People's Daily commentator: to promote high-quality economic development to take greater steps

"The basic trend of China's economic stability and long-term improvement has not changed." From April 20 to 23, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized during a survey in Shaanxi that it is necessary to strengthen confidence, maintain determination, accelerate the transformation of economic development mode, make the real economy, especially the manufacturing industry, stronger and better, and deploy innovation around the industrial chain. Chain, layout the industrial chain around the innovation chain, and promote higher-quality economic development.
China's economy has shifted from the stage of high-speed growth to the stage of high-quality development, and is in a critical period of transforming the mode of development, optimizing the economic structure and transforming the driving force of growth. Promoting high-quality development is an inevitable requirement for following the laws of economic development and maintaining sustained and healthy economic development. It is an inevitable requirement for adapting to the changes in the main contradictions of our society, building a well-off society in an all-round way, and building a modern socialist country in an all-round way. The sudden outbreak of new crown pneumonia has brought unprecedented impact on China's economic and social development, but in the severe struggle against the epidemic, China's economy has withstood the "stress test", showing great resilience, the impact of the epidemic has not shaken the solid foundation of China's long-term stable development. At the same time, the crisis and the opportunity always coexist, to overcome the crisis is the opportunity, to deal with the epidemic gave birth to and promote the rapid development of many new industries and new business type, to deal with the challenges to China to speed up the development of science and technology, promote industrial optimization and upgrading has brought new opportunities. We must observe the general trend, seek the overall situation, accurately recognize changes, respond scientifically, and actively seek changes, be good at seizing and creating opportunities from the immediate crises and challenges, strengthen our confidence in overcoming difficulties and challenges, and firmly grasp the initiative in development.
In response to the downside risks of the world economy, we must firmly implement the strategy of expanding domestic demand, take the expansion of domestic demand as the strategic basis for my country's development, make production, distribution, and circulation rely more on the domestic market to achieve a virtuous circle, and build a complete domestic demand system for high quality Development provides strong support. We should speed up the transformation of the mode of economic development, adhere to the principle of quality first and benefit first, focus on promoting the transformation and upgrading of the industrial structure, strengthen and optimize the real economy, especially the manufacturing industry, promote investment in new infrastructure such as 5g, Internet of things, artificial intelligence and industrial Internet, increase investment in transportation, water conservancy, energy and other fields, and make up for the shortcomings of rural infrastructure and public services, Efforts should be made to solve the problem of unbalanced and inadequate development. We should take innovation as the first driving force for development, vigorously promote scientific and technological innovation, adjust and optimize the structure of scientific and technological input and output, optimize the layout of scientific and technological resources, and enhance the ability of scientific and technological innovation. We should pay close attention to the layout of digital economy, life and health, new materials and other strategic emerging industries and future industries, so as to deploy innovation chains around the industrial chain and lay out the industrial chain around the innovation chain. Constantly develop new models, new formats, new technologies and new products, cultivate and strengthen new growth points.
To promote high-quality development, we must adhere to reform and opening up as the driving force. We must lose no time in advancing reforms in important areas and key links, focus on solving outstanding contradictions and problems that restrict my country's development, accelerate the achievement of more substantive, breakthrough, and systematic results, and fully release the huge potential and strong momentum of my country's development, and form a promotion New momentum for high-quality development. We must adhere to the supply-side structural reform as the main line, improve the quality of the supply system, reduce ineffective and low-end supply, expand effective and mid-to-high-end supply, enhance the adaptability and flexibility of the supply structure to changes in demand, and promote industrial chain reengineering and value chain Upgrade to promote a dynamic balance between total supply and total demand at a higher level. We must firmly expand opening up, relax market access, continue to optimize the business environment, actively expand imports, expand foreign investment, and promote reform, development, and innovation through opening up.
No matter how the external environment changes, it will not stop China from moving forward. We should fully implement the decision-making and deployment of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, adhere to the general tone of seeking progress amidst stability, adhere to the new development concept, strive to overcome the adverse effects of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, strive to achieve higher quality, more efficient, fairer and more sustainable development, ensure the completion of the decisive victory in the fight against poverty and build a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way.

Source: People's Daily-People's Daily