Beijing, June 28 (Zhongxin Net) -- "The narrative of Chinese-style modernization is completely different from Western history", "Chinese-style modernization is an opportunity for the whole world", "China can achieve high-quality development", "high-quality development must rely on innovation", "high-quality development must bid farewell to inertial thinking"...
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China drew up a grand blueprint for comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization, and made it clear that high-quality development is the primary task of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way. On June 28, a number of authoritative Chinese and foreign experts spoke out at the "2023 China-Singapore Finance Mid-Year Meeting" to discuss the practice and future of Chinese-style modernization and seek the best solution for high-quality development.
On June 28, 2023, Martin Jacques, a well-known British scholar and China expert, delivered a keynote speech at the "2023 China-Singapore Finance Mid-Year Conference" hosted by China News Service and hosted by China News Network.
Chinese-style modernization is an opportunity for the whole world
"The concept of Chinese-style modernization has aroused the expectations of local people and has gained global repercussions." Martin Jacques, a well-known British scholar and China expert, said at the "2023 China-Singapore Finance Mid-year Conference" hosted by China News Service and hosted by China News Network that Chinese-style modernization is not just a slogan, it reflects the development status and future prospects of Chinese society.
Martin Jacques believes that for a long time, "modernization" is basically equivalent to "Western-style modernization", but China has achieved success in modernization by following its own path, which is in line with its own national conditions and has strong Chinese characteristics. Without this strong national character, China would not have achieved the success it has today. "China's goal is not to achieve economic and technological modernization narrowly, because in the final analysis, modernization is for the people and must be in the interests of the people."
Martin Jacques said that an important feature of Chinese-style modernization is that it is an opportunity for the whole world, and it has a unique methodology, different from the colonial or imperialist models of the past. Step by step, China and other developing countries have reinvented themselves, changing the lives of the vast majority of people in the process. From a global perspective, the narrative of Chinese-style modernization is completely different from Western history.
Stephen Perry, chairman of the British 48 Group Club, pointed out that the path of Chinese-style modernization is unique, and its most prominent feature lies in its method of achieving modernization, after careful planning and rational layout, and the implementation of each stage is also under effective supervision in order to adjust in time, China has reached a first-class modernization level in just 40 years, which is unprecedented in world history.
"Because this is the first time in the world that China has modernized, the Chinese government understands that every step of development must be carefully planned and adjusted by collective wisdom." Stephen Perry believes that the Chinese Communist Party is very capable and makes full use of resources to do the right thing. China's approach is more to rely on the people to promote modernization and act according to China's actual national conditions, and other countries and regions that want to follow China's success in the modernization process can learn from the Chinese-style modernization model without waiting for large foreign enterprises to enter their own markets.
On June 28, 2023, Stephen Perry, Chairman of the 48 Group Clubs in the UK, delivered a keynote speech at the "2023 China-Singapore Finance Mid-Year Meeting" hosted by China News Service and hosted by China News Network.
Promote Chinese-style modernization with high-quality development
High-quality development is one of the essential requirements of China's modernization, which is of strategic, overall and long-term significance in the process of Chinese-style modernization. How to continue to promote Chinese-style modernization with high-quality development?
Bi Jingquan, member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, vice chairman of the Economic Committee and executive vice chairman of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, believes that high-quality development must rely on innovation. High-quality development is innovation-driven development. It is necessary to understand innovation not only from the strategic height of the party's mission and task in the new era and the primary task of building a modern socialist country, but also from the practical needs of supporting development and maintaining security, accelerate the implementation of innovation-driven development strategy, accelerate the implementation of the major deployment of science and technology power, let innovation become an important driving force for fully implementing the new development concept and promoting high-quality development, become a strong support for building a modern power in an all-round way, and let innovation play a key leading role in building a new development pattern.
Bi Jingquan suggested that to encourage innovation, we must strengthen basic research, highlight originality, and encourage free exploration; It is necessary to implement the incentive mechanism for individual researchers to share benefits and stimulate the innovation vitality of scientific researchers; Institutional barriers must be removed and efforts must be made to create an ecosystem that encourages innovation; It is necessary to strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights and severely crack down on illegal acts of infringement and counterfeiting.
Sun Dongsheng, member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, deputy secretary-general, and vice chairman of the Central Committee of the China Democratic National Construction Association, pointed out that high-quality development and Chinese-style modernization both need a common support point, which is the modernization level of the industrial system and the establishment of a high-quality modern industrial system.
Sun Dongsheng suggested that to promote the improvement of industrial modernization, it is necessary to drive the development of the industrial system with market demand, accelerate the construction of industrial ecology with the improvement of the level of industrial chain, promote the construction of innovation ecology with the collaboration between science and technology, enterprises and scientific research institutes, accelerate the formulation of standards in advantageous fields, and consolidate industrial advantages.
Gao Peiyong, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and secretary of the Party Committee of the University of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, believes that high-quality development must bid farewell to inertial thinking. It is necessary to use concepts, ideas, strategies and discourse systems that match high-quality development to discuss the issue of high-quality development stage, and must not make jokes such as "Guan Gong vs. Qin Qiong". You can't enter the stage of high-quality development, and the brain is still stuck in the stage of rapid growth.
Gao Peiyong pointed out that since promoting high-quality development is in line with the road of economic development and an objective necessity for the new journey of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way, it is worth the price of temporary adjustment measures to bear the pain of short-term change of thinking and pay the price of temporary adjustment measures. On the contrary, it is highly undesirable to look left or change course because of local, immediate problems. Therefore, we should jump out of the temporary difficulties of short-term changes and pay attention to the long-term general trend and historical law of China's economy, so as to strengthen the confidence and determination to promote high-quality development for a long time.
From June 28 to 29, 2023, the "2023 China-Singapore Finance Mid-Year Meeting" hosted by China News Service and hosted by China News Network was held in Beijing. Photo by Li Taiyuan
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that Chinese-style modernization is the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature. Promoting green and low-carbon economic and social development is a key link to achieve high-quality development.
Hu Jun, deputy director of the Xi Jinping Research Center for Ecological Civilization Thought, pointed out that in recent years, the mainland has achieved positive results in promoting green, low-carbon and high-quality development. The mainland has become the country with the fastest improvement rate of air quality in the world, the installed capacity of wind power, photovoltaic, hydropower and biomass power generation ranks first in the world, the production and sales scale of new energy vehicles has ranked first in the world for eight consecutive years, and the mainland has become the fastest growing and most growing country in the world's forest resources and carbon sinks.
"Achieving green, low-carbon and high-quality development is a complex project and a long-term task." Hu Jun also said that in the next step, it is necessary to accelerate the formation of green production methods and lifestyles that are conducive to the synergy of pollution reduction and carbon reduction; Promote synergy in industry, transportation, urban and rural construction, agriculture, ecological construction and other fields; Improve the level of coordinated treatment in the field of pollution prevention and control such as air, water, soil and solid waste; Carry out multi-level collaborative innovation in pollution reduction and carbon reduction in regions, cities, industrial parks, enterprises, etc.; Strengthen the support and guarantee of science and technology, regulations and standards, management policies, etc.
Zhang Yansheng, chief researcher of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, reminded that Chinese-style modernization should overcome three traps, one is the Thucydides trap, the second is the Samuelson trap, and the third is the Kindleberger trap. The next step is to promote high-quality development and Chinese-style modernization, and the most important thing is to seize the opportunity of the fourth industrial revolution.
Zhang Yansheng suggested that we should proceed from reality, do not seek the most advanced, seek the most suitable, do not seek the optimal solution, and seek a satisfactory solution. We will not be left behind in basic technologies, increase investment in new infrastructure to catch up, open competition in application scenarios and platforms, and improve strengths and avoid weaknesses in connection and terminal consumption.
In Martin Jacques's view, China's economy can continue to grow and achieve high-quality development, because China's innovation strength is very strong and will become stronger in the future.
The "2023 China-Singapore Finance Mid-Year Meeting" is hosted by China News Service, organized by China News Network, and co-organized by State-owned Assets Report, China Development Planning Research Institute of Tsinghua University, Guoshi Through Train, China Overseas Chinese Network, China-Singapore Video, and China-Singapore Jingwei, with the theme of "High-quality Development and China-style Modernization". (End)