China's Economic Development

China's Economic Development

Implementing the New Development Philosophy

Adhering to the People-Centered Development Approach

Adhering to a people-centered development approach means safeguarding the fundamental interests of the people, enhancing their well-being, and continuously realizing development for the people, relying on the people, and ensuring that the fruits of development are shared by the people. This approach ensures that the benefits of modernization are more widely and equitably shared by all people.

Developing for the people means pursuing development from the fundamental interests of the people, addressing the issues that concern them most, and taking more measures to improve people's livelihoods and warm their hearts. This continuous effort aims to satisfy people's needs for a better life and promote comprehensive human development. Developing by relying on the people means considering the people as the source of development's power, fully respecting their principal position and creative spirit, and continuously drawing wisdom and strength from them to rely on the people to create historical achievements. Ensuring that the fruits of development are shared by the people means making sure that all people benefit from development, continuously protecting and improving people's livelihoods, enhancing their well-being, and following the path of common prosperity, thereby demonstrating the advantages of the system.

People-centricity is the essential attribute of Marxism. The people-centered development philosophy reflects the inherent requirement of upholding the people's principal position, embodies the stance, viewpoint, and methodology of putting people first, and establishes the fundamental principles that must always be upheld in implementing the new development philosophy.

Adhering to Innovation, Coordination, Green, Openness, and Sharing in Development

Philosophy guides action, and specific development practices are led by specific development philosophies. The new era requires a new development philosophy.

To effectively address the issues of unbalanced and inadequate development, solve development challenges, enhance development momentum, and build on development strengths to better meet people's growing needs for a better life in economic, political, cultural, social, and ecological aspects, we must fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development philosophy of innovation, coordination, green, openness, and sharing.

Innovation-driven development focuses on solving the issue of development momentum. Development momentum determines the speed, efficiency, and sustainability of development, and innovation is the primary driver. Adhering to innovation-driven development means upholding innovation at the core of China's modernization efforts, continuously advancing theoretical innovation, institutional innovation, technological innovation, cultural innovation, and innovation in all aspects, integrating innovation into all work of the Party and the state, and fostering an environment where innovation thrives throughout society.

Coordinated development focuses on addressing the issue of development imbalances. Coordination is an intrinsic requirement for sustainable and healthy development, representing the unity of balanced and unbalanced development. Adhering to coordinated development requires correctly handling major relationships in development, particularly promoting coordinated development between urban and rural areas and regions, economic and social coordination, and synchronized development of new industrialization, informationization, urbanization, and agricultural modernization, thereby continuously enhancing the overall cohesion of development.

Green development emphasizes addressing the issue of harmonious coexistence between humanity and nature. Humanity and nature form a community of life. Green development is a necessary condition for sustainable development and an important reflection of people's pursuit of a better life. Ecological civilization construction is a long-term plan concerning the sustainable development of the Chinese nation. Adhering to green development requires firmly establishing and practicing the philosophy that "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets," adhering to sustainable development, prioritizing conservation, protection, and natural restoration, protecting the natural environment like one protects their eyes, and resolutely following a path of civilization that ensures economic growth, prosperity, and ecological well-being, thereby building a beautiful China, ensuring the sustainable development of the Chinese nation, and promoting a form of Chinese modernization characterized by harmonious coexistence between humanity and nature.

Openness-driven development focuses on addressing the issue of internal-external interaction in development. Openness brings progress, while isolation inevitably leads to backwardness; openness is the only path to national prosperity and development. Adhering to openness-driven development requires aligning with the trend of China's deep integration into the world economy, pursuing a strategy of mutually beneficial openness, following the principle of consultation, contribution, and shared benefits, promoting high-level opening up to the outside world, and advancing the building of a community with a shared future for humanity.

Sharing-driven development emphasizes addressing the issue of social equity and justice. Sharing is the essential requirement of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Adhering to sharing-driven development requires making more effective institutional arrangements, upholding universal sharing, comprehensive sharing, participatory sharing, and progressive sharing, ensuring that all people have a stronger sense of gain, happiness, and security, and steadily advancing towards common prosperity.

The new development philosophy of innovation, coordination, green, openness, and sharing is an interconnected and mutually reinforcing whole that must be implemented as a unified approach. One aspect cannot be pursued at the expense of others, nor can they be substituted for each other. The new development philosophy must be fully, accurately, and comprehensively implemented throughout the entire development process and in all fields to promote qualitative improvements in the economy and reasonable quantitative growth.

Promoting High-Quality Development

The Primary Task in Building a Modern Socialist Country

As China enters a new era, with changes in the development environment and conditions, its economic development has entered a new normal, shifting from high-speed growth to high-quality development. High-quality development is the primary task in building a modern socialist country. Advancing Chinese modernization requires achieving high-quality development.

High-quality development means transitioning from focusing on "whether there is growth" to "how good the growth is." It is a type of development that can better satisfy people's growing needs for a better life and reflects the new development philosophy.

High-quality development is the theme of China's economic and social development at this stage and for a long time to come, impacting the overall construction of socialist modernization. It is not just an economic requirement but a comprehensive demand on all aspects of economic and social development; it is not only a requirement for economically developed regions but a requirement that must be implemented in all regions; it is not a temporary or occasional requirement but one that must be adhered to for the long term.

Building a New Development Pattern

To promote high-quality development, we must accelerate the construction of a new development pattern with domestic circulation as the mainstay and domestic and international circulations mutually reinforcing. This new development pattern is by no means a closed domestic loop but an open domestic-international dual circulation. We must adhere to the strategic foundation of expanding domestic demand, making production, distribution, circulation, and consumption more reliant on the domestic market, thereby forming a virtuous cycle of the national economy. We must organically combine the strategy of expanding domestic demand with deepening supply-side structural reforms, enhancing the endogenous driving force and reliability of the domestic circulation, improving the quality and level of international circulation, and accelerating the construction of a modern economic system.

Building a modern industrial system requires focusing on the real economy, promoting new industrialization, and accelerating the construction of a manufacturing powerhouse, a quality powerhouse, an aerospace powerhouse, a transportation powerhouse, and a digital China.

We must fully advance rural revitalization, adhering to the priority development of agriculture and rural areas, consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation, accelerating the construction of an agricultural powerhouse, and earnestly promoting the revitalization of rural industries, talents, culture, ecology, and organizations. This effort aims to solidify the foundation of food security, firmly uphold the red line of 1.8 billion mu of arable land, and ensure that China's rice bowl is firmly held in its own hands.

Promoting regional coordinated development requires deeply implementing regional coordinated development strategies, major regional strategies, main functional area strategies, and new urbanization strategies, optimizing the layout of major productive forces, and building a regional economic layout and territorial space system that complement each other's strengths and promote high-quality development.

Advancing high-level opening-up requires steadily expanding institutional opening up in areas such as rules, regulations, management, and standards, accelerating the construction of a strong trading nation, promoting high-quality development of the Belt and Road Initiative, and maintaining a diversified and stable international economic landscape and trade relations.

In summary, we must fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development philosophy, with the promotion of high-quality development as the theme, accelerating the construction of a new development pattern with domestic circulation as the mainstay and domestic and international circulations mutually reinforcing. We must also take education, science, technology, and talent as foundational and strategic supports to fully build a modern socialist country.