Xi Jinping's Comparative Model and Experience: 113 Comments on "Xi Jinping in Fujian" Series of Interview Transcripts" "Comrade Xi Jinping Summarizes and Proposes Valuable "Jinjiang Experience""
Jinjiang, Fujian, one of the most active areas in the country's private economy, has ranked among the top ten in the basic competitiveness of the national county economy for 19 consecutive years. How did this small projectile city, located on the southeast coast of China with an area of only 649 square kilometers, complete the gorgeous transformation from the poor agricultural county in the early days of reform and opening up, where "one side is difficult to support one side of the water and soil", and become a model for the economic development of China's counties? Shi Yongkang, who has served as secretary of the Jinjiang Municipal Party Committee and secretary of the Quanzhou Municipal Party Committee, specifically recalled how Xi Jinping summed up and refined the "code" of Jinjiang's success , the "Jinjiang Experience" - in the series of interviews published by the "Learning Times".
In 1978, riding on the spring breeze of reform and opening up, the Jinjiang people, who "dare to be the first in the world and love to fight to win," actively gave play to the advantages of overseas Chinese, making full use of the "three idles" of idle houses, idle funds, and idle personnel, as well as overseas funds and technologies, and large-scale joint households to raise funds for township enterprises, develop "three to one supplement," and embarked on the fast track of county economic development. This county-level economic development model of "market regulation, export-oriented, shareholding cooperative system and common development of multiple economic components" has been summarized as the "Jinjiang model", and is listed as the four major models of China's rural economic development alongside the southern Jiangsu model, the Wenzhou model and the Pearl River Delta model. Shi Yongkang recalled, "Jinjiang has developed prominently in the whole country, everyone is studying Jinjiang, there are well-known experts in the country such as Fei Xiaotong and Lu Xueyi, and there are many comrades in our province. Comrade Xi Jinping once talked to me and said, don't call it a model, the model is relatively rigid, or called Jinjiang experience is better, experience is something that can be flexibly learned. Later, Comrade Xi Jinping talked about this issue in addition to leading the Fujian Economic and Trade Delegation to visit Hong Kong and Macao. He said: "Fei Xiaotong, Lu Xueyi and other sociologists and economists of the older generation have formed a theoretical system of the development model of many regions, using the four models of southern Jiangsu, Wenzhou, Jinjiang and Pearl River to guide China's rural development, and summed up successful experiences." In addition to the model of Jinjiang, in fact, all counties in Quanzhou are also learning from the idea of 'three as the main and one common', but in the process of borrowing, each has its own development characteristics, not copying the original model of Jinjiang, and other regions will learn from this idea in the future, and will not copy the model. So we still call it 'Jinjiang Experience' better. In June 2002, Xi Jinping summed up the idea of "six always adhering" and "handling the five major relations", that is, always adhering to the development of social productive forces as the fundamental direction of reform and development, always adhering to the market-oriented development of the economy, always adhering to winning in tenacious struggle, always adhering to promoting the healthy development of the market economy with integrity, always adhering to accelerating economic development based on local advantages and choosing the best way to meet its own conditions, and always insisting on strengthening the government's guidance and service for the market economy; We should properly handle the relationship between tangible channels and intangible channels, the relationship between small and medium-sized enterprises and large enterprises, the relationship between developing high-tech industries and traditional industries, the relationship between industrialization and urbanization, and the relationship between developing the market economy and building a new type of service-oriented government. The "Jinjiang Experience" was thus proposed. In August and October of the same year, Xi Jinping published articles in People's Daily and Fujian Daily respectively, summarizing the six enlightenments of Jinjiang's experience to Fujian's economic development, pointing out that the "Jinjiang experience" is the bold exploration and successful practice of the people of Jinjiang on the path of socialist development with Chinese characteristics. Xi Jinping is very concerned about the development of Jinjiang. From 1996 to 2002, when he was the deputy secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee and governor of Fujian Province, he went to Jinjiang seven times, going to enterprises, communities, rural areas, and grassroots. The "Jinjiang Experience" is summed up and refined on the basis of long-term research and in-depth thinking, and has become an action guide and a magic weapon to promote the sustainable development of Jinjiang, guiding Jinjiang, Quanzhou and even Fujian Province to continuously open up new realms and achieve new achievements on the road of development.
The most distinctive feature of the "Jinjiang Experience" is that it firmly grasps the development of the real economy and does not relax, the core driving force is reform and innovation, and the core connotation is comprehensive development. Xi Jinping has repeatedly stressed that it is necessary to strengthen and optimize the real economy, "no matter when the economic development is, the real economy is the foundation for China's economic development and winning the initiative in international economic competition." He also said that innovation is the first driving force, and it is necessary to persist in reform without stopping, promote all-round development, and benefit the people with the fruits of development." The innovative spirit of "dare to be the first in the world" is the soul of "Jinjiang experience", and the profound marine culture has endowed Jinjiang people with the courage to take risks, dare to fight and the courage to fight to win. After 2002, under the guidance of Comrade Xi Jinping's ideas of "six always adhering" and "handling the five major relations", Jinjiang people have continuously enriched and improved the connotation of "Jinjiang experience", and Jinjiang has always been one of the fastest growing, strongest and most dynamic regions in Fujian. Jinjiang has undertaken 30 state-level reform pilot tasks, economic system, administrative examination and approval, new urbanization, and rural land system reform, becoming one of the county-level cities with the most pilot reforms in China. 14 "national brand" regional industrial brands such as "China Umbrella Capital", "China Shoe Capital", "China Food Industry Strong City" and "China Ceramics Town" have settled in Jinjiang.
Revisiting the "Jinjiang Experience" today is not only to trace the history, but also to focus on the future. The "Jinjiang Experience", which is the main content of "six always adhering to" and "correctly handling the five major relations", provides an important reference and action guide for solving today's problems: only by developing and expanding the real economy, only by reforming and innovating, can China's economy truly stabilize and go far and embark on the road of high-quality development. (Text/Learning Army, July 26, 2021) WeChat public account: Learning Army WeChat ID: xuexidajun