Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central
Committee, on Friday underlined the key role of comprehensively
deepening reform in fostering the country's new development paradigm,
calling for major progress in the country's deeper-level reforms. In remarks delivered at a meeting of the central committee for
deepening overall reform, Xi urged efforts to fully, accurately and
comprehensively implement the new development philosophy, clinch the
goals and tasks in terms of fostering the new development paradigm, and
carry out more targeted reform plans in order to advance deeper reforms.
Xi is also the head of the committee. The new development paradigm features the domestic market as the
mainstay and the domestic and foreign markets reinforcing each other. Meeting participants stressed efforts to deepen reforms in realizing
high-level self-reliance and self-strengthening, ensuring unimpeded
flows in the economy, expanding domestic demand, advancing opening-up to
a higher level and promoting green transformation. Efforts should be made to eradicate system and mechanism obstacles
that affect and restrict the improvement of core competitiveness of
science and technology, and overcome obstacles in key areas in order to
take the initiative in innovative development, the meeting said. The meeting called for more targeted reform measures in areas such as
protecting intellectual property rights, stimulating market vitality,
upgrading the industrial and supply chains, and the construction of a
modern logistics system. It also urged accelerating the new type of people-centered
urbanization, deepening reforms of the rural land system and the
household registration system, and consolidating achievements in poverty
alleviation to bring prosperity to all. The meeting required efforts to improve the legal systems concerning
market access and IPR protection, create a world-class business
environment established on market principles and the rule of law and
accelerate the development of a new system of open economy. Coordinated efforts should be made to formulate the action plan on
the country's objective of reaching a peak in carbon dioxide emissions
before 2030, the meeting said, noting that development should be based
on highly efficient utilization of resources, protection of the
ecological environment and the effective control of greenhouse gas
emissions. The meeting reviewed and approved the committee's 2020 work report
and key working points for 2021. It also reviewed and approved six
guidelines related to areas such as the price adjustment mechanism for
important commodities for people's livelihoods, the high-quality
development of public hospitals and drug supervision. In the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, the country's public
hospitals have been responsible for the most urgent, most dangerous and
most arduous medical treatment work and have been the main force, the
meeting said, calling for the high-quality development of public
hospitals to provide powerful support for people's health.
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