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Over 300 major measures to further comprehensively deepen reforms, the latest interpretation of the press conference of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China


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2024-07-20

Over 300 major measures to further comprehensively deepen reforms, the latest interpretation of the press conference of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

This morning (19th), the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a press conference to introduce and interpret the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the CPC.

 

 

The Decision proposes more than 300 important reform measures.

 

The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held in Beijing from July 15 to 18. The most important outcome of the plenary session was the adoption of the Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Further Comprehensively Deepening Reform and Promoting Chinese-Style Modernization.

 

The drafting of the Decision was carried out under the leadership of the Party Central Committee, with General Secretary Xi Jinping personally serving as the head of the drafting group, playing a decisive role in the overall planning, organization of research, meticulous guidance, and direction-setting.

 

The Decision consists of 15 parts, 60 articles, and is divided into three sections:

 

  • The first section is the general discussion. It mainly elaborates on the significance and overall requirements of further comprehensively deepening reform and promoting Chinese-style modernization.

  • The second section is the detailed discussion. It comprehensively deploys reforms in various fields and aspects, with economic system reform as the driving force.

  • The third section mainly discusses strengthening the Party's leadership over reform and deepening the reform of the Party's institutional construction.

The Decision proposes more than 300 important reform measures, all of which involve the levels of systems, mechanisms, and institutions. Some are improvements and enhancements to past reform measures, while others are new reform measures proposed based on practical needs and pilot explorations.

 

Further comprehensively deepening reform

Implementing six principles

 

The Decision proposes that further comprehensively deepening reform must adhere to six principles.

 

These six principles embody the core essence of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on comprehensively deepening reform. They are a scientific summary of the valuable experience gained from reform and opening up, especially the comprehensively deepening reform in the new era, and we must strictly follow and adhere to them in further comprehensively deepening reform.

 

 

On economic and livelihood reforms

 

The Decision adheres to high-quality development as the primary task of comprehensively building a socialist modern country and makes comprehensive deployments for economic and livelihood reforms, mainly in seven aspects:

 

■ Constructing a high-level socialist market economic system

 

  • Deepening reforms of state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises, promoting the strengthening, optimization, and expansion of state-owned capital and state-owned enterprises, enhancing core functions, and improving core competitiveness, Conducting calculations of the added value of the state-owned economy

  • State-owned enterprises should build original technology sources.

  • Promoting naturally monopolistic sectors such as energy and railways market-oriented reforms in independently operated and competitive sectors.

  • A favorable environment and more opportunities should be created for the development of the non-public sector, and a long-term mechanism for private enterprises to participate in the construction of major national projects should be improved, supporting capable private enterprises to take the lead in undertaking major national technological research and development tasks , and regulating administrative inspections involving private enterprises.

  • A law promoting the private economy should be formulated and promulgated.

  • The Decision emphasizes carrying forward the spirit of entrepreneurship, and accelerating the construction of more world-class enterprises.

  • Accelerating the construction of a high-standard market system is a major reform task. The Decision clarifies three key reform measures —constructing a unified national market; promoting factor market-oriented reforms; and improving the basic institutions of the market economy.

The Decision specifically proposes, preventing and correcting the use of administrative and criminal means to interfere in economic disputes , and imposing the same responsibility, crime, and punishment for acts that infringe on the property rights and legitimate interests of various types of economies.

 

■ Improving the system and mechanism for promoting high-quality development

 

  • It is necessary to accelerate the formation of production relations that are more adaptable to new productive forces , improve the system and mechanism for optimizing and upgrading traditional industries, improve the policy and governance system for strategic industries, establish an investment growth mechanism for future industries , improve the policy system for promoting digital industrialization and industrial digitalization, promote the aggregation of various advanced production factors to the development of new productive forces, and significantly improve total factor productivity.

  • It is necessary to promote the deep integration of the real economy and the digital economy , accelerate the development of modern service industries, strengthen the construction of modern infrastructure, and improve the resilience and security level of industrial chains and supply chains.

     

■ Improving the macroeconomic governance system

 

  • It is necessary to establish a mechanism for formulating and implementing national strategies , improve the system of national economic and social development planning, deepen fiscal and tax system and financial system reforms, and enhance the consistency of macroeconomic policy orientation.

  • Constructing a new mechanism for cross-administrative region cooperation and development.

  • Addressing the difficulties faced by local governments and grassroots finances, it proposes to improve the fiscal relationship between the central and local governments, increase local autonomous financial resources, expand local tax sources , and improve the matching degree of financial resources and power at the city and county levels , appropriately strengthen central government responsibilities, increase the proportion of central government fiscal expenditure, and prohibit illegal requirements for local governments to arrange matching funds.

  • Researching tax systems that are adaptable to new business models.

  • The Decision requires exploring the implementation of national macroeconomic asset and liability management , and optimizing the adjustment of various existing structures.

     

■ Improving the system and mechanism for integrated urban-rural development

 

  • The Decision proposes implementing a system of providing basic public services based on household registration at the place of permanent residence , and accelerating the urbanization of the agricultural transfer population.

  • The Decision proposes to improve a normalized mechanism for preventing and alleviating poverty among the rural population, Establish a tiered and classified support system for low-income rural populations and underdeveloped areas Coordination Establish an inter-provincial horizontal benefit compensation mechanism for grain production and sales areas Improve the investment mechanism for rural revitalization, and cultivate new rural industries and formats.

     

■ Promote high-level opening up

 

  • The "Decision" calls for proactively aligning with international high-standard trade rules steadily expand institutional opening up, and build a new system for a higher-level open economy.

  • Expand unilateral opening up to the least developed countries Expand autonomous opening up Orderly expand opening up in commodity markets, service markets, capital markets, and labor markets, etc. Improve the system of convenience for the daily life of foreign personnel entering and residing in the country, including medical care and payments. Coordinate the promotion of major landmark projects and "small but beautiful" livelihood projects, and jointly build the "Belt and Road" with high quality.

     

■ Improve the system for guaranteeing and improving people's livelihood

 

  • It is necessary to improve the mechanism for promoting high-quality and full employment Improve the social security system for flexibly employed personnel, migrant workers, and personnel in new employment forms Promote the expansion and sinking of high-quality medical resources, promote the construction of a fertility-friendly society, and improve the policy mechanisms for the development of the elderly care industry and the elderly care industry.

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Deepen the reform of the ecological civilization system

 

  • Accelerate the improvement and implementation of the system and mechanism for the concept that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets, improve the mechanism for realizing the value of ecological products, and accelerate the planning and construction of a new energy system, Construct a carbon emission statistics and accounting system, a product carbon labeling certification system, and a product carbon footprint management system

 

On deepening the reform of the education, science, technology, and talent system

 

The plenary session's "Decision" made important deployments for deepening the integrated reform of the education, science, technology, and talent systems.

 

■ Deepen comprehensive education reform

 

  • Accelerate the construction of a high-quality education system Coordinate the promotion of reforms in education methods, school running models, management systems, and support mechanisms.

  • Focusing on cultivating the new generation of people who shoulder the great task of national rejuvenation, improve the mechanism of morality, intellectual development, physical health, aesthetics, and labor education, Promote integrated reform and innovation of ideological and political courses in primary and secondary schools and universities Improve the comprehensive cultivation system of morality, intelligence, physical health, aesthetics, and labor.

  • Focusing on the cultivation of outstanding and innovative talents, classify and promote university reforms, and establish a mechanism for adjusting disciplines and talent cultivation models driven by scientific and technological development and national strategic needs.

  • Adhere to the principle that strengthening education must begin with strengthening teachers Improve teachers' ability to teach and educate people, and improve the long-term mechanism for building teachers' morality and style.

  • Effectively utilize world-class educational resources and innovative elements, Promote high-level educational opening up

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■ Deepen the reform of the science and technology system

 

  • It is necessary to Optimize the organization mechanism for major scientific and technological innovation Strengthen the construction of national strategic scientific and technological forces, and coordinate and strengthen the tackling of key and core technologies.

  • Improve the management of scientific and technological plans, Strengthen the forward-looking and leading layout in the fields of basic research, cross-cutting frontier fields, and key fields.

  • Focusing on the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, strengthen the leading position of enterprises, Strengthen enterprise-led deep integration of production, learning, and research

  • Deepen the reform of the mechanism for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, Construct a scientific and technological financial system that adapts to scientific and technological innovation

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■ Deepen the reform of the talent development system and mechanism

 

  • Implement more positive, more open, and more effective talent policies, Improve the mechanism for independent cultivation of talents

  • Accelerate the construction of national strategic talent forces Focus on cultivating and training strategic scientists, first-class leading scientific and technological talents, and innovation teams, and focus on cultivating and training outstanding engineers, national artisans, and high-skilled talents, and improve the quality of all types of talents.

  • Strengthen the talent incentive mechanism, Insist on authorizing the employing entities and unburdening talents Establish a talent evaluation system guided by innovation ability, quality, effectiveness, and contribution, and create a good environment for talent growth.

 

On the reform of the system of Party leadership and Party building

 

The "Decision" specifically uses one section to deploy the reform of the system of Party leadership and Party building, mainly in three aspects -

 

■ Uphold the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee over further comprehensively deepening reforms

  • Emphasize the overall design, coordination, and overall advancement of the Party Central Committee's leadership in reform Encourage various regions and departments to combine their actual conditions with innovation and create new experiences that can be replicated and promoted.

  • It is proposed to follow the Party's mass line in the new era Incorporate social expectations, the wisdom of the masses, expert opinions, and grassroots experience into the reform design.

  • It is proposed to set reform topics around solving prominent contradictions Optimize the mechanism for generating key reform plans, and promptly identify and correct problems and deviations.

     

■ Deepen the reform of the Party building system

 

  • Emphasize focusing on mobilizing the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of the whole Party to grasp reform and promote development, Strengthen the armed forces with the Party's innovative theories, deepen the reform of the cadre personnel system Clearly establish the correct orientation for selecting and employing people, comprehensively improve the ability of modern cadre construction, establish and practice the correct concept of performance, Focus on solving the problems of cadres' arbitrary actions, inaction, timidity, and incompetence.

  • Emphasize implementing the "three distinctions," encouraging cadres to be pioneering and enterprising, and to work hard and make contributions.

  • Proposed enhancement of the political and organizational functions of Party organizations, Exploring effective approaches to strengthen Party building in new economic organizations, new social organizations, and new employment groups Improving the mechanisms for Party member education, management, and role performance.

     

■ Deepening the Party's efforts in Party conduct and integrity and anti-corruption

 

  • Emphasizing the improvement of mechanisms for political oversight that are specific, precise, and normalized Unrelentingly implementing the spirit of the eight-point regulation of the Central Committee, resolutely opposing formalism and bureaucratism, and effectively reducing burdens on the grassroots level.

  • Emphasizing the in-depth application of the "four forms of discipline" in supervision and discipline Comprehensively leveraging the educational constraints and incentive safeguards of Party discipline, improving the mechanism for comprehensively advancing the work of preventing corruption, making it impossible to be corrupt, and eliminating the desire to be corrupt, and focusing on eliminating the soil and conditions that breed corruption.

  • Emphasizing the improvement of the Party and state supervision system Strengthening the primary and supervisory responsibilities of the Party's strict governance

  • Emphasizing strengthening the governance of false accusations, etc.