HOW TO DEEPEN REFORM COMPREHENSIVELY

Published by: Foreign Languages Press

Edition: 2019

Editor's Note

In November 2012, the 18th National Congress of the Com- munist Party of China (CPC) made the strategic decision to compre- hensively deepen reform. At its third plenary session a year later, the 18th CPC Central Committee discussed major issues concerning this decision and defined the overall objective, key tasks, major measures, timetable, and roadmap for comprehensively deepening reform. This session ushered in a new stage in China's reform and opening up that had been in place for 35 years. Comprehensively deepening reform will give strong impetus to China's socialist modernization, and will create new development opportunities for the world.

Since the 18th Congress, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and President of China, has made many ex- positions on comprehensively deepening reform and expanding open- ing up. We have selected extracts from these expositions and com- piled them into this book, which is comprised of 274 excerpts under 12 headings from more than 70 of his writings, including speeches, comments, and directives, dating between November 15, 2012, and April 1, 2014. Some of the excerpts are published here in English for the first time.

The purpose of this book is to help readers to come to better un- derstand the background, objectives, tasks, significance, and impact of China's efforts to comprehensively deepen reform through the eyes of the country's top leader.

Editor

June 2014


Contents

I. REFORM AND OPENING UP IS THE KEY TO RE-JUVENATING THE CHINESE NATION

II. REFORM AND OPENING UP HAS TO IT AN ORIENTATION, A STANDPOINT, AND UNDER-LYING PRINCIPLES

III. THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF COMPREHENSIVELY DEEPENING REFORM: IMPROVING AND DEVELOPING SOCIALISM WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS AND MODERNIZING CHINA'S GOVERNANCE SYSTEM AND GOVERNANCE CAPACITY

IV. UNDERSTANDING HOW THE COMPREHENSIVE DEEPENING OF REFORM WORKS AND USING THE RIGHT METHODOLOGY

V. KEEPING REFORM ORIENTED TOWARD ESTA-BLISHING A ROBUST SOCIALIST MARKET ECONOMY, AND ENSURING THAT THE MARKET PLAYS THE DECISIVE ROLE IN ALLOCATING RESOURCES AND THE GOVERNMENT PLAYS A BETTER ROLE

VI. KEEPING TO THE SOCIALIST PATH OF POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS AND PROMOTING THE IMPROVE-MENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOCIALIST POLITICAL SYSTEM

VII. DEEPENING CULTURAL STRUCTURAL REFORM AND STRENGTHENING CORE SOCIALIST VALUES

VIII. REFORMING AND MAKING INNOVATIONS IN SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS, PROMOTING EQUITY AND JUSTICE, AND IMPROVING QUALITY OF LIFE

IX. ESTABLISHING TARGETS, METHODS OF APPRAISAL, AND INCENTIVE MECHANISMS THAT PROMOTE ECOLOGICAL PROGRESS

X. BUILDING A MODERN SYSTEM OF MILITARY STRENGTH WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS

XI. IMPLEMENTING A MORE PROACTIVE STRATEGY FOR OPENING UP AND IMPROVING THE OPEN ECONOMIC SYSTEM TO MAKE IT MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL, DIVERSIFIED, BALANCED, SAFE, AND EFFICIENT

XII. PROVIDING EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP IN THE UPHILL STRUGGLE OF COMPREHENSIVELY DEEPENING REFORM