Qiushi Journal Issue Preview: No. 16, 2024

The Explanation of the Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Further Deepening Reform Comprehensively to Advance Chinese Modernization (hereinafter “Explanation”) by General Secretary Xi Jinping was published in this year’s 16th issue of Qiushi Journal.

According to the Explanation, making reform plans and arrangements with a focus on our central task has constituted a successful experience for our Party in leading reform and opening up. In light of both practical experience and actual needs, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee decided that the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee would study the issue of further deepening reform comprehensively to advance Chinese modernization. There is a pressing need for this, given the following considerations: 

First, we need to rally support and pool strength to complete the Party’s central task on the new journey in the new era.

Second, we need to improve and develop the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics and modernize China’s system and capacity for governance.

Third, we need to promote high-quality development and better respond to the evolution of the principal contradiction in Chinese society.

Fourth, we need to deal with major risks and challenges and secure steady and sustained progress in the cause of the Party and the country.

Xi pointed out in the Explanation that with a view to achieving the goal of basically realizing socialist modernization by 2035, the draft resolution includes major reform measures for the coming five years. In terms of its layout and content, it features the following highlights.

(1) Giving play to the leading role of economic structural reform

(2) Developing support institutions and mechanisms for all-around innovation

(3) Advancing reform in a comprehensive manner

(4) Balancing development and security imperatives

(5) Strengthening the Party’s leadership over reform

Readers will also find in this issue an editorial piece inspired by Xi’s vision.

An article by Wang Dongming, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People’s Congress and President of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, discusses how trade unions can better rally and mobilize workers in furthering China’s comprehensive reform and advancing Chinese modernization.

The Office of the Central Commission for Comprehensively Deepening Reform explains how to implement the CPC Central Committee’s decisions and plans for further deepening reform comprehensively and provide strong impetus and institutional guarantees for Chinese modernization.

An article by Wang Wentao focuses on improving the mechanisms and systems for high-level opening up.

Shen Chunyao’s article talks about reforms in the legislative field.

An article by Shen Changyu, Director and Secretary of the CPC Leadership Group of the China National Intellectual Property Administration, discusses further reforms in the intellectual property sector. 

An article from the Institute of Party History and Literature of the CPC Central Committee commemorates the 120th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping’s birth. 

Qiushi commentary in this issue talks about how to gain a better understanding of General Secretary Xi’s instructions on protecting, preserving and utilizing cultural and natural heritages.

The National Cultural Heritage Administration provides an overview of Beijing’s Central Axis, detailing its historical development, the process of its application for being included in the list of world cultural heritage sites, as well as its current protection and management practices.

Reporters with Xinhua News Agency recount the dynamic practices and significant accomplishments of our country in its efforts to promote the development of the western region, a project of the century, in the new era.

A series of reports by journalists in the column “Prioritizing Modernization, Deepening Reform” continue to provide vivid practices and stories of comprehensively deepening reform across various regions and departments.

This issue closes with a diagram released by the National Bureau of Statistics which shows a significant improvement in the quality of life for rural residents since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012.

Editor: Yi Xiaowei