4. Xi on Chinese modernization

“Qiushi” magazine publishes important article by General Secretary Xi Jinping

Promoting Chinese-style modernization requires handling a number of major relationships

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 30 – The 19th issue of “Qiushi” magazine, to be published on October 1, will feature an important article by Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, titled “Promoting Chinese-style Modernization Needs to Handle Several Major Relationships”

The article points out that promoting Chinese-style modernization is a systematic project that requires overall consideration, systematic planning, overall advancement, and the correct handling of a series of major relationships.

The article focuses on six aspects. The first is the relationship between top-level design and practical exploration. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China profoundly elaborated on the Chinese characteristics, essential requirements and major principles of Chinese-style modernization. It is the highest-level design for promoting Chinese-style modernization. Chinese-style modernization is promoted in stages and fields. Achieving development goals at each stage and implementing development strategies in various fields also requires top-level design. At the same time, promoting Chinese-style modernization is an exploratory undertaking, and there are still many unknown areas. That calls for boldly exploring in practice and promoting career development through reform and innovation. We must not sit back and wait for the rabbit to catch up.

The second is the relationship between strategy and tactics. Strategy and tactics are powerful weapons for our party to lead the people to transform the world, change practice, and promote historical development. It is necessary to enhance the forward-looking, overall and stable nature of the strategy, connect history, reality and the future, and connect China with the world, so that the strategies we formulate are realistic and effective, and provide strong strategic support for Chinese-style modernization. Strategy provides scientific methods for strategy implementation. It is necessary to combine the principle of strategy with the flexibility of strategy organically, be flexible, adapt to changes, and make decisions on the fly, and seize the strategic initiative by adapting to local conditions, moving according to the situation, and following the trend.

The third is the relationship between integrity and innovation. Keeping integrity and innovating is an important ideological method for our party to govern the country in the new era. The exploration of Chinese-style modernization is a historical process of development while inheriting and innovation while maintaining integrity. In advancing the new journey of Chinese-style modernization, we must first safeguard the origin, root and soul of Chinese-style modernization, unswervingly adhere to the Chinese characteristics, essential requirements and major principles of Chinese-style modernization, and ensure the correct direction of Chinese-style modernization. At the same time, innovation must be placed in a prominent position in the overall development of the country, comply with the development requirements of the times, focus on solving major theoretical and practical problems, actively recognize changes and adapt to changes, and vigorously promote theoretical innovation, practical innovation, institutional innovation, cultural innovation and other Innovate in all aspects, constantly open up new areas and new tracks for development, and create new momentum and new advantages for development.

The fourth is the relationship between efficiency and fairness. Chinese-style modernization must not only create higher efficiency than capitalism, but also maintain social fairness more effectively, and better achieve the balance, promotion and unity of efficiency and fairness.

The fifth is the relationship between vitality and order. In the historical process of modernization, handling this relationship is a worldwide problem. Chinese-style modernization should and can achieve a dynamic balance that is lively but not chaotic, active and orderly.

Sixth is the relationship between self-reliance and self-improvement and opening to the outside world. To promote Chinese-style modernization, we must insist on independence, self-reliance and self-improvement, on placing the development of the country and the nation at the base of our own strength, and on keeping the destiny of China’s development and progress firmly in our own hands. It is necessary to continuously expand high-level opening up to the outside world and expand the development space for Chinese-style modernization.