The latest! Interpretation of Spiritual Authority of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee

On the morning of July 19, the CPC Central Committee held a press conference to introduce and interpret the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee.

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The decision proposes more than 300 important reform measures
The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held in Beijing from July 15 to 18. The most important outcome of the plenary session was the deliberation and adoption of the "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Further Comprehensively Deepening Reform and Promoting Chinese-style Modernization."
The drafting of the "Decision" was carried out under the leadership of the Party Central Committee. General Secretary Xi Jinping personally served as the leader of the document drafting group. He played a decisive role in drawing, organizing research, carefully guiding, and directing the pulse.
The Decision consists of 15 parts, 60 articles and three major sections--
The first section is a general introduction, which mainly expounds the great significance and overall requirements of further comprehensively deepening reform and promoting Chinese-style modernization.
●The second section is the division, guided by the reform of the economic system, and comprehensively deploy reforms in various fields.
The third section mainly focuses on strengthening the party's leadership over reform and deepening the reform of the party building system.
The "Decision" puts forward more than 300 important reform measures, all of which involve systems, mechanisms, and systems. Some of them are the improvement and promotion of past reform measures, and some are based on practical needs and pilot exploration of new reform measures.

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Further deepen the reform and implement the six principles
The "Decision" proposes that to further deepen reforms in an all-round way, six principles must be implemented.
These six principles embody the core essence of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition on comprehensively deepening reform, and are a scientific summary of the valuable experience of comprehensively deepening reform since reform and opening up, especially in the new era. We must strictly follow and adhere to it for a long time in further comprehensively deepening reform.

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About the reform in the field of economy and people's livelihood
The "decision" insists on taking high-quality development as the primary task of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way, and makes comprehensive arrangements for reform in the fields of economy and people's livelihood, mainly in seven aspects--
■ Building a high-level socialist market economic system
Deepen the reform of state-owned enterprises, promote state-owned capital and state-owned enterprises to become stronger, better and bigger, enhance core functions, enhance core competitiveness, and carry out accounting for the added value of the state-owned economy.
● State-owned enterprises should create a source of original technology.
Promote the independent operation of natural monopoly links in energy, railways and other industries and the market-oriented reform of competitive links.
It is necessary to create a good environment and provide more opportunities for the development of the non-public sector of the economy, improve the long-term mechanism for private enterprises to participate in the construction of major national projects, support capable private enterprises to take the lead in undertaking major national technological research tasks, and standardize the administrative inspection of private enterprises.
:: A law on the promotion of the private economy should be enacted.
The Decision emphasizes the promotion of entrepreneurship and the acceleration of the construction of more world-class enterprises.
Accelerating the construction of a high-standard market system is a major reform task. The "Decision" clarified three key reform measures-building a unified national market; promoting factor market-oriented reform; and improving the basic system of market economy.
In particular, the "decision" proposes to prevent and correct the use of administrative and criminal means to interfere in economic disputes, and to impose the same responsibility, the same crime and the same punishment for acts that infringe upon the economic property rights and legitimate interests of various forms of ownership.
■ Sound institutional mechanisms for promoting high-quality development
●It is necessary to accelerate the formation of production relations that are more compatible with new quality productivity, improve the system and mechanism for optimizing and upgrading traditional industries, improve strategic industrial development policies and governance systems, establish future industrial input growth mechanisms, and improve the policy system for promoting digital industrialization and industrial digitization, Promote the agglomeration of various advanced production factors to the development of new quality productivity, and greatly increase total factor productivity.
We should promote the deep integration of the real economy and the digital economy, accelerate the development of modern service industry, strengthen the construction of modern infrastructure, and improve the resilience and security level of the industrial chain supply chain.
■ Sound macroeconomic governance system
●It is necessary to build a national strategy formulation and implementation mechanism, improve the national economic and social development planning system, deepen the reform of the fiscal and taxation system and the financial system, and enhance the consistency of macro policy orientation.
Build a new mechanism for cross-administrative cooperation and development.
In view of the financial difficulties of local governments and grass-roots units, it is proposed to improve the financial relationship between the central and local governments, increase local autonomous financial resources, expand local tax sources, improve the matching degree of municipal and county financial resources, appropriately strengthen the central authority, increase the proportion of central financial expenditure, and not require local governments to arrange matching funds in violation of regulations.
:: Study a tax system that is compatible with the new industry.
:: The Decision calls for exploring the implementation of national macro balance sheet management and optimizing the structural adjustment of various types of stocks.
■ Improve the system and mechanism of urban-rural integration development
The "decision" proposes to implement the system of providing basic public services by registered permanent residence, and speed up the citizenization of agricultural transfer population.
●The "Decision" proposes to improve the normalization mechanism covering the rural population to prevent poverty from returning to poverty, establish a hierarchical and classified assistance system for the rural low-income population and underdeveloped areas, coordinate the establishment of an inter-provincial horizontal benefit compensation mechanism for grain production and marketing areas, and improve investment in rural revitalization Mechanism to cultivate new rural industries and new business formats. ■ Promote high-level opening-up
●The "Decision" requires the initiative to connect with international high-standard economic and trade rules, steadily expand institutional opening, and build a new higher-level open economic system.
Expand unilateral opening up to the least developed countries, expand independent opening up, expand the opening up of commodity markets, service markets, capital markets, and labor markets in an orderly manner, improve the living convenience systems for overseas personnel to enter and live, medical care, and payment, and coordinate the promotion of major Iconic projects and "small and beautiful" livelihood projects will jointly build the "Belt and Road" with high quality ".
■ Improve the system of ensuring and improving people's livelihood
●It is necessary to improve the high-quality full employment promotion mechanism, improve the social security system for flexible employees, migrant workers, and new employment forms, promote the expansion and sinking of high-quality medical resources, promote the construction of a child-friendly society, and improve the development of pension services and pension industry policy mechanisms.
Deepening the Reform of Ecological Civilization System
Accelerate the improvement of the institutional mechanism for implementing the concept that green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains, improve the mechanism for realizing the value of ecological products, accelerate the planning and construction of a new energy system, and build a carbon emission statistical accounting system, a product carbon label certification system, and a product carbon footprint management system.

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On deepening the reform of the system and mechanism of educational science and technology talents
The decision of the plenary session has made important arrangements for deepening the reform of the system and mechanism of educational, scientific and technological talents.
Deepening the Comprehensive Reform of Education
Accelerate the construction of a high-quality education system, and promote the reform of education methods, school-running models, management systems, and guarantee mechanisms.
We should closely train new people of the times who are responsible for the great task of national rejuvenation, improve the mechanism of establishing morality and cultivating people, promote the reform and innovation of the integration of ideological and political courses in universities, primary and secondary schools, and improve the comprehensive training system of morality, intelligence, physical education, art and labor.
Focus on the cultivation of top-notch innovative talents, promote the reform of colleges and universities by classification, and establish a discipline adjustment mechanism and talent training model driven by scientific and technological development and national strategic needs.
Adhere to the principle that strong teaching must first strengthen teachers, improve teachers' ability to teach and educate people, and improve the long-term mechanism for the construction of teachers' ethics.
● Make effective use of world-class educational resources and innovative elements to promote the opening up of high-level education.
Deepening the reform of science and technology system
It is necessary to optimize the organizational mechanism of major scientific and technological innovation, strengthen the construction of national strategic scientific and technological forces, and comprehensively strengthen the tackling of key core technologies.
Improve the management of science and technology plans, and strengthen the forward-looking and leading layout of basic research fields, cross-cutting frontier fields and key fields.
Focus on the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, strengthen the dominant position of enterprises, and strengthen the deep integration of industry, university and research led by enterprises.
Deepen the reform of the mechanism for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and build a scientific and technological financial system that is compatible with scientific and technological innovation.
Deepen the reform of the system and mechanism of talent development
● Implement a more active, more open and more effective talent policy, and improve the mechanism for independent talent training.
●Accelerate the construction of a national strategic talent force, focus on cultivating strategic scientists, first-class scientific and technological leaders and innovative teams, focus on cultivating outstanding engineers, craftsmen from big countries, and highly skilled talents, and improve the quality of various talents.
●Strengthen the talent incentive mechanism, insist on authorizing the main body of employment, untie talents, establish a talent evaluation system guided by innovation ability, quality, effectiveness, and contribution, and create a good environment for the growth of talents.

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On the Reform of the Party's Leadership and Party Building System
The "decision" specially uses one part to deploy the reform of the party's leadership and party building system, mainly in three aspects--
Adhere to the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee for further deepening reform in an all-round way
●Emphasize the overall design, overall coordination, and overall advancement of the reform under the leadership of the Party Central Committee, and encourage all regions and departments to develop and innovate based on actual conditions, and create fresh experiences that can be replicated and promoted.
●It is proposed to follow the party's mass line in the new era, and fully absorb social expectations, mass wisdom, expert opinions, and grassroots experience into the reform design.
It is proposed to set up reform issues around solving outstanding contradictions, optimize the generation mechanism of key reform plans, and find problems and correct deviations in a timely manner.
Deepening the reform of the party building system
●Emphasize to mobilize the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of the whole party to grasp reform and promote development, strengthen the party's innovative theoretical arms, deepen the reform of the cadre and personnel system, clearly establish the correct orientation of selection and employment, and comprehensively improve the modernization of cadres. Establish and practice the correct concept of political performance, and strive to solve the problems of cadres' chaotic actions, inaction, daring to do, and bad deeds.
● Emphasize the implementation of the "three distinctions" and encourage cadres to forge ahead and start their own businesses.
●It is proposed to strengthen the political and organizational functions of party organizations, explore effective ways to strengthen the party building of new economic organizations, new social organizations, and new employment groups, and improve the education and management of party members and the mechanism for playing their roles.
■ Deeply promote the construction of party style and clean government and the fight against corruption
●Emphasize the improvement of the specific, precise, and normalized mechanism of political supervision, persevere in implementing the spirit of the eight central regulations, resolutely oppose formalism and bureaucracy, and effectively reduce the burden on the grassroots.
●Emphasize the deepening of the use of the "four forms" of supervision and discipline, comprehensively play the role of the party's discipline in education, restraint, guarantee and incentive, improve the integrated promotion of the working mechanism that dare not, cannot, and do not want to corrupt, and strive to eradicate the soil and conditions for the breeding of corruption.
Emphasize the improvement of the party and state supervision system, and strengthen the overall strict party management of the main responsibility and supervision responsibility.
:: Emphasis on strengthening the governance of false accusations, etc.

Source: Communist Party Network