CCTV News(News Broadcast): This year is the beginning of the “14th Five-Year Plan”. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “It is very important to do a good job in this year’s economic and social development and take the first step in my country’s development during the 14th Five-Year Plan period. “Since this year, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, China has been based on a new stage of development, implementing new development concepts, building a new development pattern, and promoting high-quality development, and the economy has continued to recover steadily and improve with stability.” The 14th Five-Year Plan has achieved a steady start. The “News Network” series of reports “Navigating a New Era and Starting a New Journey-General Secretary Xi Jinping’s Country and Administration Documentary This Year” broadcasted the third episode of “Strategic Decisions to Win and Actively Accelerate the Construction of a New Development Pattern” on August 11.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that based on the new development stage, implementing the new development concept, constructing a new development pattern, and promoting high-quality development, the whole party and the country must pay close attention to the work at present and for a period of time in the future.
Since the beginning of this year, the Party Central Committee has scientifically grasped the important strategic judgment that my country will enter a new development stage during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, and emphasized the complete, accurate and comprehensive implementation of the new development concept, a systematic theoretical system, and has always been able to build new development. The pattern is a major strategic task related to the overall development of our country. It is to steer the Chinese economic ship to ride the wind and waves and move forward steadily.
On July 15, China’s economic report for the first half of this year was released, and its GDP increased by 12.7% year-on-year. In the international context of the fragile recovery of the world economy, this is a hard-won transcript.
It is a strategic choice made by the Party Central Committee to build a new development pattern with the domestic cycle as the main body and the domestic and international dual cycles mutually promoting each other.
The most essential feature of constructing a new development pattern is to achieve a high level of self-reliance. In April this year, the general secretary emphasized during an inspection of Guangxi Liugong Group that the initiative of innovation and development must be firmly in his own hands.
In the first half of this year, China’s innovation momentum continued to increase. The added value of high-tech manufacturing increased by 22.6% year-on-year, which was 6.7 percentage points faster than the growth rate of all industrial added value.
Since the beginning of this year, from the successful landing of “Tianwen” on Mars to the Chinese entering their own space station for the first time, from the opening of the Lalin Railway to the commissioning of the first batch of units of the Baihetan Hydropower Station on the Jinsha River, the general secretary has always pointed out the direction for high-level independence and self-reliance.
The key to constructing a new development pattern lies in the unimpeded economic cycle, and the dominant role is the domestic cycle.
Since the beginning of this year, the General Secretary has repeatedly emphasized that it is necessary to establish an effective system for expanding domestic demand, to release the potential of domestic demand, and to give more prominent priority to meeting domestic needs and improving the quality of life of the people. In the first half of this year, the contribution rate of domestic demand to China’s economic growth reached 80.9%.
Since the beginning of this year, the General Secretary has repeatedly emphasized that China will expand its high-level opening to the outside world and provide new opportunities for the world with China’s new development. In May of this year, the first China International Consumer Goods Fair was held in Hainan, which is another mutually beneficial cooperation platform built by China after the CIIE. In the first half of this year, the total value of my country’s foreign trade imports and exports increased by 27.1% year-on-year, and the scale of imports and exports hit the best level in the same period in history.
Since the beginning of this year, the Party Central Committee and the State Council have issued opinions to promote the high-quality development of the central region in the new era, support the Pudong New Area’s high-level reform and opening up, build a leading zone for socialist modernization, and support the high-quality development of Zhejiang to build a demonstration zone for common prosperity. The general secretary conducted special investigations on the South-to-North Water Diversion Project and held a symposium, requesting solid progress in the high-quality development of the follow-up projects of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project. These are all important arrangements for promoting coordinated and shared development.
In April of this year, the general secretary emphasized when participating in voluntary tree planting activities in the capital that he must make great efforts to promote green development.
The general secretary emphasized that efforts should be made to build a modernization in which man and nature coexist in harmony. The Party Central Committee has incorporated carbon peaking and carbon neutrality into the overall layout of ecological civilization construction, and comprehensively promotes the development of a green and low-carbon circular economy. In July of this year, as the world‘s largest carbon market, the national carbon market was officially launched for online trading.
On July 9 this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over the 20th meeting of the Central Committee for Comprehensively Deepening Reform, and pointed out that since the Party Central Committee’s decision to accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, all regions and departments have actively explored and acted actively to accelerate science and technology. A lot of work has been done in self-reliance and self-reliance, promoting a smooth economic cycle, expanding domestic demand, promoting green development, and implementing a high-level opening to the outside world. The start is a good start.
The general secretary emphasized that accelerating the construction of a new development pattern is a tough and protracted battle that requires tenacious fighting spirit and strategic determination. Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee, China will surely win this crucial battle and always grasp the historical initiative in the development of the party and the country.