Xi Jinping Chairs Symposium with Enterprises and Experts, Emphasizing

Closely Following the Theme of Advancing Chinese Modernization

Further Comprehensively Deepening Reform

Wang Huning and Cai Qi Attend

Xinhua News Agency, Jinan, May 23 (Dispatch) — On the afternoon of May 23, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, chaired a symposium with enterprises and experts in Jinan, Shandong Province, and delivered an important speech. He emphasized that the 20th National Congress of the CPC drew up a grand blueprint for comprehensively building a modern socialist country and established the central task of comprehensively advancing the building of a strong nation and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese modernization. To further comprehensively deepen reform, it is essential to closely follow the theme of advancing Chinese modernization, highlight the priorities of reform, hold fast to the value orientation, and pay attention to methods and approaches, so as to add momentum to accomplishing the central task and realizing the strategic goals.

On the afternoon of May 23, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, chaired a symposium with enterprises and experts in Jinan, Shandong Province, and delivered an important speech.

Wang Huning, Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and Cai Qi, 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.

On the afternoon of May 23, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, chaired a symposium with enterprises and experts in Jinan, Shandong Province, and delivered an important speech.

At the symposium, nine representatives of enterprises and experts delivered speeches one after another: Liu Mingsheng, Chairman and Party Secretary of the State Power Investment Corporation Limited; Zuo Ding, Chairman and Party Secretary of Shenzhen Capital Group Co., Ltd.; Ding Shizhong, Chairman of the Board of Directors of ANTA Sports Products Group Co., Ltd.; Xu Guanju, Chairman of Zhejiang Transfar Group Co., Ltd.; Xu Daquan, President of Bosch (China) Investment Ltd. of Germany; Feng Guojing, Chairman of the Fung Group of Hong Kong; Zhou Qiren, Professor at the National School of Development of Peking University; Huang Hanquan, President of the Chinese Academy of Macroeconomic Research; and Zhang Bin, Deputy Director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. They put forward opinions and suggestions on deepening the reform of the electric power system, developing venture capital, using science and technology to transform and upgrade traditional industries, establishing and improving the governance system of private enterprises, optimizing the business environment for foreign-funded enterprises, promoting better integration of Hong Kong into the new development pattern, enhancing the people's sense of gain from reform, promoting integrated urban-rural development, and improving the macroeconomic governance system. During the speeches, Xi Jinping had in-depth exchanges with everyone, and the atmosphere on site was warm and lively.

On the afternoon of May 23, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, chaired a symposium with enterprises and experts in Jinan, Shandong Province, and delivered an important speech. This is Xi Jinping having a cordial exchange with the representatives of enterprises and experts attending the symposium.

After listening to everyone's speeches, Xi Jinping delivered an important speech. He said that whenever the Party Central Committee makes major decisions and formulates important documents, it conducts in-depth research and extensively solicits opinions from all sides; this is our Party's consistent practice and fine tradition. The opinions and suggestions put forward by everyone on further comprehensively deepening reform should be carefully studied and absorbed by the relevant parties.

On the afternoon of May 23, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, chaired a symposium with enterprises and experts in Jinan, Shandong Province, and delivered an important speech.

Xi Jinping pointed out that reform is the driving force of development. To further comprehensively deepen reform, it is necessary to anchor on the general goal of improving and developing the socialist system with Chinese characteristics and advancing the modernization of China's governance system and governance capacity, closely follow the advancement of Chinese modernization, adhere to combining goal orientation with problem orientation, go toward the problems and focus on reforming them, resolutely break down outdated ideas and institutional shortcomings that hinder the advancement of Chinese modernization, strive to remove deep-seated institutional obstacles and structural contradictions, and continuously inject strong momentum into and provide a strong institutional guarantee for Chinese modernization.

Xi Jinping emphasized that to further comprehensively deepen reform, it is necessary to grasp the principal contradiction and the principal aspect of the contradiction. It is necessary to uphold and develop China's basic economic system, build a high-level socialist market economy system, improve the macroeconomic governance system and the institutional mechanisms for promoting high-quality development, improve the institutional mechanisms supporting comprehensive innovation and integrated urban-rural development, further liberate and develop social productive forces, enhance social vitality, and promote better adaptation of the relations of production to the productive forces and of the superstructure to the economic base. Advancing economic structural reform must proceed from practical needs, start with the most urgent matters, and deepen theoretical innovation and advance institutional innovation in solving practical problems. Reform in other fields must also focus on overall and strategic issues in planning reform measures, so as to grasp the key links and bring all into motion.

Xi Jinping pointed out that the people's aspiration for a better life is our goal, and grasping reform and promoting development are ultimately about enabling the people to live better lives. It is necessary to plan and advance reform proceeding from the people's overall interests, fundamental interests, and long-term interests, follow the Party's mass line well in the new era, pay attention to identifying the points of leverage and breakthrough for reform from among the urgent difficulties and anxieties of ordinary people such as employment, income growth, schooling, medical care, housing, handling affairs, childcare and elderly care, and the safety of life and property, roll out more reform measures that are urgently needed for people's livelihood and oriented to the people's aspirations, and do more practical things that benefit people's livelihood, warm people's hearts, and conform to people's wishes, so that reform can give the people a greater sense of gain, happiness, and security.

Xi Jinping emphasized that reform involves both breaking down and building up; if one gets the method right, one achieves twice the result with half the effort, and if not, one achieves half the result with twice the effort or even produces negative effects. It is necessary to uphold integrity and innovate; no matter how reform is carried out, the fundamental things such as upholding the overall leadership of the Party, upholding Marxism, upholding the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and upholding the people's democratic dictatorship must never be shaken, and at the same time, it is necessary to dare to innovate, to reform well and thoroughly what should be reformed and can be reformed, and to grasp firmly and unswervingly what has been clearly identified. Reform must pay more attention to systematic integration, adhere to planning and advancing with an overall perspective and systematic thinking, strengthen the coordination and supporting of various reform measures, promote reform measures in all fields and all aspects to work in the same direction and form synergy, enhance overall effectiveness, and prevent and overcome the phenomena of each going its own way and hindering one another. Reform must emphasize planning and, even more, implementation. It is necessary to grasp the implementation of reform with the spirit of driving nails, being both proactive and solid and steady, clarifying priorities, grasping the timing, degree, and effectiveness, doing what is within one's capacity while doing one's best, and not divorcing oneself from reality.

Li Ganjie and He Lifeng attended the symposium. Also attending the symposium were responsible comrades of relevant departments of the central and state organs, responsible comrades of Shandong Province, and representatives of state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, foreign-funded enterprises, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan-funded enterprises, specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative "little giant" enterprises, individual industrial and commercial households, and experts and scholars.