Explanation of the 'Proposal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the Fifteenth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development'
Xinhua News Agency· 16:34
Main Considerations in Drafting the Proposal and the Basic Content of the Proposal
The overall consideration in drafting the Proposal is to follow the two-step strategy for building a great modern socialist country in all respects as outlined at the 20th National Congress of the CPC, accurately grasp the significant role of the '15th Five-Year Plan' period in the process of basically achieving socialist modernization, conduct an in-depth analysis of domestic and international situations, and systematically plan and strategically deploy China’s economic and social development during the '15th Five-Year Plan' period.
In the process of drafting the Proposal, we focused on the following key points: First, adhering to goal-oriented and problem-oriented approaches, based on the fundamental positioning of consolidating foundations and exerting comprehensive efforts, with the aim of laying a more solid foundation for achieving the goal of socialist modernization through systematic planning, and addressing the challenges posed by the new situation of global changes unseen in a century and prominent issues in development by strengthening weak areas and addressing shortcomings. Second, adhering to systemic thinking, comprehensively deploying economic and social development and party building work in accordance with the requirements for advancing the 'five-in-one' overall layout and coordinating the 'four-pronged comprehensive strategy.' Third, adhering to further comprehensive deepening of reforms, focusing on using reform methods to resolve development challenges, adding momentum and stimulating vitality for development. Fourth, adhering to expanding opening-up, placing development on the basis of self-reliance while making full use of global factors and market resources.
The Proposal consists of 15 parts, divided into three major sections. The first section includes the first and second parts, serving as the general discussion, mainly elaborating on the significant achievements made during the '14th Five-Year Plan' period, the pivotal role of the '15th Five-Year Plan' period in the process of basically achieving socialist modernization, the profound and complex changes in the development environment during the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, as well as the guiding ideology, principles followed, and main objectives for economic and social development during this period. The second section includes parts three to fourteen, providing detailed discussions, focusing on key issues affecting the overall situation and long-term prospects, and outlining strategic tasks and major initiatives in various fields for the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, specifying ideas and priorities from industrial development, scientific and technological innovation, domestic markets, economic systems, opening-up, rural revitalization, regional development, to cultural construction, livelihood security, green development, security development, and national defense construction. The third section includes part fifteen and the concluding remarks, primarily addressing tasks such as upholding and strengthening centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee, advancing socialist democratic legal system construction, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan affairs, promoting the formation of a common destiny for humanity, and fully mobilizing the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of the entire society.
Several Key Issues Requiring Explanation
The Proposal puts forward some important viewpoints and major measures. Here, brief explanations are provided for several key issues.
First, regarding the significant position of the '15th Five-Year Plan' period. Achieving socialist modernization is a historical process of step-by-step progress and continuous development, requiring relentless efforts and successive struggles. The Proposal states that the '15th Five-Year Plan' period holds a pivotal position in the process of basically achieving socialist modernization, a judgment based on the historical tasks that this period should undertake. The 20th National Congress of the CPC set the target of basically achieving socialist modernization by 2035. The '14th Five-Year Plan' period was the first five years, during which a solid foundation was laid and a good start achieved. The '15th Five-Year Plan' period is a critical time for consolidating the foundation and exerting comprehensive efforts; formulating and implementing a sound '15th Five-Year Plan' will lay a more solid foundation for basically achieving socialist modernization by 2035.
Based on this fundamental positioning, the Proposal outlines the development for the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, maintaining continuity with the concepts and approaches proposed in the '14th Five-Year Plan,' while accurately grasping the trends of China’s development over the next five years, putting forward an overall approach, major principles, main objectives, and strategic tasks that are realistic and forward-looking. This time window must be seized to consolidate and expand advantages, remove bottlenecks, and strengthen weak areas, thereby gaining strategic initiative in fierce international competition, making significant breakthroughs in strategic tasks crucial to Chinese-style modernization, and ensuring decisive progress in basically achieving socialist modernization.
Second, regarding the economic and social development goals for the '15th Five-Year Plan' period. Scientifically setting development goals is crucial for formulating and implementing a five-year plan. The Proposal, taking into account the basic positioning and stage-specific requirements of the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, clarifies the main economic and social development goals. By 2035, when socialist modernization is basically achieved, one important indicator will be that per capita GDP reaches the level of moderately developed countries, which requires maintaining an appropriate growth rate during the '15th Five-Year Plan' period. Based on thorough research and scientific arguments, the Proposal sets forth key goals such as maintaining economic growth within a reasonable range, steadily improving total factor productivity, fully releasing economic growth potential, synchronizing residents’ income growth with economic growth, synchronizing labor remuneration increases with labor productivity increases, and continuously expanding the middle-income group. Meanwhile, considering current issues such as increased downward pressure on the domestic economy and insufficient effective demand, the Proposal proposes targets such as significantly increasing the household consumption rate and continuously enhancing the role of domestic demand as the primary driver of economic growth.
In reference to past practices, the draft of the "Recommendations" proposes that the socio-economic development goals for the '15th Five-Year Plan' period primarily consist of qualitative requirements, while necessary quantitative requirements and some specific work arrangements will be left for further study and determination during the formulation of the Outline of the Plan, in order to better reflect and leverage the macro-guidance role of the "Recommendations."
Third, regarding the theme of promoting high-quality development. The "Recommendations" are consistent with the 14th Five-Year Plan, continuing to set the promotion of high-quality development as the theme of socio-economic development for the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, requiring adherence to economic construction as the central task, fully, accurately, and comprehensively implementing the new development philosophy, achieving effective improvement in quality and reasonable growth in quantity, and promoting sustained and healthy economic development along with comprehensive social progress. To promote high-quality development, the most crucial step is to accelerate high-level technological self-reliance and strength, actively develop new forms of productivity, and achieve substantial and breakthrough progress in promoting scientific and technological innovation, accelerating the cultivation of new drivers, and optimizing and upgrading the economic structure.
The draft of the "Recommendations" highlights the leading role of scientific and technological innovation, making arrangements in building a modern industrial system, accelerating high-level technological self-reliance and strength, and expediting the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development. It proposes optimizing and upgrading traditional industries, fostering the growth of emerging and future industries, and consolidating the foundation of the real economy; it suggests strengthening original innovation and tackling key core technologies, promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation, advancing education, science, and talent development in an integrated manner, and furthering the construction of Digital China; it also calls for accelerating the establishment of a new energy system and fostering green production and living patterns. It should be noted that developing new forms of productivity requires certain endowment conditions and must take into account practical feasibility. The draft emphasizes developing new forms of productivity according to local conditions, aiming to guide everyone to work scientifically, rationally, and factually, preventing blind mass action.
Fourth, regarding strengthening the domestic cycle and ensuring smooth domestic and international dual circulation. The more severe and complex the external environment becomes, the more imperative it is to accelerate the formation of a new development pattern and firmly grasp the initiative of development. At present and for the foreseeable future, we must focus on strengthening the domestic cycle, accelerating the formation of a robust domestic economic circulation system, and offsetting the uncertainty of the international cycle with the stability of the domestic cycle.
The draft of the "Recommendations" emphasizes strengthening the domestic cycle, making arrangements for building a powerful domestic market and accelerating the formation of a high-level socialist market economic system. It stresses adhering to the strategic cornerstone of expanding domestic demand, combining the improvement of people's livelihood with consumption promotion and investment in both physical and human capital, vigorously boosting consumption, expanding effective investment, and decisively removing obstacles hindering the construction of a unified national market. It also emphasizes fully stimulating the vitality of various business entities, expediting the improvement of the mechanism for market-oriented allocation of factors, and enhancing the effectiveness of macroeconomic governance. Meanwhile, it proposes expanding international circulation, steadily increasing institutional openness, upholding the multilateral trading system, and jointly building a high-quality Belt and Road Initiative.
Fifth, regarding solid progress toward common prosperity for all. Chinese-style modernization is modernization aimed at common prosperity for all. Since the 18th CPC National Congress, we have adhered to our original aspiration, considered issues from the standpoint of the people, promoted coordinated regional development, taken strong measures to ensure and improve people’s livelihoods, won the battle against poverty, and completed the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects, thereby creating favorable conditions for promoting common prosperity. The draft of the "Recommendations" prominently emphasizes in its guiding ideology that solid steps will be taken toward common prosperity for all, which serves as an overarching requirement for socio-economic development during the '15th Five-Year Plan' period.
The draft of the "Recommendations" firmly adheres to the goal requirements of common prosperity, deploying a series of balanced and accessible policy measures around ensuring and improving people's livelihoods, such as promoting high-quality and full employment, perfecting the income distribution system, providing education that satisfies the people, strengthening the social security system, promoting high-quality development of the real estate sector, accelerating the construction of a Healthy China, promoting high-quality population development, and steadily advancing equalization of basic public services. Aiming to narrow regional disparities and urban-rural differences, it deploys pragmatic measures to expedite agricultural and rural modernization, solidly advance comprehensive rural revitalization, optimize regional economic layout, and promote coordinated regional development. With a view to enriching people’s spiritual lives, it proposes promoting and practicing the core socialist values, vigorously flourishing cultural undertakings, accelerating the development of the cultural industry, and enhancing the influence of Chinese civilization.
Sixth, regarding balancing development and security. Security is the precondition for development, and development is the guarantee of security. In the next five years, various uncertain and unpredictable risk factors in our country will significantly increase, making the task of balancing development and security even more arduous. The draft of the "Recommendations" focuses on advancing the modernization of the national security system and capabilities, proposing to improve the national security system, strengthen national security capabilities in key areas, enhance public safety governance, and perfect the social governance system. Regarding the high-quality advancement of national defense and military modernization, it suggests accelerating the construction of advanced combat capabilities, promoting the modernization of military governance, and consolidating and enhancing the integrated national strategic system and capabilities.
Seventh, regarding upholding the Party’s overall leadership. Upholding and strengthening the Party’s overall leadership is the fundamental guarantee for advancing Chinese-style modernization. The draft of the "Recommendations" aims to enhance the Party’s ability and level to lead economic and social development, emphasizing upholding and strengthening the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, improving mechanisms for implementing major decisions of the Party Central Committee; continuously using the Party’s innovative theory to unify thoughts, will, and actions; adhering to correct personnel orientation and improving the cadre assessment and evaluation mechanism; coordinating the construction of grassroots Party organizations in all fields; persistently implementing the spirit of the Central Eight Provisions; improving the supervision system of the Party and the state; and resolutely fighting a tough, protracted, and comprehensive battle against corruption.
The CPC Central Committee's Proposal for Formulating the Fifteenth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development
TheFourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China conducted an in-depth analysis of the international and domestic situation and proposed the following recommendations for formulating the '15th Five-Year Plan' for national economic and social development.
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