Communiqué of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held in Beijing from July 15 to 18, 2024.
attending the plenary session were 199 members of the central committee and 165 alternate members of the central committee. Members of the Standing Committee of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and responsible comrades of relevant departments attended the meeting as nonvoting delegates. Some grassroots comrades, experts and scholars among the representatives of the 20th Party Congress also attended the meeting.
The plenary session was presided over by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee, made an important speech.
The plenary session listened to and discussed Xi Jinping's work report entrusted by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, and reviewed and approved the "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Further Comprehensively Deepening Reform and Promoting Chinese-style Modernization." Xi Jinping made an explanation to the plenary session on the decision (discussion draft).
the plenum fully affirmed the work of the political bureau of the cpc central committee since the second plenary session of the 20th cpc central committee. It is agreed that in the face of the severe and complex international environment and the arduous and arduous tasks of domestic reform, development and stability, the political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee conscientiously implements the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress and the first and second Plenary sessions of the 20th CPC Central Committee, completely, accurately and comprehensively implements the new development concept, adheres to the general tone of seeking progress in the midst of stability, and comprehensively promotes the overall layout of the "five in one" and four comprehensive "strategic layout, focus on promoting high-quality development, further promote and plan to comprehensively deepen reforms, solidly promote the construction of socialist democracy and the rule of law, continuously strengthen propaganda, ideological and cultural work, earnestly do a good job in people's livelihood protection and ecological environment protection, resolutely safeguard national security and social stability, vigorously promote national defense and army building, continue to promote Hong Kong and Macao work and Taiwan work, and further promote great power diplomacy with Chinese characteristics. To achieve a good economic recovery, solid steps have been taken in building a modern socialist country in an all-round way.
The plenum spoke highly of the successful practice and great achievements of comprehensively deepening reform since the new era, and studied the issue of further comprehensively deepening reform and promoting Chinese-style modernization. it is believed that the current and future period is a critical period for Chinese-style modernization to comprehensively promote the building of a powerful country and the great cause of national rejuvenation. Chinese-style modernization has been continuously promoted in the course of reform and opening up, and it will certainly open up broad prospects in the course of reform and opening up. In the face of the complicated international and domestic situation, in the face of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, and in the face of the new expectations of the people, we must consciously put reform in a more prominent position and closely focus on promoting Chinese-style modernization to further deepen reform in an all-round way.
The plenary session emphasized that to further deepen reforms in an all-round way, we must adhere to Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thinking of the "Three Represents", and the scientific development concept, fully implement Xi Jinping's new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's comprehensive A series of new ideas, new viewpoints, and new thesis on deepening reform, complete, accurate and comprehensive implementation of the new development concept, and adhere to the general tone, persist in emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts, advancing with the times, seeking truth and being pragmatic, further liberating and developing social productivity, stimulating and enhancing social vitality, coordinating the overall domestic and international situation, coordinating the promotion of the "five in one" overall layout, and coordinating the promotion of the "four" Comprehensive "strategic layout, guided by economic system reform, with the promotion of social fairness and justice, and the promotion of people's well-being as the starting point and end point, pay more attention to system integration, pay more attention to the actual results of reforms, promote better adaptation of production relations and productivity, superstructure and economic foundation, national governance and social development, and provide a strong driving force and institutional guarantee for Chinese-style modernization.
The plenum pointed out that the overall goal of further comprehensively deepening reform is to continue to improve and develop the socialist system with Chinese characteristics and promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. By 2035, a high-level socialist market economic system will be fully established, the socialist system with Chinese characteristics will be more perfect, the national governance system and governance capacity will be basically modernized, and socialist modernization will be basically realized, so as to lay a solid foundation for building a modern and powerful socialist country in an all-round way by the middle of this century. We should focus on building a high-level socialist market economic system, focus on developing people's democracy in the whole process, focus on building a socialist cultural power, focus on improving people's quality of life, focus on building a beautiful China, focus on building a higher level of peace in China, focus on improving the party's leadership level and long-term ruling ability, and continue to push forward the reform. By the 80th anniversary of the founding of the the People's Republic of China in 2009, the reform tasks set out in this decision will be completed.
The plenary session emphasized that to further deepen reforms in an all-round way, it is necessary to summarize and use the valuable experience of comprehensively deepening reforms since reform and opening up, especially in the new era, and implement the principles of adhering to the party's overall leadership, adhering to the people as the center, adhering to integrity and innovation, adhering to system construction as the main line, and adhering to the principles of comprehensively governing the country according to law and adhering to system concepts.
The plenary session made systematic arrangements for further comprehensively deepening reforms, emphasizing the construction of a high-level socialist market economic system, improving the system and mechanism for promoting high-quality economic development, building a system and mechanism to support comprehensive innovation, improving the macroeconomic governance system, and improving the urban-rural integration development system and mechanism. Improve the high-level opening-up system and mechanism, improve the people's democratic system in the whole process, improve the socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics, and deepen the reform of cultural system, we will improve the institutional system for safeguarding and improving people's livelihood, deepen the reform of the ecological civilization system, promote the modernization of the national security system and capabilities, continuously deepen the reform of national defense and the armed forces, and raise the Party's leadership in further comprehensively deepening reform and promoting Chinese-style modernization.
The plenum proposed that a high-level socialist market economic system is an important guarantee for Chinese-style modernization. We must give better play to the role of the market mechanism, create a fairer and more dynamic market environment, optimize the efficiency of resource allocation and maximize the benefits, be both "live" and "managed", better maintain market order, make up for market failure, smooth the national economic cycle, and stimulate the endogenous driving force and innovation vitality of the whole society. We must unswervingly consolidate and develop the public ownership economy, unswervingly encourage, support, and guide the development of the non-public ownership economy, ensure that various ownership economies use production factors equally in accordance with the law, participate in market competition fairly, and are equally protected by law, and promote the advantages of various ownership economies Complementary and common development. It is necessary to build a unified national market and improve the basic system of market economy.
The plenum proposed that high-quality development is the primary task of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way. We must lead the reform with the new development concept, base ourselves on the new development stage, deepen the supply-side structural reform, improve the incentive and restraint mechanism for promoting high-quality development, and shape new kinetic energy and new advantages for development. It is necessary to improve the institutional mechanism for the development of new quality productivity in accordance with local conditions, improve the system for promoting the deep integration of the real economy and the digital economy, improve the institutional mechanism for the development of the service industry, improve the institutional mechanism for the construction of modern infrastructure, and improve the system for enhancing the resilience and safety level of the industrial chain supply chain.
The plenary session proposed that education, science and technology, and talents are the basic and strategic support for Chinese-style modernization. We must thoroughly implement the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education, the strategy of strengthening the country with talents, and the strategy of innovation-driven development, comprehensively promote the reform of the system and mechanism of educational, scientific and technological talents, improve the new national system, and enhance the overall effectiveness of the national innovation system. It is necessary to deepen the comprehensive reform of education, deepen the reform of the scientific and technological system, and deepen the reform of the talent development system and mechanism.
The plenary session proposed that scientific macro-control and effective government governance are the inherent requirements for giving full play to the advantages of the socialist market economic system. We must improve the macro-control system, promote the reform of key areas such as finance, taxation and finance, and enhance the consistency of macro policy orientation. It is necessary to improve the national strategic planning system and policy coordination mechanism, deepen the reform of the fiscal and taxation system, deepen the reform of the financial system, and improve the implementation of the regional coordinated development strategy mechanism.
The plenary session proposed that the integration of urban and rural development is an inevitable requirement of Chinese modernization. It is necessary to coordinate new industrialization, new urbanization, and comprehensive rural revitalization, comprehensively improve the level of urban and rural planning, construction, and governance integration, promote the equal exchange and two-way flow of urban and rural elements, narrow the gap between urban and rural areas, and promote the common prosperity and development of urban and rural areas. It is necessary to improve and promote the new urbanization system and mechanism, consolidate and improve the basic rural management system, improve the support system for strengthening and benefiting farmers and rich farmers, and deepen the reform of the land system.
The plenary session proposed that opening up is a distinctive symbol of Chinese modernization. We must adhere to the basic national policy of opening up to the outside world, persist in promoting reform through opening up, rely on the advantages of China's ultra-large-scale market, enhance the ability to open up in the expansion of international cooperation, and build a new system of open economy at a higher level. It is necessary to steadily expand institutional opening up, deepen the reform of the foreign trade system, deepen the reform of the foreign investment and foreign investment management system, optimize the layout of regional opening up, and improve the mechanism of promoting high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road.
The plenum proposed that the development of people's democracy in the whole process is the essential requirement of Chinese modernization. We must unswervingly follow the path of socialist political development with Chinese characteristics, adhere to and improve my country's fundamental political system, basic political system, and important political systems, enrich the forms of democracy at all levels, and embody the people as masters of the country's political and social life. All aspects of life. It is necessary to strengthen the construction of the system of the people being the masters of the country, improve the consultative democracy mechanism, improve the grassroots democratic system, and improve the work pattern of the great united front.
The plenum proposed that the rule of law is an important guarantee for Chinese-style modernization. It is necessary to fully implement the Constitution, maintain the authority of the Constitution, coordinate the reform of legislation, law enforcement, justice, and law-abiding, improve the guarantee mechanism for equality before the law, promote the spirit of the socialist rule of law, maintain social fairness and justice, and comprehensively promote the rule of law in all aspects of national work. It is necessary to deepen the reform in the field of legislation, further promote administration according to law, improve the judicial system and mechanism for fair law enforcement, improve the mechanism for promoting the construction of a society under the rule of law, and strengthen the construction of the rule of law involving foreign countries.
The plenum proposed that Chinese-style modernization is the modernization of material civilization and spiritual civilization. We must enhance cultural self-confidence, develop advanced socialist culture, carry forward revolutionary culture, inherit excellent Chinese traditional culture, speed up adaptation to the new situation of rapid development of information technology, cultivate and form a large-scale team of excellent cultural talents, and stimulate the cultural innovation and creativity of the whole nation. It is necessary to improve the responsibility system for ideological work, optimize the supply mechanism of cultural services and cultural products, improve the comprehensive network governance system, and build a more effective international communication system.
The plenary session pointed out that ensuring and improving people's livelihood in development is a major task of Chinese-style modernization. We must persist in doing our best and doing what we can, improve the basic public service system, strengthen the construction of inclusive, basic, and comprehensive people's livelihood, solve the most direct and practical interests of the people, and continue to satisfy the people's desire for a better life. Yearning. It is necessary to improve the income distribution system, improve the employment priority policy, improve the social security system, deepen the reform of the medical and health system, and improve the population development support and service system.
The plenum proposed that Chinese-style modernization is a modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature. It is necessary to improve the ecological civilization system, coordinate the promotion of carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion, and growth, actively respond to climate change, and accelerate the improvement of the institutional mechanism for the implementation of the concept that green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains. It is necessary to improve the basic system of ecological civilization, improve the ecological environment governance system, and improve the green and low-carbon development mechanism.
The plenum pointed out that national security is an important foundation for the steady and long-term development of Chinese-style modernization. We must fully implement the overall national security concept, improve the system and mechanism for maintaining national security, realize the positive interaction between high-quality development and high-level security, and effectively ensure the long-term stability of the country. It is necessary to improve the national security system, improve the public security governance mechanism, improve the social governance system, and improve the foreign-related national security mechanism.
The plenum proposed that the modernization of national defense and the armed forces is an important part of Chinese-style modernization. We must adhere to the party's absolute leadership over the people's army, thoroughly implement the strategy of reforming and strengthening the army, and provide a strong guarantee for the realization of the centenary goal of army building and 1 and the basic realization of national defense and military modernization as scheduled. It is necessary to improve the leadership and management system and mechanism of the people's army, deepen the reform of the joint operations system, and deepen the cross-military reform.
The plenum stressed that the party's leadership is the fundamental guarantee for further comprehensively deepening reform and promoting Chinese-style modernization. We must deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishment", strengthen the "four consciousness", strengthen the "four self-confidence", achieve the "two maintenance", maintain a high degree of consciousness of leading the social revolution with the party's self-revolution, persist in governing the party with the spirit of reform and strict standards, improve the party's self-revolution system, and constantly promote the party's self-purification, self-improvement, self-innovation and self-improvement, and ensure that the party always becomes the strong leading core of the cause of socialism with chinese characteristics. We must adhere to the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee for further comprehensively deepening reforms, deepen the reform of the party building system, deepen the construction of party style and clean government and the fight against corruption, and implement reforms with the spirit of nailing nails.
The plenum emphasized that Chinese-style modernization is modernization that follows the path of peaceful development. We must firmly pursue an independent foreign policy of peace, promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, practice the common values of all mankind, implement the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative and the Global Civilization Initiative, advocate an equal and orderly multipolar world and an inclusive economic globalization, deepen the reform of the foreign affairs working mechanism, participate in leading the reform and construction of the global governance system, and firmly safeguard national sovereignty, security and development interests.
The plenum pointed out that studying and implementing the spirit of the plenum is a major political task for the whole party and the whole country at present and for some time to come. It is necessary to thoroughly study and understand the spirit of the plenary session, and profoundly understand and grasp the theme, major principles, major measures, and fundamental guarantee for further comprehensively deepening reform. The whole party must make concerted efforts to implement the "Decision" and transform the strategic deployment of further comprehensively deepening reforms into a powerful force for promoting Chinese-style modernization.
The plenary session analyzed the current situation and tasks, and emphasized the unswerving realization of the annual economic and social development goals. In accordance with the decision-making and deployment of the CPC Central Committee on economic work, we should implement macro policies, actively expand domestic demand, develop new quality productivity according to local conditions, accelerate the cultivation of new momentum of foreign trade, solidly promote green and low-carbon development, effectively guarantee and improve people's livelihood, and consolidate and expand the achievements of poverty alleviation. It is necessary to summarize and evaluate the implementation of the "14th Five-Year Plan" and earnestly do a good job in the preliminary planning of the "15th Five-Year Plan.
The plenary session pointed out that it is necessary to coordinate development and safety, implement various measures to prevent and resolve risks in key areas such as real estate, local government debt, and small and medium-sized financial institutions, strictly implement safety production responsibilities, and improve the monitoring and prevention of natural disasters, especially flood disasters. Measures, weave a dense social security risk prevention and control network, and effectively maintain social stability. It is necessary to strengthen the guidance of public opinion and effectively prevent and resolve ideological risks. We must effectively respond to external risks and challenges, lead global governance, and proactively shape a favorable external environment.
The plenum stressed that it is necessary to combine the study, propaganda and implementation of the spirit of the plenum, do a good job in arming the party with innovative theories, and improve the Marxist level and modernization capacity of the whole party. It is necessary to improve the system of administering the party strictly in an all-round way, earnestly improve the work style, overcome the stubborn diseases of formalism and bureaucracy, continuously reduce the burden on the grass-roots level, further promote the building of the party's work style and clean government and the struggle against corruption, and do a solid job in inspection work. It is necessary to consolidate and expand the achievements of thematic education, deepen the study and education of party discipline, safeguard the unity and unity of the party, and constantly enhance the creativity, cohesion, and combat effectiveness of the party.
In accordance with the provisions of the Party Constitution, the plenary session decided to replace Ding Xiangqun, Yu Lijun and Yu Jihong, alternate members of the Central Committee, as members of the Central Committee.
The plenary session decided to accept Comrade Qin Gang's resignation application and remove Comrade Qin Gang from his post as a member of the Central Committee.
The plenum examined and adopted the examination report of the military Commission of the CPC Central Committee on serious violations of discipline and law by Li Shangfu, Li Yuchao, and Sun Jinming, confirming the punishment previously made by the political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee to expel Li Shangfu, Li Yuchao, and Sun Jinming from the party.
The plenary session called on the whole party, the whole army and the people of all ethnic groups to unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, hold high the banner of reform and opening up, unite and forge ahead, and strive to build a modern socialist power in an all-round way and realize it. The goal of the second century is to work hard to comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization!

Source: Xinhua News Agency