Green Development
process of agricultural modernization, transitioning to a new industrial structure and a new institutional base that facilitate development, and improving ways for macroeconomic adjustment.
Coordinated Development
The second is coordinated development. In tandem with China’s high-speed growth, problems of imbalance and unsustainability have begun to emerge, becoming the weakest links in China’s strive for further development. As General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out, “Coordinated development is a must if we want to see successful nationwide development during the 13th Five-year Plan period.” The plan therefore envisions strengthened policy coordination aimed at: promoting coordinated urban and rural development so as to overcome the usual urban-rural dichotomy; facilitating coordinated economic and social development, so as to bridge the gap currently existing between the two processes; and synchronizing a new model of industrialization with expanded access to information technology, urbanization and agricultural modernization.
It is essential to integrate development in different areas in a seamless manner that helps upgrade China’s soft and hard power. As one of the five development concepts, green development highlights the importance of harmony between man and nature. Based on this concept, the Chinese people “will protect the environment in the same way as they protect their eyes and lives.” Therefore under the 13th Five-year Plan there will be increased attention to an eco-friendly approach to development in order to preserve harmony between man and nature.
The process of building regional zoning will be accelerated. Efforts will be stepped up to promote low-carbon and circular development, conservation and efficient utilization of natural resources, and environmental protection, to safeguard China’s ecological security. It is imperative to build an economic structure conducive to a green, low-carbon and circular economy, and incorporate an eco-conservation perspective into every facet of economic, political, cultural and social development.
Our goal is that the land we inherit will be blessed with blue skies, green mountains, and clear waters.
Open Development
The fourth component, open development, focuses on achieving development in the context of a closer relationship with the rest of the world. On this issue, General Secretary Xi Jinping said: “We will never waver in our commitment to opening up to the outside world, which is a fundamental national policy of ours. We will never close our doors, and we must keep an open mind. In China, development happens with our doors open.”
China will take actions in the following six areas as highlighted in the 13th Five-year Plan: improving the strategic planning of the process of opening up; creating a new mechanism for opening up; promoting the Belt and Road Initiative; increasing cooperation between the mainland and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan; playing a more active role in global economic governance; and taking on greater international responsibilities and obligations.
Through closer interactions with the rest of the world, China wishes to effectively promote global progress through cooperation that is beneficial to all.
Inclusive development, the fifth of China’s five
Inclusive Development
development concepts, is aimed at promoting social equity and justice.
Ensuring universal enjoyment of the fruits of reform and development is what a socialist system is all about and something that aptly demonstrates the strengths of the socialist system.
It also embodies the ultimate goal that the CPC has set for itself – to serve the people wholeheartedly.
Development for the benefit of all is about empowering the people, for them to reach their full potential in an enabling environment conducive to safeguarding social equity and justice, so that the Chinese people will be able to “share the opportunity to contribute, to make their dreams come true and to grow and develop with the nation and the time.”
The 13th Five-year Plan lists the following measures to this end: expanding access to public services; effectively implementing poverty-alleviation projects; improving the quality of education; creating more jobs and encouraging new businesses; narrowing the income gap; building a more equitable and sustainable social security system; improving healthcare services; and promoting balanced population growth.
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