Xi Jinping: Creating a New Situation of China's High Quality Development


Create a new situation of high-quality development in China ※
Xi Jinping
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China's economy has changed from a stage of rapid growth to a stage of high-quality development, and is in the critical period of transforming the development mode, optimizing the economic structure, and transforming the growth impetus. Building a modern economic system is an urgent requirement to cross the threshold and the strategic goal of China's development. We must adhere to the principle of quality first and efficiency first, take the supply side structural reform as the main line, promote the quality reform, efficiency reform and power reform of economic development, improve total factor productivity, accelerate the construction of an industrial system with coordinated development of the real economy, scientific and technological innovation, modern finance, and human resources, and strive to build an effective market mechanism, dynamic micro entities A well regulated economic system will continuously enhance China's economic innovation and competitiveness.
(Report on the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on October 18, 2017)
   
From December 18 to 20, 2017, the Central Economic Work Conference was held in Beijing. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, delivered an important speech.
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Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, and China's economic development has also entered a new era. The characteristics of China's economic development in the new era are highlighted in my report to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. China's economy has shifted from a stage of rapid growth to a stage of high-quality development. This is a major judgment, and we must deeply understand its great practical significance and far-reaching historical significance.
First, this is an inevitable requirement for maintaining sustained and healthy economic development. China is in the critical stage of transforming the development mode. The rising labor costs, increasing resource and environmental constraints, and the extensive development mode are difficult to sustain. The problem of poor economic circulation is very prominent. At the same time, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation in the world is in the ascendant, with multiple breakthroughs. We must promote high-quality development to adapt to new changes in science and technology and new needs of the people, form a high-quality, efficient and diversified supply system, and provide more high-quality products and services. In this way, supply and demand can be balanced at a new level, and China's economy can continue to develop healthily.
Second, this is an inevitable requirement to adapt to the changes in major social contradictions and to build a moderately prosperous society and a modern socialist country in an all-round way. Major changes have taken place in China's major social contradictions, and historical changes are also taking place in China's economic development stage. Unbalanced and insufficient development is the manifestation of low development quality. To solve the major contradictions in our society, we must promote high-quality development. We should pay more attention to the development of quantity, but more attention should be paid to solving quality problems, and achieve effective growth of quantity in the substantial improvement of quality.
Third, this is the inevitable requirement of following the economic law. Since the 1960s, only a dozen of the world's more than 100 middle-income economies have successfully entered high-income economies. Those countries that have achieved success have realized the transformation of economic development from quantitative expansion to qualitative improvement after experiencing a stage of rapid growth. Those countries that hesitated or even regressed did not realize this fundamental change. Economic development is a process of spiral rise. The rise is not linear. When the quantity accumulates to a certain stage, it must be turned to qualitative improvement. China's economic development should also follow this law.
(Speech at the Central Economic Work Conference on December 18, 2017)
   
From October 10 to 13, 2023, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, visited Jiangxi. On the morning of the 11th, Xi Jinping visited Jingdezhen Changhe Aircraft Industry (Group) Co., Ltd.
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High quality development is the development that can well meet the people's growing needs for a better life, is the development that reflects the new development concept, is the development that innovation becomes the first driving force, coordination becomes an endogenous feature, green becomes a universal form, openness becomes the only way, and sharing becomes the fundamental purpose. From the perspective of supply, high-quality development should achieve a relatively complete industrial system, networked and intelligent production organization, strong innovation, demand capture, brand influence, core competitiveness, and high product and service quality. From the perspective of demand, high-quality development should constantly meet the people's personalized, diversified and escalating demands, which in turn lead to changes in the supply system and structure, and supply reform constantly generates new demands. From the perspective of input-output, high-quality development should constantly improve labor efficiency, capital efficiency, land efficiency, resource efficiency and environmental efficiency, constantly improve the contribution rate of scientific and technological progress, and constantly improve total factor productivity. From the perspective of distribution, high-quality development should achieve return on investment, profits for enterprises, income for employees, and taxes for the government, and fully reflect their respective contributions according to market evaluation. From the perspective of macroeconomic cycle, high-quality development should achieve a smooth cycle of production, circulation, distribution and consumption. The major proportion and spatial layout of the national economy are relatively reasonable, and the economic development is relatively stable without major ups and downs. To be more specific, high-quality development is to change from "yes" to "no".
(Speech at the Central Economic Work Conference on December 18, 2017)
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Promoting high-quality development is the fundamental requirement for us to determine development ideas, formulate economic policies, and implement macro-control at present and in the future. We must accelerate the formation of an indicator system, policy system, standard system, statistical system, performance evaluation, and performance appraisal to promote high-quality development, and create and improve the institutional environment, We will continue to make new progress in achieving high-quality economic development.
(Speech at the Central Economic Work Conference on December 18, 2017)
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Practice has proved that China's economic development in the past 40 years was achieved under the conditions of opening up, and the high-quality development of China's economy in the future must also be carried out under more open conditions. This is a strategic choice made by China based on the needs of development, and it is also a practical action to promote economic globalization for the benefit of people all over the world.
(Keynote speech at the opening ceremony of Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2018 on April 10, 2018)
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China has entered a stage of high-quality development, and the main social contradiction has been transformed into the contradiction between the people's growing needs for a better life and unbalanced and inadequate development. The per capita GDP has reached 10000 US dollars, the urbanization rate has exceeded 60%, and the middle-income group has exceeded 400 million people. The people's requirements for a better life are constantly improving. China has significant institutional advantages, improved governance efficiency, long-term economic growth, strong material foundation, rich human resources, broad market space, strong development resilience, and stable social situation. There are many advantages and conditions for continued development. At the same time, China's unbalanced and inadequate development is still prominent, its innovation ability does not meet the requirements of high-quality development, the agricultural foundation is not yet stable, the gap between urban and rural regional development and income distribution is large, ecological and environmental protection has a long way to go, there are shortcomings in livelihood security, and there are still weaknesses in social governance.
In short, entering a new stage of development, the profound changes in the domestic and international environment have brought a series of new opportunities as well as new challenges. It is the coexistence of crises, organic crises and turning points. We should dialectically understand and grasp the general trend at home and abroad, coordinate the overall situation of the great rejuvenation strategy of the Chinese nation and the unprecedented changes in the world in a century, deeply understand the new characteristics and new requirements brought about by the development and changes of the major social contradictions in China, deeply understand the new contradictions and new challenges brought about by the complex international environment, enhance the awareness of opportunities and risks, accurately recognize changes, respond scientifically Actively seek change, dare to open the top wind boat, be good at turning danger into opportunity, and strive to achieve higher quality, more efficient, more fair, more sustainable and safer development.
(Speech at the Expert Symposium on Economic and Social Fields on August 24, 2020)
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China's development has already stood at a new historical starting point. We should adhere to the problem orientation according to the new requirements of the new development stage, more accurately implement the new development concept, effectively solve the problem of unbalanced and inadequate development, and promote high-quality development. For example, self-reliance in science and technology has become the basic ability to determine the survival and development of China, and there are many "choke points". For example, China's urban-rural regional development gap is large, and how to solve this problem, there are many new problems need to be studied in depth, especially the regional plate differentiation and reorganization, the acceleration of cross regional population transfer, and the decline of farmers' willingness to settle in cities. For example, a high degree of consensus has been formed to accelerate the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, while China's energy system is highly dependent on fossil energy such as coal, and the pressure on production and living systems to transition to green and low-carbon is great. It is extremely difficult to achieve the goal of carbon emissions peak by 2030 and carbon neutral by 2060. For example, with the counter current of economic globalization, the external environment is becoming more and more complex and changeable. We all recognize that we must handle the relationship between self-reliance and open cooperation, the relationship between active participation in international division of labor and safeguarding national security, the relationship between the use of foreign capital and security review, and expand opening up on the premise of ensuring security. In short, as we enter a new stage of development, we need to deepen our understanding of the new development concept, take more precise and pragmatic measures, and truly achieve high-quality development.
(Speech at the seminar on learning and implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee for provincial and ministerial leading cadres on January 11, 2021)
   
From November 28 to December 2, 2023, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, visited Shanghai. On the afternoon of November 28, Xi Jinping visited the Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Achievement Exhibition in Zhangjiang Science City, Pudong New Area.
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High quality development is the theme of China's economic and social development during the "14th Five Year Plan" and even longer period, which is related to the overall situation of China's socialist modernization. High quality development is not just an economic requirement, but a general requirement for all aspects of economic and social development; It is not only a requirement for economically developed regions, but a requirement that all regions must implement in their development; It is not a requirement for a moment, but a requirement that must be adhered to for a long time. All regions should take into consideration the actual situation, adjust measures to local conditions, promote strengths and offset weaknesses, and embark on a high-quality development path suitable for the actual situation of the region. We must always put the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people in mind, unswervingly improve people's wellbeing, closely combine high-quality development with meeting people's needs for a better life, and promote the organic combination and mutual benefit of adhering to ecological priority, promoting high-quality development, and creating high-quality life.
(Speech delivered by the Qinghai delegation to the Fourth Session of the 13th National People's Congress on March 7, 2021)
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High quality development is the primary task of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way. Development is the top priority of the Party in governing and rejuvenating the country. Without a solid material and technological foundation, it is impossible to build China into a modern socialist power in an all-round way. We must fully, accurately and comprehensively implement the new development concept, adhere to the reform direction of the socialist market economy, adhere to a high level of opening up, and accelerate the construction of a new development pattern with domestic circulation as the main body and domestic and international double circulation promoting each other.
We should adhere to the theme of promoting high-quality development, organically combine the implementation of the strategy of expanding domestic demand with deepening the supply side structural reform, enhance the endogenous power and reliability of the domestic big cycle, improve the quality and level of the international cycle, accelerate the construction of a modern economic system, strive to improve total factor productivity, and strive to improve the resilience and safety of the industrial chain supply chain, We will work hard to promote urban and rural integration and coordinated regional development, and promote the quality and effective improvement of the economy and reasonable growth in quantity.
(Report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on October 16, 2022)
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To achieve high-quality development, agricultural development is also indispensable. Only when agriculture becomes stronger, the supply of agricultural products is guaranteed, prices are stable and people's minds are stable can the overall economic situation be stabilized. To expand the space for modern development, agriculture and rural areas are a promising broad world. The modernization of hundreds of millions of farmers as a whole will release huge creative momentum and consumption potential, and inject strong impetus into economic and social development. Smoothing the circulation of industry and agriculture in urban and rural areas is an important aspect of unblocking the domestic economic cycle and enhancing China's economic resilience and strategic depth. To expand domestic demand, stabilize growth and promote development, building a powerful agricultural country is an important starting point and breakthrough.
(Speech at the Central Rural Work Conference on December 23, 2022)
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While promoting high-quality development and making the "cake" bigger, we should further divide the "cake", focus on solving livelihood issues such as employment, distribution, education, medical care, housing, old-age care and childcare, build a coordinated system of three distributions, standardize the income distribution order, standardize the wealth accumulation mechanism, and guide and standardize the healthy development of capital according to law, We will gradually expand the middle-income group and narrow the income distribution gap, so that the achievements of modernization will benefit all people more and more equitably, and resolutely prevent polarization.
(On February 7, 2023, new members, alternate members and major leading cadres at provincial and ministerial levels of the Central Committee
Study and Implement Xi Jinping's Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and the Speech at the Seminar on the Spirit of the Twentieth National Congress of the Communist Party of China)
   
From December 14 to 15, 2023, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, made an investigation in Guangxi. On the morning of the 14th, Xi Jinping inspected the China ASEAN Information Port Co., Ltd. in Nanning and listened to the report on the construction of the backbone project of the new land sea channel in the west in combination with the sand table of the Pinglu Canal.
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High quality development is the primary task of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way. We must fully, accurately and comprehensively implement the new development concept, and always grasp, measure and promote development with the internal unity of innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing; We must better balance the effective improvement of quality and the reasonable growth of quantity, always adhere to the principle of quality first and efficiency first, vigorously enhance the quality awareness, regard quality as life, and pursue high quality; We must unswervingly deepen reform and opening up, deeply transform the development mode, promote quality change with efficiency change and dynamic change, and accelerate the formation of sustainable high-quality development systems and mechanisms; We must take meeting the people's growing needs for a better life as the starting point and end result, constantly transform the achievements of development into quality of life, and constantly enhance the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security.
(Speech made by the Jiangsu delegation at the first session of the 14th National People's Congress on March 5, 2023)
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Accelerating the realization of self-reliance in high-level science and technology is the only way to promote high-quality development. In the fierce international competition, if we want to open up new fields and new tracks for development, shape new driving forces and new advantages for development, we should fundamentally rely on scientific and technological innovation. The key to whether we can complete the building of a modern socialist country on schedule is to rely on science and technology for self-reliance.
(Speech made by the Jiangsu delegation at the first session of the 14th National People's Congress on March 5, 2023)
   
From March 18 to 21, 2024, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, visited Hunan. On the afternoon of the 18th, Xi Jinping visited BASF Shanshan Battery Materials Co., Ltd., a Sino German joint venture.
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Accelerating the construction of a new development pattern is the strategic basis for promoting high-quality development. We should organically combine the implementation of the strategy of expanding domestic demand with deepening supply side structural reform, and accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system. We should stick to the focus of economic development on the real economy, further promote new industrialization, strengthen the reconstruction of the industrial foundation and tackle key problems in major technology and equipment, promote the high-end, intelligent and green development of the manufacturing industry, accelerate the construction of a strong manufacturing province, vigorously develop strategic emerging industries, and accelerate the development of the digital economy. In accordance with the requirements of building a high-level socialist market economy system and promoting high-level opening up, we should deepen reform in key areas, coordinate the construction of a modern infrastructure system and a high standard market system, and steadily expand institutional opening.
(Speech made by the Jiangsu delegation at the first session of the 14th National People's Congress on March 5, 2023)
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In the new journey of building a strong country and rejuvenating the nation, we must unswervingly promote high-quality development. We need to fully, accurately and comprehensively implement the new development concept, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, thoroughly implement the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education, the strategy of strengthening the country through talent, and the innovation driven development strategy, focus on improving the ability of self-reliance and self-improvement through science and technology, promote industrial transformation and upgrading, promote coordinated development between urban and rural areas and regions, and promote green and low-carbon economic and social development, We will promote the effective improvement of the quality and reasonable growth of the quantity of the economy, and continue to strengthen China's economic strength, scientific and technological strength, and comprehensive national strength.
(Speech at the First Session of the 14th National People's Congress on March 13, 2023)
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To comprehensively study and implement the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress, we must firmly grasp the central task of the Party in the new era and new journey, firmly grasp the scientific connotation and essential requirements of Chinese style modernization, firmly grasp the primary task of high-quality development, and implement the new development concept, build a new development pattern, and promote common prosperity throughout all aspects of economic and social development, Deeply promote the reform of development mode, driving force, field and quality, and create a new situation of high-quality development in China.
(Speech during the investigation in Sichuan from July 25 to 27, 2023)
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We should fully, accurately and comprehensively implement the new development concept, coordinate development and security, deeply grasp the basic laws of the new era and new journey to promote new industrialization, actively adapt to and lead a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial reform, put the requirements of high-quality development through the whole process of new industrialization, and build a manufacturing power with the development of the digital economy The organic combination of industrial informatization will build a strong material and technological foundation for Chinese modernization.
(Instruction on promoting new industrialization in September 2023)
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Leading cadres should firmly establish the concept of performance that benefits the people. We Communists do business and make achievements in order to benefit the people, not to gain or lose personal promotion. Comrades of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee should take the lead in adhering to the people centered development idea, adhere to high-quality development, and oppose the greed for foreign countries and blind and reckless work; Insist on seeking practical results, and oppose pompous and false data; Insist on laying the foundation for long-term benefits, and oppose wasting resources and wasting money. High quality development is the primary task of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way. Adhering to high quality development should be an important part of leading cadres' view of achievements. We should improve the performance assessment and evaluation methods to promote high-quality development, give full play to the role of the baton, and promote the leadership at all levels to earnestly practice the correct concept of performance, so as to form the correct work orientation.
(December 21 and 22, 2023, studying and implementing Xi Jinping's new era in the Political Bureau of the Central Committee
Speech at the Democratic Life Conference on the theme of education of socialism with Chinese characteristics)
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We must keep in mind that high-quality development is the absolute principle of the new era, implement the new development concept in a complete, accurate and comprehensive way, and put in place strategic tasks such as accelerating the construction of a modern economic system, promoting self-reliance in high-level science and technology, accelerating the construction of a new development pattern, comprehensively promoting in-depth reform and high-level opening, and coordinating high-quality development and high-level security, Improve the assessment and evaluation system to promote high-quality development and lay a solid foundation for promoting high-quality development.
(Speech at the 11th collective learning session of the Political Bureau of the 20th CPC Central Committee on January 31, 2024)
   
From May 22 to 24, 2024, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, visited Shandong. On the afternoon of the 22nd, Xi Jinping paid a cordial tribute to the port's scientific and technological workers, operators and shipping personnel in Rizhao Port.
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Developing new quality productivity is the internal requirement and important focus of promoting high-quality development. Here, I would like to focus on some understanding.
Since July last year, when I investigated in Sichuan, Heilongjiang, Zhejiang, Guangxi and other places, I proposed to integrate scientific and technological innovation resources, lead the development of strategic emerging industries and future industries, and accelerate the formation of new quality productivity. In the middle of December, at the Central Economic Work Conference, I also proposed to promote industrial innovation with scientific and technological innovation, especially with disruptive technologies and cutting-edge technologies to stimulate new industries, new models, new drivers, and develop new quality productivity. I put forward the concept of new qualitative productivity and the major task of developing new qualitative productivity. The main consideration is that productivity is the fundamental driving force for the development of human society and the ultimate reason for all social changes and political changes. High quality development needs the guidance of new productivity theory, and new quality productivity has been formed in practice and has shown a strong driving force and supporting force for high-quality development. We need to summarize and summarize theoretically to guide the new development practice.
What is the new quality productivity and how to develop it? I have been thinking about it and noticed some research achievements in the academic circle. To sum up, the new quality productivity is an advanced productivity quality that innovation plays a leading role, gets rid of the traditional economic growth mode and productivity development path, has high-tech, efficient, high-quality characteristics, and conforms to the new development concept. It is driven by revolutionary breakthroughs in technology, innovative allocation of production factors, and in-depth transformation and upgrading of industries. It takes the leap of workers, means of labor, labor objects and their optimized combination as its basic connotation, and the significant increase in total factor productivity as its core symbol. It is characterized by innovation, the key is quality, and its essence is advanced productivity.
The distinctive feature of new quality productivity is innovation, which includes innovation at the level of technology and business model, as well as innovation at the level of management and system. We must continue to do a good job in innovation and accelerate the development of new quality productivity.
(Speech at the 11th collective learning session of the Political Bureau of the 20th CPC Central Committee on January 31, 2024)
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We should firmly grasp the primary task of high-quality development and accelerate the development of new quality productive forces in line with local conditions. In the face of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial reform, we must seize the opportunity, increase innovation, cultivate and strengthen emerging industries, advance the layout of future industries, and accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system. Of course, the development of new quality productive forces is not to ignore or abandon traditional industries, but to prevent the mass rush and bubble, and not to adopt a model. All localities should adhere to the principle of proceeding from reality, setting up first and then breaking down, adjusting measures to local conditions and giving classified guidance. We should selectively promote the development of new industries, new models, and new drivers, transform and upgrade traditional industries with new technologies, and actively promote high-end, intelligent, and green industries according to local resource endowments, industrial bases, and scientific research conditions.
(Speech made by the Jiangsu delegation at the second session of the 14th National People's Congress on March 5, 2024)
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We will comprehensively deepen reform and opening up, and continue to enhance the endogenous impetus and vitality of development. We should plan major measures to further comprehensively deepen reform, and continue to inject strong impetus into high-quality development and Chinese style modernization. We should focus on building a high-level socialist market economy system, deepen the market-oriented reform of factors, build a high standard market system, and speed up the improvement of basic market economy systems such as property rights protection, market access, fair competition, and social credit. We should constantly improve and implement the "two unswerving" system and mechanism, effectively remove the obstacles that restrict private enterprises to participate in fair market competition, support the development and growth of private economy and private enterprises, and stimulate the endogenous power and innovation vitality of various business entities. We should deepen the reform of the science and technology system, the education system, and the talent system, and strive to break through the blockages that constrain the development of new quality productivity. We need to increase institutional openness, continue to build a market-oriented, legalized and internationalized first-class business environment, and create new advantages for a higher level of open economy.
(Speech made by the Jiangsu delegation at the second session of the 14th National People's Congress on March 5, 2024)
※ This is an excerpt of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important statement on creating a new situation of high-quality development in China from October 2017 to March 2024.

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