2. Xi on deepening reforms

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Xi Jinping chairs third meeting of Central Committee for Comprehensive Deepening Reforms and emphasizes:

Comprehensively promote the construction of a beautiful China

Li Qiang, Wang Huning and Cai Qi also attended the meeting

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 7 – Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, State President, Chairman of the Central Military Commission, and Director of the Central Comprehensive Deepening Reform Commission, presided over the third meeting of the Central Comprehensive Deepening Reform Commission on the afternoon of November 7 and reviewed and approved the “About Comprehensive Deepening of Reform”. “Opinions on Promoting the Construction of a Beautiful China”, “Opinions on Further Improving the State-owned Capital Operation Budget System”, “Implementation Opinions on Improving the Supervision System and Mechanism of Natural Monopoly Links”, “Guiding Opinions on Strengthening the Supervision and Management of Expert Participation in Public Decision-making”, “Guiding Opinions on Strengthening Zoning Management and Control of Ecological Environment”.

When presiding over the meeting, Xi Jinping emphasized that building a beautiful China is an important goal in building a modern socialist country in an all-round way. It is necessary to anchor the basic realization of the goal of beautiful China in 2035, continue to advance pollution prevention and control, accelerate the green transformation of development methods, and enhance the diversity of the ecosystem. , stability and sustainability, keep the bottom line of safety, improve the security system, and promote the fundamental improvement of the ecological environment. The state-owned capital operation budget is an important part of the national budget system. It is necessary to improve the state-owned capital operation budget system, expand the scope of implementation, strengthen functions and effects, improve revenue and expenditure management, and improve fund efficiency. It is necessary to improve the supervision system and mechanism of natural monopoly links, strengthen institutional design, improve the supervision system, enhance supervision capabilities, enhance the state-owned economy’s control over natural monopoly links, better meet the needs of building a modern infrastructure system, and better protect national security. It is necessary to better serve and support public decision-making, strengthen the supervision and management of experts’ participation in public decision-making, improve systems and mechanisms, standardize process standards, strengthen whole-process management, and create an environment for experts to participate in public decision-making that makes full use of their talents, is full of vitality, and has integrity. Ecological environment zoning management and control plays a fundamental role in the ecological environment source prevention system. It is necessary to strengthen top-level design, improve the institutional system, and promote the realization of differentiated and precise management and control of the ecological environment by region with the goal of ensuring ecological functions and improving environmental quality.

Li Qiang, Wang Huning and Cai Qi, members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and deputy directors of the Central Commission for Comprehensive Deepening Reforms, attended the meeting.

The meeting pointed out that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China’s ecological civilization construction has undergone historic, turning points and overall changes from theory to practice. It must be based on the new needs of high-quality economic and social development and the people’s new demands for ecological environment improvement. It is expected that we will intensify the centralized solution of outstanding ecological and environmental problems, focus on the construction of ecological civilization systems, give full play to the leading role of pioneer exploration and demonstration, carry out nationwide actions, promote local and overall coordination, treat symptoms and root causes, and balance current and long-term combine. It is necessary to strengthen organizational leadership, combine local actual classification policies, district governance, refined construction, and promote the goal of Beautiful China to become reality step by step through specific actions.

The meeting emphasized that the budget work reflects the will of the party and the country, and it is necessary to uphold and strengthen the leadership of the party, give full play to the institutional advantages of concentrating efforts on major tasks, focus on promoting the optimization and structural adjustment of the state-owned economy, and promote state-owned capital to be related to national security and the lifeline of the national economy. Concentrate on important industries and key areas, concentrate on public services, emergency response capabilities, public welfare areas related to the national economy and people’s livelihood, and concentrate on forward-looking strategic emerging industries to better serve the construction of a new development pattern and promote high-quality development. We must always adhere to the idea of ​​”living a tight life”, strengthen the scientific coordination and rational allocation of financial resources, reasonably determine the scale of budget revenue and expenditure, make overall plans to ensure and improve people’s livelihood, and put an end to extravagance and waste. It is necessary to adhere to the statutory budget, strengthen budget constraints, promote budget performance management, and give full play to the supervisory role of the National People’s Congress.

The meeting pointed out that network links in industries such as electricity, oil and gas, and railways have natural monopoly attributes and are key areas of my country’s state-owned economic layout. It is necessary to improve the regulatory system, strengthen regulatory capacity building, focus on strengthening the supervision of the natural monopoly link in the implementation of major national strategies and planning tasks, the fulfillment of national security responsibilities, the fulfillment of social responsibilities, business scope and business behavior, and promote the natural monopoly link. Enterprises focus on their main responsibilities and businesses, increase state-owned capital investment in network infrastructure, and improve the security and reliability of backbone networks. It is necessary to supervise the scope of monopolistic and competitive businesses carried out in natural monopoly links to prevent the use of monopoly advantages from extending to upstream and downstream competitive links.

The meeting emphasized that experts are important intellectual resources for promoting reform and development. It is necessary to strengthen political guidance for the expert team, improve policy guarantees and incentive measures for experts to participate in public decision-making, and fully mobilize the enthusiasm and initiative of experts. It is necessary to establish and improve the entire process and full-chain management system from expert selection to assessment and supervision, improve the institutional norms for experts to participate in public decision-making by field and category, clarify the responsibilities, rights, obligations and corresponding responsibilities of experts participating in public decision-making, and encourage These experts actively provide advice and suggestions for the party and government’s scientific decision-making.

The meeting pointed out that to strengthen ecological environment zoning management and control, it is necessary to implement the main functional zone strategy, connect land spatial planning and use control, focus on regional and watershed outstanding ecological and environmental problems, improve the ecological environment zoning management and control plan, and establish a process from problem identification to solutions. Zoning and classification management and control strategies. It is necessary to implement the main responsibilities of local party committees and governments at all levels, use the results of ecological environment zoning management and control, serve the implementation of major national and local development strategies, and scientifically guide various development, protection and construction activities.

Members of the Central Committee for Comprehensively Deepening Reforms attended the meeting, and responsible comrades from relevant departments of the central government and state agencies attended the meeting.