Shi Zhihong: How the "Four Comprehensives" Strategic Layout Was Formed
The essence of this article
●The issue of the strategic layout of the party's work has always been a major theoretical and practical issue in our party's governance of the country. If the Party's work is arranged correctly, the development of various undertakings of the Party and the country will be relatively smooth. On the contrary, there will be mistakes and setbacks of one kind or another.
●The major strategic significance of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way lies in the "four manifestations", that is, it reflects our party's overall view of taking development as the top priority of governing and rejuvenating the country, and it reflects people-oriented, for the benefit of the people, and for all Chinese people to share reform and development The governance concept of achievements embodies the development concept of realizing the unity of speed and structure, quality and efficiency, and the coordination of economic development and population, resources and environment, and embodies our Communist values of seeking prosperity for the country and happiness for the people.
The comprehensive deepening of reform is related to the overall work of our party and the country, to building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, accelerating socialist modernization, better adhering to and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics, realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and further Emancipate the mind, liberate and develop social productive forces, liberate and enhance social vitality, and strive to open up broader prospects for the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
●Comprehensive rule of law is a major strategic decision made by profoundly summarizing the successful experience and profound lessons of my country's socialist modernization drive. It is an important guarantee for building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way and comprehensively deepening reforms. The long-term consideration of the long-term stability of the country is in the final analysis for the sake of future generations and long-term development.
●The scientific connotation of comprehensively and strictly administering the party mainly includes four aspects: first, the content has no dead ends, second, the main body is fully covered;
From December 2014 to February 2015, in just two months, General Secretary Xi Jinping expounded 11 times successively the "Four Comprehensives" proposed and formed by the new central leadership since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. ; strategic placement issues. He emphasized that "it is necessary to fully implement the spirit of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Third and Fourth Plenary Sessions of the 18th Central Committee, and use the comprehensive construction of a moderately prosperous society, comprehensively deepen reforms, comprehensively govern the country according to law, and comprehensively manage the party strictly. ”This article talks about the formation process, scientific connotation and coordinated advancement of our party's "four comprehensive" strategic layouts.
The formation process of the "four comprehensive" strategic layout
The strategic layout of our party's "Four Comprehensives" is gradually proposed and formed on the basis of the goal of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way put forward by the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and in the new great practice since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. It went through 3 stages.
From "one comprehensive" to "two comprehensive". Before the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China held in 2002 put forward in the report "a comprehensive", that is, "comprehensively build a higher level of well-off society benefiting more than one billion people". The 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China held in 2007 reiterated this "comprehensive" goal, and changed the "comprehensive building of a well-off society" to "completing a well-off society in an all-round way". The 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, held eight years before the completion of a moderately prosperous society in all respects in 2020, unified the goals of building a moderately prosperous society and deepening reform and opening up in an all-round way, and put forward the reports of the 16th and 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. The "comprehensive construction of a well-off society", this "one comprehensive" has been extended to "two comprehensives". Since then, the "Decision on Several Major Issues Concerning Comprehensively Deepening Reform" of the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee held in 2013 simplified the "comprehensively deepening reform and opening up" proposed in the report of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China into "comprehensively deepening reform". ;.
From "two comprehensive" to "three comprehensive". In 2014, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held in the first year of comprehensively deepening the reform, the "Decision on Several Major Issues Concerning Comprehensively Promoting the Rule of Law" was reviewed and approved. The "Decision" states: "To build a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, to realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, to comprehensively deepen reform, improve and develop the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, and to improve the party's governing ability and level of governance, we must comprehensively promote the rule of law" , in this way, the "two comprehensive" is further expanded to "three comprehensive".
From "three comprehensive" to "four comprehensive". Shortly after the closing of the Fourth Plenary Session of the Eighteenth Central Committee, on December 14, 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed during his inspection and investigation in Jiangsu: "To fully implement the spirit of the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Third and Fourth Plenary Sessions of the Eighteenth Central Committee, Implement the spirit of the Central Economic Work Conference, take the initiative to grasp and actively adapt to the new normal of economic development, coordinate the promotion of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, comprehensively deepen reform, comprehensively promote the rule of law, and comprehensively manage the party strictly, and promote reform and opening up and socialist modernization. Steps". So far, the "three comprehensive" has been expanded to "four comprehensive" for the first time. It should be pointed out that in the reports of the 16th, 17th and 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, although "the new great project of comprehensively promoting the Party's construction" was put forward, the "comprehensive and strict governance of the Party"; It was proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping for the first time in this Jiangsu inspection and investigation, and it was combined with the comprehensive construction of a moderately prosperous society, the comprehensive deepening of reform, and the comprehensive rule of law, as the "four comprehensives" for the first time.
There is also a development process for the positioning of the "Four Comprehensives". Initially, these "four comprehensives" were put forward as the tasks and requirements put forward by the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the main contradictions that must be resolved in the current development of the Party and the country. At the beginning of February 2015, General Secretary Xi Jinping, for the first time, positioned these "four comprehensives" in the Party Central Committee at the opening ceremony of a seminar for leading cadres at the provincial and ministerial levels to study and implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee to comprehensively advance the rule of law. strategic layout.
The strategic layout of the party's work has always been a major theoretical and practical issue in our party's governance of the country. If the Party's work is arranged correctly, the development of various undertakings of the Party and the country will be relatively smooth. On the contrary, there will be mistakes and setbacks of one kind or another. Since the reform and opening up, our party has made three authoritative statements on this issue.
The first time was in September 1986, when the Sixth Plenary Session of the Twelfth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China put forward for the first time: "The overall layout of my country's socialist modernization drive is to take economic construction as the center, unswervingly carry out economic system reform, and unswervingly. We must carry out political reform, unswervingly strengthen the construction of spiritual civilization, and make these aspects cooperate and promote each other. ”
The second time was in November 2012, not long after Comrade Xi Jinping took office as the general secretary of the party, in the first collective study of the Political Bureau of the 18th Central Committee of the party, he proposed: "to deeply understand the general basis for building socialism with Chinese characteristics, General layout, general task. The Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China emphasized that the general basis for building socialism with Chinese characteristics is the primary stage of socialism, the general layout is five in one, and the general task is to realize socialist modernization and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. ” He pointed out: “ Emphasis on the general layout is because socialism with Chinese characteristics is socialism with all-round development. We must firmly grasp the top priority of the party's governance and rejuvenation of the country, always represent the development requirements of China's advanced productive forces, adhere to economic construction as the center, and on the basis of continuous economic development, coordinate the promotion of political construction, cultural construction, social construction, ecological construction Civilization construction and other aspects of construction. ” He also said: “In accordance with this general layout, we must promote the coordination of all aspects of modernization, promote the coordination between production relations and productive forces, superstructure and economic foundation. ”
For the third time, on February 2, 2015, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in his speech at the opening ceremony of a special seminar on comprehensively advancing the rule of law in the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China for leading cadres at the provincial and ministerial levels: &ldquo Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has proposed and formed a strategic layout of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, comprehensively deepening reforms, comprehensively governing the country according to law, and comprehensively governing the party strictly. This strategic layout has both strategic goals and strategic measures, and each "comprehensive" has great strategic significance. Building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way is our strategic goal, and comprehensively deepening reform, comprehensively governing the country according to law, and comprehensively administering the party strictly are the three strategic measures". He also emphasized: "We should grasp the comprehensive rule of law in the strategic layout of the "four comprehensives", deeply understand the relationship between the comprehensive rule of law and the other three "comprehensive", and strive to achieve the "four comprehensives". A comprehensive" complements each other, promotes each other, and complements each other. ”
Each of the "four comprehensives" "comprehensive" has its important scientific connotation and great strategic significance
First, building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, as a major strategic goal of managing the long-term and the overall situation proposed by our party at the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, which has just entered the new stage of the new century, has five important scientific connotations. The comprehensive coverage of the population, that is, "in the first two decades of this century, focus on building a higher-level well-off society that will benefit more than one billion people"; the second refers to the comprehensive coverage of the building of a well-off society in an all-round way, That is to say "six more", namely, "making the economy more developed, democracy more sound, science and education more advanced, culture more prosperous, society more harmonious, and people's life more prosperous"; the third refers to the realization of the comprehensive development of the national economy. , that is, to promote the comprehensive development of China's national economy to help alleviate a series of major contradictions; the fourth refers to the comprehensive development of the three major civilizations that our party will promote at the beginning of the new century, that is, to promote the realization of socialist material civilization, spiritual The coordinated development of civilization and political civilization; the fifth refers to the comprehensive development of human beings, which is to gradually realize the comprehensive development of human beings on the basis of the continuous development of social productive forces, that is, to pay more attention to and strive to meet the needs of more than one billion people in China, especially ordinary people. development needs.
The major strategic significance of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way lies in the "four manifestations", that is, it reflects our party's overall view of taking development as the top priority of governing and rejuvenating the country, and it reflects people-oriented, for the benefit of the people, and allowing all Chinese people to share the fruits of reform and development. The concept of governance embodies the development concept of realizing the unity of speed and structure, quality and efficiency, and the coordination of economic development with the population, resources and environment, and embodies our communist values of seeking prosperity for the country and happiness for the people.
It should be pointed out that the goal of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way put forward by the report of the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China has undergone two important enrichments and improvements in the 17th and 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. In the report of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, five crucial new requirements were put forward for realizing the goal of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way: one is to enhance the coordination of development and strive to achieve sound and rapid economic development; the other is to expand socialist democracy to better protect people's rights and interests and social fairness and justice; the third is to strengthen cultural construction and significantly improve the quality of the entire nation's civilization; the fourth is to accelerate the development of social undertakings and improve people's lives in an all-round way; Environmental industrial structure, growth mode, consumption pattern.
In the report of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the goals of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way and comprehensively deepening reform and opening up were further put forward: first, sustained and healthy economic development; The credibility of the judiciary has been continuously improved, and human rights have been effectively respected and guaranteed; third, cultural soft power has been significantly enhanced; fourth, people's living standards have been improved in an all-round way; fifth, significant progress has been made in building a resource-saving and environment-friendly society; With courage and wisdom, we seize the opportunity to deepen reforms in important areas.
The comprehensive building of a moderately prosperous society after the revision and improvement of the 17th and 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China has not only expanded from the comprehensive development of the three civilizations at the beginning of the new century and the new stage to the comprehensive development proposed by the Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China The major task of building a socialist harmonious society and the comprehensive five-in-one coordinated development including ecological civilization proposed by the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China; The system of socialism with Chinese characteristics is more mature and comprehensive.
Second, comprehensively deepening reforms, as one of the three major strategic measures put forward by the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as General Secretary to achieve the strategic goal of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, condenses the ideological consensus and action wisdom of the whole Party and society. In particular, the "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Several Major Issues Concerning Comprehensively Deepening Reform" adopted by the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee put forward the timetable and roadmap for comprehensively deepening reform by 2020, and drew a new blueprint and new vision for comprehensively deepening reform. , The new goal is a general deployment and general mobilization for the whole party and the whole society to actively participate in the comprehensive deepening of reform.
The comprehensiveness of comprehensively deepening the reform, its important scientific connotation, first of all refers to the comprehensiveness of the overall goal of the reform. Before this, our party has also put forward some reform goals focusing on specific areas. For example, we have said that the general goal of political reform is to consolidate the socialist system, develop the productive forces of socialist society, promote socialist democracy, and mobilize the enthusiasm of the broad masses of the people. The Fourteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed that the goal of my country's economic system reform is to establish a socialist market economic system. The Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China put forward the general goal of "improving and developing the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, and promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity". The sub-goals of deepening the reform of the system, political system, cultural system, social system, ecological civilization system and party building system. This is an objective requirement put forward by the reform process itself, and it also reflects the deepening of our party's understanding of the reform goals. Closely linked to this overall goal is the