Chao News Commentator Zhang Ping.
From November 28th to December 2nd, the general secretary of ** inspected and investigated in Shanghai. Reform and opening up is an important focus of the general secretary's inspection trip to Shanghai. Five years ago, when the general secretary climbed the Shanghai Tower in Lujiazui, he said, "Since the reform and opening up, China has undergone earth-shaking changes, and Shanghai is a vivid example. Today, the general secretary once again earnestly entrusts Shanghai to "continue to be the vanguard of reform and opening up and the pioneer of innovation and development." On November 30, the general secretary of the Yangtze River Delta presided over a symposium on in-depth promotion of the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta in Shanghai and delivered an important speech, also emphasizing that it is necessary to "establish a global vision and strategic thinking, unswervingly deepen reform and expand high-level opening-up". These words not only pointed out the direction for us to continue to make good use of the "key move" of reform and opening up, but also released a positive signal to the world and boosted the confidence of all walks of life in reform and opening up and China's economy.
This year marks the 45th anniversary of reform and opening up and the 10th anniversary of the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee. 45 years ago, the spark ignited from the countryside and rose from the coast, spreading and expanding, stubbornly advancing inch by inch, and finally became a prairie fire. 1.4 billion Chinese have used reform and opening up to catch up with the "time difference" with the world's development, and every Chinese's life has been deeply changed by this exciting change. With its unprecedented leaps and achievements that have attracted worldwide attention, it has made the country rich and strong, the society has made progress, the people have given confidence, and the world has been shocked, allowing China's giant ship to sail into a new water, and also stimulating the world's rich imagination on reform and system.
History has not always been a thousand miles. In the post-epidemic era, change and reconstruction are intertwined, sea water and flames are blended, geopolitical friction is reshaping the world's leading pattern, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation such as artificial intelligence is developing in depth, "decoupling and breaking the chain" and "anti-globalization" are prevalent, and problems such as increasing downward pressure on the domestic economy, lack of corporate confidence, sluggish real estate market, and technological "stuck neck" are in front of us. The West has been hyping up issues such as the transfer of industrial chains and the withdrawal of foreign capital, in an attempt to put a veil of uncertainty on China's reform and opening up.
Will reform and opening up be carried out to the end?The loud declarations and determined actions have never stopped. The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China listed "persisting in deepening reform and opening up" as one of the "five major principles" that must be firmly grasped on the way forward. In April this year, when presiding over the first meeting of the 20th Committee for Comprehensively Deepening Reform, the general secretary stressed that it is necessary to take the comprehensive deepening of reform as the fundamental driving force for promoting Chinese-style modernization. During the inspection in Guangdong, at the opening ceremony of the third "Belt and Road" Forum for International Cooperation and the APEC Business Leaders Summit, the general secretary repeatedly reiterated this important principle: reform and opening up can only be carried out, not completed. On November 24, China announced a trial unilateral visa waiver for holders of ordinary passports from six countries, including France and Germany. At a time when the West is shouting "decoupling" and "sanctions", China has continuously taken pragmatic actions to insist on opening its doors to construction and unswervingly promote high-level opening-up.
Looking back at the 45 years of struggle, reform and opening up has never been a smooth road, and it took us decades to complete the road that the developed countries in the West have taken for hundreds of years. During this period, the waves and reefs wrestled, and the old water and the new currents competed, but the tenacity of the trend of reform and opening up, and the certainty of the purpose, could not be resisted by any factor. We are well aware that "contradictions in reform and opening up can only be resolved by the methods of reform and opening up." "In the face of the new proposition, the way remains the same, the will not change, further emancipate the mind, seek truth from facts, improve the basic system of the market economy, create a market-oriented, law-based, international first-class business environment, and steadily expand the rules, regulations, management, standards and other institutional opening-up, is China's choice.
In the new historical stage, continuing to do a good job in the great article of China's own reform and opening up has become a broad social consensus and national belief, and it is China's unshakable certainty. In the face of torrents and fog, we are not frightened by difficulties, risks, or interferences, and reform and opening up has created a new world on the new journey and promoted the path of Chinese-style modernization to become wider and wider.
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