Reform and Opening-up and the Great Leap of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s Cause (Deeply Studying and Implementing the Spirit of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee)

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　　Reform and opening up is the most remarkable feature and magnificent weather in contemporary China. On the new journey, we should constantly deepen our understanding of the regularity of reform and opening up, constantly push forward the comprehensive deepening of reform to March in breadth and depth, constantly realize the people’s longing for a better life, ensure the realization of the goal of the second century as scheduled, and constantly create new and greater miracles that will impress the world.

　　The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China’s Resolution on the Great Achievements and Historical Experience of the Party’s Centennial Struggle (hereinafter referred to as the Resolution) adopted by the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee pointed out: "Since the Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee, China’s reform and opening up has gone through a magnificent course and achieved remarkable achievements." "Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party has continuously promoted the comprehensive deepening of reforms to March in breadth and depth, the Socialism with Chinese characteristics system has become more mature and stereotyped, the modernization level of the national governance system and governance capacity has been continuously improved, and the cause of the Party and the state has been given new vitality." Reform and opening up is a key measure to determine the future and destiny of contemporary China, which has promoted China to achieve a great leap from backward times to catching up with and leading the times. On the new journey, we will continue to push forward reform and opening up, and make unremitting efforts to realize the goal of building a socialist modern power in an all-round way and realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

　　Socialism with Chinese characteristics is the theme of all the party’s theories and practices since the reform and opening up.

　　General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "Reform and opening up is a great awakening of our party, and it is this great awakening that gave birth to our party’s great creation from theory to practice. Reform and opening up is a great revolution in the history of the development of Chinese people and the Chinese nation. It is this great revolution that has promoted the great leap of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s cause! " Socialism with Chinese characteristics is the theme of the whole theory and practice of the Party since the reform and opening up. On the basis of summing up the experience of the world socialist movement and China’s socialist construction, our party deeply realizes that socialist construction is a process of continuous development and change, and there is no fixed and unique model, so we must combine the universal truth of Marxism with China’s concrete reality. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, our party clearly put forward "taking our own road and building socialism with China characteristics", United and led the people of China, emancipated their minds and forged ahead, and initiated, persisted, defended and developed Socialism with Chinese characteristics. In the new period of reform, opening up and socialist modernization, our party founded Deng Xiaoping Theory, formed Theory of Three Represents and Scientific Outlook on Development, formed Socialism with Chinese characteristics Theory System, and achieved a new leap in China Marxism. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has United and led the people of China, self-confident, self-reliant, upright and innovative, taking charge of great struggles, great projects, great undertakings and great dreams, and making overall plans to promote ".The overall layout of "five in one" and the coordinated promotion of "four comprehensive" strategic layout have pushed Socialism with Chinese characteristics into a new era. The Communist Party of China (CPC) people, represented by the Supreme Leader, founded the Supreme Leader’s New Era Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought, which achieved a new leap in the China of Marxism and made scientific socialism glow with more vitality.

　　At every major historical juncture of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s development, it was through reform and opening up that it broke through the predicament and made continuous progress towards new success. Reform and opening up have broken the imprisonment of rigid and conservative ideas, and the ideological outlook and spiritual outlook of the whole party and the people throughout the country have taken on a new look; It broke the traditional planned economy system, and made rural areas and cities compete with each other for generate’s endless vitality and creativity. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, in the face of extensive and profound changes in the domestic and international environment and a series of new contradictions and challenges facing China’s development, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has held high the banner of reform and opening up in the new era, taking promoting social fairness and justice and enhancing people’s well-being as the starting point and foothold, highlighting the problem orientation, focusing on further emancipating the mind, liberating and developing social productive forces, liberating and enhancing social vitality, and strengthening top-level design and overall planning. Strengthen the systematicness, integrity and coordination of reform, stimulate people’s initiative, push forward the reform in important areas and key links, make Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s system more mature and stereotyped, and continuously improve the modernization level of national governance system and governance capacity. Our Party unswervingly adheres to the guiding position of Marxism and the basic principles of scientific socialism, constantly promotes theoretical innovation, practical innovation, institutional innovation, cultural innovation and other aspects of innovation, constantly endows Socialism with Chinese characteristics with distinctive practical characteristics, theoretical characteristics, national characteristics and times characteristics, and demonstrates the strong vitality of scientific socialism with irrefutable facts.

　　Reform and opening up have enabled the Chinese nation to stand in the east of the world with a brand-new attitude.

　　After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, from rural areas to cities, from economic fields to other fields, the wave of reform is unstoppable; From the coast to the border along the Yangtze River, from the east to the central and western regions, the door to openness is gradually opened. By 2010, the world ranking of China’s total economic output has jumped from 11th in 1978 to 2nd, becoming the world’s largest manufacturing country and the world’s largest exporter of goods. At the same time, the internal and external environment of China’s development has undergone extensive and profound changes. The reform has entered a critical period and deep water area. The easy reform has been completed, and the rest are hard bones. The complexity, sensitivity and linkage of continuing to promote reform are unprecedented.

　　In the new era, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has raised the flag, planned the layout of articles, comprehensively deepened the reform, made drastic efforts, overcome difficulties, and presented a situation of all-round efforts, multi-point breakthroughs, steady steps and in-depth advancement, which has solved many problems that have been tried for a long time but not solved, and has become many major events that were tried but not done in the past. A series of major reforms in the fields of economy, politics, culture, society, ecological civilization system and party building system have been solidly promoted, and various measures to facilitate the people, benefit the people and benefit the people have been continuously implemented, making reform and opening up the most remarkable feature and magnificent weather in contemporary China. The Resolution pointed out: "The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party is epoch-making, which has opened a new era of reform, opening up and socialist modernization. The Third Plenary Session of the 18 th CPC Central Committee is also epoch-making. The transformation of reform from partial exploration and breaking through the ice to system integration and comprehensive deepening has created a new situation in China’s reform and opening up. " In 2020, under the background of the COVID-19 epidemic and the deep recession of the global economy, China became the only major economy in the world that achieved positive economic growth, and its GDP exceeded 100 trillion yuan, ranking second in the world, accounting for 17.4% of the world.

　　The reform and opening up has greatly changed the face of China, the face of the Chinese nation, the face of the people of China and the face of the Communist Party of China (CPC). The Chinese nation has ushered in a great leap from standing up, becoming rich and becoming strong, Socialism with Chinese characteristics has ushered in a great leap from establishment, development to perfection, China people have ushered in a great leap from insufficient food and clothing to a well-off society, and the Chinese nation is standing in the east of the world with a brand-new attitude. After more than 40 years of reform and opening up, China’s economic strength, scientific and technological strength, comprehensive national strength and people’s living standards have jumped to a new level, explored a Chinese-style modernization road suitable for its national conditions, expanded the way for developing countries to modernize, and provided new choices for countries and nations in the world who want to accelerate their development and maintain their independence.

　　Constantly push forward the comprehensive and deepening reform to March in breadth and depth.

　　General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "Socialism with Chinese characteristics was born in the reform and opening up, and it will certainly grow and develop in the reform and opening up." The Resolution emphasizes "comprehensively deepening reform and opening up". On the new journey, we should constantly deepen our understanding of the regularity of reform and opening up, constantly push forward the comprehensive deepening of reform to March in breadth and depth, constantly realize the people’s longing for a better life, ensure the realization of the goal of the second century as scheduled, and constantly create new and greater miracles that will impress the world.

　　Accurately grasp the direction, position and principles of reform and opening up. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed: "Our reform and opening up has a direction, a position and principles." Over the past 40 years, reform and opening up have advanced in a complicated domestic and international environment. Because of the correct direction, scientific methods and proper control, reform and opening up have always been advancing along the right path. In the new journey, no matter what we change or what step we take, we must adhere to the centralized and unified leadership of the Party, the overall goal of improving and developing the Socialism with Chinese characteristics system and promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, and the people-centered value orientation.

　　Adhere to the party’s leadership and respect the people’s initiative. The centralized and unified leadership of the party is the compass, the fixed disk star and the ballast stone to ensure the continuous progress of reform and opening up. The party’s ability and determination to set the direction, seek the overall situation, formulate policies and promote reform have ensured that the ship of reform and opening up has always sailed along the right course. Reform and opening up is the cause of hundreds of millions of people, and the people’s initiative provides a steady stream of wisdom and strength for reform and opening up. We should adhere to the combination of party leadership and respect for the people’s initiative, insist that development is for the people, development depends on the people, and the fruits of development are shared by the people, unite the wisdom and strength of the overwhelming majority of the people in the reform, and work with the people to push the reform forward.

　　Adhere to the combination of crossing the river by feeling the stones and strengthening the top-level design. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "Crossing the river by feeling the stones conforms to people’s understanding of objective laws and the dialectics of things from quantitative change to qualitative change." Touching the stone is to touch the law, which is a process of continuous accumulation of experiment, summary and promotion. In the new era, the relevance and interaction between the local and the overall situation of reform and opening up, the temporary solution and the root cause, and the gradual and breakthrough have been significantly enhanced, and the importance of top-level design and overall planning has been significantly enhanced. We should continue to stick to the combination of crossing the river by feeling the stones and strengthening the top-level design, promote the overall promotion and key breakthroughs, properly handle the relationship between top-level design and layered docking, do a good job in supporting the top, bottom, left and right, and all aspects, pay attention to the coordinated promotion of various reforms, make various reforms complement each other, have a "chemical reaction", and turn institutional advantages into governance efficiency.

　　Adhere to the unity of problem orientation and goal orientation. Reform is forced by problems, and it is deepened by constantly solving problems. At the beginning of reform and opening-up, although we faced many difficulties and challenges, we were full of confidence in the future and planned a grand blueprint for building a socialist modern country in three steps. In the process of reform and opening up, we adhere to the unity of problem orientation and goal orientation, overcome the concept of opposing market and plan, and clarify the goal of establishing a socialist market economic system; Corrected the concept of conflict between economic development and environmental protection, and clarified Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets’s concept; Wait a minute. Practice has proved that adhering to the unity of problem orientation and goal orientation can effectively resolve the contradictions and problems encountered in progress and continuously achieve new achievements in reform and opening up.

　　Coordinate development and security. Development and security are two wings of an organic whole and two wheels of driving. Security is the premise of development, and development is the guarantee of security. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has adhered to the overall concept of national security, adhered to the bottom line thinking, prepared for danger in times of peace, put national interests first, aimed at people’s safety, based on political security, based on economic security, guaranteed by military, scientific, technological, cultural and social security, supported by promoting international security, coordinated development and security, coordinated opening up and security, and coordinated traditional and non-traditional security. Facing the great struggle with many new historical characteristics, we must strengthen the spirit of struggle, improve our fighting skills, implement the leadership responsibility and work responsibility of preventing and defusing various risks, pay attention to preventing and defusing major risks that affect China’s modernization process, and provide a strong guarantee for the prosperity and long-term stability of the party and the country.

　　(The author is the vice president of China Academy of Social Sciences)

　　People’s Daily (13th edition, December 2, 2021)