Idea is the forerunner of action. Whether the development concept is right or not fundamentally determines the development effectiveness and even success or failure. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader emphasized in the Party’s Report to the 20th CPC National Congress that "implementing the new development concept is the only way for China to develop and grow in the new era". This important conclusion provides an important follow-up for the new era and new journey to promote Chinese modernization.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has put forward a series of major theories and concepts on economic and social development, among which the new development concept is the most important and important. Promoting Chinese-style modernization is a great exploratory undertaking, and there are still many unknown fields that need us to explore boldly in practice. Therefore, it is of great significance to lead Chinese modernization with new development concepts.
The road of innovation and development of modernization
Innovation is the first driving force to lead development, and innovation and development focus on solving the problem of development motivation. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "International economic competition and even comprehensive national strength competition, in the final analysis, is the competition of innovation ability. Whoever can make the first move in innovation will be able to take the initiative. " The innovation-driven development strategy implemented in China involves scientific and technological innovation, enterprise innovation, product innovation, market innovation, brand innovation, etc. The core is scientific and technological innovation. The key to Chinese modernization lies in scientific and technological modernization.
In promoting the new journey of Chinese modernization, innovation and development need to be exerted in the following aspects.
First, there must be new breakthroughs in the development of the digital economy. Developing digital economy is of great significance, and it is a strategic choice to grasp the new opportunities of the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation. In the era of digital economy, the digitalization of information and knowledge makes data a key factor of production, computing power a new driving force for economic and technological development, and the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence, cloud computing and the real economy are deeply integrated. This is a new track for economic and technological competition in the world, and it is also the focus of innovation and development of modernization. It is necessary to further strengthen the innovation of digital technology, improve the level of Internet and artificial intelligence with the enhancement of computing power, and promote the deep integration of digital economy and real economy on this basis. It is necessary to promote the digitalization of industries on the basis of digital industrialization, empower various industries with the support of a new generation of information technology, promote the digitalization and intelligent transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, and rely on the technology and platform provided by the digital economy to promote the innovation of new industries and their technologies, promote the digitalization of enterprise operation, and promote the digitalization of government governance and social management.
The second is to strive to achieve high-level scientific and technological self-reliance. Practice has repeatedly told us that key core technologies can’t be bought, bought or discussed. Only by mastering key core technologies in our own hands can we fundamentally guarantee national economic security, national defense security and other security. In the past, the advantage of late-developing countries was mainly about introducing new international technologies. However, the closer the late-developing countries are to modernization, the more difficult it is to introduce key core technologies from developed countries. At present, China’s scientific and technological innovation has shifted from following to running, running side by side and leading. The so-called parallel running is to be in line with international standards, that is, to exert strength in the same frontier direction of science and technology; The so-called leading means connecting with the future, becoming a global leader in important scientific and technological fields, becoming a pioneer in frontier cross-fields, becoming a major scientific center and innovative highland in the world. We must adhere to the principle that science and technology are the primary productive force, talents are the primary resource and innovation is the primary driving force, and carry out the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education, strengthening the country through talents and innovation-driven development in depth, so as to enhance the endogenous driving force of innovation and development and realize the self-reliance and self-reliance of high-level science and technology.
Third, deploy innovation chain around the industrial chain. At present, the global division of labor has entered the stage of intra-product division, and most of the production links of products are distributed in different countries and regions. International competition is mainly manifested in the competition of industrial chain and supply chain. There are two main situations in the layout of China’s industrial chain, one is the layout of China’s industrial chain supply chain, and the other is the layout of China’s industries participating in the global industrial chain. The decisive factors affecting the layout of industrial chain involve the level of science and technology, cost and market conditions. At present, some developed countries have cut off the supply of high-tech links to China enterprises, resulting in a number of industrial chains in which China participates. This is both a challenge and an opportunity for China’s industrial chain supply chain. We should focus on cultivating leading industries with core competitiveness, deploy innovation chain around the industrial chain, develop strategic emerging industries with high scientific and technological content, strong market competitiveness, great driving effect and good economic benefits, truly put scientific and technological innovation on industrial development, promote short-board industries to supplement chains, extend chains of advantageous industries, upgrade chains of traditional industries and build chains of emerging industries, and strive to build a modern industrial system.
The road of coordinated development of modernization
Coordination is the inherent requirement of sustained and healthy development, and coordinated development focuses on solving the problem of unbalanced development. The main contradiction in our society has been transformed into the contradiction between the people’s growing need for a better life and the unbalanced development, which is a historic change that has a bearing on the overall situation. China is a big developing country, and the imbalance between urban and rural areas, regions and industries is prominent. To solve these unbalanced problems, we should coordinate at a high level, not at a low level in all aspects.
In promoting the new journey of Chinese modernization, coordinated development needs to focus on two aspects.
On the one hand, it promotes the synchronous development of new industrialization, informationization, urbanization and agricultural modernization. China’s modernization is very different from that of western developed countries. Western developed countries are a "series" development process. It took more than 200 years for industrialization, urbanization, agricultural modernization and informatization to develop in sequence. We want to catch up with others and get back the "lost 200 years", which determines that China’s development must be a "parallel" process, and industrialization, informationization, urbanization and agricultural modernization are superimposed. "Synchronization of the four modernizations" is a successful experience of China’s development, a new era and a new journey, and this experience needs more abundant content. First, efforts should be made to build a modern industrial system, including the high-end, intelligent and green development of manufacturing industry and the construction of a new high-quality and efficient service industry system. Second, informatization has entered a new stage of accelerating digital development and building a digital China, and it needs to actively integrate into a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation to promote the upgrading of industrial base. Third, the new urbanization has been continuously promoted, and the urbanization of agricultural transfer population has been promoted in accordance with the requirements of new urbanization with people as the core. It is necessary to promote cities and towns to have urban functions and the ability to undertake urban industrial transfer and urbanization of agricultural transfer population, and to promote urban modernization, make it the source of modernization in various regions, increase the supply of modern urban elements, and realize the integration of production, city, culture and ecology.Promote the coordinated development of large, medium and small cities. The fourth is to build an agricultural power in the short board of agricultural modernization, build a high-quality and efficient modern agricultural industrial system that is compatible with the upgrading of household consumption, improve the quality and added value of agricultural products through biological and digital technology innovation, and realize high-quality and efficient agriculture, livable and suitable for rural areas, and rich farmers.
On the other hand, it is to promote regional coordinated development. Report to the 20th CPC National Congress, the Communist Party of China, put forward that "regional coordinated development strategy, major regional strategy, main functional area strategy and new urbanization strategy should be thoroughly implemented, the layout of major productive forces should be optimized, and a regional economic layout and land space system with complementary advantages and high-quality development should be constructed". For the late-developing areas, it is necessary to fill in the shortcomings according to the requirements of "four modernizations synchronization". We emphasize the promotion of regional coordinated development, which is embodied in the economic field. First, we promote the integration of industrial development. For example, the first-developing region distributes the industrial chain of its advantageous industries to the later-developing regions to form an integrated industrial system; The second is to promote the integration of scientific and technological innovation. For example, as a science and technology innovation center, the first-developing region will arrange the innovation results to the late-developing region to realize industrialization; The third is to build a two-way "enclave economy". For example, the science and technology (industry) park will be built in the late-developing areas in the first-developing areas, and the R&D institutions will be built in the late-developing areas; Fourth, the integrated construction of traffic information facilities, so as to shorten the distance between the late-developing areas and the early-developing areas; Wait a minute.
The road to green development of modernization
Green is a necessary condition for sustainable development and an important embodiment of people’s pursuit of a better life. Green development focuses on solving the problem of harmony between man and nature. Since modern times, the modernization of western countries has mostly gone through the stages of wanton plunder of natural resources and vicious destruction of ecological environment. While creating huge material wealth, it often causes serious problems such as environmental pollution and resource depletion. China’s per capita energy resource endowment is seriously insufficient, and accelerating development faces more energy resources and environmental constraints, which determines that China cannot take the old road of western modernization. Respecting nature, conforming to nature, protecting nature and promoting harmonious coexistence between man and nature are the distinctive features of Chinese modernization.
To promote the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, it is necessary to practice Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets’s ideas. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out that green mountains and green rivers are not only natural wealth, ecological wealth, but also social wealth and economic wealth. Protecting the ecological environment means protecting natural value and increasing natural capital, and protecting the potential and stamina of economic and social development, so that green mountains and green rivers can continue to play their ecological and economic and social benefits. At the same time, people’s needs for a better life are more extensive. People expect to breathe fresh air, drink clean water, eat safe food, live in a livable environment, and truly feel the tangible environmental benefits brought by economic development.
On the new journey of Chinese modernization, we will better promote green development. First, we will accelerate the green transformation of development mode, promote green and low-carbon economic and social development, and unswervingly follow the civilized development path of production development, affluent life and good ecology; Second, deepen the energy revolution, accelerate the planning and construction of a new energy system, and actively and steadily promote carbon neutrality in peak carbon dioxide emissions; The third is to promote the improvement of urban and rural human settlements, implement urban renewal actions, strengthen urban infrastructure construction, build livable, resilient and smart cities, and make rural areas basically have modern living conditions; Fourth, we should promote carbon reduction, pollution reduction, greening and growth, accelerate technological progress and industrial restructuring, and support high-quality development with a high-quality ecological environment.
The road to modernization and open development
Opening-up is the only way for a country to prosper and develop, and opening-up development focuses on solving the problem of internal and external linkage of development. Only an open China will become a modern China. At present, the world has undergone a great change in the past century, and the trend of anti-globalization has risen, and unilateralism and protectionism have risen markedly. In this context, to promote modernization, we need to further deepen reform and opening up, enhance the endogenous power and reliability of domestic large-scale circulation, improve the quality and level of international circulation, and firmly grasp the leading role of development in our own hands.
On the new journey of promoting Chinese modernization, the ways to promote high-level opening up mainly include the following aspects. First, greater efforts should be made to attract and utilize foreign capital. It is necessary to rely on China’s super-large-scale market advantage to attract global resource elements through domestic circulation, not only to keep high-quality foreign capital, but also to attract more high-quality foreign capital to improve the quality and level of trade and investment cooperation. The corresponding measures include: expanding market access, reasonably reducing the negative list of foreign investment access, and increasing the opening up of modern service industry; Comprehensively optimize the business environment, implement the national treatment of foreign-funded enterprises, promote fair competition, ensure that foreign-funded enterprises participate in government procurement, bidding and standard setting on an equal footing according to law, and increase the protection of intellectual property rights and the legitimate rights and interests of foreign investment. The second is to form an open and innovative ecology with global competitiveness. Breaking the technical blockade and carrying out open innovation is a reliable path. Efforts should be made to introduce innovative resources, especially innovative talents, and make breakthroughs in core technologies and key technologies with independent intellectual property rights that are at the forefront of the world and lead industrial innovation. In this regard, it is particularly important to build an open and innovative ecology. It is necessary to steadily expand the institutional opening of rules, regulations, management and standards for international trade and investment, and improve the intellectual property protection system. The third is to cultivate new comparative advantages and competitive advantages. Now, China’s competitive advantage in participating in the international circulation has changed, and it is necessary to speed up the construction of an important talent center and an innovative highland in the world to form a comparative advantage in international competition for talents. The fourth is to coordinate development and security in opening up. The more open,The more we should pay attention to safety, we should coordinate development and safety, and enhance our own competitiveness, open supervision and risk prevention and control capabilities.
The road of shared development of modernization
Sharing is the essential requirement of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and sharing development focuses on solving social fairness and justice. Chinese-style modernization is the modernization of common prosperity for all people. We should not promote common prosperity after realizing modernization, but promote modernization and common prosperity simultaneously. We insist on realizing the people’s yearning for a better life as the starting point and the end result of modernization, make efforts to safeguard and promote social fairness and justice, make efforts to promote the common prosperity of all people, and resolutely prevent polarization. Now, China has built a well-off society in an all-round way, which has historically solved the problem of absolute poverty, and it needs to further solve the problem of relative poverty in the new journey.
Chinese-style modernization should not only create higher efficiency than capitalism, but also safeguard social fairness more effectively, and better realize the balance, promotion and unity of efficiency and fairness. Common prosperity is a long-term goal, which needs a process and cannot be achieved overnight. Its long-term, arduous and complex nature should be fully estimated. Common prosperity is not simultaneous prosperity, nor uniform egalitarianism.
On the new journey of Chinese modernization, to promote common prosperity and shared development in a down-to-earth manner requires both inclusive development and continuous deepening of reform.
In promoting inclusive development, we should take effective measures against the gap between urban and rural areas and regions, paying special attention to the development of rural areas and late-developing areas; In view of the income gap between industries, it is necessary to adjust the industrial structure based on the objective evaluation of various industries by the market; In view of the income gap caused by the difference of human capital level, it is necessary to strengthen education and training to improve the level of human capital.
In the aspect of continuously deepening reform, it is necessary to build a coordinated system of primary distribution, redistribution and third distribution, and properly handle the relationship between efficiency and fairness. First, give full play to the basic role of primary distribution, build an income distribution system that reflects efficiency and promotes fairness, improve the policy system of distribution according to factors, explore various channels to increase the factor income of low-and middle-income people, and increase the property income of urban and rural residents through multiple channels. Second, give full play to the regulatory role of redistribution, strengthen the regulation of taxation, social security and transfer payment, improve the basic public service system, improve the level of public services, promote the equalization of basic public services, enhance their balance and accessibility in urban and rural areas and regions, improve the social security system and expand the coverage of social security. The third is to improve the third distribution mechanism and develop social welfare undertakings such as charity.
In a word, Chinese-style modernization is a socialist modernization led by the Communist Party of China (CPC), which not only has the common characteristics of modernization in all countries, but also has the characteristics of China based on its own national conditions. On the new journey of Chinese modernization, we should implement the new development concept completely, accurately and comprehensively, promote high-quality development, and comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese modernization.
(This article Source: Economic Daily Author: Hong Yinxing, former Party Secretary of Nanjing University and academic member of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought Research Center, the supreme leader of Jiangsu Province)
