"Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin on Scientific Development"
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Jiang Zemin on scientific development (2)
Improving people’s living standards is the fundamental purpose of reform, opening up, and economic development. On the basis of economic development, the people of the country can live a well-off life and gradually move towards a higher level. Efforts will be made to increase the actual income of urban and rural residents, expand consumption areas, and guide rational consumption. While improving material life, we should also enrich spiritual life, beautify the living environment and improve the quality of life. In particular, we must improve living, sanitation, transportation and communication conditions, and expand service consumption. Gradually increase public facilities and social welfare facilities. Improve education and health care. Implement policies to ensure the basic living standards of urban residents living in poverty. The state has taken measures from various aspects to increase poverty alleviation efforts and basically solve the problem of food and clothing for the rural poor by the end of this century.
Jiang Zemin "Hold high the great banner of Deng Xiaoping Theory and comprehensively push the cause of building socialism with Chinese characteristics into the 21st century" (1997Year9month12日), "Selected Works of Jiang Zemin" No.2Volume27-28page
Socialist modernization should have a prosperous economy and a prosperous culture. The process of my country's modernization construction depends to a large extent on the improvement of national quality and the development of human resources. In the face of the rapid development of science and technology and the fierce competition in comprehensive national strength, in the face of the mutual agitation of various ideologies and cultures around the world, and in the face of the growing cultural needs of the people in a well-off society, the whole party must fully understand the importance and urgency of cultural construction from the perspective of the prosperity of the socialist cause and the rejuvenation of the nation.
Jiang Zemin "Hold high the great banner of Deng Xiaoping Theory and comprehensively push the cause of building socialism with Chinese characteristics into the 21st century" (1997Year9month12日), "Selected Works of Jiang Zemin" No.2Volume33page
“Bring in”and“Go out”, are two closely related and mutually reinforcing aspects of our basic national policy of opening up to the outside world, and both are indispensable. This guiding ideology must be clear. Now that international competition is so fierce, this must be done both from the current perspective of revitalizing state-owned enterprises and from the perspective of the long-term development of our country's economy.
Jiang Zemin's "Implementation“Bring in”and“Go out”Combined open strategy》(1997Year12month24日), "Selected Works of Jiang Zemin" No.2Volume92page
The financial crisis in some Asian countries has provided people with profound revelations and lessons. I think there are at least three questions worth pondering. First, the economic development of a country, especially a large country, must be based on a solid material and technological foundation and a reasonable economic structure. It must have its own strong basic industries, otherwise it will not be able to withstand the impact of difficulties and risks. Second, the economic ties between countries are becoming increasingly close and mutual influence is growing. No one can engage in modernization behind closed doors, and it is impossible to avoid the trend of economic globalization and fierce and complex international competition. The key to the problem is that we must both dare and be good at participating in international economic and technological cooperation and competition under the conditions of economic globalization. We must not only make full use of the various favorable conditions and opportunities that can be exploited to develop ourselves, but also have a clear understanding and timely prevention of various adverse effects and risks that may be brought about, and steadily promote opening up to the outside world. This is particularly important for developing countries like us whose economic and technological strength is far inferior to that of Western developed countries. How to seek advantages, avoid disadvantages, and seize the initiative is always a big issue before us. Third, economic development is the basis for comprehensive social progress, but it does not occur in isolation. In the process of concentrating on economic development, we must attach great importance to the construction of democracy and the legal system and the construction of spiritual civilization, and continuously strengthen anti-corruption and integrity work. These aspects of work are very important and are closely related to economic development. If they are not done well, if the legal system is imperfect, political corruption, and social atmosphere are bad, it will directly affect the overall economic development.
Jiang Zemin "Do a good job in economic work and enhance the ability to withstand and resist risks" (1998Year2month26日), "Selected Works of Jiang Zemin" No.2Volume102page
Correctly handling the relationship between national economic construction and national defense construction is an important issue that we must always pay attention to. Building a modern army and a modern national defense is a need to ensure national modernization and national security, and the whole Party and people have always been very concerned about it. In recent years, under the circumstances of tight national financial resources, the Party Central Committee and the State Council have tried their best to meet the needs of national defense modernization. Our country's productivity level is not yet high, and its economic strength is not yet strong. We must concentrate our efforts on economic construction. If the economy does not improve, we will not be able to modernize our national defense and military. We must always adhere to the policy of taking economic construction as the center, giving consideration to both economic construction and national defense modernization, and developing in a coordinated manner. We cannot compare our defense investment with developed countries. We must pursue a path of national defense and military modernization with Chinese characteristics that requires less funding and higher benefits.Road.
Jiang Zemin's "Speech at the Forum of the People's Liberation Army Delegation at the First Session of the Ninth National People's Congress" (1998Year3month10日), "Jiang Zemin on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics" (Special Excerpt) No.478-479page
In today's world, scientific and technological progress, mainly represented by information technology, is changing with each passing day. The transformation of high-tech achievements into real productivity is getting faster and faster. The emerging knowledge economy indicates that human economic and social life will undergo new and huge changes. Countries around the world are rushing to formulate development strategies for the new century, vying to seize the commanding heights of science and technology, industry, and economy. Faced with this situation, we must follow the trend and take advantage of it.
Jiang Zemin's "The Key to Innovation lies in Talent" (1998Year6month1日), "Selected Works of Jiang Zemin" No.2Volume132page
As an objective trend of world economic development, economic globalization is independent of people's will and cannot be avoided by any country. Today's world is an open world, and no one can develop its own economy in isolation from the world. We must unswervingly implement the policy of opening up to the outside world, adapt to the trend of economic globalization, actively participate in international economic cooperation and competition, and make full use of various favorable conditions and opportunities brought by economic globalization. We cannot see that there are risks and disadvantages, and we should not dare to participate because of choking. At the same time, we must maintain a clear understanding of the risks brought about by economic globalization, adhere to independence, strengthen prevention work, and enhance our ability to resist and resolve, so as to effectively safeguard our country's economic security and better develop and strengthen ourselves.
Jiang Zemin "The Current International Situation and Our Diplomatic Work" (1998Year8month28日), "Selected Works of Jiang Zemin" No.2Volume201page
To meet the challenges of the rapid advancement of science and technology and the rapid rise of the knowledge economy, the most important thing is to persist in innovation. Innovation is the soul of a nation's progress and the inexhaustible driving force for a country's prosperity. The key to innovation lies in talents, and the growth of talents depends on education. Only when the level of education is improved can scientific and technological progress and economic development have stamina. The strength of science and technology and the level of national education have always been important indicators of comprehensive national strength and social civilization. They are also two indispensable flywheels for every country to prosper.
Jiang Zemin’s “Speech at Novosibirsk Science City” (1998Year11month24日), "Selected Works of Jiang Zemin" No.2Volume237page
Irrational structure, excessive duplication of construction, and low economic benefits are the most prominent problems in my country's current economic development. To improve the overall level of my country's economic development, the most important thing is to improve the quality and efficiency of economic operations. Only when the quality and efficiency improve can the national economy form a virtuous cycle and develop with stamina. Quality and efficiency cannot go up, and even if the speed goes up for a while, it will eventually fall off. We must adhere to the unity of speed, structure, quality and efficiency.
Jiang Zemin's "General Requirements for Economic Work in 1999" (1998Year12month7日), "Selected Documents Since the 15th National Congress"(Previous)No.657-658page
Our country is a country with a large population and a developing country. In the historical process of moving from subsistence and clothing to moderate prosperity and then to modernization, the demand potential in all aspects is huge, which is our advantage. We have the necessity and conditions to base economic development mainly on the domestic market. This is a fundamental aspect of my country’s economic developmentPolicy.
Jiang Zemin’s “Build Economic Development Based Mainly on the Domestic Market” (1998Year12month7日), "On Socialist Market Economy" No.415page
From the strategic perspective of coordinated national economic development, we must focus on the mutual combination of regional advantages, mutual complementation, mutual promotion and common development, and mobilize the enthusiasm of all regions in the east, middle and west. Our emphasis on coordinated development is to promote and drive better development in the central and western regions while the eastern region is developing rapidly.
Jiang Zemin's "Continuously Improving the Level of Leadership in Economic Work" (1998Year12month7日), "On Socialist Market Economy" No.421page
Social security is a very important economic and social issue. The main function of social security is to help people reduce the risks they may encounter in life and work, protect the basic lives of social members, and enhance their sense of security in life. Whether the social security system is sound and whether the legal system in this area is complete will have a direct impact on a country's economic development and social stability.
Jiang Zemin's "Establishing a Social Security System that Meets the Requirements of the Development of a Socialist Market Economy" (1998Year12month14日), "On Socialist Market Economy" No.425page
Our economic construction is based on the four basic principles as a political guarantee and reform and opening up as a powerful driving force; our reform and opening up is aimed at further liberating and developing productive forces and consolidating and developing the socialist system; our four basic principles are to ensure that reform, opening up and economic construction move in the right direction, and at the same time, we continue to draw new experience from new practices to enrich and develop. Without the central task of economic construction, all development and progress of socialist society will lose its material foundation; without the four basic principles and reform and opening up, economic construction will lose its direction and lose momentum. This is the dialectical unity relationship between one center and two basic points. We must adhere to the basic line unwaveringly for a hundred years, including adhering to one center and two basic points. By comprehensively grasping the entire content of the Party's basic line, unifying the center of economic construction with the two basic points of the Four Basic Principles and reform and opening up in the great practice of building socialism with Chinese characteristics throughout the entire process of modernization, we will continue to move from victory to victory.
Jiang Zemin's "The Main Historical Experience of Our Party in the Past Twenty Years" (1998Year12month18日), "Selected Works of Jiang Zemin" No.2Volume252-253page
People are the most active factor in productivity. To develop productivity, we need to focus on both things and people, and we must pay attention to both the improvement of material production levels and the improvement of people's quality.
Jiang Zemin's "The Main Historical Experience of Our Party in the Past Twenty Years" (1998Year12month18日), "Selected Works of Jiang Zemin" No.2Volume254page
As a brand-new social form in human history, socialist society is a society with all-round development and all-round progress focusing on economic construction. Only when the economy, politics, and culture develop in a coordinated manner and both civilizations are well developed can we have socialism with Chinese characteristics. Without economic development, there will be no material basis for social development and spiritual civilization construction; without social development and spiritual civilization progress, there will be no motivation for material civilization construction, and it will be difficult to achieve economic development goals. Temporary economic development cannot be achieved at the expense of spiritual civilization at any time. Our party has clearly proposed a series of“grasp with both hands”'s policy is to achieve both sustained economic development and comprehensive social progress, and to fully embody and bring into play the advantages of the socialist system.
Jiang Zemin's "The Main Historical Experience of Our Party in the Past Twenty Years" (1998Year12month18日), "Selected Works of Jiang Zemin" No.2Volume258-259page
The deeper the reform, the more necessary it is to correctly understand and handle various interest relationships, correctly unify and combine individual interests and collective interests, local interests and overall interests, current interests and long-term interests, realize, maintain and develop the vital interests of the overwhelming majority of the people, and guide, protect and give full play to their enthusiasm. Only in this way can our reform and construction always obtain the broadest and most reliable mass base and source of strength.
Jiang Zemin's "The Main Historical Experience of Our Party in the Past Twenty Years" (1998Year12month18日), "Selected Works of Jiang Zemin" No.2Volume262page
Reform, opening up, and modernization are a grand and complex systematic project. All aspects of work must coordinate and cooperate with each other. If you focus on one thing and neglect the other, and put too little emphasis on the other, you will not achieve ultimate success. To shape a person's head, the eyes, nose, mouth, ears, and eyebrows must be in proportion. If it is not proportional, it will be useless no matter how well the various parts are carved. Even if one part is not arranged properly, it will destroy the overall balance and beauty. What I mean by this analogy is that when we do work, we must make an overall plan. The ancients said:“Those who do not plan for the overall situation cannot plan for one area.”That’s the truth.
Jiang Zemin's "On Strengthening and Improving Learning" (1999Year1month11日), "Selected Works of Jiang Zemin" No.2Volume307page
The advantages of development are contained in knowledge and technology. Social wealth is increasingly gathering in countries and regions with advantages in knowledge and technology. Whoever has the advantage in knowledge and technology innovation will dominate development. This development pattern not only provides favorable opportunities for the majority of countries in the third world to use high technology and advanced knowledge to transcend the traditional development model, but also poses unprecedented severe challenges. As a developing socialist country, whether China can seize this opportunity in time, continuously enhance its comprehensive national strength and international competitiveness, and effectively overcome various challenges is a major test related to the future and destiny of our party, country, and nation.Jiang Zemin's "Education must take improving the quality of the people as its fundamental purpose" (1999Year6month15日), "Selected Works of Jiang Zemin" No.2Volume329-330page
The rise and fall of national destiny depends on education; the revitalization of education is the responsibility of the whole people. All comrades in the Party and people of all ethnic groups in the country must continue to care about and support the development of my country's education from the perspective of realizing the prosperity of the motherland and the rejuvenation of the nation. While the state is running education well, it must also mobilize all aspects of society to establish and support education, especially vocational and technical education at all levels and types. In short, it is necessary to implement the strategic position of priority development of education and truly turn it into a broad consensus of the whole nation and practical actions of the whole society, so as to provide a profound mass foundation and social synergy for the prosperity of my country's education industry.
Jiang Zemin's "Education must take improving the quality of the people as its fundamental purpose" (1999Year6month15日), "Selected Works of Jiang Zemin" No.2Volume336-337page
Implementing the western development is a grand strategic task to revitalize China. The far-reaching economic, cultural, political, military and social significance of realizing this grand plan is inestimable. All comrades in the party and the whole country must raise and unify their understanding. Without the stability of the western region, there will be no stability for the whole country. Without the well-off society of the western region, there will be no well-off society for the whole country. Without the modernization of the western region, it cannot be said that the modernization of the whole country has been achieved.
Jiang Zemin's "Implementing the Western Development Strategy at No Time" (1999Year6month17日), "Selected Works of Jiang Zemin" No.2Volume344page
The key to fully implementing the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education and accelerating the scientific and technological progress of the whole society is to strengthen and continuously promote knowledge innovation and technological innovation. I once said that innovation is the soul of a nation’s progress and the inexhaustible driving force for a country’s prosperity. Scientific and technological innovation has increasingly become an important foundation and symbol for the liberation and development of productive forces in today's society, and increasingly determines the development process of a country and a nation. If it cannot innovate, it will be difficult for a nation to prosper and stand among the nations of the world. Regarding this issue, not only leading cadres at all levels must have a strong political awareness, but also the whole society must establish such awareness.
Jiang Zemin's "Strengthening Technological Innovation" (1999Year8month23日), "Selected Works of Jiang Zemin" No.2Volume392page
With the deepening of reform and opening up, there has been diversification of economic components and economic interests, diversification of social lifestyles, and diversification of social organization forms. These new situations have brought about new changes in economic structure and social relations. We must attach great importance to various internal contradictions among the people and other social contradictions and handle them correctly to prevent them from intensifying and affecting social stability. For various social conflicts, we must distinguish different situations and properly resolve them through reform and development, through strengthening ideological and political work, and through the comprehensive use of legal, economic, administrative, educational and other means.
Jiang Zemin's "The Direction and Mission of the CPPCC in Carrying on the Past and Forging into the Future" (1999Year9month22日), "Selected Works of Jiang Zemin" No.2Volume415page
Accelerating the development of ethnic minorities and ethnic areas is the embodiment of the essential requirements of my country’s socialist cause in ethnic work, and is also the basic starting point and destination of the party’s ethnic policy. Ethnic minority areas have vast territories, rich resources, vast potential markets, and very important strategic positions. In the country's future development strategy, accelerating the development of ethnic minority areas will be placed in a more prominent position. This is a requirement to gradually narrow the development gap between various regions across the country and ultimately achieve common prosperity for all people. It is a requirement to maintain sustained, rapid and healthy development of the national economy and achieve the strategic goals of the third step of my country's modernization drive. It is also a requirement to strengthen national unity, maintain social stability, and safeguard the reunification of the motherland.
Jiang Zemin's "Speech at the Central Ethnic Work Conference and the State Council's Third National Ethnic Unity and Progress Commendation Conference" (1999Year9month29日), "Selected Documents Since the 15th National Congress"(中)No.1053page
Developing small towns is a grand strategy. The large gap between urban and rural areas and the large agricultural population are important factors that have long restricted the virtuous cycle of my country's economy and the coordinated development of society. Accelerating the construction of small towns will not only help transfer surplus agricultural labor and solve a series of deep-seated contradictions in rural economic development, but also help initiate private investment and drive final consumption, providing a broad market space and sustained growth momentum for the development of the national economy in the next century.
Jiang Zemin's "Current Situation and Economic Work" (1999Year11month15日), "Selected Works of Jiang Zemin" No.2Volume438page
The people are the main body and driving force of reform and development, as well as the source of strength and solid foundation for stability. As long as the broad masses of the people sincerely support the reform, we will be able to deal with various complex situations and contradictions, and it will be easy to handle even if some problems of this or that arise. To win the support of the masses, the most fundamental thing is to take realizing and safeguarding the interests of the overwhelming majority of the people as the starting point and goal of all our work, and strive to enable workers, farmers, intellectuals and other basic masses to jointly enjoy the fruits of reform and development. All the party's principles and policies must be based on whether they are in line with the interests of the overwhelming majority of the people as the highest standard, and the satisfaction or dissatisfaction of the overwhelming majority of the people as the fundamental criterion.
Jiang Zemin's "Current Situation and Economic Work" (1999Year11month15日), "Selected Works of Jiang Zemin" No.2Volume444-445page
Achieving coordinated economic and social development is an important guiding principle for my country’s socialist modernization drive. To fully realize the goal of cross-century development, we must continue to promote the development of various social undertakings. The main leading comrades of party committees and governments at all levels, under the circumstances of very heavy economic construction tasks, must coordinate and coordinate various tasks such as education, science and technology, culture, health, sports, environmental protection, and family planning, and strive to promote the coordinated development of economy, society, and environment.
Jiang Zemin's "Current Situation and Economic Work" (1999Year11month15日), "Selected Works of Jiang Zemin" No.2Volume446page
When we develop a socialist market economy, we must give full play to the fundamental role of the market in resource allocation. At the same time, we must also realize that our country’s market system is not yet perfect, and the market itself has some defects that are difficult to overcome. Therefore, we must strive to improve the macro-control system, be good at correctly using fiscal means including budget, taxation, transfer payments, etc., and give full play to its important functional role in resource allocation, income distribution, economic regulation, and supervision and management, so as to promote the healthy economic development and overall social progress of our country.
Jiang Zemin's "Building a Solid, Balanced, and Powerful Finance" (2000Year1month19日), "Selected Works of Jiang Zemin" No.2Volume509-510page
The development of today's world economy requires that we must be brave and good at participating in the competition of economic globalization and make full use of both foreign and domestic resources and markets. We implement the basic national policy of opening up to the outside world and develop and strengthen ourselves by actively introducing foreign capital, advanced technology, and management experience. This is a successful experience that has made great achievements in my country's economic and social development, and must be adhered to in the long term. Over the past 20 years of reform and opening up, we have“Bring in”Great achievements. With the improvement of our country's economic level and the advancement of modernization construction, we must speed up the implementation“Go out”'s strategy. Like the Western Development Strategy, this is also a grand strategy related to the overall development of my country's economy and the entire modernization drive.“Go out”and“Bring in”, are two aspects of the opening-up policy that complement each other, and both are indispensable.
Jiang Zemin《“Go out”and“Bring in”They are two aspects that complement each other in opening up to the outside world》(2000Year2month25日), "On Socialist Market Economy" No.519page
Summarizing the history of our party for more than seventy years, we can draw an important conclusion, which is: the reason why our party has won the support of the people is because in various historical periods of revolution, construction, and reform, our party has always represented the development requirements of China's advanced productive forces, represented the direction of China's advanced culture, and represented the fundamental interests of the vast majority of the Chinese people. By formulating correct lines, principles, and policies, our party has worked tirelessly to realize the fundamental interests of the country and the people.
Jiang Zemin's "Do Better Under New Historical Conditions“Three Represents”》(2000Year2month25日), "Selected Works of Jiang Zemin" No.3Volume2page
Always do it“Three Represents”, is the foundation of our party's founding, the foundation of governance, and the source of strength. Follow“Three Represents”The requirements for party building are consistent with the overall goals and general requirements of the new great project of party building in the new era. Promoting the party's ideological construction, political construction, organizational construction, and work style construction should all be carried out“Three Represents”Request. Party committees at all levels must fully implement the overall deployment of the 15th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on strengthening party building, seize the fundamentals of arming the whole party with Deng Xiaoping Theory, and comprehensively promote party building work around the two historic topics of continuously improving leadership and governance levels, and improving the ability to resist corruption, prevent degeneration, and resist risks.
Jiang Zemin's "Always Do It"“Three Represents”It is the foundation of our party, the foundation of governance, and the source of strength" (2000Year5month14日), "Selected Works of Jiang Zemin" No.3Volume15page
Talent is the most important resource for the development of a country. In today's world, competition for talent is extremely fierce. One of the important reasons why the U.S. economy and science and technology are developing rapidly is that it has recruited a large number of talents from all over the world. We must have political foresight, study countermeasures as early as possible, and truly treat and implement the training and use of all kinds of talents as a major event for the prosperity of the party and the people.
Jiang Zemin's "Always Do It"“Three Represents”It is the foundation of our party, the foundation of governance, and the source of strength" (2000Year5month14日), "Selected Works of Jiang Zemin" No.3Volume27-28page
Facing the new situation of world economic and scientific and technological development, we must create a climax of scientific and technological progress and innovation across the country. We must seize the opportunity to implement the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education and the strategy of sustainable development, seize the construction of the national innovation system, and promote technological innovation and knowledge innovation. While strengthening basic scientific research, we must especially accelerate the development and industrialization of high and new technologies, actively promote the reform of the scientific and technological system, and accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into actual productivity, so as to vigorously promote our country's economic construction and improve the level of scientific and technological modernization in all walks of life.
Jiang Zemin's "Vigorously Promote the Spirit of Science and Innovation in the Whole Party and Whole Society" (2000Year6month5日), "Selected Works of Jiang Zemin" No.3Volume34-35page
The essence of science is innovation, and we must continue to make discoveries and inventions. Facing the challenges of the world's ever-changing scientific and technological progress, and facing the huge scientific and technological needs raised by my country's modernization drive, we must broaden our horizons, keep up with the world trend, seize those major scientific and technological topics that are strategic, fundamental, and critical to our country's economy, science and technology, national defense, and social development, and work hard to tackle key problems and innovate independently.
Jiang Zemin's "Vigorously Promote the Spirit of Science and Innovation in the Whole Party and Whole Society" (2000Year6month5日), "Selected Works of Jiang Zemin" No.3Volume36page
Promoting economic construction and establishing a strong national defense are the two major strategic tasks of our country's modernization drive. We must adhere to economic construction as the center, and national defense construction is subordinate to the overall situation of national economic construction. At the same time, we must continuously strengthen national defense strength so that national defense construction can continue to develop on the basis of the increase in national financial resources. Integrating the military with the people is an important measure to organically unify these two strategic tasks.
Jiang Zemin's "Speech when Visiting the National Defense and Military-Industrial Cooperation Supporting Achievements Exhibition" (2000Year7month14日), "On Science and Technology" No.209-210page
Building a national innovation system is a major decision made by the Party Central Committee and the State Council to promote my country's scientific and technological progress and innovation and enable science and technology to better play the role of the primary productive force in my country's modernization drive. The competition for comprehensive national strength in today's world is ultimately a competition for scientific and technological strength and a competition for high-quality talents. Nowadays, the world's science and technology is advancing by leaps and bounds. To take the initiative in the increasingly fierce international competition, our country must greatly improve its capabilities in scientific and technological innovation and occupy a place in the world's high-tech fields. This is a grand strategy related to the development of the Chinese nation. If we do not promptly improve our ability to innovate independently, we will always be in a passive position.
Jiang Zemin's "Speech when listening to the report on the pilot work of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Knowledge Innovation Project" (2000Year8month26日), "On Science and Technology" No.223-224page
We must persist in using development methods to solve problems in progress. Now that the world's economic development is accelerating, all countries are seeking new development. At the beginning of the new century, whether we can do it faster is of great concern at home and abroad. Our country is a developing country and is in a period of system transformation and structural adjustment. To achieve the goal of modernization and solve the contradictions and problems existing in economic and social life, we need to maintain a rapid economic growth rate. Moreover, from the perspective of economic foundation, market potential and institutional environment, we are fully qualified to achieve rapid development. We must have a proactive spirit and a sense of urgency, seize opportunities instead of losing them, forge ahead instead of being conservative, and accelerate development and strengthening ourselves.
Jiang Zemin's "Speech at the Convenor Meeting of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 15th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China" (2000Year10month8日), "Jiang Zemin on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics" (Special Excerpt) No.91-92page
“Fifteen”During this period, we must take development as the theme, structural adjustment as the main line, reform, opening up and scientific and technological progress as the driving force, and improving people's living standards as the fundamental starting point, and comprehensively promote economic development and social progress. This is an important policy for us to continue to advance the great cause of building socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new century.
Jiang Zemin "Continue to Advance the Cause of Building Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Century" (2000Year10month11日), "Selected Works of Jiang Zemin" No.3Volume117-118page
Development requires new ideas. Implementing strategic adjustments to the economic structure, promoting two fundamental changes, and maintaining sustained, rapid and healthy development of the national economy are the main ideas for my country's economic development at the beginning of the new century. The next five to ten years will be an important period for my country's economic structural adjustment. The prominent contradiction and deep-seated problem in my country's economic development is the irrational economic structure, which is mainly manifested in the irrational industrial structure, uncoordinated regional development, low urbanization level, backward industrial and agricultural production technology, and the overall quality of the national economy is not high. If these problems are not resolved urgently, it will be difficult to improve the quality of economic growth and enhance the potential for my country's development.
Jiang Zemin "Continue to Advance the Cause of Building Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Century" (2000Year10month11日), "Selected Works of Jiang Zemin" No.3Volume119page
The development trend of today's world shows that informatization plays an important role in promoting economic and social development. We must attach great importance to it and promote it with all our strength, use informatization to drive industrialization, give full play to the advantages of latecomers, and strive to achieve leap-forward development of social productivity.
Jiang Zemin "Continue to Advance the Cause of Building Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Century" (2000Year10month11日), "Selected Works of Jiang Zemin" No.3Volume121page
Continuously improving people’s lives is the purpose and purpose of our party to serve the people wholeheartedly“Three Represents”The ultimate manifestation of the requirements is the joint point of properly handling the relationship between reform, development and stability. As the people's living standards continue to improve, promoting reforms will gain wider support, and our party's ruling foundation will be more consolidated. Since the reform and opening up, the living standards of our people have been greatly improved, and the country has generally achieved a moderately prosperous life. However, it must also be noted that the current income level of urban and rural residents is not high, and the lives of some people are still relatively difficult. Leading cadres at all levels must proceed from a political perspective and the overall situation of stability, and always regard solving people's livelihood problems as the fundamental task of the party and the government.
Jiang Zemin's "Several Issues That Need to Be Grasped in Current Economic Work" (2000Year11month28日), "On Socialist Market Economy" No.569-570page
Whether we can seize opportunities and accelerate development is the key for a country or a nation to take the initiative and gain advantages. Looking back at China's history, before the fifteenth century, there were the prosperous ages of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and China's economy and technology have always been in a leading position in the world. After the fifteenth century, China's economy and technology gradually fell behind. A very important reason was that it lost some important opportunities and failed to do a good job in development. The important thought put forward by Comrade Deng Xiaoping that development is the last word is a regular summary of the positive and negative historical experiences of the development of our country and other countries in the world. We must always adhere to this important idea. Seizing opportunities and accelerating development are politically, economically and culturally important to us. The key to solving all China's problems lies in development; solving people's ideological and understanding problems, convincing those who do not believe in socialism, and strengthening people's belief and confidence in socialism and the future of the motherland ultimately rely on development. When the central government considered my country's development strategy at the beginning of the new century, it highlighted the need to adhere to the theme of development, which is a major decision based on this most basic and important principle. The whole party and the whole country must seize the day, redouble their efforts, firmly focus on economic construction, concentrate on the important task of economic and social development, and continuously enhance our country's economic strength, national defense strength and national cohesion.
Jiang Zemin’s “Speech at the National Conference of Propaganda Ministers” (2001Year1month10日), "On“Three Represents”》No.123page
In the process of building socialism with Chinese characteristics and developing a socialist market economy, we must unremittingly strengthen the construction of the socialist legal system and govern the country according to law; at the same time, we must unremittingly strengthen the construction of socialist ethics and govern the country with morality. For the governance of a country, the rule of law and the rule of morality have always been complementary and mutually reinforcing. Both are indispensable, and neither can be neglected. The rule of law belongs to political construction and political civilization, while the rule of morality belongs to ideological construction and spiritual civilization. The two categories are different, but their status and functions are very important. We must closely integrate the construction of the legal system with the construction of morality, and closely integrate the rule of law with the rule of virtue.
Jiang Zemin's "Vigorously Promoting the Spirit of Unremitting Struggle" (2001Year1month10日), "Selected Works of Jiang Zemin" No.3Volume200page
It is necessary to enhance the environmental awareness and ecological awareness of the cadres and the masses. It is necessary to make the broad masses of cadres and the masses truly clear in their thinking that destroying resources and the environment means destroying productivity, protecting resources and the environment means protecting productivity, and improving resources and the environment means developing productivity.
Jiang Zemin's "Speech during the Inspection Work in Hainan" (2001Year2month27日), "Jiang Zemin on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics" (Special Excerpt) No.282page