Reform and opening up is an important magic weapon for the cause of the Party and the people to catch up with The Times in great strides, and it is a key move that determines the success or failure of Chinese-style modernization. A meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held on April 30 stressed that continuing to push forward reform "is an inevitable requirement for dealing with major risks and challenges and promoting the steady and long-term development of the Party and the country." We must recognize the significance of continuing to push forward the reform from the height of resolutely safeguarding national security and social stability, coordinated development and security, and implement the results of further deepening the reform in an all-round way to provide security guarantees for the completion of the central tasks of the Party and the state.

We will ensure steady and long-term progress in the cause of the Party and the country while correctly handling the relationship between reform, development and stability

Xi Jinping General Secretary pointed out: "Reform and opening up is a great revolution in the history of the development of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation, and it is this great revolution that has promoted the great leap forward in the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics!" In the process of reform and opening up, our Party attaches great importance to properly handling the relationship between reform, development and stability, regards reform as a powerful driving force for development, relies on reform and development to lay a solid foundation for stability, and takes safeguarding national security and social stability as a basic task of the Party and the state to promote rapid economic development and ensure long-term social stability. It has created a sound security environment for promoting Chinese-style modernization. Practice has fully proved that without reform and opening up, we could not have created the two miracles of rapid economic development and long-term social stability. Without comprehensively deepening reform in the new era, we cannot continue to write a new chapter of the two miracles.

Reform is the driving force of development and contributes to the prosperity and long-term stability of the Party and the country. After the establishment of a socialist country, how to cast a solid foundation and plant a long-term foundation is an important issue facing the Marxist ruling party. After the end of the "Cultural Revolution", when the Party and the country were facing a major historical juncture of where to go, our Party deeply realized that the only way out was to carry out reform and opening up. Since reform and opening up, and especially since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the Party has led the people in upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics through reform and development in the economic, political, cultural, social, and ecological fields, improved all systems and made them more efficient, made continuous progress and breakthroughs in Chinese-style modernization, and enabled the people to live a better life. This will ensure that the Party and the country can withstand all kinds of storms and waves and move steadily forward toward the grand goal of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Reform is the key to unlocking and developing social productive forces, and to lay a solid material foundation for responding to major risks and challenges. The steady and long-term development of the Party and state cannot be achieved without economic development. Backward will be beaten, a strong country can be national security. Whether it is to cope with major natural disasters or occupy a favorable position in the competition of comprehensive national strength, whether it is to build a strong people's army or build a solid defense line of security in all fields, it needs the development of social material production as a support. After reform and opening up, China has achieved a historic breakthrough from a relatively backward productive forces to rank second in the world economy, and its overall national strength has reached a great level. Entering a new era, China has further liberated and developed the productive forces in the course of comprehensively deepening reform, providing a more solid material basis for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. It is by continuously liberating and developing social productive forces and continuously enhancing China's economic, scientific and technological strength and overall national strength in the course of comprehensively deepening reform that we have strong strength and sufficient confidence to successfully cope with a series of risks and challenges on the road ahead.

We will establish dynamic systems and mechanisms in the course of reform to provide a strong institutional guarantee for safeguarding national security and social stability. System is a fundamental, overall, stable and long-term issue affecting the development of the cause of the Party and the country. Since the beginning of reform and opening up, we have changed from the household contract responsibility system to the establishment of special economic zones, from single public ownership to public ownership as the main body, and multiple forms of ownership to develop together and adhere to the "two unswerving principles", and from the traditional planned economy to the socialist market economy. From giving priority to economic structural reform to comprehensively deepening institutional reform for economic, political, cultural, social and ecological progress as well as institutional reform for Party building, we have built dynamic institutions and mechanisms through reform, and socialism with Chinese characteristics has continued to show vigor and vitality. Practice has proved that institutional reform that follows the law governing the movement of basic social contradictions can provide a strong guarantee for maintaining the vitality of the Party and the country forever, and is conducive to maintaining overall social stability, ensuring that the people live and work in peace and contentment, and safeguarding national security.

In the course of reform, we will continue to improve people's living standards and consolidate the mass foundation for political, social and popular stability. Reform and opening up reflect the aspirations and needs of the people to get rid of poverty, meet their daily necessities and pursue prosperity. The people are the biggest source of strength for the Party to govern and rejuvenate the country, and the main force driving reform and development. Since reform and opening up, and especially since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, our Party has focused on ensuring and improving people's livelihood in the course of reform and development. We have made continuous progress in ensuring access to children, schools, workers, medical care for the sick, care for the elderly, housing, and assistance for the weak. We have completed the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects, lifted all rural poor out of poverty, and continued to expand the middle-income group. The fruits of reform and development have benefited all the people in a more equitable way. The people's sense of gain, happiness, and security has increased, and the people's foundation for political, social, and popular stability has been strengthened. They have gathered great strength for China's all-round development and national renewal through Chinese-style modernization.

Comprehensively deepening reform provides an institutional guarantee for responding to major risks and challenges and promoting the stability and long-term development of the Party and state

General Secretary of the Xi Jinping stressed: "To win the battle against major risks, we must adhere to and improve the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, and use the power of the system to cope with the impact of risks and challenges." "To truly achieve social harmony and stability and the long-term peace and stability of the country, we still need to rely on the system, on our superb ability in national governance, and on a team of high-quality cadres." These important discussions profoundly elucidated the great significance of institutional construction in coping with risks and challenges and promoting the stable and long-term development of the Party and the country.

A stable system leads to national stability, and strong governance leads to national security. Entering the new era, China is facing a more severe national security situation, with unprecedented external pressure and intertwined traditional and non-traditional security threats. In the face of the new changes in the situation of the world, the situation of the Party, and the unprecedented risks and challenges, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has comprehensively deepened the reform with great political courage, strengthened the top-level design of the reform, resolutely eliminated the drawbacks of all aspects of the system and mechanism, and achieved the transformation of the reform from local exploration and breaking through the ice to system integration and comprehensive deepening. The overall goal of comprehensively deepening reform is to improve and develop the socialist system with Chinese characteristics and modernize the national governance system and capacity. This overall goal focuses on the prosperity of the cause of the Party and the state, the long-term stability of the country, and the happiness and well-being of the people, and has an overall, fundamental and long-term nature. With this overall goal to guide the comprehensive deepening of reform, long-term maintenance and continuous enhancement of the significant advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics and the national governance system, we can strengthen the foundation of the system and governance of the country's prosperity and long-term stability.

Focusing on the overall goal of comprehensively deepening reform, we will not only uphold and consolidate China's state systems and governance systems that have been tested in practice for a long time, but also strive to improve and develop them, build systems that are complete, scientific, standardized, and effectively run, and better translate China's institutional strengths into effective governance. We will promote the institutionalization, standardization, and procedures of the governance of Party, state, and social affairs, and promote the maturity of the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the system of national governance in the process of self-improvement, so that China will win greater comparative advantages in international competition and show greater vitality. This is the institutional guarantee that we can effectively respond to various risks and challenges in the new era, and promote historic achievements and historic changes in the cause of the Party and the country.

An important aspect of comprehensively deepening reform is to modernize the national security system and capabilities. In the course of comprehensively deepening reform, our Party has comprehensively implemented the overall national security concept, made great efforts to promote the national security system and capacity building, established the Central National Security Commission, improved the centralized, unified, efficient and authoritative national security leadership system, improved the national security rule of law system, strategic system and policy system, and established a national security coordination mechanism and an emergency management mechanism. This has provided a strong guarantee for us to cope with major risks and challenges, for the prosperity and long-term stability of the Party and the country, and has firmly grasped the initiative of China's development and security.

In the new era, China's political stability, economic development, social harmony, and ethnic unity are in sharp contrast to the ongoing chaos in some countries and regions in the world, of which "China's system" and "China's rule" are the fundamental reasons. It is through our commitment to comprehensively deepening reform that we have withstood political, economic, ideological and natural challenges and challenges. We have continued to consolidate and develop a sound situation in which the people live and work in peace and contentment and social stability and order, and the people's aspirations for a better life have constantly come true.

We will further deepen reform in an all-round way and take a good and steady path toward building a strong country and national rejuvenation

Reform and opening up have no end. It is only in progress and never completed. Chinese-style modernization is a great way to build a strong country and rejuvenate the nation. The present and future period is a crucial period for China to comprehensively promote the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation. The complicated international and domestic situation contains not only new strategic opportunities, but also new risks and challenges. Only by consciously placing reform in a more prominent position and further deepening reform in an all-round way can we effectively respond to major risks and challenges on the new journey and promote the steady and long-term development of the Party and the country.

It is the central task of the Party and the country to comprehensively promote the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization in the new era and on a new journey. To further deepen reform in an all-round way, we must focus on this central task, take economic restructuring as our focus, promote social fairness and justice and improve people's well-being as our starting point and goal, pay more attention to systematic integration, highlight key areas, and pay more attention to the effectiveness of reform. We will promote better compatibility between production relations and productive forces, between the superstructure and the economic base, and between state governance and social development. At present, to promote better adaptation of production relations and productive forces, it is necessary to form a new type of production relations that are compatible with the new quality productive forces, promote the smooth flow of various advanced and high-quality production factors to the development of new quality productive forces, and provide a steady stream of driving forces for the development of new quality productive forces. To better match the superstructure with the economic base, we must firmly grasp the biggest national condition and reality of the primary stage of socialism, unswervingly consolidate and develop the public sector of the economy, unswervingly encourage, support and guide the development of the non-public sector of the economy, give full play to the decisive role of the market in allocating resources, and better play the role of the government. We will advance economic structural reform from a higher starting point, at a higher level, and with higher goals, and provide institutional guarantees and driving forces for promoting Chinese-style modernization. To make governance and social development more compatible, we need to stay on track to seek progress while maintaining stability, strike a balance between vitality and order, stimulate orderly vitality, and build a dynamic order. While competing, they follow the rules and are well-ordered, providing a more reliable guarantee for national security and social stability.

Promoting Chinese-style modernization will inevitably require modernizing the national security system and capabilities. To overcome the waves and achieve steady and long-term development of the Chinese style of modernization, we must unswervingly implement the overall concept of national security, balance the two major issues of development and security while further deepening reform in an all-round way, take improving the national security system, enhancing the ability to safeguard national security, improving public security governance, and improving the social governance system as important tasks, and ensure high-quality development through high-level security services. We will ensure a new development pattern with a new security pattern and provide a strong security guarantee for building a strong country and national rejuvenation.

Source: SASAC of The State Council