It is of great theoretical and practical significance to deeply understand the new development concept.
The development concept of innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing put forward by the Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee is a strategic choice made by our party to grasp the general trend of world development and focus on the overall development of China. It is a concentrated expression of China’s development ideas, development direction and development focus during the 13th Five-Year Plan and even a longer period. It is a powerful ideological weapon and scientific action guide to lead the new normal of economic development and win the victory in building a well-off society in an all-round way. It is also a new concept, new idea and new strategy of the Party Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the general secretary. We should deeply understand the outstanding theoretical contribution and great practical value of the new development concept in upholding and developing Socialism with Chinese characteristics and enriching and developing Marxism under the new historical conditions from the development context of history, reality and future, and from the issues of the times faced by contemporary China and the world today.
First, the new development concept is the ideological guide and action guide to lead the development of Socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee, with the Supreme Leader as the general secretary, has unswervingly adhered to and developed Socialism with Chinese characteristics, been brave in practice and good at innovation, and constantly deepened its understanding of communist party’s laws of governance, socialist construction and the development of human society, forming a series of new ideas, ideas and strategies for governing the country. The new development concept is a concentrated summary of the new ideas, new ideas and new strategies of the CPC Central Committee governing the country with the Supreme Leader as the general secretary. It focuses on highlighting contradictions, reveals the law of development, creatively answers the major issues of what and how to achieve development under the new situation, deepens and expands the theoretical understanding and practical requirements of some major propositions in Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s theoretical system, and provides the whole party with an ideological orientation and a behavioral orientation of managing the overall situation and managing the long-term issues.
Deepen the essential requirement of "taking economic construction as the center". The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China put forward taking economic construction as the center, which achieved a historic shift in the focus of the work of the party and the state and opened a great historical process of reform and opening up. Over the past 38 years, our Party has unswervingly adhered to this center, concentrated on construction and development, and created the "China Miracle" that attracted worldwide attention. The new development concept, based on the basic national conditions that China is in the primary stage of socialism and the main social contradictions have not changed for a long time, and according to the new changes in the situation, the new requirements of practice and the new expectations of the people, emphasizes that we must unswervingly adhere to the economic construction as the center, and further puts forward the people-centered development idea and the development requirements of improving quality and efficiency, which endows the economic construction as the center with a clearer goal orientation, a more effective realization way and a more scientific measurement standard. Unswervingly adhere to economic construction as the center, we must take improving people’s well-being and promoting people’s all-round development as the starting point and the end result, fully mobilize people’s enthusiasm, initiative and creativity, and take quality and efficiency as the core and key to push China’s economy onto a higher quality, more efficient, fairer and more sustainable development path.
It enriches the practical connotation of "development is the last word". More than 20 years ago, based on the reality of China, Comrade Deng Xiaoping summed up the international and domestic experiences and lessons, and loudly put forward the famous assertion that "development is the last word", stressing that the key to seizing the opportunity and developing oneself is to develop the economy. This assertion has further broken down the ideological barriers that constrain development and further focused the work of the whole party on seeking development and grasping development. Based on this conclusion, our party puts forward that development is the top priority of the party in governing and rejuvenating the country, adheres to the important ideas of people-oriented, comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable development, and promotes the continuous leap of China’s economic and social development. With the profound changes in the world, national conditions and party conditions, the connotation of the important strategic opportunity period has undergone profound changes, and it is urgent to establish new development ideas and directions, development motivation and focus. In the new development concept system, innovation is the core and soul of development, coordination is the basic method of development, green is the inherent requirement of development, openness is the characteristic of the times of development, and sharing is the starting point and fundamental destination of development. It has further deepened our party’s understanding of development, enriched and upgraded the party’s development theory, not only made the principle of adhering to development more "hard", but also made the "truth" of what kind of development and how to develop more distinct and systematic, which not only included the requirements of development speed, but also focused on the transformation of development power and mode.The pursuit is the organic unity of development speed and creativity, balance, inclusiveness and sustainability of development.
It highlights the value soul of promoting the overall layout of the "five in one". Since the reform and opening up, our party has deepened its understanding and improved its development pattern and target system in the practice of promoting the cause of Socialism with Chinese characteristics. From the construction of material civilization and spiritual civilization to the trinity of economic construction, political construction and cultural construction, to the integration of social construction, and to the establishment of the overall layout of economic construction, political construction, cultural construction, social construction and ecological civilization construction at the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, all these reflect the evolution and deepening of our party’s understanding of the cause of Socialism with Chinese characteristics. The proposal of the new development concept further highlights the value orientation of coordinating and promoting the five major constructions, clarifies the value standards for testing the effectiveness of career development, and condenses our party’s new practice and new understanding of what socialism to build and how to build socialism under the new situation. To promote the continuous development of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s cause is to integrate the new development concept into the overall layout, so that our cause will always have an endless source of power, always maintain a good momentum of coordinated, balanced, sustainable development and progress with the times, and bring more and more real sense of gain to the people.
Second, the new development concept is the scientific application and vivid development of the basic principles of Marxist political economy in today’s era.
Marxist political economy is a science that uses dialectical materialism and historical materialism world outlook methodology to study economic movement, which profoundly reveals the laws and historical trends of economic movement in human society, especially capitalist society. Our Party has always adhered to the standpoint, viewpoint and method of Marxist political economy in every period of revolution, construction and reform, and enriched and developed it according to the practice of China. The new development concept is a model for contemporary the Communist Party of China (CPC) people to solve the China issue by using Marxist standpoint and viewpoint, and it is the latest achievement of contemporary Marxist political economy. It embodies the Marxist theoretical character of seeking truth from facts and keeping pace with the times, the comprehensive, dialectical and systematic overall thinking, and the basic principles of scientific socialism. It is the fundamental choice to solve the outstanding economic problems in China and lead the long-term development in the future, and has written a new chapter in Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s political economy.
Highlight the fundamental task of liberating and developing productive forces more clearly. Emancipating and developing productive forces is the fundamental mission of socialism and the basic proposition of Marxist political economy. Comrade Deng Xiaoping pointed out that, in the final analysis, the superiority of socialism lies in the fact that its productivity develops faster and higher than that of capitalism, and on the basis of developing productivity, it constantly improves people’s material and cultural life. The new development concept firmly focuses on the fundamental task of liberating and developing productive forces, focusing on realizing the overall leap of China’s social productive forces, taking innovation as the first driving force to lead development and placing it at the core of the overall development of the country, emphasizing the great potential contained in improving the ability of independent innovation, liberating and stimulating science and technology as the primary productive forces, protecting productive forces by protecting ecology and developing productive forces by improving the environment, promoting economic restructuring, creating and cultivating new industries, and promoting high-level opening up, grasping and leading the wave of scientific and technological revolution. All these have grasped the key to developing social productive forces and improving labor productivity under the new situation, and reflected that our party’s understanding and grasp of the development law of productive forces has reached a new height and a new realm.
More clearly highlight the internal contradictions in adjusting productive forces and relations of production. Productivity determines relations of production, and relations of production must meet the requirements of productivity development, which is the basic principle of Marxism. Since the founding of New China, especially since the reform and opening-up, our party has made great efforts to eliminate the ideological obstacles and institutional obstacles that restrict the development of productive forces, greatly liberated and developed the productive forces, and gradually established production relations that meet the requirements of the development of productive forces, and the social productive forces and comprehensive national strength have been rapidly improved. It should be noted that the development of China’s social productive forces has stood at a new level at present, and a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial revolution around the world is emerging and ready to go. In particular, it is increasingly urgent to solve the old problems accumulated by China’s rapid economic and social development and encounter new problems, improve the socialist system, and promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. The development of productive forces has put forward new and higher requirements, which requires us to make up our minds to update our development concepts, persist in leading the reform of institutional mechanisms with new ideas, and strive to improve production relations. The new development concept focuses on further removing the institutional obstacles that hinder the development of productive forces, emphasizing the construction of an institutional framework to promote innovation, emphasizing the reform direction of the socialist market economy, and emphasizing the improvement of the governance capacity of the governance system that adapts to economic and social development and the expectations of the people. This is a deep-seated change in the development mode and an all-round adjustment of production relations.
More clearly highlight the coordination and sustainability of improving social reproduction. Marxist political economy believes that the smooth realization of social reproduction is based on the coordination of production, distribution, exchange and consumption. In the long-term practice of leading the people to build socialism, our party has formed a series of ideas and strategies on coordinated development, balanced development and sustainable development. The new development concept, in view of the outstanding problems of unbalanced, uncoordinated and unsustainable development in China, firmly grasps the main contradictions and central links that affect social reproduction, highlights the adjustment of production relations and economic structure, highlights the improvement of relations between people, people and nature, highlights the overall balance between supply and demand, production and consumption, and focuses on coordinating the current and long-term, local and overall, and key and non-key relationships. Efforts will be made to promote coordinated regional development, coordinated urban and rural development, and coordinated development of material civilization and spiritual civilization, which has pointed out the goal and provided guarantee for expanding the scale of social reproduction, optimizing the structure and improving efficiency.
More clearly highlight the core position of people in the economic movement. The focus of Marxist political economy is to regard the people as the purpose of production. An important reason for the crisis of capitalist economic development is that the proliferation and expansion of capital are regarded as the fundamental purpose of production, and only "things" do not see "people", let alone people. As the main body of society, people, especially the masses of the people, have alienated into tools for producing surplus value, and even formed a "1% and 99%" differentiation and opposition in society. History and reality have repeatedly proved that if social production does not aim at the people, it is not only unjust, but also against the law of social development and unsustainable. The new development concept adheres to the fundamental position of Marxist political economy, clearly puts forward the people-centered development idea, insists that development is for the people, development depends on the people, and development results are shared by the people. It not only takes realizing, safeguarding and developing the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people as the fundamental purpose of development, but also takes mobilizing the enthusiasm, initiative and creativity of the people as a powerful driving force for development, and strives to form a vivid situation in which everyone participates, tries his best and enjoys.
Three, adhere to the five development is a profound change in the overall development, is the only way to build a well-off society in an all-round way.
Advocating innovation, paying attention to coordination, advocating green, cultivating openness and promoting sharing is a profound change that touches all aspects of social practice led by the ideological revolution in the depths of the soul. Looking back on the course we have gone through since the reform and opening up, from reforming the planned economic system to establishing a socialist market economic system, from joining the WTO to actively leading the development of economic globalization, every time we emancipate our minds and change our concepts, we have stirred up a rolling wave of reform, which has brought about a thorough transformation of development and a rapid economic leap. At the historical juncture of building a well-off society in an all-round way, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the general secretary will coordinate and promote the "four comprehensive" strategic layout and put forward new development concepts according to the situation, which will surely lead to a profound change from the ideological level to the social practice level, the institutional mechanism level, and from the economic field to all fields. This all-round and profound change will surely open up a bright realm in the development of Socialism with Chinese characteristics and on the road of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Walk out of a correct path to adapt, grasp and lead the new normal. Adapting to the new normal, grasping the new normal and leading the new normal are the great logic that runs through the overall situation and the whole process of development during the 13 th Five-Year Plan period. The new development concept, scientifically analyzing the long-term world economy and the characteristics of China’s development stages and their interactions, focusing on solving development problems, cultivating development advantages and filling development shortcomings are the ideological compass and action signposts guiding China’s economic and social development under the new normal. Adhering to the five major developments is to completely get rid of the long-established mindset, path dependence and behavior habits, and abandon the "speed complex" and "shift anxiety" that are not adapted to the new normal of economic development; That is, we must persist in guiding new practice with new ideas, seek, move and advance according to the situation, not only resolutely implement new ideas politically, but also master and apply new ideas in knowledge and specialty, and completely change the phenomenon of "not knowing what to do", still "not wanting to do it" and "doing things indiscriminately"; It is necessary to face the profound structural contradictions on the supply side, intensify the structural reform on the supply side with firm determination and tenacious will, focus on correcting the distortion of factor allocation, and promote de-capacity, de-inventory, de-leverage, cost reduction and short-boarding, continuously strengthen endogenous power, activate growth potential, and push China’s economy to a new level.
Realize the historic leap of the country and the nation. Building a well-off society in an all-round way embodies the Millennium quest and century-long struggle of the Chinese nation, which will be an epoch-making great leap in the history of China. After our Party led the people of all ethnic groups in the country to unite as one and forge ahead by relay, the face of socialist China and the face of the people of China have undergone tremendous changes, and the necessary preconditions and sufficient conditions have been met for a well-off society in an all-round way. This historic goal will be achieved in our generation in the next five years. However, we should also see that although China’s economic aggregate ranks second in the world, the problem of being big but not strong and puffiness is prominent, and we are facing many risks and challenges, which requires us to keep a clear head, establish new ideas and promote new actions. The new development concept focuses on building a well-off society in an all-round way, adhering to the unity of goal orientation and problem orientation, highlighting innovation to lead and drive development, promoting the transformation of China’s scientific and technological level from running with others to running with others, and improving China’s overall economic quality and international competitiveness; Highlight the integrity, coordination and balance of development, make overall plans to fill the shortcomings and advantages of thick planting, and strive to promote the all-round progress and all-round development of fields, populations and regions; Highlight green development and sustainable development, and make a good ecological environment a growth point for economic and social development and people’s happiness; Highlight the internal and external linkage of development, actively adapt to and actively lead the world development trend; Highlight the people-oriented and inclusive nature of development, promote universal sharing, comprehensive sharing, joint construction sharing and gradual sharing, and unite and stimulate the deepest power of national development. The new development concept has taken root in China and become a common practice.It will profoundly change and reshape China’s economic and social development, and will have a far-reaching impact on China’s modernization process and national destiny. The well-off society in an all-round way led by it will surely realize the historic leap of the country from big to strong, and lay a deeper and more solid foundation for moving towards the goal of "the second century" and then realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Show the great superiority and vitality of socialism. Classical Marxist writers have made socialism a great leap from fantasy to science, and the birth of scientific socialism has spanned the 19th and 20th centuries to the 21st century. The people of China chose socialism. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC), they combined the basic principles of scientific socialism with China’s reality and the development of the times, actively explored, persisted and constantly explored the road of Socialism with Chinese characteristics. It is on this road that we have created a miracle in the history of world development. China’s development strategy, development direction and development model have had a wide and profound impact in both developed and developing countries. The new development concept clearly highlights the fundamental tasks and essential requirements of socialism, bases itself on the reality of contemporary China, grasps the world development trend, focuses on the outstanding problems facing the domestic and international in the 21st century, gives a new creative answer to opening up a new realm of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s career development, and puts forward a "China plan" and a "socialist plan" for the world economy to get out of the downturn. Under the guidance of the new development concept, socialist China will stand in the east of the world with a brand-new look. Innovative development, coordinated development, green development, open development and shared development will become the most appealing and distinctive signs of China Road and the most epoch-making great victory of socialist practice.