The distinctive characteristics of the times in comprehensively deepening the important thought of reform

　　Over the past 40 years of reform and opening-up, the Communist Party of China (CPC) people who have kept pace with the times and shared their destiny with the people have made a great leap from "catching up with the times" to "leading the times" through relay struggle. Especially since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has put forward and promoted the overall goal of comprehensively deepening reform, focusing on improving and developing the Socialism with Chinese characteristics system, and promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, resolutely eliminating the shortcomings of various institutional mechanisms and writing a new chapter in the history of continuously pushing forward reform and opening up under the new situation. Comrade Supreme Leader’s important thought on deepening reform in an all-round way has distinct characteristics of the times.

　　The characteristics of the times are embodied in Do not forget your initiative mind, moving forward, and focusing on the goal orientation and value orientation of comprehensively deepening reform.

　　Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, and the main contradiction in our society has been transformed into the contradiction between the people’s growing need for a better life and the unbalanced development. Promoting high-quality economic development by comprehensively deepening reforms and satisfying people’s expectations for better education, more stable jobs, more satisfactory income, more reliable social security, higher-level medical and health services, more comfortable living conditions and a more beautiful environment are the inevitable choice to solve this major contradiction, and are also vivid manifestations of the unity of party spirit and people’s nature. Comrade Supreme Leader solemnly declared at the beginning of his tenure as the general secretary of the Party: "The people’s yearning for a better life is our goal." He presided over the drafting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China’s Decision on Several Major Issues of Comprehensively Deepening Reform, which insisted on promoting social fairness and justice and enhancing people’s well-being as the starting point and the end result of comprehensively deepening reform, highlighted institutional reform and innovation, and emphasized further emancipating the mind, liberating and developing social productive forces and liberating and enhancing social vitality.

　　Comrade Supreme Leader’s important thought on comprehensively deepening reform emphasizes the unity of knowledge and practice. He pointed out that the people-centered development thought is not an abstract and abstruse concept, and it should be reflected in all aspects of economic and social development. It is required to fill the shortcomings of people’s livelihood, promote social fairness and justice, and achieve education for young children, education for learning, income for work, medical care for the elderly, shelter for the elderly and help for the weak in the comprehensive deepening reform.

　　Comrade Supreme Leader’s important thought on comprehensively deepening reform combines planning and promoting comprehensively deepening reform for the people, emphasizing that in comprehensively deepening reform, we must respect the people’s initiative, practice and creation, encourage bold exploration and pioneering, rely on the people to create great historical achievements, and aggregate the positive energy of coordinated promotion of various related reforms; It is required to encourage local and grass-roots units to actively explore the vital interests of the masses in education, employment, medical care, social governance, innovation and entrepreneurship, so as to focus the goal orientation and value orientation of comprehensively deepening reform on reform and development for the people and relying on the people, and the fruits of reform and development will be shared by the people.

　　Brilliant flowers of deepening reform in an all-round way have produced fruitful results for the benefit of the people. In the five years since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Supreme Leader has presided over 38 meetings of the Central Leading Group for Comprehensively Deepening Reform and launched more than 1,500 reform measures. Deepening the reform in an all-round way has promoted the continuous improvement of people’s living standards in China, and the income of residents has increased by 7.4% annually, exceeding the economic growth rate. From 2012 to 2017, decisive progress was made in the fight against poverty. The number of poor people decreased by more than 68 million, and 8.3 million people were relocated to help the poor. The incidence of poverty dropped from 10.2% before the 18th CPC National Congress to 3.1%. China has woven the largest social security network in the world today, with social endowment insurance covering more than 900 million people and basic medical insurance covering 1.35 billion people. More than 26 million shanty towns have been renovated, more than 17 million rural dilapidated houses have been renovated, and hundreds of millions of people have moved to new homes.

　　The characteristics of the times are reflected in coordinating the two overall situations at home and abroad, and closely combining promoting comprehensive and deepening reform with participating in the reform and construction of the global governance system.

　　Deepening the reform in an all-round way is carried out under the conditions that Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, scientific socialism has entered a new stage and the world is experiencing new changes. Comrade Supreme Leader’s important thought on comprehensively deepening reform has made overall planning and top-level design from a broader perspective, and combined the promotion of comprehensively deepening reform, modernization of national governance system and governance capacity with the promotion of global governance system reform and construction, and democratization and legalization of international relations, which embodies the sense of mission and responsibility of contemporary the Communist Party of China (CPC) people.

　　From the perspective of promoting domestic comprehensive deepening reform, the overall goal of reform is comprehensive, which is to improve and develop the Socialism with Chinese characteristics system and promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity; The areas covered by the reform are comprehensive. While promoting the "five-in-one" reform of economic, political, cultural, social and ecological civilization, we will promote the reform of the party building system, national defense and military reform. The strategic layout guiding the reform is comprehensive, and the "four comprehensive" strategic layout is coordinated and promoted; The direction of reform is also comprehensive, so as to achieve all-round development and progress of Socialism with Chinese characteristics. The root of comprehensively deepening reform lies in reform, with the emphasis on comprehensiveness and the key to deepening. The deepening is mainly reflected in the all-round efforts, multi-point breakthroughs and in-depth advancement of reform, and also in the breakthrough progress of major reform measures in important areas and key links; It is also reflected in the linkage between comprehensively deepening the reform and participating in the reform of the global governance system, that is, actively shaping a good external environment with friendly political relations, favorable economic and trade rules and broad development space, making more China voices and injecting more China elements into the formulation of international rules, and contributing China’s wisdom and China’s strength to the formation of a fairer and more reasonable global governance system.

　　From the perspective of promoting the reform and construction of the global governance system, the Supreme Leader has a keen grasp of the general trend of the world, stressing that China should not be a bystander or follower, but a participant and leader in the reform of the global governance system. He put forward the concept of global governance of "three commons": discussing, building and sharing; Put forward the concept of "four commons" in global governance: the fate of the world should be shared by all countries, international rules should be written by all countries, global affairs should be managed by all countries, and development achievements should be shared by all countries. Comrade Supreme Leader also expounded China’s basic proposition of participating in the "three pushes" of global governance, that is, to push the G20 to complete the transformation from a crisis response mechanism to a long-term governance mechanism, to push international economic and financial organizations such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to truly reflect the new changes in the international pattern, and to promote equality of rights, opportunities and rules among countries in international economic cooperation. All these have a far-reaching impact on increasing the representation and voice of emerging market countries and developing countries in international economic and financial organizations.

　　Global governance has a wide range of connotations, involving economic governance, health governance, climate governance, and international and regional security governance. Among them, global economic governance is the key. At the G-20 Summit in Hangzhou in 2016, the Supreme Leader explained the concept of global economic governance based on equality, openness-oriented, cooperation-driven and sharing-oriented. At the same time, he also put forward four key points of global economic governance: jointly building a fair and efficient global financial governance pattern and maintaining the overall situation of world economic stability; Jointly build an open and transparent global trade and investment governance structure, consolidate the multilateral trading system, and release the potential of global economic, trade and investment cooperation; Work together to build a green and low-carbon global energy governance structure and promote global green development cooperation; Work together to build an inclusive and coordinated global development governance structure, with the goal of implementing the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and jointly enhance the well-being of all mankind. This series of important propositions embodies the China wisdom of global governance and has the distinctive characteristics of leading the times.

　　In the series of propositions put forward by the Supreme Leader on comprehensively deepening reform and promoting the reform and construction of the global governance system, there is a major proposition of not making subversive mistakes and not engaging in subversive reforms. He stressed the need to constantly promote the self-improvement and development of the socialist system, and stressed that there must be no subversive mistakes on fundamental issues. He pointed out that the current international order is not perfect, but as long as it is rule-based, fairness-oriented, and win-win as the goal, it cannot be abandoned at will, let alone be overthrown. It can be seen that the reform and construction of the global governance system advocated by China is a reform and improvement of the current international order and global governance pattern, rather than a new stove. This is not only an important embodiment of the internal consistency of the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s internal and external logic, but also a vivid embodiment of being highly responsible for the development interests of the Chinese nation and the world.

　　The characteristics of the times are reflected in the same direction of reform and innovation, promoting the construction of socialist modern China and building a community of human destiny

　　Comrade Supreme Leader’s important thought on deepening reform in an all-round way conforms to the trend of the times that today’s world is innovative and China’s development cannot be separated from innovation, emphasizing that development is the first priority, talent is the first resource and innovation is the first driving force. He scientifically grasps the dialectical unity relationship between reform and innovation, and points out that innovation is the new engine of development and reform is the essential igniter. Deepening reform in an all-round way is to broaden the road for innovation and start the engine of innovation at full speed. These important expositions open up the internal logic of reform and innovation, stimulate strong innovation, promote the same direction of reform and innovation, and promote the internal and external linkage of modernization.

　　The all-round innovation promoted by our party since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is not only reflected in theoretical innovation, practical innovation and institutional innovation, but also in the original practice of promoting supply-side structural reform. The core of supply-side structural reform, which is linked with implementing the new development concept, promoting high-quality economic development and comprehensively deepening reform, is to promote institutional and institutional innovation, with the focus on promoting structural adjustment by means of reform, optimizing the allocation of existing resources, reducing ineffective and low-end supply, expanding high-quality incremental supply, especially mid-to-high-end supply, and promoting a higher level of dynamic balance between supply and demand. After several years of hard work, China’s economic structure has been continuously optimized, the quality of the supply system has been continuously improved, emerging industries such as the digital economy have flourished, the economy has achieved moderate and high-speed growth, and the overall stable and stable development trend has been further consolidated.

　　The essential feature of reform lies in innovation. One of the distinctive features of the close combination of reform and innovation with development and innovation in the new era is that it develops topics and makes a fuss about reform. The new development concept creatively put forward and unswervingly implemented by the supreme leader comrades, from focusing on innovative development to solving the problem of development power, to focusing on coordinated development to solving the problem of harmony between man and nature, focusing on open development to solving the problem of internal and external linkage in development, and then focusing on the shared development of social fairness and justice, are all problem-oriented, goal-oriented and value-oriented for comprehensively deepening reform in the new era, all of which show the mutual promotion of conceptual innovation and practical exploration, and the same direction of reform and innovation.

　　Through unremitting efforts, China has gradually built a broad platform for all kinds of innovative elements to exert agglomeration effect. No matter basic research or applied research, no matter infrastructure or economic format, no matter business model or consumption mode, the momentum of innovation is increasingly surging in generate. From the perspective of scientific and technological innovation, China’s scientific and technological strength has entered an important period from quantitative accumulation to qualitative leap, from point breakthrough to system capacity improvement, and some frontier innovations have begun to enter the parallel and leading stage. Major scientific and technological achievements such as Tiangong, Jiaolong, Tianyan, Wukong, Mozi, and large airplanes have come out one after another. The "Huiyan" satellite traveled in space, the quantum computer was successfully developed, the production of sea rice was measured, the first domestic aircraft carrier was launched, the first trial mining of combustible ice in the sea area was successful, and the Fuxing train ran on the vast land of the motherland … … These innovative achievements are the crystallization of the innovation and creativity of the people of all ethnic groups under the leadership of our party.

　　Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, and the innovation promoted by our party has also shown distinct characteristics of internal and external linkage. At the G-20 Summit in Hangzhou in 2016, the supreme leader comrade pointed out that China set the innovative growth mode as the key topic of the Hangzhou Summit and promoted the formulation of the G-20 Blueprint for Innovative Growth, with the purpose of giving impetus to innovation, giving vitality to reform, grasping the historic opportunities of innovation, new scientific and technological revolution, industrial transformation and digital economy, and enhancing the medium-and long-term growth potential of the world economy. At the BRICS Business Forum in 2018, he emphasized that innovation should lead and seize development opportunities. In the new wave of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, what we can and should do is to seize the opportunity, increase investment in innovation and realize the transformation of old and new kinetic energy; We will fully promote structural reforms, eliminate all institutional and institutional obstacles that are not conducive to innovation, and fully stimulate innovation potential and market vitality. This reflects the linkage between China’s reform and innovation, development and innovation and the world. At the beginning of 2017, the Supreme Leader proposed in his speech at the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva to build a world of lasting peace, universal security, common prosperity, openness, tolerance, cleanliness and beauty. This goal of building a community of human destiny is consistent with Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s overall goal of building a socialist market economy, democratic politics, advanced culture, harmonious society and ecological civilization, and also reflects the internal and external linkage of reform and innovation.

　　Comrade Supreme Leader’s important thought on comprehensively deepening reform also emphasizes that comprehensively deepening reform should handle the relationship between top-level design and crossing the river by feeling the stones; Emphasis should be placed on the systematicness, integrity and coordination of reform, and the reform and improvement, linkage and integration in various fields must form an overall effect and achieve an overall effect in the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity; Emphasize that reform and the rule of law should be promoted simultaneously, promote reform under the rule of law, improve the rule of law in the reform, actively play the role of the rule of law in guiding, promoting, standardizing and guaranteeing reform, and enhance the penetration of reform; Emphasize the combination of comprehensive deepening reform under the leadership of our party with comprehensive and strict management of the party, and promote the great social revolution under the leadership of the party with the party’s self-revolution; It is emphasized that in the social revolution led by the Party and the Party’s self-revolution, we should push forward the reform with perseverance, dare to open the knife to stubborn diseases accumulated for many years, dare to touch deep-seated interests and contradictions, resolutely break through the shackles of ideological concepts and resolutely break the barriers of solidification of interests; It is emphasized that our party should show new atmosphere and new actions in the new era, not only to carry out comprehensive deepening reform to the end, but also to carry out the great social revolution led by the party and the great self-revolution of the party to the end; Wait a minute. This is of long-term guiding significance for building a well-off society in an all-round way, realizing the goal of the first century, taking advantage of the situation to start a new journey of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way and marching towards the goal of the second century.

　　(The author is the former deputy director of the Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee)