National defense and army building



6. National defense and army building


•The drastic reform of resilience promotes a historic breakthrough in the strategy of strengthening the military. 
•Great development of equipment, providing a solid material foundation for fighting and winning. 
•New information-based combat platforms and electronic countermeasures equipment have been installed one after another. Under the conditions of informationization of the Chinese military, the system's combat capability has been continuously improved. 
•With the world's advanced level of new tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, artillery equipment units, the Army's weapons and equipment to achieve a new leap. 
•The aircraft carrier Liaoning ship has sailed many times and quickly expanded the experimental training course. 
•The domestic three-generation fighters were equipped with troops in batches, and the large-scale transport aircraft was successfully tested. 
•We will ensure that our military will basically achieve mechanization by 2020, and strive to basically achieve modernization on the basis of comprehensively advancing military theory, military organization, military personnel, and weapons and equipment "four modernizations" by 2035, and build a world-class army by the middle of this century.


Second, China's achievements in 40 years of reform and opening up

•(1) Significant economic development 
•The economic aggregate has risen sharply 
•In 2018, the gross domestic product reached 900.30 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.6%, achieving an expected development target of around 6.5%.The per capita GDP contract is $9,900, which ranks among the top middle-income countries. 
•Significantly increased supply capacity 
•In 2018, the national total grain output was 657.89 million tons (13158 billion jin). The cumulative output of China's pig iron, crude steel and steel products was 771 million tons, 928 million tons and 1.106 billion tons respectively, up 3%, 6.6% and 8.5% respectively. 
•In 2018, China's cement production was 2.21 billion tons.


Continuous improvement of infrastructure



•By the end of 2018, the national railway operating mileage reached more than 131,000 kilometers, of which high-speed rail was more than 29,000 kilometers. 
•In the 40 years since the reform and opening up, the railway operating mileage has increased from 52,000 kilometers to more than 131,000 kilometers, an increase of 154.4%, forming the world's most modern railway network and the most developed high-speed rail network. 
•At the end of 2018, the total length of roads nationwide reached 4.85 million kilometers, 60 times that of 1949.At the end of 2018, the total length of the expressway was 143,000 kilometers, and the total mileage ranked first in the world. 
•At the end of 2018, the national port had 23,919 berths for production, which was 148.6 times that of 1949.Among them, berths of 10,000-ton and above have increased from 38 in 1957 to 2,444.In 2018, Chinese ports accounted for seven seats in the top ten ports of global port container throughput. 
•At the end of 2018, the total number of scheduled flights reached 4,945, which was 412.1 times that of 1950; the number of domestic scheduled flights increased from 7 in 1950 to 230 in 2018.


Structural changes between the first, second and third industries in the country

Urban and rural structure optimization



Significant achievements in poverty alleviation



•In the past six years, the rural areas have reduced poverty by 82.39 million people, with an average annual poverty reduction of 13.73 million. The cumulative poverty reduction rate reached 83.2% in six years. The incidence of rural poverty also dropped from 10.2% at the end of 2012 to 1.7% at the end of 2018. The incidence of rural poverty in 10 provinces has fallen below 1.0%, and the absolute poverty problem of the Chinese nation for thousands of years is expected to be resolved historically.

•China's innovative state construction has achieved fruitful results, and major scientific and technological achievements such as Tiangong, Xiaolong, Tianyan, Wukong, Mozi and large aircraft have come out one after another.The contribution rate to world economic growth has exceeded 30%. Foreign trade, foreign investment, and foreign exchange reserves have been at the forefront of the world. China is increasingly approaching the center of the world stage and its influence on the world is growing.


Increase in international economic status


•In 1978, China’s total economic output ranked 11th in the world, and it has ranked second since 2010. 
•China's GDP has grown at an average annual rate of 9.5%, much higher than the average annual growth rate of 2.9% in the world economy. 
•China’s GDP as a share of world GDP has risen from 1.8% at the beginning of reform and opening up to 15.2%, and its contribution to world economic growth has exceeded 30% over the years. 
•China's major agricultural output has leapt to the forefront of the world, establishing the world's most complete modern industrial system, technological innovation and major engineering success. 
•China is the largest country in manufacturing, the largest country in goods trade, the second largest country in commodity consumption, and the second largest country in foreign capital. China’s foreign exchange reserves rank first in the world for many years.


(II) Continuous improvement of the market economic system



•Economic system reform from the theory to the practice of continuous innovation and breakthrough, from the planned economy, supplemented by market regulation, to the planned commodity economy, to the establishment of a socialist market economic system, the party's 18th National Congress has accelerated the improvement of the socialist market economy The system has successfully realized a great transformation from a highly centralized planned economic system to a dynamic socialist market economic system, providing a strong impetus and institutional guarantee for China to stand up and become rich and strong. 




•The basic economic system has continued to be consolidated and improved, and the role of the market has continued to increase. 
•Establish and constantly improve the basic economic system in which public ownership is the mainstay and multiple ownership economies develop together. 
•Continue to promote the reform of state-owned enterprises. The non-public ownership economy has become an important part of the socialist market economy from scratch, from small to large, from weak to strong. 
•The modern market system has been gradually established and continuously improved, and the decisive role of the market in resource allocation has been increasingly enhanced. 
•The government's functions have been accelerated, the macro-control system has been continuously improved, and the reform of the “distribution service” has achieved remarkable results. The global ranking of China's business environment has jumped to the 46th. 




(3) Going all-round open



•The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party opened a new historical period of opening up to the outside world. 
•Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the level of opening up to the outside world has been further improved. It has been introduced, and has gone out. It has proposed "The Belt and Road" Initiative, established an AIIB, held a G20 summit, and held two "The Belt and Road Initiative" summits. 
•Reform has promoted openness, and openness is also pushing for reform. 
•In the process of joining the World Trade Organization, the central government departments cleared more than 2,300 various laws, regulations and departmental regulations, and local governments cleaned up more than 190,000 local policies and regulations, which made foreign economic laws and regulations consistent with WTO commitments. 


(4) Promoting the rule of law



•When the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party opened the reform and opening up, Comrade Deng Xiaoping pointed out: "In order to protect the people's democracy, we must strengthen the legal system. We must institutionalize and legalize democracy so that such systems and laws are not changed by leaders. Change does not change because of the leaders’ perceptions and changes in attention.” 
•The 14th Party Congress: The market economy must be the rule of law economy. 
•The 15th National Congress of the Communist Party of China: The basic strategy of governing the country according to law and building a socialist country ruled by law as the party leading the people to govern the country was solemnly raised, and the reference to "building a socialist legal state" was changed to "building a socialist rule of law" The country has highlighted the concept of the rule of law with great clarity. 


•In March 1999, the National People's Congress amended the Constitution and clearly stated: "The People's Republic of China implements the rule of law and builds a socialist country ruled by law." 
•The 18th National Party Congress in 2012: We must pay more attention to the role of the rule of law in state governance and social management, comprehensively promote the rule of law, and accelerate the building of a socialist country ruled by law. 
•The Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee put forward that "the construction of the rule of law China must adhere to the rule of law, the rule of law, and the administration according to law, and adhere to the rule of law, the rule of law, and the rule of law." 
•The Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee adopted the "Decision of the CPC Central Committee on Several Major Issues Concerning the Comprehensive Promotion of Ruling the Country by Law."




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