BEIJING, July 15,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- In 1978, Xi Jinping, who
was studying at Tsinghua University at the time, visited Chuzhou
City, east China's Anhui Province and conducted an on-site
research on rural reforms.
Xiaogang Village in Chuzhou is considered the birthplace of
China's rural reforms as this is
where some villagers pioneered the idea of contracting collective
land to individual households.
During his Chuzhou visit, Xi wrote a book of notes about what he
saw and heard at that time. "I still keep it (the notebook). The
experience was really impressive, because this was my first lesson
about reform in rural areas since reform and opening up began," Xi
said.
Since then, Xi Jinping has remained committed to reform whenever
and wherever he worked. In 1991, Xi, then Party chief of southeast
China's Fuzhou City, proposed the "do it now" spirit,
featuring high efficiency and practical results in work.
In 2003, Xi, as then Party chief of Zhejiang Province, called on the eastern
Chinese province to take advantages of its strength in eight
aspects, including region, market economy and ecology to achieve
leading, balanced and sustained development.
'Correct path'
On his first inspection tour outside Beijing after becoming general secretary of
the Communist Party of China (CPC)
Central Committee in December 2012,
Xi Jinping visited south China's
Guangdong Province. During the
visit, he said, "The decision to launch reform and opening up was
right. We must keep to this correct path."
In November 2013, the third
plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee approved a
decision to comprehensively deepen reform, with goals of improving
and developing the socialist system with Chinese characteristics
and modernizing China's governance
system and capacity.
Over a month later, China
announced the decision to establish the Central Leading Group for
Comprehensively Deepening Reform, which Xi headed. This marked the
first time in the CPC's history that a leadership body exclusively
dedicated to reform was established at the central level. Later,
this group evolved into the Central Commission for Comprehensively
Deepening Reform, with Xi as its director.
Since then, China's leadership
has held at least 70 meetings and put forward the main direction,
road map, major measures and tasks for deepening overall reform.
Over the past decade, more than 2,000 reform measures have been
rolled out, enabling the country to eliminate extreme poverty,
promote integrated urban-rural development, fight corruption,
support businesses, boost innovation and push forward a "green
revolution."
In February 2021, China announced its victory in extreme poverty
eradication, as nearly 100 million rural residents in 832
impoverished counties had been lifted out of poverty since
2013.
Moreover, the Chinese economy has not only sustained robust
growth but also more than doubled since 2012, cementing the
country's global status as a major growth contributor.
Advancing Chinese modernization
On the journey of advancing Chinese modernization, the need to
deepen reform is further stressed. "Reform is the driving force for
development," Xi told a symposium attended by experts and
entrepreneurs in May, calling for deepening reform across the board
with efforts centered on advancing the Chinese modernization.
Xi also said at the symposium that he had been thinking about
further comprehensively deepening reform after the 20th CPC
National Congress. Noting that all the third plenary sessions of
the CPC Central Committee focused on reform since the reform and
opening up began, he said that this round of reform will align
closely with the theme of advancing Chinese modernization.
From July 15 to 18, Chinese
policymakers are gathering in Beijing for the milestone third plenary
session of the 20th CPC Central Committee. They are scheduled to
deliberate on a key policy document on deepening reform across the
board and advancing the Chinese modernization.
The policy dividends from the plenary session are thought to
help China better navigate
complexities in global landscapes, advance transformation and
high-quality growth of the economy, and enhance the people's sense
of gain.
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