Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, presided over a symposium on the economic and social development of some provinces and municipalities during the 15th Five-Year Plan period in Shanghai on the morning of April 30 and delivered an important speech. He stressed that this year is the final year of the 14th Five-Year Plan, and while accelerating the implementation of the plan's goals and tasks, it is necessary to adapt to changing circumstances, grasp strategic priorities, and scientifically plan the economic and social development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period.
Li Qiang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Premier of the State Council, and Cai Qi, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee, attended the symposium.
At the symposium, Sun Shaocheng, Secretary of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee of the CPC; Chen Jining, Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the CPC; Wang Hao, Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the CPC; Wang Zhonglin, Secretary of the Hubei Provincial Committee of the CPC; Huang Kunming, Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the CPC; Wang Xiaohui, Secretary of the Sichuan Provincial Committee of the CPC; and Hu Changsheng, Secretary of the Gansu Provincial Committee of the CPC, delivered speeches in turn, combining their work experience to put forward opinions and suggestions on economic and social development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period.
After listening to everyone's speeches, Xi Jinping delivered an important speech. He stressed that the scientific formulation and successive implementation of five-year plans is an important experience of our Party's governance and administration, and also an important political advantage of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Planning the economic and social development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period requires accurately grasping the phased requirements of the 15th Five-Year Plan period, focusing on national rejuvenation and the great cause of national rejuvenation, and closely centering on the goal of basically realizing socialist modernization. Goals and tasks should be reasonably determined and approaches and measures proposed for each area. For goals and tasks in all aspects, in-depth analysis and argumentation should be conducted to ensure that they are scientifically accurate and achievable on schedule. Overall planning should be carried out, focusing on key and decisive factors, grasping the rhythm and progress, paying attention to consolidating and expanding advantages, breaking through bottlenecks, strengthening shortcomings and weaknesses, and improving quality and efficiency, maintaining consistency with the overall goals.
Xi Jinping pointed out that in planning economic and social development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, it is necessary to proactively grasp the impact of changes in the international situation on China, and to adjust and optimize the economic layout accordingly. We must unswervingly manage our own affairs, unswervingly expand high-level opening up, take multiple measures to stabilize employment, enterprises, markets, and expectations, effectively stabilize the economic fundamentals, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, and comprehensively promote high-quality development. We must pay more attention to coordinating development and security, comprehensively consider internal and external risks and challenges, improve the national security system, enhance the ability to maintain security, promote the benign interaction between high-efficiency governance and high-quality development and high-level security, and ensure the new development pattern with a new security pattern.
Xi Jinping stressed that during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, it is necessary to place the development of new productive forces in a more prominent strategic position, taking technological innovation as the guide and the real economy as the foundation, adhering to the simultaneous and comprehensive promotion of the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, the active development of emerging industries, and the forward-looking layout of future industries, and accelerating the construction of a modernized industrial system. It is necessary to improve the national innovation system, stimulate the vitality of various innovation entities, target the world's scientific and technological frontiers, continue to work hard on strengthening basic research and improving original innovation capabilities, and accelerate breakthroughs in key core technologies and cutting-edge technologies. It is necessary to comprehensively promote the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent, and lay a solid foundation for the development of new productive forces.
Xi Jinping pointed out that Chinese-style modernization is socialist modernization in which all people share in common prosperity. In planning economic and social development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, we must not forget our original aspiration, take benefiting the people as the fundamental value orientation, adhere to improving people's livelihood in the course of development, and steadily promote common prosperity. It is necessary to conduct in-depth research on effective measures to optimize regional layout, promote coordinated regional development, consolidate and expand the achievements of poverty alleviation, promote comprehensive rural revitalization and integrated urban-rural development, and accelerate agricultural and rural modernization, and steadily increase the income of urban and rural residents. It is necessary to study and introduce a batch of people's livelihood policies and measures with strong equity and accessibility, focusing on solving problems that concern, worry, and trouble the masses. Things concerning the people are key to reality; all policies and measures must be substantial and effective, adhering to the principle of doing what we can and doing what we can afford.
Xi Jinping stressed that in planning economic and social development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, various regions should accurately position themselves within the national context and strengthen planning coordination. It is necessary to conduct in-depth investigations and studies, adhere to the unity of goal orientation and problem orientation, and reflect their own characteristics and give play to their comparative advantages when determining development ideas and strategic measures.
He Lifeng and Wu Zhenglong attended the symposium, and responsible comrades from relevant departments of the central and state organs and relevant provinces and municipalities participated in the symposium.