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Chinese economy changes from growth to development mode
Beijing—"The transfer of the
economic growth mode," a common term we used to invoke, has been
replaced by "the transfer of the economic development mode" in the
report Comrade Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Communist Party of
China (CPC), delivered at the 17th CPC National Congress in mid October.
The shift from the word "growth" to "development" has enriched
connotations of the basic category of development and indicates the
nation's adherence to the principle of "taking people first" and the
resolve and confidence in pushing forward scientific development.
The achievements of China's reform and development over the past three
decades or so since the late 1970s have captured global attention. With
a rapid growth of economy, it would be impossible for China to effect
such a substantial rise in its economic strength and all-round national
power, to improve the life of its people remarkably and to bring about a
historic change in the people's living standards. In the great practice
of the reform, opening-up and socialist modernization drive, Chinese
Communists have become distinctly aware of contradictions and problems
in the course of development.
"No development scored in spite of growth," is a problem endemic to some
localities. When the total economic output expands, prices paid in
resources and environment, however, have become costly due to the
irrational structure and gross growth mode and, when the people's
overall living standards improve, the income disparity enlarges and,
when national development is achieved on the whole, social development
between the urban and rural areas and between different regions remains
imbalanced, and pressures on employment and social security is added,
and the personal interests of people in some regions have not so well
attended to.
In view of these contradictions and problems, Chinese Communists have
set forth a major strategy of transforming the mode of economic growth
mode with an objective of achieving the better and faster development of
national economy through means of speeding up the transfer of the
economic growth mode.
In a bid to realize the shift from "growth" to "development" mode, the
most essential thing is to acquire an in-depth understanding of
scientific connotations and spiritual essence of the scientific outlook
on development and implement it in a penetrating way. With a thorough,
in-depth awareness of contradictions and problems in the course of
economic operation and development, people will be better able to carry
out the scientific outlook on development consciously and resolutely.
With a firm belief in such an outlook, people will be more aware or
conscious to respect and grasp what guides the economic development,
while striving to innovate the development concept, transfer the mode of
economic growth, and increase both the quality and efficiency of
economic development still more effectively.
Then, how to change or transfer the mode of the economic growth mode?
Clear-cut requirements have been made, in compliance with vital
arrangements set in the report to the 17th CPC Congress, to improve the
innovative capacity, spur the strategic adjustment of the economic
structure and proceed to take a new road of industrialization with
Chinese characteristics and develop the setup of modern industry; to
comprehensively arrange the development of urban and rural economy, take
a path of agricultural modernization with Chinese characteristics,
conserve energy resources and environment, and proceed to advance the
coordinated regional development in various sectors.
Economic development, instead of merely implying the growth mode of
domestic product (GDP) alone or the mere growth of "Green GDP," has
wide-ranging contents in such spheres of optimizing the economic
structure and improving economic returns while reducing consumption of
resources and protecting the environment. Moreover, economic development
also contains consideration given over such a basic issue as "for whom
should our development be made and on whom should development is to
depend on"?—Xinhua |
