While setting the grand goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way, the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly put forward the strategic plan of comprehensively deepening reform. In November 2013, the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee adopted the Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Several Major Issues of Comprehensively Deepening Reform, which officially kicked off the curtain of comprehensively deepening reform. The Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Plenary Sessions of the 18th CPC Central Committee successively put forward a series of important reform measures around comprehensively governing the country according to law, implementing the new development concept, building a well-off society in an all-round way, and strictly administering the party in an all-round way. The overall goal of the reform is clear, the content is comprehensive and systematic, and the intensity and influence are unprecedented. The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China systematically expounded the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought and basic strategy in the new era, and accordingly put forward new tasks and requirements for reform and opening up in the new era.
In order to strengthen the centralized and unified leadership of comprehensive deepening reform, after the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, the Central Committee quickly set up a leading group for comprehensive deepening reform, which was responsible for the overall design, overall coordination, overall promotion and supervision and implementation of the reform. This is the first time that our party has set up a decision-making and deliberation coordination body specializing in reform work at the level of the CPC Central Committee. Various regions and departments have also established a reform promotion mechanism under the leadership of the party. The Third Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee decided to change the central leading group for comprehensive deepening reform into a committee around improving the party’s leadership system and mechanism for major work. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader personally led the reform work, held regular meetings of leading groups (committees), unified ideological understanding, planned overall deployment, reviewed major reform plans, analyzed the reform situation, and promoted the implementation of the reform, which provided the most powerful leadership guarantee for comprehensively deepening the reform.
Up to now, the Central Leading Group (Committee) for Comprehensively Deepening Reform has held 45 meetings and introduced and implemented a large number of major reform measures. Of the 336 major reform measures proposed by the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, more than 95% have been implemented. The reform tasks deployed by the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Plenary Sessions of the 18th CPC Central Committee and the 19th National Congress are also progressing solidly as planned, with comprehensive efforts, multiple breakthroughs and in-depth reforms, and the main framework of reform in major areas has been basically established. In the field of economic construction, around making the market play a decisive role in the allocation of resources and giving better play to the role of the government, the overall promotion of reform, key breakthroughs, and the role of stimulating development momentum and innovation vitality have gradually emerged, and the socialist market economic system has been continuously improved. In the field of political construction, around the organic unity of upholding the leadership of the party, the people being the masters of the country and governing the country according to law, the reform of democracy and legal system has been steadily advanced, and new progress has been made in the construction of socialist democratic politics. In the field of cultural construction, around cultivating and promoting socialist core values and building a socialist cultural power, the reform of the cultural system has been further promoted, and the innovation and creativity of advanced socialist culture have been further released. In the field of social construction, focusing on better safeguarding and improving people’s livelihood and promoting social fairness and justice, we actively promoted reforms in the areas of people’s livelihood, such as poverty alleviation, education, employment, medical care, old-age care, and social security, and the people’s sense of gain, happiness, and security continued to increase. In the field of ecological civilization construction, the reform of ecological civilization system has been accelerated around the construction of beautiful China.生态环境保护和自然资源管理制度框架基本形成。在党的建设领域，党的建设制度改革协调推进，深化纪检监察体制改革，反腐败斗争形成压倒性态势，全面从严治党逐步实现制度化、规范化。在国防和军队建设领域，大刀阔斧的重塑性改革推动强军战略实现历史性突破。全面深化改革迎风破浪、大刀阔斧、攻坚克难，解决了许多长期想解决而没有解决的难题，办成了许多过去想办而没有办成的大事，推动党和国家事业发生历史性变革、取得历史性成就，改革成为中国共产党鲜明旗帜和当代中国时代特征。
全面深化改革所走过的非凡历程开创了我们党几代领导集体不忘初心、接续奋斗、攻坚克难、不断创新的新篇章、新境界，所取得的巨大成就再次雄辩地证明，改革开放是党和人民大踏步赶上时代的重要法宝，是坚持和发展中国特色社会主义的必由之路，是决定当代中国命运的关键一招，也是决定实现“两个一百年”奋斗目标、实现中华民族伟大复兴的关键一招。党中央关于全面深化改革的战略部署是完全正确的，改革目标任务的设定和实施方略是符合实际的，全面深化改革的领导体制和工作机制是坚强有力的。
The fruitful achievements of comprehensively deepening reform are the organic unity of theoretical achievements, practical achievements and institutional achievements. Every new breakthrough in the theory and practice of reform and opening up is the victory of the party’s ideological line. With the profound insight, keen judgment and strategic determination of Marxist politicians and theorists, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader, on the basis of scientifically summing up historical experience, based on the new practice of reform and opening up, and using the methods of dialectical materialism and historical materialism, creatively put forward a series of new ideas, new concepts and new viewpoints of reform and opening up, which further enriched Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era. For example, the nine "musts" summarized by the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader in his important speech celebrating the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up on December 18th: we must uphold the Party’s leadership over all work and constantly strengthen and improve the Party’s leadership; We must persist in taking the people as the center and constantly realize the people’s yearning for a better life; We must adhere to the guiding position of Marxism and constantly promote theoretical innovation on the basis of practice; We must adhere to the road of Socialism with Chinese characteristics and constantly adhere to and develop Socialism with Chinese characteristics; We must persist in perfecting and developing Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s system and constantly give play to and enhance China’s institutional advantages; We must adhere to development as the top priority and constantly enhance China’s comprehensive national strength; We must persist in opening wider to the outside world and constantly promote the building of a community of human destiny; We must adhere to the strict administration of the party in an all-round way and constantly improve the party’s creativity, cohesion and combat effectiveness; We must adhere to the world outlook and methodology of dialectical materialism and historical materialism,Correctly handle the relationship between reform, development and stability. This is an important guiding ideology that we should deeply understand and adhere to for a long time.
Looking back, the course of reform is magnificent; Looking ahead, the road to reform has a long way to go. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader proposed that we should pay attention to summing up the achievements and experiences of 40 years of reform and opening up from a historical, overall and strategic perspective, and highlight the times, ideology and practicality. Standing at a new and higher starting point, under the guidance of the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era, let us continue to hold high the banner of reform and opening up, sum up reform experience, deepen the theory of innovation and reform, spread the voice of reform, emancipate our minds, deepen reform, and work hard to push forward the great cause of Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era.
(The author is the deputy director of the Central Reform Office in charge of daily work)