administrative organs to perform their respective duties, and to coordinate the supervision, investigation, procuratorial, judicial, and enforcement powers. institutional mechanisms that restrict each other; improve the mechanism for promoting the construction of a rule of law society.

in terms of cultural system reform, we focus on promoting modernization that harmonizes material civilization and spiritual civilization, and proposes to promote the normalization and institutionalization of ideals and beliefs education, improve the working mechanism of innovative civilization cultivation, civilization practice, and civilization creation; optimize the supply mechanism of cultural services and cultural products , establish a mechanism for high-quality cultural resources to reach grassroots directly; improve the comprehensive network management system; promote the reconstruction of the international communication pattern and build a more effective international communication system.

in terms of improving the institutional system to protect and improve people's livelihood, it is proposed to improve the income distribution system and standardize the order of income distribution; optimize the policy environment for entrepreneurship and employment promotion, support and standardize the development of new employment forms; and improve the social security system for flexible employment personnel, migrant workers, and new employment forms. , comprehensively cancel the restrictions on household registration in the place of employment; propose to accelerate the construction of a new model of real estate development, fully give each city government the autonomy to regulate the real estate market; propose to deepen the reform of the medical and health system and implement the health-first development strategy; propose to improve the population development support and service system, improve the fertility support policy system and incentive mechanism, and improve the development of senior care and senior care industry policy mechanisms , steadily and orderly promote the reform of progressively delaying the statutory retirement age in accordance with the principles of voluntariness and flexibility.

in terms of the reform of the ecological civilization system, it is proposed to improve the basic system of ecological civilization, improve the ecological environment governance system, and improve the green and low-carbon development mechanism; it is proposed to implement a regional, differentiated, and precise management and control ecological environment management system, and improve the horizontal ecological protection compensation mechanism. implement fiscal, taxation, financial, investment, price policies and standard systems that support green and low-carbon development, and accelerate the planning and construction of new energy systems.

fourth, focus on coordinating development and security. national security is an important foundation for the steady and long-term development of china-style modernization. the draft decision puts the maintenance of national security in a more prominent position, focuses on promoting the modernization of the national security system and capabilities, and proposes to build a coordinated and efficient national security protection system, promote the empowerment of national security science and technology; improve the security system for handling major public emergencies; establish artificial intelligence intelligent safety supervision system; explore the establishment of a national unified population management system; improve the overall social security prevention and control system, and severely punish illegal and criminal activities that the public strongly reflects in accordance with the law. it is proposed to establish and improve the coordination mechanism for peripheral security work; improve the anti-sanctions, anti-interference, and anti-"long-arm jurisdiction" mechanisms; improve the trade risk prevention and control mechanism, improve the foreign-related laws and regulations system and the rule of law implementation system, and deepen international cooperation in law enforcement and justice. focusing on continuing to deepen the reform of national defense and the army, it is proposed to improve the leadership and management system and mechanisms of the people's army, deepen the reform of the joint operations system, and deepen cross-military and local reforms.

fifth, focus on strengthening the party’s leadership on reform. the party’s leadership is the fundamental guarantee for further comprehensively deepening reforms and promoting chinese-style modernization. the draft decision proposes to improve the implementation mechanism of the party central committee's major decisions and deployments; deepen the reform of the cadre and personnel system, clearly establish the correct direction for selecting and employing people, vigorously select cadres who are politically strong, dare to take responsibility, are determined to reform, have outstanding performance, and are honest and honest, and strive to solve the erroneous behavior of cadres , not doing anything, not daring to do anything, not doing well as problems; establish and practice the correct view of political performance, implement the "three distinctions", encourage cadres to forge ahead and start businesses; enhance the political and organizational functions of party organizations; improve the prevention and control of formalism and bureaucracy systems and mechanisms, and improve unhealthy tendencies and corruption issues the simultaneous investigation and treatment mechanism enriches effective methods for preventing and controlling new types of corruption and hidden corruption.

i hope that comrades will deeply understand the spirit of the party central committee, conduct discussions closely around the theme of the plenary session, put forward constructive revision opinions and suggestions, and jointly make this plenary session a success and revise the draft decision well.