Li Zheng
Social Sciences in Guangdong. 2025, 0(2): 5-14.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has issued a series of important statements on economic system reform, which have pointed out the direction and provided fundamental guidance for comprehensively deepening economic system reform in the new era. With the convening of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, this series of important discussions has formed a theoretical system with rich content, clear context, and complete structure, profoundly answering a series of questions such as the necessity, importance, goals, principles, paths, and methods of economic system reform. The core essence is to adhere to the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, always ensure the correct direction of reform, and continuously improve and develop the socialist system with Chinese characteristics; Adhere to emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts, upholding integrity and innovation, and building a high-level socialist market economy system; Persist in further liberating and developing social productive forces, improve the system and mechanism for developing new quality productive forces according to local conditions, and accelerate the formation of production relations that are more suitable for new quality productive forces; Coordinate the promotion of deep-seated reforms and high-level opening-up to the outside world. General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important discourse on economic system reform is a major theoretical innovation achievement of Marxism’s sinicization and modernization, a summary of China’s more than 40 years of experience and laws in reform and opening up, and an innovation and development of the theory of socialist reform with Chinese characteristics in the new era. It has significant guiding significance and reference value for the reform and development of China and other developing countries.
