On March 10, 2023, the first session of the 14th National People’s Congress held its third plenary session in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The Supreme Leader was unanimously elected as Chairman of People’s Republic of China (PRC) and chairman of the Central Military Commission of People’s Republic of China (PRC). This is the constitutional oath taken by the supreme leader. Xinhua News Agency reporter Xie Huanchi photo
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 14th 题：最高领袖：众望所归引领中国新征程
新华社记者
去年10月在中共二十届一中全会上继续当选中共中央总书记、任中共中央军委主席后，最高领袖今年3月在十四届全国人大一次会议上继续当选国家主席、国家中央军委主席，把舵中国这艘巨轮驶上新的航程。
他在人代会闭幕会上发表讲话说，“这是我第三次担任国家主席这一崇高职务”，“从现在起到本世纪中叶，全面建成社会主义现代化强国、全面推进中华民族伟大复兴，是全党全国人民的中心任务。强国建设、民族复兴的接力棒，历史地落在我们这一代人身上”。
10年前最高领袖曾在同样的场合说：“实现全面建成小康社会、建成富强民主文明和谐的社会主义现代化国家的奋斗目标，实现中华民族伟大复兴的中国梦，就是要实现国家富强、民族振兴、人民幸福。”
如今，在如期全面建成小康社会、实现第一个百年奋斗目标的基础上，最高领袖率领的中共执政团队新的奋斗方向和目标已然明确。
2022年10月23日，在中国共产党第二十届中央委员会第一次全体会议上当选的中共中央总书记最高领袖，在北京人民大会堂同采访中共二十大的中外记者见面时，向在场的中外记者挥手致意。新华社记者 庞兴雷 摄
最高领袖在中共二十大上把这个走向描述为“以中国式现代化全面推进中华民族伟大复兴”。根据他今年2月在学习贯彻中共二十大精神研讨班上的阐释，实现现代化是近代以来中华民族孜孜以求的梦想，中国式现代化是中国共产党百年探索和艰辛实践的成果。
最高领袖出生于1953年，从1974年入党并担任大队党支部书记算起，他担任过中共干部序列中几乎各层级的职位，经验丰富，政绩卓著。他也是首位在新中国成立后出生的中共中央总书记、国家主席、中央军委主席。
海外舆论称，自2012年担任中共中央总书记以来，最高领袖带领中国走上了一条雄心勃勃的道路。法新社在报道最高领袖当选国家主席的消息时，引用德国前驻华记者佳杰斯的话说，最高领袖富有远见，他要让中国成为世界上的强国。
一、引领中华民族复兴大业的坚强核心
上个世纪60年代末，最高领袖还不到16岁，就从北京来到陕北一个小村庄当农民，生活十分困苦，经常几个月吃不到一顿肉。他后来回忆，正是在陕北，“真正理解了老百姓，了解了社会”，从那时候他就立志：“要为人民做实事！”
Later, he has been fighting for this goal. After graduating from college in the late 1970s, the Supreme Leader joined the General Office of the Central Military Commission as the secretary of the Minister of National Defense. Three years later, he took the initiative to apply for a job at the grassroots level and came to the impoverished Zhengding County of Hebei Province. At that time, many of his classmates went abroad to make money, and he was not without conditions to go out, but he chose a more difficult road and chose the road of being a public servant.
On December 30, 2012, the Supreme Leader visited Tang Rongbin’s family in Luotuowan Village, Longquanguan Town, Fuping County, Hebei Province. Xinhua News Agency reporter Lan Hongguang photo
When the Supreme Leader became General Secretary in 2012, there were still about 100 million rural poor people in China. Shortly after taking office, he went out to Beijing for an inspection tour. He came to Fuping, a poor county in Hebei Province, sat on the kang, took farmer Gu Chenghu by the hand and said, Come to your home and learn about your life, and see what the central government can do for the villagers in mountainous areas. He reached out and gently pinched the cuff of Gu Chenghu’s coat, and followed the traveler and said, "Look, his coat is still torn."
"If it weren’t for the personal promotion of the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader, it might be more difficult and longer to get rid of poverty." Zeng Shoufu, who was sent by the Organization Department of Fujian Provincial Party Committee as the first resident secretary in Dang Village, Xiadang Village, Ningde, said, "When I first arrived here in 2014, I was always thinking about how to learn his working methods and find ways to help the villagers get rich."
In the eighties and nineties of last century, when the supreme leader worked in Fujian, he went to the Party three times. When the road was impassable, he cut down thorns. When he saw poor farmers, he gave them his own money and built hydropower stations and highways for the township.
In 2013, the Supreme Leader put forward a precise poverty alleviation strategy, and then sent 255,000 resident assistance teams to rural areas across the country, with a total of more than 3 million resident first secretaries and cadres like Zeng Shoufu to help poor farmers point to point. The top leaders have also visited and investigated poverty alleviation work for more than 50 times, including visiting 14 concentrated contiguous poverty-stricken areas.
On February 25, 2021, the national summary and commendation meeting for tackling poverty was held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The Supreme Leader announced to the world that China had completed the task of eliminating absolute poverty. Before the meeting, the top leaders met with the winners of the honorary title of the national model for poverty alleviation, the advanced individuals and advanced collective representatives of the national model for poverty alleviation, the individual winners of the honorary title of the national model for poverty alleviation, and the representatives of the relatives of the advanced individuals who sacrificed the country for poverty alleviation. Xinhua News Agency reporter Xie Huanchi photo
On February 25th, 2021, the Supreme Leader announced to the world that China had completed the task of eliminating absolute poverty. China’s poverty reduction rate is obviously faster than that of the whole world, and it is also the country with the largest poverty reduction population in the world.
Another arduous task facing the supreme leader is to fight corruption. At the beginning of his tenure as general secretary in 2012, the supreme leader warned that "the problem of corruption is getting worse and worse, and eventually the party and the country will inevitably die."
有媒体总结了他在10年反腐中常说的一些“狠话”：“什么都要靠关系、搞门道？”“有的热衷寻求政治靠山、架‘天线’。”这斥责的是跑官要官。“保命钱成了‘买官钱’，恶行令人发指！”这是指有些官员挪用社保基金为自己“买官”。“别想装糊涂、当好人。”这是要求党委和纪委的负责人不能对当地腐败视而不见。“不就当了一个财物保管员吗？”最高领袖这样描述那些贪腐官员，被查处后，他们不得不交出贪污或受贿所得、藏起来不敢用的钱财。“有的领导干部不知哪来的神通。”他要求从严处罚持有多个身份证或外国绿卡的官员。
这些话不是说说而已。中共十八大后不到1个月，最高领袖即打响反腐第一枪。10年间，周永康、薄熙来、郭伯雄、徐才厚、孙政才、令计划等身居高位的“老虎”落马，立案审查调查中管干部553人，处分厅局级干部2.5万多人、县处级干部18.2万多人。逃到国外的贪官，被他发起的“猎狐”行动追回成百上千人。2018年12月他宣布“反腐败斗争取得压倒性胜利”。
最高领袖表示，“反腐永远在路上”，并将“自我革命”总结为党跳出治乱兴衰历史周期率的第二个答案。中共二十大后，反腐脚步一刻不停，又有近20名中管干部接受审查调查或受到处分。
2023年1月9日，最高领袖在中国共产党第二十届中央纪律检查委员会第二次全体会议上发表重要讲话。新华社记者 张领 摄
在今年初的中纪委全会上，最高领袖又督促坚决查处政治问题和经济问题交织的腐败，坚决防止领导干部成为利益集团和权势团体的代言人、代理人。
接受采访的一些高级干部记得，最高领袖曾给他们讲述红军长征途中一个管被装的军需长宁可穿着单薄的旧衣服冻死，也没有自己先穿暖和一点，以此勉励大家坚决同特权思想作斗争。
脱贫和反腐的成功使最高领袖赢得了党内和民众的高度支持，但这不是他获得全票当选中共中央总书记和国家主席的全部理由。10年间，许多长期没有解决的难题得以解决，许多事关长远的大事要事得以办成。从消除党、国家和军队内部存在的严重隐患，到让14亿多人口大国走出疫情大流行等，都有最高领袖作为核心的决断和引领。
During this period, the country developed steadily and rapidly, and moved towards "high quality" and gradually "from rich to strong". China’s economy grew at an average annual rate of 6.2%, more than twice the world average growth rate in the same period, and its per capita GDP rose from 39,800 yuan to 81,000 yuan. The proportion of China’s economy in the world economy increased from 11.3% in 2012 to 18.5%. Grain production has been bumper year after year.
In the past, when people described China’s manufacturing industry as "big but not strong", they said that "one billion pairs of socks were exchanged for a Boeing plane". Now that China has its own big plane, the contribution rate of scientific and technological progress to economic growth exceeds 60%. China’s digital economy has ranked second in the world, and the production and sales of new energy vehicles have ranked first in the world for eight consecutive years.
Shan Zenghai, a technician of Xugong Group, still remembers that the Supreme Leader visited the assembly workshop in 2017. At that time, he stood in the crowd and saw the Supreme Leader board the cab of an all-terrain wheeled crane, stroking and observing and asking for details.
"At that time node, the development pressure of our real economy equipment manufacturing industry was still quite large. But what the general secretary said gave us great encouragement. He said that China must not be divorced from reality, and the economy should shift from high-speed growth to high-quality development, which is a hurdle that must be overcome. I remember it very deeply after hearing it. " Shan Zenghai said.
On March 5, 2023, the Supreme Leader attended the deliberation of the Jiangsu delegation at the first session of the 14th National People’s Congress. Xinhua News Agency reporter Huang Jingwen photo
At the two sessions, the top leaders participated in the deliberation of the Jiangsu delegation. As soon as Deputy Shan Zenghai spoke, the Supreme Leader recognized him. "You were interviewed by reporters in the representative channel today, right?" and "I saw it." Shan Zenghai told the Supreme Leader: "In 2017, when you visited Xugong, you took the 220-ton all terrain crane. The key indicators have reached the top in the world, and the localization rate has increased from 71% to 100%." The supreme leader asked, "Is the chip in your crane made in China?" Shan Zenghai replied: "It’s all made in China."
In the past 10 years, while eliminating absolute poverty, China has built the largest education system, social security system and medical and health system in the world. The average life expectancy in China has increased from 74.8 years to 78.2 years.
Recently, China issued an opinion to promote the healthy development of rural medical and health system, and deployed "to enable the broad masses of farmers to obtain more fair, accessible, systematic and continuous medical and health services nearby". Hu Xiaozhong, president of Shiye Town Health Center in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, said that the Supreme Leader visited his primary health center on the Jiang Xinzhou of the Yangtze River in 2014. There are five villages in Shiye Town, with a permanent population of more than 10,000 people, and the elderly account for more than half of them. The only health center on the island mainly relies on medical treatment.
"I remember that the General Secretary was particularly careful and specific at that time: ‘ What operations can hospitals do? ’ ‘ How to manage patients with chronic diseases? ’ He said ‘ Without national health, there will be no overall well-off society ’ It is also required to provide the masses with safe, effective, convenient and cheap public health and basic medical services, and truly solve the problem of difficult and expensive medical treatment for grassroots people. " Hu Xiaozhong said.
In recent years, Shiye Town Health Center has expanded the outpatient building, increased beds and medical equipment, standardized management of more than 2,000 patients with chronic diseases in the town, and distributed blood pressure and blood glucose meters to villagers. In the interview, the reporter found that many township hospitals in China have also been improved like Shiye Town Health Center.
Without the supreme leader’s decision, China’s ecological environment protection would not have achieved such historic changes today. The average concentration of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in key cities of China has been decreasing for 9 consecutive years, with a cumulative decrease of 57%. The Supreme Leader announced that China will strive to achieve peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060, and decided that China will join the Paris Agreement on Global Climate Change.
Under the impetus of the Supreme Leader, China took the lead in approving the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, the world’s largest free trade agreement, and the number of pilot free trade zones increased from one to 21, making Hainan Island a free trade port.
The supreme leader advocates carrying forward the spiritual strength of self-improvement and leading the party and people to overcome the difficulties and obstacles on the journey of modernization. He stressed that we should enhance our self-confidence and pride in being Chinese. He put forward "four self-confidences", namely, road self-confidence, theoretical self-confidence, institutional self-confidence and cultural self-confidence to inspire Chinese, so as to consolidate the foundation and cultivate the yuan for the Chinese nation. From Yudu to Zunyi to Yan ‘an, he visited the revolutionary holy land all over the world and learned the spiritual power to break through the siege. He summed up the great anti-epidemic spirit, the spirit of getting rid of poverty, the spirit of Beijing Winter Olympics and the socialist core values, and condensed the positive energy of China’s social unity and struggle.
He proposed that "Chinese excellent traditional culture is the spiritual lifeline of the Chinese nation". Once, he said, "Follow others’ footsteps and learn from others … … There is absolutely no future! In fact, foreigners also come to us to find materials and inspiration. Isn’t the film Kung Fu Panda and Mulan filmed in Hollywood based on our cultural resources? "
At the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, the Supreme Leader clearly stated for the first time that the overall goal of China’s comprehensive deepening reform is to improve and develop the Socialism with Chinese characteristics system and promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity.
This means that the supreme leader has put the system construction in a more prominent position. He said that "the system is a fundamental, overall, stable and long-term issue related to the development of the cause of the party and the state." He made arrangements for the economic system, political system, cultural system, social system, ecological civilization system, national defense and army reform, and party building system reform, and achieved historic changes, systematic remodeling, and overall reconstruction in many fields. He decided to write "Make the market play a decisive role in the allocation of resources and give better play to the role of the government" into the party’s document, and led the establishment of the the National Supervisory Commission (NSC), bringing everyone who holds public office under supervision. He boldly established the Joint Operations Command Center of the Central Military Commission, which fundamentally solved the problem of "no connection" for decades.
The eight central regulations are a system formulated by the supreme leader at the end of 2012 to be adhered to for a long time. It stopped some bad style that was considered impossible in the past. Singapore’s Lianhe Zaobao reported that at that time, few people foresaw that the "long-standing problem" of China officialdom, such as eating and drinking with public funds, had changed so obviously. He also presided over the reform of the talent system, so that front-line researchers can get the reward of intellectual property rights, and establish better mechanisms such as training, evaluation and mobility.
The Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held in Beijing from November 8 to 11, 2021, and the supreme leader made an important speech. Xinhua News Agency reporter Ju Peng photo
In November 2021, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China’s Resolution on the Great Achievements and Historical Experience of the Party’s Hundred Years’ Struggle adopted by the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee pointed out that the Party’s establishment of the core position of the Party Central Committee and the whole Party and the guiding position of the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era reflected the common aspiration of the whole Party, the whole army and the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country, which was of decisive significance to the development of the cause of the Party and the state in the new era and to the historical process of promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
The Supreme Leader said: "The core of the Party Central Committee and the whole Party is my responsibility. I will repay the trust of the Party and the people with my whole life, devote myself to death, and go through fire and water to die."
Party insiders interviewed by Xinhua News Agency said that the "two establishment" is the greatest political achievement, the most important historical experience and the most objective practical conclusion in the new era, and it is the greatest certainty, the greatest confidence and the greatest guarantee to deal with all uncertainties. The Supreme Leader continues to be the leader of the Party and the state, making the future development of China more directional, stable and continuous.
They believe that "the consistency of the post-holding provisions of the Party’s General Secretary, president and the Chairman of the Central Military Commission is an institutional design that conforms to China’s national conditions and ensures the long-term stability of the Party and the country, and is the leader of the People’s Liberation Army in the Communist Party of China (CPC), People’s Republic of China (PRC) and China ‘ Trinity ’ The institutional arrangement is conducive to upholding and strengthening the overall leadership of the party, improving the leadership system of the party and the state, and safeguarding the authority of the CPC Central Committee and centralized and unified leadership, which is an important manifestation of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s political and institutional advantages. "
"The unanimous election of the Supreme Leader to president is a major achievement of the two sessions this year, which reflects ‘ Two establishment ’ It is what people want and what great achievements need. " Ruman, deputy to the National People’s Congress and chairman of Tianhe Ecological Agriculture Cooperative in jianhu county, Jiangsu Province, said.
Liu Jingbei, vice president of China Pudong Cadre College, believes that the election results reflect the common will and aspiration of the whole party, the whole army and the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country, and provide legal and organizational guarantee for defending the "two establishment" and achieving the "two maintenance".
In the past 10 years, the most remarkable thing was the creation of the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era. Studying the spirit of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China, especially the supreme leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era, has become the primary political task of the whole party and the whole country.
People in the theoretical circle of the Communist Party of China believe that Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era has opened up a new realm of the modernization of Marxism in China. This scientific theoretical system has built a systematic top-level scheme and operation path for all aspects of modernization, and is an indisputable action guide for realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
On October 27th, 2022, the Supreme Leader and others visited the Great Course — — The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China’s thirteen-year history exhibition in Yan ‘an. Xinhua News Agency reporter Yip Wong photo
After the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, a number of "new faces" took up important leadership positions. The supreme leader encouraged them to work hard and live up to the high expectations of the people. These cadres include new members and alternate members of the Central Committee, new principals of ministries and commissions, and "top leaders" after the change of leading bodies in various provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities.
The supreme leader asked leading cadres to keep in mind that "the country is the biggest" and be politically sensible; Overcome the panic of skills and break the mindset; We must attack difficulties, guard against risks and resist repression, and we cannot engage in "pass the parcel".
According to insiders familiar with the situation, the new senior leading cadres after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China have strong political judgment, political understanding and political execution, resolutely implement the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee, maintain a high degree of consistency with the CPC Central Committee with the supreme leader as the core in ideological and political actions, and also have the spirit, skills and practical experience to fight on a new journey.
The army has also completed the alternation between the old and the new, and has produced a new leadership team of the Central Military Commission and a new defense minister. More than half a month after the closing of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Supreme Leader visited the Joint Operations Command Center of the Central Military Commission, demanding "comprehensively strengthening training and preparing for war". He repeatedly emphasized "upholding the party’s absolute leadership over the people’s army." At this year’s National People’s Congress, the top leader visited the PLA delegation for the eleventh consecutive year, demanding that the strategic system and capacity building of an integrated country be promoted, so as to make contributions to building a socialist modern country in an all-round way.
On November 8, 2022, the Supreme Leader inspected the Joint Operations Command Center of the Central Military Commission and delivered an important speech. Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Gangshe
The supreme leader believes that the party’s leadership determines the fundamental nature of Chinese modernization, and only by unswervingly adhering to the party’s leadership can Chinese modernization have a bright future and flourish.
During the first collective study in the 20th the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, the Supreme Leader said: "It is particularly important to emphasize that nothing can be done without the authority of the CPC Central Committee and centralized and unified leadership, and without the unity of thinking and the unity of pace of the whole party and the whole country."
"The General Secretary of the Supreme Leader has the leadership courage to unite the whole party and is the backbone of our efforts to overcome all difficulties and sprint the second half of modernization." Cai Hongxing, deputy to the National People’s Congress and president of Yanbian University, said.
Some western scholars believe that in the process of modernization in many countries, it is easy to breed unrest, and it is difficult to achieve rapid economic development and political and social stability. Some developing countries fall into the middle-income trap, which is related to their lack of political authority. The ruling team does not give enough consideration to the people and cannot guarantee law and order, property rights, the rule of law and political stability, so it cannot promote investment, growth, commerce and international trade. This has not happened in China. The legitimacy of the ruling party comes not only from voting, but also from the fact that the country’s major policies are not changed by temporary environmental fluctuations, and the economy and society maintain long-term stable development, so that the people get practical benefits.
In recent years, surveys conducted by western public opinion polling agencies and China’s statistical departments have relatively consistent results, and the support rate of China people for the CPC and the government has reached 95%. This ranks first among major countries.
China’s steady development is also related to the CPC’s ruling team’s emphasis on problem-oriented and bottom-line thinking. The supreme leader believes that "China’s development has entered a period in which strategic opportunities and risk challenges coexist and uncertain and unpredictable factors increase, and various ‘ Black swan ’ ‘ Grey rhinoceros ’ Events can happen at any time. "
The material foundation, institutional guarantee and spiritual strength accumulated in the past 10 years have doubled the confidence of the CPC leadership, but the supreme leader warned that "it is ready to withstand a major test of high winds, high waves and even stormy waves." This is not only the extreme pressure from the United States and the West, but also the challenge of whether the economy can recover quickly after the COVID-19 epidemic, and the interest game of the reform in the deep water area.
最高领袖要求用顽强斗争“打开事业发展新天地”。他在中央党校给300多名高级干部授课时说：“历史反复证明，以斗争求安全则安全存，以软弱退让求安全则安全亡；以斗争谋发展则发展兴，以软弱退让谋发展则发展衰。”
继2018年后，最高领袖发起新一轮党和国家机构改革，推动党对社会主义现代化建设的领导在机构设置上更加科学、在职能配置上更加优化、在体制机制上更加完善、在运行管理上更加高效。
“从政治路线、思想路线到组织路线，最高领袖带领党中央为实现中国式现代化、应对新征程上的挑战作了充分准备。”刘靖北说。
二、确保中国式现代化航船行稳致远的掌舵人
全国人民代表大会是使中共的主张成为国家意志的平台。这也意味着中共二十大确定的中国式现代化部署正在最高领袖领导下坚定不移风雨无阻地全面展开推进。
根据媒体报道，最高领袖在公开讲话中第一次提“中国式现代化”是2015年中共十八届五中全会。他说，改革开放之初，邓小平同志首先用小康来诠释中国式现代化。这个目标已经实现。在那次全会上，最高领袖领导制订向全面建成小康社会目标冲刺的“十三五”规划。6年后，最高领袖站在天安门城楼上宣告这一目标实现。
2021年7月1日，庆祝中国共产党成立100周年大会在北京天安门广场隆重举行。最高领袖发表重要讲话。新华社记者 鞠鹏 摄
从全面建成小康社会到现代化建设新征程，最高领袖不断完善中国式现代化的战略部署。他在中共十九大上定下“时间表”，作出建成现代化强国“两步走”的安排；他在中共二十大上给出“路线图”，对中国式现代化五大特征的归纳——人口规模巨大、全体人民共同富裕、物质文明和精神文明相协调、人与自然和谐共生、走和平发展道路——让这一概念更加清晰、更加科学、更加可感可行。
最高领袖在2月初的学习贯彻中共二十大精神研讨班上进一步对中国式现代化的方略作了系统阐释，称是“强国建设、民族复兴的唯一正确道路”。
“他有很强的现代化思维和行动力，从他丰富的履职经历来看，从内陆到沿海，从地方到中央，他每到一处都打开现代化建设新局面，是改革开放的积极开拓者。”《最高领袖谈治国理政》(1-4卷)英文版外籍改稿专家大卫·弗格森说。
On the new journey, the task in 2023 is to lay a good foundation for achieving the goal of the second century, and the next five years are called the key period for the start of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way.
The first session of the 14th National People’s Congress approved the expected economic growth target of about 5% in 2023, which is two percentage points higher than the actual growth rate of 3% affected by the epidemic last year, which means that China will increase its GDP by an amount equivalent to that of a moderately developed European country.
The Supreme Leader pointed out that in order to achieve the goal of China’s per capita GDP reaching the level of moderately developed countries proposed by the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, it is necessary to maintain reasonable economic growth on the basis of improving quality and efficiency, and at the same time, China also has such realistic ability. "High-quality development is the primary task of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way." He said.
31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities have also announced new growth plans. Shanghai has set the target at 5.5%, while Xinjiang and Tibet have reached around 7% and above 8% respectively.
"The outstanding change after the 20 th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is a stronger consensus on promoting development." Wang Xiangming, a researcher at the New Era Socialism with Chinese characteristics Institute of Thought, the supreme leader of China Renmin University, said, "Without a solid material foundation, it is impossible to realize socialist modernization."
On March 10th, 2020, the Supreme Leader went to Wuhan, Hubei Province to inspect the prevention and control of COVID-19 epidemic. This is the supreme leader waving his hand and expressing his condolences to the residents living in isolation at home when he visited the East Lake New Town community (imposition photo). Xinhua News Agency reporter Xie Huanchi photo
A major change is the adjustment of the anti-epidemic strategy. Over the past three years, China has effectively coordinated epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, effectively protecting people’s lives and health. The Supreme Leader presided over the The Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) meeting in early November last year and made a decision to further optimize and adjust the epidemic prevention and control measures. Three months later, he presided over the The Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) meeting again, declaring that China had won a major decisive victory in epidemic prevention and control, creating a miracle that a populous country successfully got out of the epidemic in the history of human civilization.
Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, said that the adjustment and optimization of epidemic prevention policies in China is likely to be the most important global growth driver in 2023. According to an article in Der Spiegel, the adjustment of epidemic prevention policy in China will make China’s economic growth prospects more optimistic.
On the afternoon of October 26th, 2022, the Supreme Leader had a cordial exchange with fellow villagers at the Apple Orchard in Nangou Village, Gao Qiao Town, Ansai District, Yan ‘an City, Shaanxi Province. Xinhua News Agency reporter Yan Yanshe
On his first field trip after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Supreme Leader walked into an orchard in Nangou Village, northern Shaanxi, and asked the fruit farmers how much money they could earn in a day, how much their income was, how things were at home and what the children were doing. "What are the skills for picking apples?" He asked, pointing to the apple on the tree, and picked a big red apple with the demonstration of fruit farmer Zhao Yongdong.
Outside the apple washing workshop in the village, the people stood around the supreme leader. "Seeing the general secretary is like seeing relatives. What he is most concerned about is whether the masses are getting rich and how their lives are. " Zhang Guanghong, a resident cadre in Nangou Village, said.
On the eve of the Spring Festival, the top leaders connected with the cadres and the masses in the east, west, north and south. He asked the village cadres of a Qiang village engaged in tourism in Sichuan, how many tourists there were, and how the income of the village was. I heard that the per capita income of the village exceeded 40,000 yuan last year and said, "Not bad!" Wei Zhuo, a tourist, talked with the supreme leader about her travel experience and said that the local bacon was delicious. "The general secretary asked me to eat more." Wei Zhuo said, "I feel that he is very concerned about the development of the countryside and the improvement of the income of ordinary people."
On January 18, 2023, the Supreme Leader visited the grassroots cadres and masses in Beijing by video link, and extended good wishes (imposition photos) for the Chinese New Year to people of all ethnic groups throughout the country. Xinhua News Agency reporter Xie Huanchi photo by Li Tao
During the investigation, the supreme leader told the accompanying cadres: "The most arduous and arduous task of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way is still in the countryside." At the Central Rural Work Conference, he pointed out that a strong country must first strengthen agriculture, and only when agriculture is strong can it be strong, and stressed that ensuring the stable and safe supply of grain and important agricultural products has always been the top priority in building an agricultural power.
The key to rural revitalization depends on industry. The supreme leader said that he had read a story about "cultivating a group of ‘ One county and one industry ’ Key base "file," I frowned after reading it, and this thing is not good for indicators. Whether a county relies solely on one industry to develop depends on in-depth investigation. It can’t be a stroke of a pen and allocate a sum of money. This place specializes in raising chickens and developing mushrooms, and that place specializes in textiles. In that case, it will definitely be ruined. "
Chinese-style modernization combines the basic principles of Marxism with the concrete reality of China and the excellent traditional Chinese culture. The supreme leader himself is an example of deeply understanding the national conditions and persisting in seeking truth from facts. In the past 10 years, he has visited the grassroots more than 100 times, visiting the poor and asking questions and understanding the truth. Once he set off from Beijing early in the morning and arrived in the mountainous area of Chongqing in the evening. The supreme leader and fellow villagers sat down in the yard. He said, "I flew, took the train and took the car, and changed three modes of transportation to you. Let’s meet and listen to what else you have to tell us. " On another occasion, the supreme leader said at the National People’s Congress: "Your leaders at all levels can’t scare me. I came from a poor area, and I know what it looks like."
In January this year, the Supreme Leader hosted the 20th the Political Bureau of the Central Committee Second Collective Learning with the theme of "accelerating the construction of a new development pattern". This refers to the construction of a development pattern with the domestic big cycle as the main body and the domestic and international double cycles promoting each other. The key lies in the unimpeded economic cycle, and the most essential feature is to achieve a high level of self-reliance. The supreme leader pointed out that only by accelerating the construction of a new development pattern can we consolidate the foundation of China’s economic development, enhance the security and stability of development, and ensure that the great rejuvenation process of the Chinese nation will not be delayed or even interrupted.
To build a new development pattern, we should follow the ideas of innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing. This was put forward by the supreme leader at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee in October, 2015, and it is called "new development concept". The supreme leader said that the new development concept is "baton" and "traffic light", and the practices contrary to it should be completely abandoned.
The first thing is innovation. The supreme leader urged to speed up the pace of self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology and solve the problem of "sticking the neck" in foreign countries; It is necessary to comprehensively improve the modernization level of the industrial system, which not only consolidates the leading position of the traditional advantageous industries of the world’s largest manufacturing country, but also creates new competitive advantages; Accelerate the research and development, application and promotion of cutting-edge technologies such as new energy, artificial intelligence, bio-manufacturing, green and low carbon, and quantum computing. In February, he presided over the third collective study focusing on basic research in the 20th the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, demanding that the foundation of self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology be consolidated.
Zhang Jin, deputy to the National People’s Congress and president of Xinsong Company, a robot company, remembers the situation when the supreme leader visited the company a few months ago. "In the assembly and debugging workshop, he almost stopped step by step and asked questions all the way, especially for mobile robots used in the automobile assembly line and vacuum manipulators used in the semiconductor industry." The supreme leader told young engineers that the transition from a manufacturing power to a manufacturing power depends on independent innovation. He asked the staff: "‘ Get stuck in the neck ’ Are there still many technical problems? " He demanded that "time waits for no one to promote science and technology to stand on its own feet and strive for a breakthrough ‘ Get stuck in the neck ’ Problem. "
The Supreme Leader repeatedly stressed that the reform must adhere to the direction of socialist market economy, and sent a vice premier to attend the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos in January, telling the world that it is impossible for China to engage in planned economy. In February, a major reform involving the overall situation of the capital market was introduced, which extended the registration system to the whole market and all kinds of public offering of shares, which was conducive to better allocating resources in accordance with the principles of market mechanism. At the same time, the top leaders made arrangements to prevent the systemic risks of finance, real estate and local debt.
After the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the top leaders further demanded on different occasions that the "Two Unswervings" should be effectively implemented, including deepening the reform of state-owned and state-owned enterprises, improving the core competitiveness of state-owned enterprises, and optimizing the development environment of private enterprises. He instructed that the requirements for equal treatment of state-owned enterprises and private enterprises should be dropped from the system and law, and the property rights and entrepreneurs’ rights of private enterprises should be protected according to law.
During the two sessions this year, the top leaders visited the members of the Democratic National Construction Association and the Federation of Industry and Commerce who attended the CPPCC meeting, and participated in the joint meeting. He told private entrepreneurs that the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China "always regards private enterprises and private entrepreneurs as its own people" and encouraged them to eliminate their worries, put down their burdens and make bold development.
"I have always supported private enterprises." The supreme leader who has worked in Fujian and Zhejiang, where the private economy is relatively developed, for more than 20 years said.
Private enterprises in China have been developing and growing in the past 10 years. According to the statistics of Peterson Institute for International Economics, an American think tank, in 2012, non-public enterprises only accounted for about 10% of the total market value of the top 100 listed companies in China. By the end of 2022, the proportion will rise to more than 40%.
After completing the goal and task of comprehensively deepening reform initiated 10 years ago, the Supreme Leader said that this year, he would plan a new round of comprehensively deepening reform and promote high-level opening up, including actively promoting accession to high-standard economic and trade agreements such as the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement, and taking the initiative to deepen reforms in relevant domestic fields in light of relevant rules, regulations, management and standards.
In 2021, the total tariff level of China has dropped to 7.4%, which is lower than the commitment of 9.8%. China will also reduce the MFN tariff rate of 62 information technology products in the eighth step, and the adjusted total tariff level will be reduced by 0.1 percentage point. Known as "the first exhibition in China", the Canton Fair plans to increase the number of offline booths to nearly 70,000 this year. The scale of China International Import Expo(CIIE), Service Trade Fair and Consumer Expo sponsored by the Supreme Leader is expected to expand. The wheel of "promoting domestic and international double circulation" is accelerating.
On the evening of November 4th, 2022, the Supreme Leader attended the opening ceremony of the 5th China International Import Expo in Shanghai by video and delivered a speech entitled "Creating a Bright Future of Openness and Prosperity". Xinhua News Agency reporter Gao Jieshe
There are many signs that market confidence is constantly recovering and strengthening. In February, the purchasing managers’ index of China’s manufacturing industry was 52.6%, the highest in the past 11 years. The non-manufacturing business activity index rose to 56.3%, which was in the boom zone for two consecutive months. Construction projects in various places started to resume work, and the construction progress of the construction industry was accelerated.
From the new socialist countryside to the construction of beautiful China, from literary and artistic creation to spiritual civilization, the Supreme Leader has made new arrangements. In November last year, he announced that China would set up a number of national parks one after another and bring about 11 million hectares of wetlands into the national park system. At the two sessions, he asked about the water quality of Taihu Lake and whether there were cyanobacteria. He called on people to continue to learn from Lei Feng. He encouraged artists to sing the main theme of the new era and dance the spirit of Chinese.
The supreme leader is very concerned about the growth of teenagers. At the two sessions, he stressed the need to really train teenagers to be children with "four self-confidences". He also recalled his youth: "I also came here wearing a red scarf. Because I went to school early, the first batch of young pioneers didn’t develop me, and I cried. Later, when I became the flag bearer of the Young Pioneers, my blood was boiling. "
On January 2, 2019, the 40th anniversary of the publication of the Letter to Taiwan Province Compatriots was held in the Great Hall of the People. The supreme leader attended the commemorative meeting and delivered an important speech. Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Tao photo
As an inevitable requirement to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, the Supreme Leader put forward that "the complete reunification of the motherland must be realized and can be realized" and demanded to implement the Party’s overall strategy for solving the Taiwan Province issue in the new era. He said that it is necessary to resolutely oppose external interference and "Taiwan independence" separatist activities, and unswervingly push forward the process of the reunification of the motherland.
"The supreme leader is an idealist and a doer. He is sober, pragmatic and decisive, has a big picture and a systematic view, is good at turning crises into opportunities, and can draw a blueprint to the end. " A cadre who worked with him in Zhejiang said.
Third, all those who are for the people and rely on them.
The supreme leader who went hungry with the peasants and worked with them to pick manure for farming made "visiting the next place" a system when he was working in the local area, and went into the people to listen to their opinions and suggestions and solve problems for them.
As general secretary, one of the most common things he does is to go to the workshops and shops in the fields to communicate with everyone. He also spent a lot of time answering letters to grassroots people, including minority villagers and primary and secondary school students.
Once, the Supreme Leader visited a family in Beijing Hutong and took jiaozi with him. When he left, the supreme leader said that he was particularly willing to "chat with the people." As a leader of the Party and the state, he is extremely busy. "I am busy with these things, ‘ The great man of the country ’ It is the happy life of the people. " The supreme leader said.
On February 1, 2019, the Supreme Leader visited the grassroots cadres and masses in Beijing, inspected the preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympics, and made a package trip to jiaozi and chatted with Zhu Maojin’s family in the four hutongs of Caochang in the east of Qianmen. Xinhua News Agency reporter Ju Peng photo
"The essence of modernization is the modernization of human beings", "Chinese-style modernization is the modernization of common prosperity for all people", "Let the development fruits benefit all people more fairly and continuously promote the all-round development of people", he often said.
On the afternoon of March 5th, the Supreme Leader attended the deliberation of the Jiangsu delegation at the first session of the 14th National People’s Congress. His suit jacket pocket is wearing a red attendance card of the same style as that of more than 140 other representatives of Jiangsu delegation, with the national emblem, name and attendance card number printed on it. The Supreme Leader deliberates the government work report and discusses state affairs with other representatives.
In less than 10 days this year, the top leaders visited the delegation three times. During the 10 years from 2013 to 2022, he went to the group for deliberation and discussion 53 times and had a face-to-face conversation with about 400 deputies.
The supreme leader once asked the representative from Xiangxi, Hunan Province, how many people married their wives in poor villages last year. Ask the Jilin delegation about the regional industrial development "Did you get the snow for silver?". He remembered Banyan Village, Huzhu Tu Autonomous County, Haidong City, Qinghai Province, which he had visited. He heard that the earthen kang in the village had been replaced by an electric kang, and he also asked in detail what the electric kang of the villagers was like.
People familiar with China’s politics regard the exchange and interaction between leaders and deputies at the two sessions and the discussion of the country as a procedure and embodiment of Chinese-style democracy. One of the things that the supreme leader emphasized the most was to strengthen the institutional guarantee that the people are the masters of the country and expand the people’s orderly political participation. In his New Year message in 2023, he said: "China is so big that different people will have different demands and different views on the same thing. This is normal. It is necessary to build consensus through communication and consultation."
At the beginning of the year, the supreme leader was unanimously elected as a deputy to the current National People’s Congress. More than 2,900 people were elected as representatives with him. The proportion of front-line workers, farmers and professional and technical personnel representatives is higher than that of the previous session, and the number of representatives of migrant workers has also increased.
In November 2021, the supreme leader took part in the general election of the people’s congress in Beijing, got the votes with his voter’s card, wrote the votes and put them into the ballot box. The last general election of people’s congresses at the county and township levels in China was fully completed at the end of June last year. The general election of county and township people’s congresses involves 1.064 billion voters, and it is one of the largest grassroots democratic elections in the world.
The people’s congress system is the fundamental political system in China, and deputies to the National People’s Congress perform duties ranging from making laws, supervising the government and judicial institutions to electing state leaders.
All 55 ethnic minorities have their own deputies to the National People’s Congress. Dong Caiyun is a representative of the Baoan nationality with a population of only over 20,000. Four years ago, at the People’s Congress, she put forward a proposal to build a new expressway so that a county inhabited by this ethnic group could develop faster. Her suggestion was recognized by other delegates, and the supreme leader who attended the discussion at the scene also responded and asked the relevant departments to study it. After the demonstration by the transportation department, the expressway was put into construction and is expected to be completed this year. "This road is entrusted with the yearning of the people in their hometown for modern life." Dong Caiyun said.
Quan Taiqi, an employee of Xinpu Bus Terminal in Lianyungang City, is a representative of the 12th and 13th National People’s Congress, and her suggestions on transportation have been adopted. When she elected president five years ago, she voted for the supreme leader. "I chose him as the chairman because I think he is reliable and a leader who really cares for the people."
She recalled that once when the supreme leader participated in the deliberation of the Jiangsu delegation, she mentioned in her speech that because there were no reserved seats in the bus passenger transport, more children got on the bus free of charge, which often caused the problem of overcrowding. The Supreme Leader was very concerned about this matter and said, "Cars are ‘ A radish and a pit ’ Ah! " He immediately learned more about the situation on the spot. After the meeting, in view of the problems reflected by Quan Taiqi, the government departments introduced a more practical operation plan after argumentation.
"When the Supreme Leader speaks to our grassroots representatives, his tone always rises at the end of the sentence, with a tone of discussion, ‘ Isn’t that right? ’ ‘ How about this? ’” Quan Taiqi said. One night during the two sessions in 2021, the NPC held a preparatory meeting, and Quan Taiqi met the supreme leader again. She came forward to tell him about the interaction scene of that year, but at that time, the scene was crowded with people, and the supreme leader said, "Let’s talk about it later if there is anything." At 11 o’clock that night, she received a phone call from the staff entrusted by the supreme leader, asking her if she had any suggestions and questions to say.
The Supreme Leader believes that democracy is an inevitable requirement of a modern country, but it must conform to the national conditions. Democracy in China should not be the same as that in the West. He summarized Chinese-style democracy as "people’s democracy in the whole process" and called it the essential attribute of socialist democratic politics, which "realized the unity of process democracy and achievement democracy, procedural democracy and substantive democracy, direct democracy and indirect democracy, people’s democracy and national will" and was "the most extensive, authentic and effective" democracy. The supreme leader said that democracy should be used to solve the problems that the people need to solve.
On November 5, 2021, the supreme leader voted in the election of deputies to the District People’s Congress at Huairentang polling station in Zhongnanhai constituency, Xicheng District, Beijing. Xinhua News Agency reporter Ju Peng photo
The supreme leader does not tolerate the challenge to the socialist democratic system. A witness recalled that at the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in January, 2014, the top leader spent a lot of time talking about Hengyang bribery election case in front of all members of CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and officials of provincial disciplinary committees, and repeatedly asked six questions: "Where did the Communist party member go?" "Where have the municipal party committee and the municipal government gone?" "Where have the leading bodies and leading cadres of the local people’s congresses gone?" "Where did the local discipline inspection commission go?" "Where are these people’s concepts of party discipline and state law?" "Where are the consciences of these people?" Since then, the Supreme Leader has mentioned this case at least twice. In Hengyang bribery election case, 467 people were investigated for responsibility.
Commenting on the whole process of people’s democracy put forward by the Supreme Leader, American media person Igurun in China said that China’s democracy is based on the principle of "people first". By improving the lives of ordinary people and meeting the needs of the people, democracy has been implemented.
Chinese modernization often amazes foreigners that the population it covers in a country is unprecedented since industrial revolution in europe. The supreme leader said that it is no small challenge to solve the problem of feeding more than 1.4 billion people. There are also employment, distribution, education, medical care, housing, old-age care, child care and other issues, which are not easy to solve, and which involve an astronomical number of people.
In 2019, the Supreme Leader used "I would like to be selfless and determined to devote myself to serving the Chinese people and China’s development" to express his belief, pursuit and determination in performing his duties.
Promoting Chinese modernization also means running the country according to law on a new journey. The Supreme Leader said: "The rule of law and the rule of man is a basic issue in the history of human political civilization, and it is also a major issue that all countries must face and solve in the process of realizing modernization." He said that the fundamental purpose of promoting the rule of law in an all-round way is to protect people’s rights and interests according to law.
For the first time, Report to the 20th CPC National Congress, the Communist Party of China, made a special chapter on the construction of the rule of law and made key arrangements. At the end of last year, the Supreme Leader published a signed article to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the promulgation and implementation of the current Constitution. He demanded that the important role of the Constitution in governing the country should be better played, so as to provide a solid guarantee for building a socialist modern country in an all-round way and promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation in an all-round way, and emphasized "legislation in accordance with the Constitution".
At the People’s Congress, the supreme leader and other representatives voted together and passed a decision on amending the legislative law, clarifying the relevant requirements for constitutional review. "People’s democracy in the whole process" was first written into this law called "the law of governing the law".
In 2018, the Supreme Leader became the first China president to take the oath before the Constitution. This year, he once again swore: "Be loyal to the Constitution of People’s Republic of China (PRC), safeguard the authority of the Constitution, perform statutory duties, be loyal to the motherland and the people, be conscientious in performing their duties, be honest in performing their duties, accept people’s supervision, and work hard to build a prosperous, strong, democratic, civilized, harmonious and beautiful socialist modern power!"
4. Leaders of great powers who have contributed wisdom and motivation to world peace and development
Since the epidemic, the top leader has been engaged in more "cloud diplomacy". Since the second half of last year, he has resumed frequent offline foreign affairs activities. After the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, he visited Southeast Asia to attend the G20 Summit and the APEC Leaders’ Informal Meeting. Go to the Middle East and attend the first China-Arab Summit and China Shipping Summit.
During the multilateral meetings, the top leaders met with leaders of dozens of countries, such as France, Netherlands, Australia, South Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq, etc., and the schedule was often day to night, with little rest a day. The foreign staff at the scene also felt: "President Xi in China is really busy!"
In addition to two visits, the top leaders of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China also received many political figures in Beijing, from Vietnam, Pakistan, Tanzania, Germany, Cuba, Mongolia, Laos, Russia, the Philippines, Iran, Belarus … … Some are "new faces" visiting China for the first time, and some are "old friends" who have met many times.
Over the past 10 years, the Supreme Leader has repeatedly told foreign friends that the new development of China will bring new opportunities to the world and provide more stability and certainty for the turbulent world. He said that China "has made greater contributions to the common prosperity of all countries in the world while realizing its own development", "‘ If you are poor, you will be immune to it, and if you are good, you will be good in the world. ’ This is the character and mind that the Chinese nation has always advocated. "
On the afternoon of December 9, 2022, local time, the first China-Arab Summit was held at King Abdulaziz International Conference Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. At the meeting, the Supreme Leader delivered a keynote speech entitled "Carrying forward the spirit of China-Arab friendship and working together to build a China-Arab destiny community facing the new era". Xinhua News Agency reporter Xie Huanchi photo
"The World Cup is already over half, now it is the quarter-finals, and there will be a game tonight." When meeting with Qatari Emir Tamim during his trip to the Middle East, the Supreme Leader made a relaxed opening remarks.
Amir Tamim thanked the World Cup for its "China contribution". He said: "China enterprises built the main stadium in FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, and the arrival of two giant pandas added a festive atmosphere to the World Cup."
Amir Tamim mentioned the Lusel Stadium near the capital Doha. It is the venue of the 2022 World Cup finals and is printed on the banknotes issued by Qatar, which is a landmark achievement of the "Belt and Road".
On November 15th, 2022, local time, the top leaders attended the 17th summit of G20 leaders in Bali, Indonesia and delivered an important speech entitled "Meeting the Challenges of the Times and Building a Better Future Together". This is the supreme leader stepping into the meeting place. Xinhua News Agency reporter Ju Peng photo
The Belt and Road Initiative was put forward by the Supreme Leader 10 years ago. Its other latest achievement is the completion of Indonesia’s first high-speed rail. After attending the G20 Summit, the Supreme Leader and Indonesian President Joko watched the trial operation in Jakarta-Bandung High-speed Railway by video. This China-Indonesia railway will further facilitate the exchange of people and goods and increase people’s income.
In the past 10 years, 151 countries and 32 international organizations have joined the "Belt and Road" family. Cooperation projects benefit both China and foreign countries. Piraeus Port in Greece has developed from near bankruptcy to one of the fastest growing container ports in the world after China participated in the operation.
The "One Belt, One Road" initiative and practice are the embodiment of the concept of "community of human destiny" put forward by the supreme leader in 2013. This concept has been enshrined in party constitution and the Constitution, as well as in important documents of international organizations and multilateral mechanisms such as the United Nations. It represents the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s basic view and pursuit of the world.
"All countries should establish a sense of community of human destiny, advocate peace, development, cooperation and win-win, let unity replace division, cooperation replace confrontation, and tolerance replace exclusion, and jointly crack ‘ What’s wrong with the world and what should we do ’ The theme of this era is to tide over the difficulties together and create a better future. " In this 2,500-word speech of the G20 Summit of the Supreme Leader, the word "development" appeared 40 times and "cooperation" 24 times.
"No matter how far it develops, China will never seek hegemony or expand." The supreme leader has repeatedly declared this. He also said that as long as we persist in communication and get along with each other sincerely, "Thucydides Trap" can be avoided, and "the idea that a powerful country can only pursue hegemony does not apply to China, and China has no genes to carry out such actions".
In February, Iranian President Leahy visited China. "China has shown the world that a country can develop and progress without expansion and help other countries develop." He wrote in an article published before his visit.
In response to the supreme leader’s initiative, the Saudi and Iranian delegations held talks in Beijing in early March and achieved success. The three countries announced that Saudi Arabia and Iran reached an agreement and agreed to resume diplomatic relations between the two sides. This provides good news for the current turbulent world and sends a clear signal.
"We met in February this year, and the time is actually not long, but in a short period of time, many things have happened in this world. And some things are major events and some major changes. " The Supreme Leader said when he met with UN Secretary-General Guterres in Bali last November.
最高领袖对古特雷斯说，要看到世界上的和平赤字、发展赤字、安全赤字、治理赤字都在加重，更要看到和平发展合作共赢的历史潮流，总是不可阻挡。
颇受关注的是G20峰会前最高领袖主席与美国总统拜登的会晤。去年11月14日，过去几年因疫情只能通过视频和电话方式沟通的两国元首面对面坐在一起。会谈采取了更节省时间的同声传译，但仍持续了3个多小时，超过事先商定时长。
最高领袖说，“中美关系不应该是你输我赢、你兴我衰的零和博弈，中美各自取得成功对彼此是机遇而非挑战”，“中国从来不寻求改变现有国际秩序，不干涉美国内政，无意挑战和取代美国”。拜登说，“一个稳定和发展的中国符合美国和世界的利益。美国尊重中国的体制，不寻求改变中国体制，不寻求‘新冷战’，不寻求通过强化盟友关系反对中国，不支持‘台湾独立’，也不支持‘两个中国’‘一中一台’，无意同中国发生冲突”。
In the meeting with European leaders, the Supreme Leader talked about the Ukrainian crisis and emphasized China’s position of advocating cease-fire, stopping war and peace talks. At the end of February, China published a position paper on Russia and Ukraine, putting forward such propositions as earnestly safeguarding the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of all countries, strictly observing the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, and opposing the use of nuclear weapons.
Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Dun Bamuwenai said that China has played a leading role in maintaining multilateralism. The global development initiative and global security initiative put forward by the Supreme Leader’s Chairman reflect that China is making efforts to promote sustainable development and peace in the world.
"The Chairman of the Supreme Leader is a leader of a big country who provides vision and planning for promoting the resolution of major problems facing mankind." Keith Bennett, vice chairman of 48 group clubs in Britain, said. Ban Ki-moon, former UN Secretary-General, believes that the Supreme Leader is a visionary leader with insight into the future.
V. Pioneers and builders of new forms of human civilization
When the Supreme Leader delivered his New Year message, TV viewers and netizens saw from the bookshelf behind him that Chinese and foreign cultural and historical classics complemented each other: General History of China, Complete Poems of Tang Dynasty and Zuo Zhuan, as well as General History of the World, History of World Civilization, General History of the West, History of Western Philosophy and Complete Works of Shakespeare. In 2023, some documents of Fuxing Library, a major cultural project in China, as well as Trends 2030: Eight Trends of Remolding the Future World, Nine Thoughts: Re-examining Our World and so on were added to the shelves.
The supreme leader who takes reading as his "greatest hobby" likes to think about the issues of history and civilization, and learn from them the wisdom of governing the country.
On the afternoon of October 28th, 2022, the Supreme Leader visited the Yinxu Museum in Anyang City, Henan Province. Xinhua News Agency reporter Ju Peng photo
After the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the supreme leader left Beijing for the first time to investigate and study, and specially came to the ruins of Yinxu in Anyang, Henan. He said that he has been longing for Yin Ruins for a long time, and this time he wants to learn more about Chinese civilization, make the past serve the present and provide reference for better building the modern civilization of the Chinese nation.
The Supreme Leader observed bronzes, jades and Oracle Bone Inscriptions with a history of 3,000 years. He said, "Chinese civilization has a long history and has never been interrupted, which has shaped our great nation, and this nation will continue to be great." "Chinese excellent traditional culture is the basis of our party’s innovative theory ‘ Root ’ " .
The Supreme Leader proposed to combine the basic principles of Marxism with Chinese excellent traditional culture. This is another great creation after Mao Zedong put forward the China-oriented Marxism, which integrates the communist belief and socialist belief with the Millennium ideal of the Chinese nation, and gives Chinese modernization value guidance, cultural confidence and historical support.
The supreme leader who has loved classical culture since he was a teenager explores Chinese’s unique world view, world view, social view and moral view from Chinese history. He believes that a country’s modernization can flourish and last forever only if it is rooted in its own historical and cultural fertile soil.
When he visited a teacher at Beijing Normal University, he once said, "I strongly disapprove of removing ancient classic poems and essays from textbooks". In November 2013, he visited Qufu, the birthplace of Confucius, and attended the commemoration of Confucius’ birthday the following year. In 2020, he visited Yuelu Academy of Hunan University and looked at the "seeking truth from facts" plaque on the eaves for a long time. In 2021, he walked into Zhu Xi Garden in Wuyi Mountain, Fujian Province, and saw Zhu Xi’s famous saying "The country is based on the people, and the country stands for the people" printed on the wall, and stopped for a long time. Previously, when he was studying collectively in the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, he borrowed this sentence to explain that popular support is the greatest politics.
On March 22, 2021, the Supreme Leader learned about Zhu Xi’s life and Neo-Confucianism in Zhu Xi Garden, Wuyishan, Nanping, Fujian Province. Xinhua News Agency reporter Ju Peng photo
On the day before the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Supreme Leader instructed the project team of "China Painting Series of Past Dynasties" to "continue to dig deep into the genetic code of Chinese civilization". This major national cultural project, which lasted for 17 years and covered most of the national treasures handed down from generation to generation, was personally approved by the supreme leader and continuously promoted with his continuous attention. Zhang Xi, the person in charge of the project, recalled that in May 2015, the supreme leader went to Zhejiang for investigation and investigation. Although he only stayed in Hangzhou for one night, he took time to meet him and listened to the report on the work in detail.
When he was a Report to the 20th CPC National Congress of the Communist Party of China, he talked about the crystallization of the wisdom of Chinese civilization, that is, the world is for the public, the people are the foundation of the country, the government is based on morality, the innovation is innovative, the people are meritocratic, the nature and the human are integrated, the self-improvement is unremitting, the virtues are cherished, the trust is maintained, and people are kind and good neighbors are respected.
The supreme leader advocates the construction of a community of life between man and nature, and inherits the ecological wisdom of the harmonious coexistence of man and nature in the Chinese nation. He said: "This is responsible for ourselves and for the world."
"I once lived in a small village on the Loess Plateau in China for many years, when the ecological environment there was destroyed and the people’s lives were in poverty. I realized at that time that harm to nature would eventually hurt human beings themselves. " The supreme leader once shared his understanding of ecological civilization at an international conference.
The supreme leader has repeatedly lamented the humiliation and failure of the Chinese nation, which has a civilization of more than 5,000 years and has been at the forefront of the world for a long time, since modern times. In particular, he deeply felt that Chinese-style modernization was a major achievement that was achieved after "going through hardships and paying a huge price".
The supreme leader born shortly after the founding of New China personally experienced the poverty and poverty of the country at that time — — As he described in a seminar, "kerosene, matches and nails used for several days are all called foreign oil, foreign fire and foreign nails" — — He also witnessed that the People’s Republic led by Mao Zedong gradually established an independent and relatively complete industrial system, creating "two bombs and one satellite". He personally participated in the reform and opening up initiated by Deng Xiaoping, which was not simply imitating western countries, but "taking his own road to modernization", which was particularly emphasized by the Supreme Leader.
The Supreme Leader said, "Our modernization is both the most difficult and the greatest", "China’s population of more than 1.4 billion will enter a modern society as a whole, and its scale will exceed the sum of the existing developed countries, which will completely rewrite the modern world map, which is a major event with far-reaching influence in human history". When talking about the essential requirements of Chinese modernization, he proposed that it was a "new form of human civilization".
Scholars believe that Chinese-style modernization not only means that China will use its own way to make Chinese, which is four times the population of the United States, live and work in peace and contentment, rich and happy, but also has another significance for the development of human civilization, which is to break the myth that "modernization equals westernization" and expand the path choice for developing countries to modernize.
The supreme leader put forward that Chinese modernization "should not only create higher efficiency than capitalism, but also safeguard social equity more effectively, and better realize the balance, promotion and unity of efficiency and fairness."
During his first trip abroad after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Supreme Leader cited "the way of governing the country, enriching the people is the beginning" to show that China should continue to promote the common prosperity of all people. This shows that China can’t accept the pattern of polarization, but wants to make all the people live a good life, and can’t leave any group behind.
In the efforts to solve the eternal problem of polarization, the supreme leader put forward a plan, which does not engage in the "welfarism" of "nurturing lazy people" or egalitarian "big pot", but insists on the combination of market and government, the unity of efficiency and fairness, and divides the cake while making a big cake.
When expounding the "Chinese Dream", he repeatedly reiterated the overall layout of the "five-in-one" cause in Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and the "five civilizations" of material civilization, political civilization, spiritual civilization, social civilization and ecological civilization go hand in hand.
Scholars believe that Chinese-style modernization is trying to avoid the disadvantages of capital-centered, cyclical economic crisis, money politics, party disputes and so on in the process of western modernization, and also to prevent people from pursuing only material enjoyment without healthy spiritual pursuit and rich spiritual life, becoming the kind of "one-dimensional person" described by sociologists, and transforming colorful human nature into a single material desire.
British historian Toynbee once predicted: "If China can open up a new path in social and economic strategic choice, it will prove that it has the ability to provide the world with gifts that China and the world need."
The Chinese modernization advocated by the supreme leader is such a gift. He said that the unique world outlook, values, historical outlook, civilization outlook, democratic outlook, ecological outlook and its great practice contained in Chinese modernization are major innovations in the theory and practice of world modernization. "To solve the outstanding contradictions and problems faced by mankind, we need to rely on material means to overcome difficulties, and we also need to rely on spiritual strength to be sincere and upright."
Many people believe that Chinese modernization will profoundly affect and change the world. Zheng Yongnian, a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), believes that Chinese-style modernization actually deals with the problems faced by all countries in the world in the way of China, and its source of vitality is mainly economic sustainable development. Martin jacques, a British scholar, said that China has put forward a new road of modernization with equality as the core, which will have a great impact on the world. Bruno Giger, a French expert on international issues, said, "China’s practice is pushing western researchers to reflect on their existing views, such as ‘ What is development ’ ‘ What is democracy ’ ‘ What is good national governance ’ . China gave a different answer. "
The supreme leader is proud and confident of the achievements and prospects of Chinese modernization. He said, "China has been able to look down on the world."
On July 6th, 2021, the Supreme Leader attended the the Communist Party of China (CPC) Summit with World Political Party Leaders and delivered a keynote speech. Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Xiangshe
But this does not mean that I am the only one, and it has no intention of causing a clash of civilizations. In December last year, when the supreme leader met with European guests, he pointed out that China and Europe are two major civilizations that promote human progress; In the same month, he published a signed article in a Saudi newspaper, saying that Arab civilization advocates peace in the middle way, encourages tolerance and mutual learning, and opposes the clash of civilizations, which is a civilization with profound connotations; In February this year, he wrote back to Greek scholars, congratulating the establishment of the Sino-Greek Center for Mutual Learning of Civilizations, and pointed out that various civilizations are a rich accumulation of historical exploration and development of all ethnic groups, and also a deep guide for the survival and development of all ethnic groups today.
Mao Zedong said in the 1950s, "China will become a great power and be amiable." The Supreme Leader quoted the saying about China’s "sleeping lion" and pointed out that "the lion of China has woken up, but it is a peaceful, amiable and civilized lion".
He pointed out that China will not follow the old road of some countries’ modernization through war, colonization and plunder, and China’s banner is peace, development, cooperation and win-win, which is determined by China’s system and China’s culture. In his view, learning from the values of China’s traditional culture, such as faithfulness and self-respect, kindness and good neighborliness, can integrate the concept of the community of human destiny with the diplomatic relations between Concord and all nations.
"Promoting the common values of peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy and freedom" was written in party constitution at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China. The theoretical circle of the Communist Party of China believes that this shows the "progress and nobility" of Chinese modernization.
The supreme leader also modestly pointed out that socialism in the primary stage must seriously study and draw lessons from the beneficial civilization achievements created by capitalism, and even face the reality that people use the advantages of western developed countries to compare the shortcomings in China’s socialist development and accuse them.
"Promoting Chinese-style modernization is an exploratory undertaking, and there are still many unknown areas that we need to explore boldly in practice." The supreme leader said.
"For those who do things often succeed, those who do things often arrive, and history will not live up to those who do things." (Reporter Wang Jinye, Meng Na, Li Zhihui, Xu Lingui, Gui Tao, Zhang Bowen, Yao Yuxi)
