Strengthen the domestic exploration and development of important energy and mineral resources, and increase reserves and production!
The meeting emphasized that to do a good job in economic work next year, we must be guided by Xi Jinping's Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party, solidly promote Chinese-style modernization, adhere to the general principle of seeking progress while maintaining stability, comprehensively and accurately implement the new development concept, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, focus on promoting high-quality development, better coordinate epidemic prevention and control with economic and social development, better coordinate development and security, comprehensively deepen reform and opening up, vigorously boost market confidence, organically combine the implementation of the strategy to expand domestic demand with deepening supply-side structural reform, highlight the importance of stabilizing growth, employment, and prices, effectively prevent and resolve major risks, promote an overall improvement in economic operation, achieve a qualitative effective enhancement and a reasonable quantitative growth, and set a good start for the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country.
The meeting required that next year we should adhere to stability as the priority and seek progress while maintaining stability, continue to implement an active fiscal policy and a prudent monetary policy, increase the intensity of macro policy regulation, and strengthen coordination and cooperation among various policies to form a joint force to promote high-quality development.
The meeting pointed out that next year's economic work is complex and multifaceted, and we must start from the strategic overall situation, improve social psychological expectations, and boost development confidence to effectively carry out our work.
First, focus on expanding domestic demand. We should prioritize the recovery and expansion of consumption. Enhance consumption capacity, improve consumption conditions, and innovate consumption scenarios. Increase the income of urban and rural residents through multiple channels, supporting consumption in housing improvement, new energy vehicles, elderly care services, etc. Effectively drive social investment through government investment and policy incentives, accelerate the implementation of major projects during the 14th Five-Year Plan, and strengthen infrastructure connectivity between regions. Policy-based finance should increase financing support for major projects that align with national development plans. Encourage and attract more private capital to participate in the construction of major national projects and projects that address shortcomings. We should continue to leverage exports to support the economy and actively expand imports of advanced technologies, important equipment, and energy resources.
Second, accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system. Focus on key industrial chains in manufacturing, identify key core technologies and weak links in components, concentrate high-quality resources to tackle challenges, ensure that the industrial system is self-controllable and safe, and ensure smooth circulation of the national economy.Strengthen domestic exploration and development of important energy and mineral resources and increase reserves and production, accelerate the planning and construction of a new energy system, and enhance the capacity for national strategic material reserves. Implement a new round of actions to increase grain production capacity by hundreds of billions of pounds.Enhance the position and competitiveness of traditional industries in the global industrial division of labor, accelerate the research and application of cutting-edge technologies such as new energy, artificial intelligence, biomanufacturing, green low-carbon, and quantum computing. Vigorously develop the digital economy, improve the level of normalized supervision, and support platform enterprises in leading development, creating jobs, and excelling in international competition. Seize new opportunities arising from the adjustment of global industrial structure and layout, and boldly explore new fields and win new races.
Third, effectively implement the 'two unwavering principles.' In response to incorrect discussions in society about whether we adhere to the 'two unwavering principles,' we must clarify our stance unequivocally. Deepen the reform of state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises, and enhance the core competitiveness of state-owned enterprises. Adhere to the direction of classified reform, and properly handle the relationship between the economic responsibilities and social responsibilities of state-owned enterprises. Improve the modern corporate governance of state-owned enterprises with Chinese characteristics, and truly operate according to market mechanisms. We must implement the requirement of equal treatment for state-owned and private enterprises from the institutional and legal levels, and encourage and support the development and growth of the private economy and private enterprises through policies and public opinion. Legally protect the property rights of private enterprises and the rights and interests of entrepreneurs. Leaders at all levels should help private enterprises solve problems and do practical work, building a close and clean relationship between government and business.
Fourth, attract and utilize foreign investment with greater effort. We should promote high-level opening up, and improve the quality and level of trade and investment cooperation. Expand market access and increase the openness of the modern service industry. Ensure that foreign-funded enterprises enjoy national treatment, guarantee their equal participation in government procurement, bidding, and standard-setting according to the law, and strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights and the legal rights and interests of foreign investment. Actively promote joining high-standard economic and trade agreements such as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement, and proactively align with relevant rules, regulations, management, and standards to deepen reforms in related domestic fields. Provide maximum convenience for foreign investors to engage in trade and investment negotiations in China, and promote the landing and construction of landmark foreign investment projects.
Fifth, effectively prevent and resolve major economic and financial risks.Ensure the stable development of the real estate market, and solidly carry out work to ensure the delivery of buildings, safeguard people's livelihoods, and maintain stability.Meet the reasonable financing needs of the industry, promote industry restructuring and mergers and acquisitions, effectively prevent and resolve risks of quality leading real estate enterprises, improve asset-liability conditions, and resolutely crack down on illegal and criminal activities according to the law. Policies should be tailored to cities, supporting rigid and improvement housing needs, addressing housing issues for new citizens, young people, and other groups, and exploring the construction of a long-term rental housing market.We must adhere to the positioning that houses are for living in, not for speculation, and promote a smooth transition of the real estate industry to a new development model.We must prevent and resolve financial risks, hold all parties accountable, and prevent the formation of regional and systemic financial risks. Strengthen the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee over financial work. Prevent and resolve local government debt risks, resolutely curb new increases, and resolve existing debts.
The meeting pointed out that we must comprehensively promote rural revitalization and resolutely prevent large-scale return to poverty. Plan a new round of comprehensive deepening reform. Promote high-quality development of the Belt and Road Initiative. Deeply implement major regional strategies and regional coordinated development strategies.We must promote the green transformation of economic and social development, synergistically advance carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion, and growth, and build a beautiful China.
The meeting required that we accurately grasp the deployment requirements for economic work next year, take responsibility, be proactive, understand the actual situation, creatively implement the policies, and strive to achieve the main expected goals of economic development next year, using new atmosphere and new actions to promote new achievements in high-quality development. We must unswervingly deepen reform and expand opening up, continuously enhance the momentum and vitality of economic and social development. We must prudently handle and resolve major risk hazards, maintain stability in the economic, financial, and social overall situation. According to the deployment of the Party Central Committee, optimize and adjust epidemic prevention policies, strengthen overall coordination, organize and implement in an orderly manner, smoothly transition through the epidemic period, and ensure a stable transition and social order. We must do a good job in various tasks at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, strengthen market supply and price stability, and ensure that the public can safely and warmly get through the winter. Ensure the basic livelihood of people affected by the epidemic and disasters, as well as vulnerable groups such as the elderly, the sick, and the disabled.Strengthen safety production rectification, and resolutely prevent and curb the occurrence of major accidents.
The meeting emphasized that all regions, departments, and leaders at all levels must unify their thoughts and actions with the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party and the decision-making deployment of the Party Central Committee regarding economic work. We must insist on high-quality development as the primary task in the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country, improve the implementation mechanism for major decision-making deployments of the Party Central Committee, and carry out economic work with a vigorous spirit and a sense of responsibility that 'we must always be vigilant.' The new team must have a new atmosphere and new actions, strengthen learning, and become experts and capable leaders. We must adhere to practical work, seek truth from facts, oppose formalism and bureaucratism, and hold accountable in a scientific and precise manner, supporting those who take responsibility.
The meeting called for the entire Party to closely unite around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, enhance the 'four consciousnesses,' strengthen the 'four confidences,' and achieve the 'two safeguards,' working together with determination and courage to strive to complete the goals and tasks of economic and social development, and make new contributions to the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country and the comprehensive promotion of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Leaders from the Party and the state attended the meeting.
The main responsible comrades of the party and government in provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the central government, and cities with separate plans, as well as the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, relevant departments of the central and state organs, relevant people's organizations, some financial institutions and enterprises managed by the central government, and the main responsible comrades of various departments of the Central Military Commission attended the meeting.
Source: Xinhua News Agency
