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The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward that China’s economy has changed from a high-speed growth stage to a high-quality development stage, and it is in the key period of changing the development mode, optimizing the economic structure and transforming the growth momentum. Building a modern economic system is an urgent requirement for crossing the barrier and a strategic goal for China’s development.
In order to better understand and implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress, this edition will launch a series of reports on "Focusing on the 19th National Congress Report and Turning to the Stage of High-quality Development", and invite experts to discuss relevant issues, so please pay attention.
The just-concluded 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China made a historic conclusion that "China’s economy has shifted from a high-speed growth stage to a high-quality development stage".
Why did China’s economy turn to a high-quality development stage? Compared with the high-speed growth stage, what new changes and trends will be presented in the new stage? In the process of turning to the stage of high-quality development, how can we seize the opportunity, tackle key problems, win the victory and build a well-off society in an all-round way, and advance towards the goal of "two hundred years"?
How to understand "turning to high-quality development"
Emphasize quality rather than speed, and development rather than growth.
From the high-speed growth stage to the high-quality development stage, China’s economy has once again made a clear path choice.
— — Change the development mode, realize intensive economic growth and improve total factor productivity.
“‘ Turn to high-quality development ’ The essential meaning of this assertion is that China’s economy has changed from extensive high-speed growth mainly relying on increasing the consumption of material resources to intensive growth mainly relying on technological progress, improving management and improving the quality of workers. " According to Zheng Xinli, executive vice president of China International Economic Exchange Center, it is an epoch-making change for the economy to shift from a high-speed growth stage to a high-quality development stage.
"China’s economic development is no longer entangled in whether the economic growth rate is faster or slower. Instead, it is to improve the total factor productivity and promote the quality change, efficiency change and power change of economic development." Zheng Xinli stressed.
In 2016, China’s "Top 100 Counties" created more than 11% of the country’s GDP； with 2% of the country’s land area and 6% of the population; The per capita disposable income of urban residents is 39,165 yuan, which is 16.5% higher than the national average. The per capita total retail sales of social consumer goods is 31,000 yuan, which is 29% higher than the national average. Throughout the development of "Top 100 Counties", all of them have changed from the extensive development mode driven by original resources and investment to the intensive development mode driven by innovation, which ushered in a brand-new development opportunity.
“‘ High-quality development stage ’ In terms of industrial structure, it has changed from resource-intensive and labor-intensive industries to technology-intensive and knowledge-intensive industries. In terms of product structure, from low-tech products with low added value to high-tech products with high added value; In terms of economic benefits, it has changed from high cost and low benefit to low cost and high benefit; In the ecological environment, it has changed from high emission and pollution to circular economy and environment-friendly economy. In the end, it will be reflected in the continuous strengthening of the country’s economic strength and the rapid increase of residents’ income. " Zheng Xinli said.
— — Enrich the connotation of development, aim at fuller and more balanced development, and enhance people’s sense of gain.
From the result-oriented perspective, the "high-quality development stage" highlights the people’s sense of gain. Gao Peiyong, director of the Economic Research Institute of China Academy of Social Sciences, pointed out that "high speed" refers to quantity or scale, which is often the goal of the primary stage of economic development, and is used to mark "fast and unhappy"; "High quality" is the goal that will only be achieved after the economic development reaches a certain level. Emphasizing quality and efficiency is the answer to "good".
"Growth only refers to the expansion of the economic aggregate; The connotation of development is richer, in order to meet the people’s growing needs for a better life. " Gao Peiyong said that China has solved the problem of food and clothing for more than one billion people, achieved a well-off society on the whole, and will soon build a well-off society in an all-round way. The people have not only put forward higher requirements for material and cultural life, but also increasingly demanded democracy, the rule of law, fairness, justice, security and the environment. Therefore, economic development should change from simply pursuing total expansion to meeting people’s higher standards and more diversified needs.
Why do you propose "turning to high-quality development" now?
Facing the contradictions in the new era and breaking through the bottleneck of development
Historically, economic development is repeating "prosperity — Recession — Recovery — At the same time, we should take the progress of science and technology, human resources and other factors as new kinetic energy, solve the deep-seated contradictions that restrict economic development, and realize the overall upward trend. "From the high-speed growth stage to the high-quality development stage" is a necessary choice and urgent task for us to face the main contradiction in the new era and adapt to the new economic normal.
— — The main contradiction at this stage requires us to give up speed preference and attach importance to development quality.
Gao Peiyong believes that the important conclusion of "changing from a high-speed growth stage to a high-quality development stage" is consistent with the fact that the main contradiction in our society has changed into the contradiction between the people’s growing need for a better life and the unbalanced development.
At present, the total consumption of energy and raw materials in China is too large, and the energy consumption per unit GDP is too high. "The growth of extensive economic has put increasing pressure on resources and the environment, and such a growth model is difficult to sustain." Zheng Xinli pointed out.
In recent years, large areas of haze weather have appeared in North China and East China, and the incidence of some diseases related to environmental pollution has increased. "If development needs to pay the price of people’s health, it goes against the original intention of development. The 19 th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to turn to a high-quality development stage, which is to respond to the concerns of the people and face the deep-seated contradictions of economic development. " Zheng Xinli said.
"China’s economy has maintained high growth for decades, creating a lot of social wealth, and Chinese has gained great benefits from the reform and opening up. However, due to the imperfect market economic system and the imperfect distribution system, some social and economic problems worthy of attention have emerged, such as the urban-rural gap, the regional gap, and the industry gap. The people’s demands for coordinated development and balanced development have been continuously improved. " Wang Yukai, a member of the National Informatization Expert Advisory Committee, believes that we must pay attention to the transformation of major social contradictions, change the mode of production, adjust the pattern of interests, increase the cohesion and centripetal force of the nation, and stimulate the creativity and development vitality of the whole society, so as to achieve higher quality, more efficient, fairer and more sustainable development.
— — Shifting from a high-speed growth stage to a high-quality development stage is also a realistic choice to actively adapt to the new economic normal and break through the bottleneck of development.
"We must adapt to the new normal of economic growth and shift gears and maintain a strategically normal mentality. We must downplay the speed ‘ Obsession ’ Strengthen quality awareness, optimize factor input, and promote coordination in all aspects of modernization. " Bai Jingming, vice president of China Academy of Fiscal Science, believes that relying on advanced elements such as talents, technology, knowledge and information, and driven by innovation, we can eliminate the adverse effects of globalization dividend and China’s declining demographic dividend, break through the bottleneck constraints of resources, energy and environment, and realize the transformation of old and new kinetic energy as soon as possible.
How to "turn to high-quality development"
Having won the first battle, we should persist in changing the development mode, optimizing the economic structure and transforming the growth momentum in the future.
"From high-speed growth to high-quality development, we are confident and experienced." Bai Jingming pointed out that at present, the traditional industries are full of vitality, the new industries have a strong momentum, and the new economy is accelerating. China’s economic restructuring is gradually coming out of the painful period and entering the harvest period. "In the first three quarters of 2016, the income tax of industrial enterprises was 584.3 billion yuan, an increase of only 0.6%; In the same period of this year, the income tax of industrial enterprises increased by 21.3% year-on-year, which was particularly obvious. There are factors such as a low base last year and rising prices this year, but more importantly, enterprises have taken the initiative to adjust their structure and the added value of high-tech industries has increased substantially. "
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, innovation and development have released strong kinetic energy and created one "China Miracle" after another; Coordinate development to make up for shortcomings and make development more stable; Green development is firmly advanced, and man and nature are more harmonious; Open development will achieve mutual benefit and win-win results, and the development world will be broader; Sharing development enhances people’s well-being, and social fairness and justice are more prominent … … Practice has fully proved that we have won the first battle and stood on the platform of "high quality development" in the new era.
However, we still face many challenges from high-speed growth to high-quality development.
For example, there are still a considerable amount of capital, land and labor resources, which are deposited in industries with serious excess capacity and high pollution, which has dragged down economic transformation and efficiency improvement. Through supply-side structural reform, these essential resources should be gradually transferred and injected into emerging and green industries.
Another example is that decentralization has achieved remarkable results, and enterprises have gone into battle lightly, but the interconnection of information systems between various departments and governments at all levels needs to be accelerated. "A national unified government service platform should be formed so that enterprises and the masses can feel more about ‘ Streamline administration, delegate power, strengthen regulation and improve services ’ The effectiveness of the reform, in addition to the disadvantages of annoyance, the implementation of fair policies, and the opening of the door to convenience. " Wang Yukai said.
For another example, green development still has a long way to go. Judging from the cases exposed by the Central Environmental Protection Inspector Group in the past two years, some places still have stubborn diseases and bad habits of sacrificing green mountains and green hills for Jinshan Yinshan.
The stage of high-quality development is irreversible, and the task of high-quality development cannot wait, so we need to roll up our sleeves and work hard.
The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward six strategic measures, including deepening supply-side structural reform to promote the transformation and upgrading of industrial structure and product structure; Accelerate the construction of an innovative country, and promote the improvement of quality and efficiency with independent innovation technology; Implement rural revitalization strategy and regional coordinated development strategy to solve the problem of unbalanced and insufficient economic development and release new kinetic energy of economic development; Accelerate the improvement of the socialist market economic system, establish institutional mechanisms conducive to improving the quality of economic development and improving the ecological environment, and enhance the vitality of economic development; Promote the formation of a new pattern of comprehensive opening up and make better use of global markets and resources.
"In the future, we should still persist in transforming the development mode, optimizing the economic structure and transforming the growth momentum." Gao Peiyong pointed out that in the future, economic development will still shift from extensive growth of scale and speed to intensive growth of quality and efficiency, and from incremental capacity expansion to deep adjustment of adjusting stocks and doing both excellent and incremental; From traditional growth point to new growth point. "These tasks are consistent with the economic policy framework formed since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, that is, the economic policy framework based on the major judgment of the new normal of economic development, guided by the new development concept and with the supply-side structural reform as the main line. Next, in the process of implementing the spirit of the 19 th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, these policies should be continuously deepened, refined and rigidly implemented. " Gao Peiyong said.
