The new blueprint for reform in the Party communiqué

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Editor's note: China's reform program is about to start a major new phase, and this is an event which is commanding worldwide attention. The third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee has just reached its conclusion - what kind of a new reform blueprint has been produced? On Tuesday, People's Daily Online invited Zhang Liqun, a researcher at the Development Research Center of the State Council, and Xu Yaotong, professor of political science with the Chinese Academy of Governance, to explain the communiqué issued after the meeting.

Reform: From top-level design to implementation

Plenary session blueprint: A central leading team for "comprehensively strengthening reform" will be set up to take charge of designing reform, and to coordinate and implement relevant measures.

In the past we talked about 'crossing the river by feeling for the stones', but now we need to add a top-level design, which means overall planning that takes all relevant factors into consideration, and enhanced coordination. With the strengthening of reform, associated contradictions have become apparent. To resolve complex issues and promote reform in a coordinated manner, the time is right for the creation of a central leading team for "comprehensively strengthening reform".

The team will be an organization in charge of implementing reform tasks and achieving reform targets. [Read More]

CPC vows to fight corruption through system reform

Plenary session blueprint: The Third Plenary Session of the CPC Central Committee highlights reform in party building. The Communist Party of China needs not only rules and regulations, but also an institutional system. Therefore, reform is under way.

The CPC also needs to improve its leadership structure. It has therefore proposed an important principle to cement its core role in grasping the overall situation and coordinating different aspects, according to Xu Yaotong.

This key session also highlights the anti-corruption campaign. The CPC Central Disciplinary Committee vows to avoid corruption through a system that is effective. Power must be exercised in the open air, and the exercise of power must be contained within the boundaries of a clearly-defined system.[Read More]

A new situation and new tasks

Plenary session blueprint: Facing the new situation and new tasks, building a moderately prosperous society, then transforming into a prosperous, democratic, civilized and harmonious modern country, and ultimately achieving the Chinese dream, should be realized in full on the premise of strengthening reform at this point of new beginning.

Zhang Liqun: Reform is now traversing deep waters, and a clear assessment of the current challenges it faces is essential. There are two aspects of this issue that need to be addressed. On the one hand, reform is built on strong foundations. For instance, the conditions for comprehensive reform, including economic and social development, are acknowledged and understood.

On the other hand, we must also confront and tackle those obstacles likely to hamper comprehensive and strengthened reform. This reform should focus more on responsibilities, including responsibilities for various types of economic activities and the economic acts, and responsibilities for a variety of administrative acts and judicial acts . This will inevitably impact on the fundamental interests of stakeholders, along with reform of income distribution, which is like to further impact on other established interests.[Read More]

Emphasis on common development

Plenary session blueprint: the public economy and the non-public economy are important parts of the socialist market economy as well as vital components supporting the development of China's social economy.

Since reform and opening up, says Zhang, the reform of our country's system has advanced first and foremost through reform of the economic system, and this reform has addressed basic economic elements.

The individual national conditions and the individual development paths of different countries lead to the specific and individual characteristics of their basic economic systems.

Due to our own national conditions and the characteristics of our development path, China's basic economic system has public ownership as the core element, coexisting with a variety of other ownership structures. We must therefore concentrate on making improvements to the basic system and to the ownership base.[Read More]

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