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Reform and opening up is an important magic weapon for the party and the people to catch up with the times in great strides, the only way to uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics, and a key move to determine the fate of contemporary China. Over the past 45 years of reform and opening up, especially since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has continuously promoted the comprehensive deepening of reform to the breadth and depth, coordinated the overall domestic and international situations, promoted historic changes, systematic reshaping and overall reconstruction in many fields with unprecedented determination and intensity, strived to take the "only road" of reform and opening up, led the whole party and the people of the whole country to create a new situation in reform and opening up, and injected inexhaustible impetus into Chinese-style modernization.
China's GDP has grown from 367.9 billion yuan in 1978 to more than 121 trillion yuan in 2022, its average annual contribution to world economic growth has exceeded 30% in the past 10 years, and it has always been an important driving force for the stable growth of the world economy, and it has maintained its position as the largest country in trade in goods for six consecutive years since 2017, and its international export market share has further increased to 14.7% in 2022 The per capita disposable income of residents has increased from 171 yuan in 1978 to 36,883 yuan in 2022, building the world's largest education, social security and medical and health systems.
In the 45 years of reform and opening up, China's changes have attracted worldwide attention.
At the meeting to celebrate the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up, General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out that "reform and opening up is an important magic weapon for the party and the people to catch up with the times in great strides, the only way to uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics, a key move to determine the fate of contemporary China, and a key move to achieve the 'two centenary' goals and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation."
Shenzhen, the first to gain the atmosphere, once again witnesses a new departure. A few days ago, the State Council officially approved the "Overall Development Plan for the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone", and Qianhai, Shenzhen will further enrich the coordinated and coordinated development model, build a pilot platform for comprehensively deepening reform and innovation in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and build a high-level gateway hub for opening up to the outside world.
Lu Wenpeng, Deputy Director of the Office of the Committee for Comprehensively Deepening Reform of the Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee: Over the past 10 years, Qianhai has comprehensively deepened reform and opening up, launched a total of 805 institutional innovation achievements, and replicated and promoted 87 typical reform experiences and practices across the country.
In December 2012, Xi Jinping made his first visit to the local area after becoming general secretary, and his first stop was Qianhai, Shenzhen. Here, General Secretary Xi Jinping made the judgment that "the mainland's reform has entered a period of tackling tough problems and deep waters", and called on the whole party to "dare to gnaw hard bones, dare to wade into dangerous waters" and "ensure that reform does not stop and opening up does not stop."
A year later, in November 2013, the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China adopted the Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Several Major Issues Concerning Comprehensively Deepening Reform, which put forward the guiding ideology, goals, tasks and major principles for comprehensively deepening reform, and the clarion call for comprehensively deepening reform was officially sounded.
Zhang Zhanbin, Director of the Center for Chinese Modernization Research of the Central Party School (National Academy of Administration): Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has put forward a series of important ideas and major thesis, scientifically and accurately answering the historical positioning and great significance of comprehensively deepening reform; focusing on "how to change", creatively put forward the main direction and roadmap, scientific method and effective path for comprehensively deepening reform, and advancing the theory and practice of socialist reform with Chinese characteristics to a new breadth. A new depth has led this great change with a new mindset.
However, the deeper the reform progresses, the deeper and more acute the problems and contradictions encountered. Among all reforms, the reform of the economic system is the most important task in comprehensively deepening reform. Focusing on properly handling the relationship between the government and the market, batches of hard and practical measures hit the key points and promote the in-depth development of reform.
With supply-side structural reform as the main line, we will continue to innovate and transform the development mode, fully implement the negative list system for market access, streamline administration and delegate powers, and optimize the business environment, accelerate the reform of state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises, optimize the environment for the development of the private economy, expand domestic demand, and implement the strategy of rural revitalization and regional coordinated development. With the implementation of a series of reform measures, important areas and key links continue to break through, market vitality gushes out, the total number of market entities has increased from 55 million in 2012 to more than 180 million now, and the number of private enterprises has quadrupled.
While the reform of the economic system is in full swing, the reform of the political system has been deepened, the reform of the cultural system has activated the spring water, the reform of the social system has continued to innovate, the reform of the ecological civilization system has been carried out at a sonorous pace, the reform of national defense and the armed forces has been drastic, and the reform of the party building system has been steadily promoted. By the end of 2020, a total of 2,485 reform plans had been launched in various fields, and the reform goals and tasks proposed by the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China had been completed as scheduled, creating a new situation in a modern socialist country with Chinese characteristics.
Nearly 100 million rural poor people have been lifted out of poverty, and the total economic output has increased from 54 trillion yuan to 121 trillion yuan, achieving the first centenary goal and building a moderately prosperous society in all respects on the land of China.
As the world's second largest economy, the largest manufacturing country, and the largest country in trade in goods, the mainland's economic strength, scientific and technological strength, and comprehensive national strength have leapt to a new level.
With the overall promotion of the construction of the pilot free trade zone and the high-quality construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port, China's door to opening up is opening wider and wider, and a new pattern of all-round, multi-level and wide-ranging opening-up is accelerating, and China's development has become an opportunity for the world.
The just-concluded Central Economic Work Conference proposed that "it is necessary to plan major measures to further deepen reform in an all-round way, and continue to inject strong impetus into promoting high-quality development and accelerating Chinese-style modernization". Reform is always on the way. On the new journey, the 1.4 billion Chinese people are uniting to focus on the central task of economic construction and the primary task of high-quality development, and turn the grand blueprint of Chinese-style modernization into a beautiful reality step by step.