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The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Further Comprehensively Deepening Reform and Promoting Chinese-style Modernization

(Passed by the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on July 18, 2024)

　　In order to implement the strategic deployment made by the 20th National Congress of the Party, the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee studied the issues of further comprehensively deepening reform and promoting Chinese-style modernization, and made the following decisions.

　　I. The Major Significance and Overall Requirements of Further Comprehensively Deepening Reform and Promoting Chinese-style Modernization

　　(1) The Importance and Necessity of Further Comprehensively Deepening Reform. Reform and opening up is an important magic weapon for the Party and the people's cause to catch up with the times. The Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Party was epoch-making, opening a new era of reform, opening up, and socialist modernization. The Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Party was also epoch-making, opening a new journey of comprehensively deepening reform and systematically promoting reform, creating a new situation for our country's reform and opening up.

　　The Central Committee of the Party with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core unites and leads the entire Party, the armed forces, and the people of all ethnic groups in the country, breaking through the constraints of ideological concepts, overcoming the barriers of vested interests, daring to advance into deep waters, tackle tough problems, and navigate dangerous waters with great historical initiative, political courage, and a strong sense of responsibility. It resolutely eliminates the shortcomings of various systems and mechanisms, achieving a transformation of reform from partial exploration and breaking the ice to systematic integration and comprehensive deepening. The basic framework of fundamental systems in various fields has been established, and many fields have achieved historic changes, systematic reshaping, and overall reconstruction. The overall reform tasks determined by the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Party have been completed, achieving the goal of having more mature and well-defined systems by the centenary of the Party's founding, providing strong institutional guarantees for building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and achieving the Party's first centenary goal, and promoting our country to embark on a new journey of comprehensively building a socialist modern country.

　　The current and forthcoming period is a critical time for comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the nation through Chinese-style modernization. Chinese-style modernization is continuously advanced in the process of reform and opening up, and it will also open up broad prospects in the process of reform and opening up. In the face of the complex international and domestic situations, the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, and the new expectations of the people, we must continue to push forward with reform. This is an inevitable requirement for adhering to and improving the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, implementing the new development concept, better adapting to the changes in the principal contradictions in our society, adhering to a people-centered approach, ensuring that the achievements of modernization benefit all people more fairly, responding to major risks and challenges, promoting the steady and far-reaching development of the Party and the country's cause, building a community with a shared future for mankind, and winning strategic initiative in the accelerated evolution of a century-old change. It is also an inevitable requirement for deeply promoting the new great project of Party building in the new era and building a stronger and more powerful Marxist political party. Reform and opening up are always in progress, with no completion. The entire Party must consciously place reform in a more prominent position, closely focus on promoting Chinese-style modernization and further comprehensively deepening reform.

　　(2) The Guiding Ideology for Further Comprehensively Deepening Reform. Adhere to Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the Important Thought of "Three Represents," and the Scientific Outlook on Development, fully implement Xi Jinping's Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, deeply study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of new thoughts, new viewpoints, and new conclusions on comprehensively deepening reform, fully and accurately implement the new development concept, adhere to the general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability, liberate thoughts, seek truth from facts, keep pace with the times, and be pragmatic. Further liberate and develop social productive forces, stimulate and enhance social vitality, coordinate the two overall situations of domestic and international, promote the overall layout of "five-in-one," and coordinate the advancement of the "four comprehensives" strategic layout. With economic system reform as the traction, and promoting social fairness and justice, enhancing people's well-being as the starting point and foothold, pay more attention to systematic integration, focus on key points, and emphasize the effectiveness of reform, promoting better adaptation between production relations and productive forces, superstructure and economic foundation, national governance and social development, providing strong momentum and institutional guarantees for Chinese-style modernization.

　　(3) The Overall Goal of Further Comprehensively Deepening Reform. Continue to improve and develop the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, and promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. By 2035, a high-level socialist market economic system will be fully established, the socialist system with Chinese characteristics will be further improved, the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity will be basically achieved, and socialist modernization will be basically realized, laying a solid foundation for fully building a socialist modern country by the middle of this century.

　　——Focusing on building a high-level socialist market economic system, fully exerting the decisive role of the market in resource allocation, better playing the role of the government, adhering to and improving the basic socialist economic system, promoting high-level technological self-reliance and self-improvement, advancing high-level opening up, building a modern economic system, accelerating the construction of a new development pattern, and promoting high-quality development.

　　——Focusing on developing whole-process people's democracy, adhering to the organic unity of Party leadership, the people as masters of the country, and governing the country according to law, promoting a more sound system of people's mastery, extensive and multi-layered institutional development of consultative democracy, and further improving the socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics, achieving a higher level of building a socialist rule of law country.

　　——Focusing on building a strong socialist cultural country, adhering to the fundamental system of Marxism's guiding position in the ideological field, improving the development system and mechanism of cultural undertakings and cultural industries, promoting cultural prosperity, enriching the people's Cultural Life, and enhancing the country's cultural soft power and the influence of Chinese culture.

　　——Focusing on improving the quality of people's lives, improving the income distribution and employment systems, enhancing the social security system, increasing the balance and accessibility of basic public services, promoting the comprehensive development of people, and achieving more significant substantive progress in common prosperity for all people.

　　——Focusing on building a beautiful China, accelerating the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, improving the ecological environment governance system, promoting ecological priority, conservation and intensive, green and low-carbon development, and promoting harmonious coexistence between man and nature.

　　——Focusing on building a higher level of a safe China, improving the national security system, strengthening the integrated national strategic system, enhancing the ability to maintain national security, innovating social governance systems, mechanisms, and means, and effectively constructing a new security pattern.

　　——Focusing on improving the Party's leadership level and long-term ruling capacity, innovating and improving leadership and governance methods, deepening the reform of the Party's construction system, and improving the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party system.

　　By 2029, the 80th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, complete the reform tasks proposed in this decision.

　　(4) The Principles of Further Comprehensively Deepening Reform. Summarize and apply the valuable experiences of reform and opening up, especially the comprehensive deepening of reform in the new era, and implement the following principles: adhere to the Party's overall leadership, firmly maintain the authority and centralized unified leadership of the Central Committee, play the core role of the Party in overall planning and coordinating all parties, integrate the Party's leadership throughout all aspects and processes of reform, ensuring that reform always progresses in the correct political direction; adhere to a people-centered approach, respect the people's main position and pioneering spirit, respond to the people's calls with reform, ensuring that reform is for the people, relies on the people, and the results of reform are shared by the people; adhere to maintaining integrity while innovating, firmly uphold socialism with Chinese characteristics, keep pace with the times, adapt to practical development, highlight problem orientation, and promote theoretical, practical, institutional, cultural, and other innovations at a new starting point; adhere to institutional construction as the main line, strengthen top-level design and overall planning, promote both the establishment and the abolishment, establish the fundamental system, improve basic systems, and innovate important systems; adhere to comprehensively governing the country according to law, deepen reform and promote Chinese-style modernization on the track of the rule of law, ensuring the unity of reform and the rule of law, with major reforms based on legal evidence, and timely elevating the results of reform to legal systems; adhere to a systematic perspective, properly handle major relationships such as economy and society, government and market, efficiency and fairness, vitality and order, development and security, enhancing the systemic, holistic, and coordinated nature of reform.

　　II. Build a High-level Socialist Market Economic System

　　A high-level socialist market economy system is an important guarantee for Chinese-style modernization. It is necessary to better leverage the role of market mechanisms, create a fairer and more vibrant market environment, achieve optimal resource allocation efficiency and maximum effectiveness, both "allowing flexibility" and "maintaining control," better maintain market order, remedy market failures, smooth the circulation of the national economy, and stimulate the endogenous motivation and innovative vitality of the whole society.

　　(5) Adhere to and implement the "two unwavering commitments." Unwaveringly consolidate and develop the public ownership economy, and unwaveringly encourage, support, and guide the development of the non-public ownership economy, ensuring that various ownership economies can equally use production factors, participate in market competition fairly, and receive equal legal protection, promoting complementary advantages and common development of various ownership economies.

　　Deepen the reform of state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises, improve the management and supervision system and mechanism, enhance strategic coordination among relevant management departments, promote the optimization of the layout and structural adjustment of the state-owned economy, and strengthen and enhance the core functions and core competitiveness of state-owned capital and state-owned enterprises. Further clarify the functional positioning of different types of state-owned enterprises, improve the management of main responsibilities and main businesses, and specify the key investment areas and directions for state-owned capital. Promote the concentration of state-owned capital in important industries and key areas related to national security and the lifeblood of the national economy, as well as in public services, emergency capabilities, and public welfare sectors related to the national economy and people's livelihood, and in forward-looking strategic emerging industries. Improve the institutional arrangements for promoting original innovation in state-owned enterprises. Deepen the reform of state-owned capital investment and operation companies. Establish an evaluation system for state-owned enterprises to fulfill their strategic missions, improve the classification assessment and evaluation system for state-owned enterprises, and carry out the accounting of the added value of the state-owned economy. Promote the independent operation of natural monopoly links and the market-oriented reform of competitive links in industries such as energy, railways, telecommunications, water conservancy, and public utilities, and improve the regulatory system and mechanism.

　　Adhere to the policy of creating a good environment and providing more opportunities for the development of the non-public ownership economy. Formulate a law to promote the private economy. Deepen the removal of market access barriers, promote fair opening of competitive fields in infrastructure to operating entities, and improve the long-term mechanism for private enterprises to participate in national major project construction. Support capable private enterprises to take the lead in undertaking major national technological research tasks, and further open national major scientific research infrastructure to private enterprises. Improve the financing support policy system for private enterprises, and solve the problems of difficult and expensive financing. Improve the long-term regulatory and legal system for enterprise-related fees and the repayment of overdue corporate debts. Accelerate the establishment of a comprehensive evaluation system for the credit status of private enterprises, and improve the credit enhancement system for small and medium-sized private enterprises. Support and guide private enterprises to improve their governance structure and management system, strengthen corporate compliance construction and integrity risk prevention and control. Strengthen supervision during and after events, and standardize administrative inspections related to private enterprises.

　　Improve the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics, promote the spirit of entrepreneurship, support and guide various enterprises to improve the efficiency of resource factor utilization and management levels, fulfill social responsibilities, and accelerate the construction of more world-class enterprises.

　　(6) Build a unified national market. Promote the unification of basic institutional rules for the market, fair and unified market supervision, and high-standard connectivity of market facilities. Strengthen the rigid constraints of fair competition review, enhance anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition efforts, and clean up and abolish various regulations and practices that hinder the unified national market and fair competition. Standardize local regulations and systems for attracting investment, and strictly prohibit illegal and irregular policy preferential behaviors. Establish and improve a unified, standardized, and information-sharing public resource trading platform system for bidding, government, public institutions, and state-owned enterprise procurement, achieving full-process open management of projects. Enhance the comprehensive regulatory capacity and level of the market. Improve the national standard system and deepen the reform of local standard management systems.

　　Improve the system and rules of the factor market, promote the smooth flow of production factors, efficient allocation of various resources, and full release of market potential. Build a unified construction land market for urban and rural areas. Improve the basic system for promoting the standardized development of capital markets. Cultivate a national integrated technology and data market. Improve the factor price mechanism mainly determined by market supply and demand relationships, and prevent improper government intervention in price formation. Improve the mechanism for evaluating contributions of production factors such as labor, capital, land, knowledge, technology, management, and data by the market, and determining remuneration based on contributions. Promote price reforms in areas such as water, energy, and transportation, optimize the tiered pricing system for residential water, electricity, and gas, and improve the pricing mechanism for refined oil.

　　Improve the circulation system, accelerate the development of the Internet of Things, improve the integrated and connected circulation rules and standards, and reduce logistics costs for the whole society. Deepen the reform of the energy management system, build a unified national electricity market, and optimize the operation and scheduling mechanism of oil and gas pipelines.

　　Accelerate the cultivation of a complete domestic demand system, establish a long-term mechanism for government investment to support the construction of foundational, public welfare, and long-term major projects, improve the system and mechanism for effective government investment to drive social investment, deepen the reform of the investment approval system, and improve the mechanisms to stimulate the investment vitality of social capital and promote the landing of investments, forming a market-led effective investment endogenous growth mechanism. Improve the long-term mechanism for expanding consumption, reduce restrictive measures, reasonably increase public consumption, and actively promote the emerging economy.

　　(7) Improve the basic system of the market economy. Improve the property rights system, legally protect the property rights of various ownership economies equally and permanently, and establish an efficient comprehensive management system for intellectual property rights. Improve the market information disclosure system, and establish a commercial secret protection system. Implement the same responsibility, same crime, and same punishment for acts that infringe on the property rights and legitimate interests of various ownership economies, and improve the punitive compensation system. Strengthen the judicial protection of property rights enforcement, prevent and correct the use of administrative and criminal means to intervene in economic disputes, and improve the mechanism for legally identifying and correcting wrongful cases involving enterprises.

　　Improve the market access system, optimize the market access environment for new business formats and new fields. Deepen the reform of the registered capital subscription registration system, and implement legal and timely subscriptions. Improve the enterprise bankruptcy mechanism, explore the establishment of a personal bankruptcy system, promote the supporting reforms for enterprise cancellation, and improve the enterprise exit system. Improve the social credit system and regulatory system.

　　III. Improve the system and mechanism for promoting high-quality economic development.

　　High-quality development is the primary task of comprehensively building a modern socialist country. It is necessary to lead reforms with a new development concept, base on a new development stage, deepen supply-side structural reforms, improve the incentive and constraint mechanisms for promoting high-quality development, and shape new development momentum and advantages.

　　(8) Improve the system and mechanism for developing new quality productive forces according to local conditions. Promote revolutionary breakthroughs in technology, innovative allocation of production factors, and deep transformation and upgrading of industries, promote the optimal combination and upgrading of laborers, labor materials, and labor objects, give birth to new industries, new models, and new momentum, and develop productive forces characterized by high technology, high efficiency, and high quality. Strengthen the innovation of key common technologies, frontier-leading technologies, modern engineering technologies, and disruptive technologies, strengthen the institutional supply for new fields and new tracks, establish a mechanism for increasing investment in future industries, improve policies and governance systems for the development of strategic industries such as the new generation of information technology, artificial intelligence, aerospace, new energy, new materials, high-end equipment, biomedicine, and quantum technology, and guide the healthy and orderly development of emerging industries. Use national standards to enhance and lead the optimization and upgrading of traditional industries, and support enterprises in transforming and upgrading traditional industries using digital intelligence technology and green technology. Strengthen institutional constraints on environmental protection and safety.

　　Improve relevant rules and policies, accelerate the formation of production relations that are more compatible with new quality productive forces, promote the aggregation of various advanced production factors towards the development of new quality productive forces, and significantly improve total factor productivity. Encourage and standardize the development of angel investment, venture capital, and private equity investment, better leverage the role of government investment funds, and develop patient capital.

　　(9) Improve the system for promoting the deep integration of the real economy and the digital economy. Accelerate the advancement of new industrialization, cultivate and expand advanced manufacturing clusters, and promote the high-end, intelligent, and green development of the manufacturing industry. Build a number of common technology platforms for industries, accelerate the transformation of industrial models and enterprise organizational forms, and improve the system and mechanism for enhancing the leading position of advantageous industries. Optimize the operation and regulatory mechanisms of major industrial funds to ensure that funding aligns with national strategic requirements. Establish a mechanism to maintain a reasonable proportion of investment in manufacturing, and reasonably reduce the overall costs and tax burdens of the manufacturing industry.

　　Accelerate the construction of a system and mechanism to promote the development of the digital economy, and improve the policy system to promote the digital industrialization and industrial digitization. Accelerate the comprehensive and full-chain application of the new generation of information technology, develop the industrial internet, and create internationally competitive digital industry clusters. Promote the innovative development of the platform economy and improve the regular supervision system of the platform economy. Build and operate national data infrastructure to promote data sharing. Accelerate the establishment of systems for data property rights identification, market transactions, rights distribution, and interest protection, enhance data security governance and supervision capabilities, and establish an efficient, convenient, and secure mechanism for cross-border data flow.

　　(10) Improve the system and mechanism for the development of the service industry. Improve the policy system supporting the development of the service industry, optimize service industry accounting, and promote the standardization of the service industry. Focus on key links and sub-sectors to promote the high-quality development of productive services, develop industrial internet platforms, eliminate administrative barriers to cross-regional operations, and promote the integrated development of productive services. Improve the mechanism for the diversified development of life services. Improve the legal and regulatory system for intermediary service agencies, and promote the integrity and legal responsibility of intermediary service agencies.

　　(11) Improve the system and mechanism for modern infrastructure construction. Build a new infrastructure planning and standard system, improve the integration and utilization mechanism of new infrastructure, promote the digital transformation of traditional infrastructure, broaden diversified investment and financing channels, and improve the coordination mechanism for major infrastructure construction. Deepen the reform of the comprehensive transportation system, promote railway system reform, develop general aviation and low-altitude economy, and optimize toll road policies. Enhance the underwriting capacity and global service level of shipping insurance, and promote innovation in maritime arbitration system rules. Improve the construction, operation, and management mechanism for major water conservancy projects.

　　(12) Improve the system for enhancing the resilience and security level of industrial and supply chains. Urgently build a self-controllable industrial and supply chain, improve and strengthen the development system and mechanism for key industrial chains such as integrated circuits, industrial mother machines, medical equipment, instruments, basic software, industrial software, and advanced materials, and promote technological breakthroughs and application across the entire chain. Establish a safety risk assessment and response mechanism for industrial and supply chains. Improve the collaborative mechanism for the orderly transfer of industries within the country, and promote the sharing of benefits between the transferring and receiving areas. Build a national strategic hinterland and backup for key industries. Accelerate the improvement of the national reserve system. Improve the coordination and connection system for the exploration, supply, storage, and sales of strategic mineral resources.

　　IV. Build a system and mechanism to support comprehensive innovation.

　　Education, technology, and talent are the fundamental and strategic support for Chinese-style modernization. It is necessary to deeply implement the strategy of invigorating the country through science and education, the strategy of strengthening the country with talent, and the strategy of innovation-driven development, coordinate and promote the integrated reform of the education, technology, and talent system and mechanism, improve the new type of national system, and enhance the overall effectiveness of the national innovation system.

　　(13) Deepen the comprehensive reform of education. Accelerate the construction of a high-quality education system, coordinate and promote the reform of education methods, school-running models, management systems, and guarantee mechanisms. Improve the mechanism for cultivating virtue and educating people, promote the integrated reform and innovation of ideological and political courses in primary, secondary, and higher education, improve the comprehensive cultivation system of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor, enhance teachers' ability to teach and educate, improve the long-term mechanism for building teacher ethics and style, and deepen the reform of education evaluation. Optimize the layout of higher education, accelerate the construction of world-class universities and advantageous disciplines with Chinese characteristics. Advance the reform of higher education institutions in a classified manner, establish a mechanism for adjusting discipline settings and talent training models driven by technological development and national strategic needs, layout urgently needed disciplines and majors, strengthen the construction of basic disciplines, emerging disciplines, interdisciplinary fields, and the cultivation of top talents, and focus on enhancing innovation capability. Improve the mechanism for technological innovation in higher education institutions and enhance the effectiveness of achievement transformation. Strengthen the synergy between science and technology education and humanities education. Accelerate the construction of a vocational education system that integrates vocational and general education and industry-education integration. Improve the student internship and practice system. Guide and regulate the development of private education. Promote high-level educational openness and encourage high-level foreign universities of science and engineering to cooperate in running schools in China.

　　Optimize the allocation of regional educational resources and establish a basic public education service supply mechanism that is coordinated with population changes. Improve the mechanism for promoting high-quality and balanced compulsory education, and explore gradually expanding the scope of free education. Improve the guarantee mechanism for preschool education, special education, and specialized education. Promote the digitalization of education, empower the construction of a learning society, and strengthen the guarantee of lifelong education.

　　(14) Deepen the reform of the scientific and technological system. Adhere to the orientation towards the world's technological frontier, the main battlefield of the economy, major national needs, and the health of people's lives, optimize the organization mechanism for major technological innovation, coordinate and strengthen the tackling of key core technologies, and promote the systematic, institutional, and collaborative development of scientific and technological innovation forces, factor allocation, and talent teams. Strengthen the construction of national strategic scientific and technological forces, improve the national laboratory system, optimize the positioning and layout of national research institutions, high-level research universities, and leading technology enterprises, promote the collaboration between central and local scientific and technological innovation, coordinate the construction of various scientific and technological innovation platforms, encourage and regulate the development of new research and development institutions, leverage the leading role of China's super-large-scale market, strengthen the coordination of innovation resources and the organization of forces, and promote the integrated development of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation. Build a monitoring and early warning system for scientific and technological safety risks and response mechanisms, and strengthen the independent guarantee of basic scientific and technological conditions. Improve the management system for scientific and technological associations. Expand international scientific and technological exchange and cooperation, encourage the establishment of international scientific and technological organizations in China, and optimize the management mechanism for external professional exchange and cooperation of universities, research institutes, and scientific and technological associations.

　　Improve the management of scientific and technological plans, strengthen the forward-looking and leading layout in basic research, interdisciplinary frontier fields, and key areas. Strengthen organized basic research, increase the proportion of scientific and technological expenditure used for basic research, improve the investment mechanism for basic research that combines competitive support and stable support, encourage qualified localities, enterprises, social organizations, and individuals to support basic research, support the diversification of basic research topics, and encourage high-risk and high-value basic research. Deepen the reform of the scientific and technological evaluation system, strengthen the governance of scientific and technological ethics, and seriously rectify academic misconduct.

　　Strengthen the main position of enterprises in technological innovation, establish a mechanism to cultivate and grow leading technology enterprises, enhance the deep integration of industry, academia, and research led by enterprises, establish a reserve fund system for enterprise research and development, and support enterprises to take the lead or participate in national scientific and technological tackling tasks. Build a mechanism to promote the development and growth of specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises. Encourage technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises to increase research and development investment and raise the proportion of R&D expenses that can be deducted. Encourage and guide universities and research institutes to license scientific and technological achievements to small and micro enterprises on a pay-after-use basis.

　　Improve the distribution and management mechanism for central financial science and technology funds, and improve the management system for the execution of central financial science and technology plans and specialized institutions. Expand the scope of the "package system" for financial research project funds, granting scientists greater decision-making power over technical routes, greater discretion over funds, and greater resource scheduling power. Establish a non-consensus project selection mechanism based on real-name recommendations from experts. Allow research-oriented public institutions to implement more flexible management systems than general public institutions, and explore the implementation of enterprise management.

　　Deepen the reform of the mechanism for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, strengthen the construction of the national technology transfer system, accelerate the layout and construction of a number of concept verification and pilot testing platforms, improve the application policies for the first set, first batch, and first version, and increase government procurement of independently innovative products.

　　Allow scientific and technological personnel to have greater autonomy in the distribution of benefits from the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, establish a separate management system for the assets of scientific and technological achievements, and deepen the empowerment reform of scientific and technological achievements. Deepen the income distribution reform of universities and research institutes. Allow more qualified state-owned enterprises to carry out various forms of medium- and long-term incentives among scientific researchers, guided by innovation and creation.

　　Build a scientific and technological financial system that is compatible with scientific and technological innovation, strengthen financial support for major national scientific and technological tasks and technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises, and improve support policies for long-term capital investment in early-stage, small-scale, long-term, and hard technology. Improve the risk dispersion mechanism for major technological tackling, and establish a scientific and technological insurance policy system. Enhance the convenience of foreign investment in equity investment and venture capital in China.

　　(15) Deepen the reform of the talent development system and mechanism. Implement a more proactive, open, and effective talent policy, improve the mechanism for independent talent cultivation, and accelerate the construction of a national high-level talent hub and a platform for attracting and gathering talent. Accelerate the establishment of national strategic talent forces, focus on cultivating strategic scientists, leading talents in first-class technology, and innovative teams, and focus on cultivating outstanding engineers, national craftsmen, and high-skilled talents to improve the quality of various talents. Build a first-class industrial technical worker team. Improve the orderly flow mechanism of talent, promote the reasonable layout of talent in different regions, and deepen talent cooperation in the eastern, central, and western regions. Improve the discovery, selection, and training mechanism for young innovative talents, and better guarantee the treatment of young scientific and technological personnel. Improve the system that allows research personnel to focus on scientific research.

　　Strengthen the talent incentive mechanism, adhere to the authorization of the employing entities, and free up talent. Establish a talent evaluation system oriented towards innovation capability, quality, effectiveness, and contribution. Open up talent exchange channels between universities, research institutes, and enterprises. Improve the support and guarantee mechanism for introducing overseas talents, forming a talent system with international competitiveness. Explore the establishment of a high-tech talent immigration system.

　　V. Improve the macroeconomic governance system

　　Scientific macro-control and effective government governance are inherent requirements for leveraging the advantages of the socialist market economy system. It is necessary to improve the macro-control system, coordinate the promotion of reforms in key areas such as finance and taxation, and enhance the consistency of macro policy orientation.

　　(16) Improve the national strategic planning system and policy coordination mechanism. Construct a mechanism for the formulation and implementation of national strategies, strengthen the deep integration of major national strategies, and enhance the macro guidance and coordination functions of national strategies. Improve the national economic and social development planning system, strengthen the mechanism for planning connection and implementation, play the strategic guiding role of national development planning, strengthen the foundational role of land and space planning, and enhance the supporting role of special planning and regional planning implementation. Improve the system for expert participation in public decision-making.

　　Focus on implementing national development planning and major strategies to promote the coordinated efforts of fiscal, monetary, industrial, price, and employment policies, optimizing the allocation of various incremental resources and the adjustment of stock structure. Explore the implementation of national macro asset-liability management. Include both economic and non-economic policies in the assessment of macro policy orientation consistency. Improve the expectation management mechanism. Improve the statistical indicator accounting system that supports high-quality development, strengthen the coverage of new economy and new fields in statistical reporting. Strengthen the statistical infrastructure for industrial activity units, optimize the statistical methods for headquarters and branches, and gradually promote the statistical reporting of business entities based on their activity locations. Improve the international macro policy coordination mechanism.

　　(17) Deepen the reform of the fiscal and taxation system. Improve the budget system, strengthen the overall planning of fiscal resources and budgets, and include all revenues obtained through administrative power, government credit, and state-owned resources and assets into government budget management. Improve the state-owned capital operation budget and performance evaluation system, and strengthen the financial guarantee for major national strategic tasks and basic livelihood. Strengthen macro guidance on budget preparation and fiscal policy. Enhance public service performance management and strengthen pre-function evaluations. Deepen zero-based budgeting reform. Unify budget allocation rights, improve the unity and standardization of budget management, and improve the budget disclosure and supervision system. Improve the comprehensive financial reporting system for government based on the accrual basis.

　　Improve the tax system that is conducive to high-quality development, social equity, and market unification, and optimize the tax structure. Study tax systems that are compatible with new business formats. Fully implement the principle of tax legality, standardize tax incentive policies, and improve support mechanisms for key areas and critical links. Improve the direct tax system, enhance the combined individual income tax system of comprehensive and classified taxation, standardize the tax policies for operating income, capital income, and property income, and implement unified taxation on labor income. Deepen tax collection and management reform.

　　Establish a clear responsibility and authority, financially coordinated, and regionally balanced relationship between central and local finances. Increase local autonomous financial resources, expand local tax sources, and appropriately expand local tax management authority. Improve the fiscal transfer payment system, clean up and standardize special transfer payments, increase general transfer payments, and enhance the degree of matching between municipal and county financial powers. Establish an incentive and constraint mechanism for transfer payments that promote high-quality development. Promote the gradual transfer of consumption tax collection to local levels and improve the value-added tax retention refund policy and deduction chain, optimizing the sharing ratio of shared taxes. Study the merger of urban maintenance and construction tax, education fee surcharge, and local education surcharge into local surcharges, authorizing local governments to determine specific applicable tax rates within a certain range. Reasonably expand the scope of support for local government special bonds, and appropriately expand the fields, scale, and proportion used as capital. Improve the government debt management system, establish a comprehensive monitoring and regulatory system for local debt, and a long-term mechanism for preventing and resolving hidden debt risks, accelerating the reform and transformation of local financing platforms. Standardize non-tax revenue management, appropriately delegate some non-tax revenue management authority to local governments for differentiated management based on actual conditions.

　　Appropriately strengthen central authority and increase the proportion of central fiscal expenditure. Central fiscal authority should, in principle, arrange expenditures through the central level, reducing the delegation of central fiscal authority to local governments. It is not allowed to require local governments to arrange matching funds in violation of regulations; if it is necessary to delegate authority to local governments, funds should be arranged through special transfer payments.

　　(18) Deepen the reform of the financial system. Accelerate the improvement of the central bank system, smooth the transmission mechanism of monetary policy. Actively develop technology finance, green finance, inclusive finance, pension finance, and digital finance, and strengthen quality financial services for major strategies, key areas, and weak links. Improve the positioning and governance of financial institutions, and establish a sound incentive and constraint mechanism for serving the real economy. Develop diversified equity financing, accelerate the development of a multi-level bond market, and increase the proportion of direct financing. Optimize the management system of state-owned financial capital.

　　Improve the capital market functions that coordinate investment and financing, prevent risks, strengthen regulation, and promote the healthy and stable development of capital markets. Support long-term funds to enter the market. Improve the quality of listed companies, strengthen the supervision of listed companies and the delisting system. Establish a long-term mechanism to enhance the inherent stability of the capital market. Improve the behavioral norms and constraints for major shareholders and actual controllers. Improve the incentive and constraint mechanism for dividends of listed companies. Establish a mechanism for investor protection. Promote the alignment and standardization of regional equity market rules.

　　Formulate financial laws. Improve the financial regulatory system, legally include all financial activities under regulation, strengthen regulatory responsibilities and accountability systems, and enhance coordination between central and local regulation. Build a safe and efficient financial infrastructure, unify the rules and systems for financial market registration, custody, and settlement, establish a hard constraint system for early correction of risks, and build a robust financial stability guarantee system to effectively prevent and control systemic risks. Improve the mechanisms for protecting financial consumers and combating illegal financial activities, and construct a "firewall" between industrial capital and financial capital. Promote high-level financial opening, steadily and prudently advance the internationalization of the renminbi, and develop the offshore renminbi market. Steadily promote the research and application of digital renminbi. Accelerate the construction of the Shanghai International Financial Center.

　　Improve the management model of national treatment before market access plus a negative list, supporting qualified foreign-funded institutions to participate in financial business pilot projects. Prudently expand the interconnection of financial markets and optimize the qualified foreign institutional investor system. Promote the construction of a self-controllable cross-border payment system, and strengthen the financial security mechanism under open conditions. Establish a unified comprehensive external debt regulatory system. Actively participate in international financial governance.

　　(19) Improve the mechanism for implementing the regional coordinated development strategy. Construct a regional economic layout and land space system that complements each other's advantages. Improve the institutional and policy system that promotes the formation of a new pattern of western development, achieves new breakthroughs in the revitalization of the northeast, accelerates the rise of the central region, and promotes the modernization of the eastern region. Promote the better role of regions such as Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area as sources of high-quality development, optimize the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and the ecological protection and high-quality development mechanism of the Yellow River Basin. Advance the construction of Xiong'an New Area with high standards and high quality. Promote the deep and practical construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle. Improve the institutional system for main functional areas, and strengthen the guarantee mechanism for optimizing land and space development. Improve the regional integration development mechanism, construct a new mechanism for cross-administrative region cooperative development, and deepen industrial cooperation in the eastern, central, and western regions. Improve the system and mechanism for promoting the development of the marine economy.

　　VI. Improve the system and mechanism for urban-rural integration development.

　　The integrated development of urban and rural areas is an inevitable requirement of Chinese-style modernization. It is necessary to coordinate new industrialization, new urbanization, and comprehensive rural revitalization, comprehensively improve the level of integration in urban and rural planning, construction, and governance, promote equal exchange and two-way flow of urban and rural elements, reduce the differences between urban and rural areas, and promote common prosperity and development of urban and rural areas.

　　(20) Improve the system and mechanism for promoting new urbanization. Build a mechanism for the positive interaction of industrial upgrading, population aggregation, and urban development. Implement a system where the registered household in the place of residence provides basic public services, promote equal rights for eligible agricultural migrant populations in social insurance, housing security, and compulsory education for children accompanying them, in line with the rights of local registered populations, and accelerate the urbanization of agricultural migrant populations. Protect the legitimate land rights of farmers who settle in cities, legally maintain the land contracting rights, homestead use rights, and collective income distribution rights of farmers who settle in cities, and explore the establishment of a voluntary and compensated exit method.

　　Adhere to the principle that cities are built by the people and for the people. Improve the urban planning system, guide the coordinated development and compact layout of large, medium, and small cities and towns. Deepen the reform of urban construction, operation, and governance systems, and accelerate the transformation of urban development methods. Promote the formation of a new system for smart and efficient governance in mega cities, and establish a system and mechanism for coordinated development of metropolitan areas. Deepen the reform of granting economic and social management rights to large towns that match their population and economic scale. Establish a sustainable urban renewal model and policy regulations, strengthen the construction of underground comprehensive utility tunnels and the renovation and upgrading of old pipelines, and deepen actions to enhance urban safety resilience.

　　(21) Consolidate and improve the basic management system of rural areas. Gradually promote the pilot extension of the second round of land contracts for another thirty years after expiration, deepen the separation reform of land ownership, contracting rights, and management rights, and develop moderate-scale agricultural operations. Improve the agricultural management system, improve the pricing mechanism for the transfer of contracted land management rights, promote cooperative agricultural operations, and link new agricultural management entity support policies with increasing farmers' income. Establish a convenient and efficient agricultural social service system. Develop a new type of rural collective economy, build a clear property rights and reasonable distribution operating mechanism, and grant farmers more substantial property rights.

　　(22) Improve the support system for agriculture and farmers. Adhere to the priority development of agriculture and rural areas, and improve the investment mechanism for rural revitalization. Strengthen the county-level industries that enrich the people, build a diversified food supply system, and cultivate new industries and new business formats in rural areas. Optimize the agricultural subsidy policy system and develop multi-level agricultural insurance. Improve the regular mechanism to prevent poverty and ensure that low-income rural populations and underdeveloped areas receive tiered and classified assistance. Establish a long-term management mechanism for national investment in poverty alleviation to form assets. Utilize the experience of the "Ten Million Project" to improve the long-term mechanism for promoting comprehensive rural revitalization.

　　Accelerate the improvement of the income guarantee mechanism for grain farmers, and promote the prices of important agricultural products such as grain to remain at a reasonable level. Coordinate the establishment of an inter-provincial horizontal benefit compensation mechanism for grain production and sales areas, making substantial progress in compensating interests in major producing areas. Promote the reform of the grain purchase and sales and reserve management system, and establish a new regulatory model. Improve the long-term mechanism for saving grain and food.

　　(23) Deepen land system reform. Reform and improve the balance system for the occupation and compensation of arable land, unify the management of various types of arable land occupation, improve the quality acceptance mechanism for supplementary arable land, and ensure that balance standards are met. Improve the construction, acceptance, and management mechanisms for high-standard farmland. Establish a management system to ensure that arable land is used for planting basic crops. Allow farmers to legally utilize their owned housing through rental, equity participation, cooperation, etc. Gradually promote the reform of rural collective operational construction land entering the market, and improve the distribution mechanism for land appreciation income.

　　Optimize land management, improve the land management system that efficiently connects with macro policies and regional development, prioritize the reasonable use of land for leading industries and major projects, and provide more development space for advantageous areas. Establish a coordination mechanism for the allocation of new urban construction land indicators with the increase of permanent resident population. Explore the mechanism for balancing occupation and compensation for state-concentrated reclamation of arable land directed at specific projects and regions. Optimize the use of land for urban industry and commerce, accelerate the development of a secondary market for construction land, promote mixed land development and reasonable conversion of uses, and revitalize stock land and inefficient land. Carry out special governance of land use in various industrial parks. Formulate policies for the extension of land use rights for industrial and commercial land and for the renewal after expiration.

　　7. Improve the high-level open system and mechanism.

　　Openness is a distinctive feature of Chinese-style modernization. It is necessary to adhere to the basic national policy of opening up, promote reform through openness, rely on the advantages of China's super-large-scale market, enhance openness capabilities in expanding international cooperation, and build a new system for a higher level of open economy.

　　(24) Steadily expand institutional openness. Actively align with international high-standard economic and trade rules, achieve compatibility in rules, regulations, management, and standards in areas such as property rights protection, industrial subsidies, environmental standards, labor protection, government procurement, E-Business, and finance, and create a transparent, stable, and predictable institutional environment. Expand autonomous openness, orderly expand the openness of China's commodity market, service market, capital market, and labor market, and expand unilateral openness to the least developed countries. Deepen the reform of foreign aid systems and mechanisms to achieve full-chain management.

　　Maintain a multilateral trade system centered on the World Trade Organization, actively participate in the reform of the global economic governance system, and provide more global public goods. Expand a global high-standard free trade zone network, establish a compliance mechanism aligned with internationally accepted rules, and optimize the open cooperation environment.

　　(25) Deepen the reform of the foreign trade system. Strengthen the coordination of trade policies with fiscal, financial, and industrial policies, create a supporting system for a strong trade nation, accelerate the integration reform of domestic and foreign trade, and actively respond to the trends of trade digitalization and greening. Promote innovations in customs, taxation, foreign exchange, and other regulations, creating an institutional environment conducive to the development of new business formats and models. Innovate and develop digital trade, and promote the construction of comprehensive pilot zones for cross-border e-commerce. Build a bulk commodity trading center, establish a global distribution and allocation center, support various entities in orderly layout of overseas circulation facilities, and support qualified regions in building international logistics hub centers and bulk commodity resource allocation hubs. Improve the trade risk prevention and control mechanism, and enhance the export control system and trade relief system.

　　Innovate and enhance service trade, fully implement a negative list for cross-border service trade, promote comprehensive pilot demonstrations for expanding openness in the service industry, and encourage professional service institutions to enhance their international service capabilities. Accelerate the development of offshore trade and develop new types of offshore international trade business. Establish and improve the cross-border financial service system, and enrich the supply of financial products and services.

　　(26) Deepen the reform of the foreign investment and outbound investment management system. Create a first-class business environment that is market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized, and legally protect the rights and interests of foreign investors. Expand the directory of encouraged foreign investment industries, reasonably reduce the negative list for foreign investment access, implement comprehensive cancellation of foreign investment access restrictions in the manufacturing sector, and promote orderly expansion of openness in telecommunications, the internet, education, culture, and healthcare. Deepen the reform of foreign investment promotion systems and mechanisms, ensuring that foreign-funded enterprises enjoy national treatment in terms of access to factors, qualification licensing, standard formulation, and government procurement, and support participation in the upstream and downstream collaboration of the industrial chain. Improve the convenience of entry, residence, medical care, and payment for foreign personnel. Improve the system and mechanism for promoting and safeguarding outbound investment, enhance the outbound investment management service system, and promote international cooperation in the industrial chain and supply chain.

　　(27) Optimize the layout of regional openness. Consolidate the leading position of the eastern coastal areas in opening up, improve the level of openness in the central and western regions and Northeast China, and accelerate the formation of a comprehensive opening pattern that links land and sea internally and externally, and mutually supports the east and west. Leverage the advantages of coastal, border, river, and transportation routes, optimize the functional division of regional openness, and create diverse open highlands. Implement a strategy to enhance free trade pilot zones, encouraging innovative and integrated exploration. Accelerate the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port.

　　Leverage the advantages of the "One Country, Two Systems" policy to consolidate and enhance Hong Kong's status as an international financial, shipping, and trade center, support Hong Kong and Macau in creating a high-end talent aggregation hub, and improve the mechanisms for Hong Kong and Macau to better play their roles in the country's opening up. Deepen cooperation in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area, strengthen rule alignment and mechanism connection. Improve the system and policies that promote cross-strait economic and cultural exchanges and cooperation, and deepen cross-strait integrated development.

　　(28) Improve the mechanism for high-quality co-construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative. Continue to implement the "Belt and Road" technology innovation action plan, strengthen the construction of multilateral cooperation platforms in areas such as green development, digital economy, artificial intelligence, energy, taxation, finance, and disaster reduction. Improve the integrated layout of land, sea, and air networks, and build a three-dimensional interconnected network for the "Belt and Road" initiative. Coordinate the promotion of major landmark projects and "small but beautiful" livelihood projects.

　　VIII. Improve the system of whole-process people's democracy.

　　The development of whole-process people's democracy is an essential requirement of Chinese-style modernization. We must unswervingly follow the path of political development with Chinese characteristics, uphold and improve our fundamental political system, basic political system, and important political system, enrich democratic forms at all levels, and concretely and realistically embody the people's mastery in all aspects of national political life and social life.

　　(29) Strengthen the construction of the system for the people to be the masters of the country. Uphold, improve, and effectively operate the system of people's congresses. Improve the supervision system of the people's congress over administrative, supervisory, judicial, and prosecutorial organs, enhance the supervision law and its implementation mechanism, and strengthen the review and supervision of the budget and final accounts by the people's congress and the management of state-owned assets and government debt. Improve the rules for deliberation by the people's congress and the systems for argumentation, evaluation, review, and hearings. Enrich the content and forms of communication between people's congress representatives and the masses. Improve the mechanism for absorbing public opinion and gathering public wisdom. Play the role of trade unions, youth leagues, women's federations, and other mass organizations as a bridge to connect and serve the masses.

　　(30) Improve the mechanism of consultative democracy. Play the role of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) as a specialized consultative body, improve the mechanism for in-depth consultation and interaction, full expression of opinions, and broad consensus building, and strengthen the construction of mechanisms for the CPPCC to reflect social conditions and public opinion, connect with the masses, and serve the people. Improve the democratic supervision mechanism of the CPPCC.

　　Improve the consultative democracy system, enrich consultative methods, and establish institutional platforms for consultative cooperation among political parties, people's congresses, governments, CPPCC, people's organizations, grassroots consultations, and social organizations, strengthening the coordination and cooperation of various consultative channels. Improve the implementation mechanism for consultation before decision-making and during decision implementation, and enhance the mechanisms for adopting, implementing, and providing feedback on consultation results.

　　(31) Improve the grassroots democracy system. Improve the grassroots mass autonomy mechanism led by grassroots party organizations, enhance the grassroots democracy system and work system, and broaden the channels for various grassroots organizations and the masses to participate in grassroots governance in an orderly manner. Improve the system of public service transparency. Improve the democratic management system of enterprises and public institutions based on the employee representative assembly as the basic form, and enhance effective forms for employees to participate in management.

　　(32) Improve the overall pattern of united front work. Improve the policies and measures to enhance the political role of the united front in uniting people's hearts and gathering strength. Uphold, develop, and improve the new type of political party system in China. Better utilize the role of non-party individuals and improve the system for building a team of non-party representatives. Formulate laws to promote national unity and progress, improve the system and mechanism for strengthening the awareness of the Chinese national community, and enhance the cohesion of the Chinese nation. Systematically promote the sinicization of religion in China and strengthen the rule of law in the governance of religious affairs. Improve the political guidance mechanism for non-party intellectuals and new social strata. Fully establish a clean and friendly relationship between government and business, and improve the work mechanism to promote the healthy development of the non-public economy and the healthy growth of non-public economic individuals. Improve the work mechanism for Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and overseas Chinese affairs.

　　IX. Improve the socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics.

　　The rule of law is an important guarantee for Chinese-style modernization. We must fully implement the Constitution, uphold the authority of the Constitution, coordinate the promotion of reforms in legislation, law enforcement, judicial, and law-abiding processes, improve the mechanism for ensuring equality before the law for all, promote the spirit of socialist rule of law, maintain social fairness and justice, and comprehensively advance the rule of law in all aspects of national work.

　　(33) Deepen reforms in the legislative field. Improve the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics centered on the Constitution, enhance the system for ensuring the comprehensive implementation of the Constitution, and establish a reporting system for the implementation of the Constitution. Improve the legislative work pattern led by the party committee, dominated by the people's congress, supported by the government, and participated in by all parties. Coordinate the legislative work of amending, abolishing, interpreting, and compiling laws, strengthen legislation in key areas, emerging fields, and foreign-related fields, improve the constitutionality review and filing review systems, and enhance legislative quality. Explore regional collaborative legislation. Improve the coordination mechanism between intra-party regulations and national laws and regulations. Build a national unified information platform for laws, regulations, and normative documents.

　　(34) Deepen the promotion of lawful administration. Promote the legalization of government institutions, functions, powers, procedures, and responsibilities, facilitate the standardization, normalization, and convenience of government services, and improve the nationwide integrated online government service platform. Improve the legality review mechanism for major decisions and normative documents. Strengthen government legislative review. Deepen the reform of the administrative law enforcement system, improve the comprehensive law enforcement system at the grassroots level, and enhance the administrative law enforcement supervision system. Improve the benchmark system for administrative discretion in areas such as administrative penalties, and promote the cross-regional connection of administrative law enforcement standards. Improve the system for the connection between administrative penalties and criminal penalties. Enhance the administrative reconsideration system. Improve the administrative adjudication system. Improve the vertical management system and local hierarchical management system, and enhance the cooperation mechanism between vertical management institutions and local governments. Steadily promote the optimization of institutions in small counties with low populations. Deepen the reform of management systems in development zones. Optimize the structural layout of public institutions and strengthen their public welfare.

　　(35) Improve the mechanisms for fair law enforcement and judicial systems. Ensure that supervisory, public security, prosecutorial, judicial, and judicial administrative organs perform their respective duties, and establish a system where supervisory power, investigation power, prosecutorial power, judicial power, and enforcement power cooperate and check each other, ensuring that all links in law enforcement and judicial processes operate under effective constraints and supervision. Deepen the reform of separating judicial power and enforcement power, improve the national enforcement system, and strengthen the full supervision of enforcement activities by parties involved, prosecutorial organs, and the public. Improve the system for legal remedies and protections in law enforcement and judicial processes, and enhance the national compensation system. Deepen and standardize judicial transparency, and implement and improve the judicial responsibility system. Regulate the establishment of specialized courts. Deepen the reforms of jurisdiction levels, centralized jurisdiction, and cross-regional jurisdiction in administrative cases. Build a collaborative and efficient police system, promote the reform of the management of local public security organs, and continue to advance the reform of the management system for civil aviation public security and customs anti-smuggling departments. Regulate the management system for auxiliary police personnel.

　　Uphold the correct view of human rights, strengthen the legal and judicial guarantees for human rights, improve the mechanisms for pre-examination, in-process supervision, and post-correction, and enhance the systems related to compulsory measures involving citizens' personal rights, as well as measures such as sealing, detaining, and freezing. Investigate and deal with crimes such as abuse of power for personal gain, illegal detention, and torture. Promote full coverage of legal defense in criminal cases. Establish a system for sealing minor criminal records.

　　(36) Improve the mechanism for promoting the construction of a rule of law society. Improve the public legal service system covering urban and rural areas, deepen the reforms of the lawyer system, notarization system, arbitration system, mediation system, and judicial appraisal management system. Improve legal publicity and education, and enhance the practice-oriented education and training mechanism in law schools. Strengthen and improve the protection of minors' rights, enhance the prevention and governance of juvenile delinquency, and formulate specific regulations for corrective education.

　　(37) Strengthen the construction of foreign-related rule of law. Establish a working mechanism to promote foreign-related legislation, law enforcement, judicial, law-abiding, legal services, and legal talent training in an integrated manner. Improve the system of foreign-related laws and regulations and the implementation system of the rule of law, and deepen international cooperation in law enforcement and justice. Improve the judicial trial system for parties to agree on jurisdiction and choose applicable foreign laws in foreign-related civil legal relations according to the law. Improve the international commercial arbitration and mediation system, and cultivate first-class international arbitration institutions and law firms. Actively participate in the formulation of international rules.

　　10. Deepen the reform of the cultural system and mechanism.

　　Chinese-style modernization is the modernization that coordinates material civilization and spiritual civilization. It is necessary to enhance cultural confidence, develop advanced socialist culture, promote revolutionary culture, inherit excellent traditional Chinese culture, accelerate adaptation to the new situation of rapid development of information technology, cultivate a large-scale team of outstanding cultural talents, and stimulate the cultural innovation and creativity of the entire nation.

　　(38) Improve the responsibility system for ideological work. Improve the system for arming the whole party with the party's innovative theory, educating the people, and guiding practical work, improve the learning system of the theoretical study center group of the party committee (leading party group), and improve the ideological and political work system. Innovate the research and construction project of Marxist theory, implement the innovation project of philosophy and social sciences, and build an independent knowledge system of Chinese philosophy and social sciences. Improve the spokesperson system. Build a work mechanism and evaluation system that adapts to the production and dissemination of all media, and promote systematic reform of mainstream media. Improve the public opinion guidance mechanism and the collaborative mechanism for responding to public opinion.

　　Promote the normalization and institutionalization of ideal and belief education. Improve the system and mechanism for cultivating and practicing socialist core values. Improve and innovate the mechanisms for cultivating civilization, practicing civilization, and creating civilization. Implement the project for building a civilized rural atmosphere. Optimize the publicity and learning mechanism for model figures, innovate the organization mechanism for patriotic education and various mass theme activities, and promote the whole society to respect heroes, commemorate martyrs, and strive to be pioneers. Build a system for inheriting traditional Chinese virtues, improve the system and mechanism for building social morality, professional ethics, family virtues, and personal character, improve the long-term mechanism for building integrity, and educate and guide the whole society to consciously abide by the law, follow public order and good customs, and resolutely oppose materialism, hedonism, extreme individualism, and historical nihilism. Form a differentiated and precise implementation mechanism for online ideological and moral education. Establish and improve the collaborative governance mechanism for prominent issues in the moral field, and improve the long-term mechanism for "cracking down on pornography and illegal publications."

　　(39) Optimize the cultural service and cultural product supply mechanism. Improve the public cultural service system, establish a mechanism for high-quality cultural resources to reach grassroots levels, improve the mechanism for social forces to participate in public cultural services, and promote the separation of ownership and usage rights of public cultural facilities. Deepen the reform of state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises in the cultural field, and classify and promote the deepening of internal reforms in cultural institutions, improving the construction and development mechanism of art troupes.

　　Adhere to a people-centered creative orientation, combine achieving results with talent cultivation, and integrate work on works and environment, improve the service, guidance, and organization mechanisms for literary and artistic creation and production. Improve the cultural industry system and market system, and improve cultural economic policies. Explore effective mechanisms for the integration of culture and technology, and accelerate the development of new cultural formats. Deepen the reform of the administrative approval and filing system in the cultural field, and strengthen supervision during and after the event. Deepen comprehensive governance in the cultural and entertainment fields.

　　Establish a coordination mechanism for the protection and inheritance of cultural heritage, establish a supervision system for cultural heritage protection, and promote systematic protection and unified supervision of cultural heritage. Build a Chinese civilization identification system. Improve the system and mechanism for the deep integration and development of culture and tourism. Improve the public service system for national fitness, and reform and improve the management system and operation mechanism of competitive sports.

　　(40) Improve the comprehensive governance system of the internet. Deepen the reform of the internet management system, integrate the construction and management functions of internet content, and promote the integrated management of news publicity and online public opinion. Improve the development and management mechanism of generative artificial intelligence. Strengthen the construction of the rule of law in cyberspace, improve the long-term mechanism for internet ecological governance, and improve the work system for the protection of minors online.

　　(41) Build a more effective international communication system. Promote the reconstruction of the international communication pattern, deepen the reform and innovation of the international communication mechanism of mainstream media, and accelerate the construction of a multi-channel, three-dimensional external communication pattern. Accelerate the construction of a Chinese discourse and narrative system, and comprehensively enhance the effectiveness of international communication. Build a global civilization initiative implementation mechanism. Promote the facilitation of management for going out and inviting in, and expand international cultural exchange and cooperation.

　　11. Improve the system for guaranteeing and improving people's livelihood.

　　Guaranteeing and improving people's livelihood in development is a major task of Chinese-style modernization. It is necessary to adhere to doing our best and acting within our capacity, improve the basic public service system, strengthen inclusive, foundational, and safety net livelihood construction, effectively address the most concerned, direct, and practical interests of the people, and continuously meet the people's aspirations for a better life.

　　(42) Improve the income distribution system. Build a coordinated and supporting system for primary distribution, redistribution, and third distribution, increase the proportion of residents' income in national income distribution, and increase the proportion of labor remuneration in primary distribution. Improve the mechanisms for determining wages, reasonable growth, and payment guarantees for workers, and improve the policy system for distribution according to factors. Improve the redistribution adjustment mechanisms such as taxation, social security, and transfer payments. Support the development of public welfare and charity.

　　Regulate the order of income distribution, standardize the wealth accumulation mechanism, increase the property income of urban and rural residents through multiple channels, and form a system that effectively increases the income of low-income groups, steadily expands the scale of the middle-income group, and reasonably adjusts excessively high incomes. Deepen the reform of the wage determination mechanism for state-owned enterprises, reasonably determine and strictly regulate the salaries, allowances, and subsidies of leaders at all levels of state-owned enterprises.

　　(43) Improve the employment-first policy. Improve the mechanism for promoting high-quality and sufficient employment, improve the public employment service system, and focus on solving structural employment contradictions. Improve the employment support system for key groups such as college graduates, migrant workers, and veterans, and improve the lifelong vocational skills training system. Coordinate urban and rural employment policy systems, simultaneously promote reforms in household registration, employment, and archives services, optimize the policy environment for entrepreneurship to promote employment, and support and regulate the development of new employment forms. Improve the system and mechanism for promoting equal opportunities, and smooth social mobility channels. Improve the consultation and coordination mechanism for labor relations, and strengthen the protection of workers' rights.

　　(44) Improve the social security system. Improve the national overall planning system for basic pension insurance, and establish a unified public service platform for social security nationwide. Improve the system for preserving and increasing the value of social security funds and safety supervision. Improve the mechanisms for financing and reasonably adjusting benefits for basic pension and basic medical insurance, and gradually increase the basic pension for urban and rural residents. Improve the social security system for flexible employment personnel, migrant workers, and new employment forms, expand the coverage of unemployment, work injury, and maternity insurance, completely eliminate the household registration restrictions for participating in insurance at the place of employment, and improve the policies for transferring and continuing social security relationships. Accelerate the development of a multi-level and multi-pillar pension insurance system, expand the coverage of annuity systems, and implement individual pension systems. Play the supplementary guarantee role of various commercial insurances. Promote the provincial-level overall planning of basic medical insurance, deepen the reform of medical insurance payment methods, improve the major illness insurance and medical assistance systems, and strengthen the supervision of medical insurance funds. Improve the social assistance system. Improve the system for safeguarding the legal rights and interests of women and children. Improve the social security system and care service system for the disabled.

　　Accelerate the establishment of a housing system that integrates rental and purchase, and accelerate the construction of a new model for real estate development. Increase the construction and supply of affordable housing to meet the rigid housing needs of the wage-earning group. Support the diverse improvement of housing needs for urban and rural residents. Fully empower local governments in various cities with the autonomy to regulate the real estate market, implement city-specific policies, and allow relevant cities to cancel or reduce housing purchase restrictions, and cancel the standards for ordinary and non-ordinary residential properties. Reform the financing methods for real estate development and the pre-sale system for commercial housing. Improve the real estate tax system.

　　(45) Deepen the reform of the medical and health system. Implement a health-first development strategy, improve the public health system, promote social co-governance, medical prevention and control collaboration, and integration of medical and prevention efforts, strengthen monitoring and early warning, risk assessment, epidemiological investigation, testing and inspection, emergency response, and medical treatment capabilities. Promote the coordinated development and governance of medical care, medical insurance, and pharmaceuticals. Promote the expansion and balanced distribution of high-quality medical resources, accelerate the construction of a hierarchical medical treatment system, advance the construction of closely-knit medical alliances, and strengthen grassroots medical and health services. Deepen the reform of public hospitals oriented towards public welfare, establish a fee system dominated by medical services, improve the compensation system, and establish a dynamic adjustment mechanism for staffing. Guide and standardize the development of private hospitals. Innovate regulatory methods for medical and health services. Improve the mechanism to support the development of innovative drugs and medical devices, and enhance the mechanism for the inheritance and innovative development of traditional Chinese medicine.

　　(46) Improve the population development support and service system. Focus on addressing aging and declining birth rates to improve population development strategies, establish a population service system covering the entire population and lifecycle, and promote high-quality population development. Improve the fertility support policy system and incentive mechanisms, and promote the construction of a fertility-friendly society. Effectively reduce the costs of childbirth, child-rearing, and education, improve the maternity leave system, establish a maternity subsidy system, enhance the level of basic maternity and child medical public services, and increase personal income tax deductions. Strengthen the construction of an inclusive childcare service system, supporting various models such as employer-sponsored childcare, community embedded childcare, and family childcare points. Understand the objective laws of population mobility, promote the provision of related public services to follow people, and facilitate the reasonable aggregation and orderly flow of urban and rural populations across regions.

　　Actively respond to population aging, and improve the policy mechanisms for developing the elderly care cause and industry. Develop the silver economy, creating diverse and personalized employment positions suitable for the elderly. Progressively and orderly promote the reform of gradually delaying the statutory retirement age based on voluntary and flexible principles. Optimize the supply of basic elderly care services, cultivate community elderly care service institutions, improve the operational mechanisms of public elderly care institutions, encourage and guide enterprises and other social forces to actively participate, promote mutual assistance elderly care services, and facilitate the integration of medical care and elderly care. Accelerate the filling of gaps in rural elderly care services. Improve services for elderly individuals facing special difficulties such as loneliness, disability, and loss of independence, and accelerate the establishment of a long-term care insurance system.

　　Twelfth, deepen the reform of the ecological civilization system.

　　Chinese-style modernization is modernization in harmony between man and nature. It is necessary to improve the ecological civilization institutional system, collaboratively promote carbon reduction, pollution reduction, greening, and growth, actively respond to climate change, and accelerate the improvement and implementation of the system and mechanism that green mountains and clear waters are as valuable as mountains of gold and silver.

　　(47) Improve the basic system of ecological civilization. Implement an ecological environment management system that is regionally differentiated and precisely controlled, and improve the ecological environment monitoring and evaluation system. Establish and improve a land use control and planning permission system that covers all areas and types, and is unified and connected. Improve the property rights system and management system for natural resource assets, enhance the entrusted agency mechanism for the ownership of all natural resource assets, and establish a responsibility assessment and supervision system for ecological environment protection, natural resource protection and utilization, and asset preservation and appreciation. Improve the national ecological security work coordination mechanism. Compile an ecological environment code.

　　(48) Improve the ecological environment governance system. Promote the construction of an ecological environment governance responsibility system, regulatory system, market system, and legal and policy system. Improve the mechanisms for precise pollution control, scientific pollution control, and legal pollution control, implement a fixed pollution source regulatory system centered on pollution discharge permits, establish a collaborative governance and environmental risk control system for new pollutants, and promote collaborative emission reduction of multiple pollutants. Deepen the reform of the legal disclosure system for environmental information, and build an environmental credit regulatory system. Promote the construction of an integrated ecological environment governance system for important river basins.

　　Implement the ecological protection red line management system, improve the integrated protection and systematic governance mechanism for mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts, and build a diversified investment mechanism for ecological protection and restoration. Implement a rigid constraint system for water resources, and comprehensively promote the reform of water resource fees into taxes. Strengthen the coordination mechanism for biodiversity protection work. Improve the marine resource development and protection system. Improve the mechanism for realizing the value of ecological products. Deepen the reform of the paid use system for natural resources. Promote comprehensive ecological compensation, improve the horizontal ecological protection compensation mechanism, and coordinate the promotion of ecological environment damage compensation.

　　(49) Improve the green low-carbon development mechanism. Implement fiscal, tax, financial, investment, price policies, and standard systems that support green low-carbon development, develop green low-carbon industries, improve the green consumption incentive mechanism, and promote the construction of a green low-carbon circular economy system. Optimize government green procurement policies, and improve the green tax system. Improve the total resource management and comprehensive conservation system, and enhance the waste recycling system. Improve the mechanism for clean and efficient utilization of coal. Accelerate the planning and construction of a new energy system, and improve policies and measures for the absorption and regulation of new energy. Improve the work system for adapting to climate change. Establish a new mechanism for the comprehensive transformation from dual control of energy consumption to dual control of carbon emissions. Build a carbon emission statistical accounting system, product carbon labeling certification system, product carbon footprint management system, and improve the carbon market trading system and voluntary greenhouse gas emission reduction trading system, actively and steadily promote carbon peaking and carbon neutrality.

　　Thirteenth, promote the modernization of the national security system and capabilities.

　　National security is an important foundation for the steady and far-reaching development of Chinese-style modernization. It is necessary to fully implement the overall national security concept, improve the system and mechanism for maintaining national security, achieve a virtuous interaction between high-quality development and high-level security, and effectively guarantee the long-term stability of the country.

　　(50) Improve the national security system. Strengthen the coordination mechanism for national security work, improve the legal system, strategic system, policy system, and risk monitoring and early warning system for national security, and enhance the security guarantee system for key areas and the coordination and command system for important special projects. Build a responsive and efficient national security protection system, and promote the empowerment of national security through technology.

　　(51) Improve the public safety governance mechanism. Establish a guarantee system for handling major public emergencies, improve the emergency command mechanism under the framework of overall safety and emergency response, strengthen the grassroots emergency foundation and capacity, and enhance disaster prevention, reduction, and relief capabilities. Improve the risk investigation and rectification mechanism for production safety, and enhance the responsibility system for food and drug safety. Improve the biological safety regulatory early warning and prevention system. Strengthen the construction of the cybersecurity system, and establish a safety regulatory system for artificial intelligence.

　　(52) Improve the social governance system. Adhere to and develop the "Fengqiao Experience" in the new era, improve the urban and rural grassroots governance system that combines self-governance, rule of law, and moral governance under the leadership of party organizations, and enhance the social governance system of co-construction, co-governance, and sharing. Explore the establishment of a unified national population management system. Improve the social work system and mechanism, strengthen the party building to lead grassroots governance, enhance the construction of the social worker team, and promote the construction of a volunteer service system. Promote the legalization of petition work. Improve the social governance capacity at the municipal level, strengthen the functions of public service platforms such as citizen hotlines, and improve the management mechanism for key matters on the "efficient completion of a task" list and the normalization promotion mechanism. Improve the social psychological service system and crisis intervention mechanism. Improve the mechanism for leveraging family education and family values in grassroots governance. Deepen the reform of industry associations and chambers of commerce. Improve the management system for social organizations.

　　Improve the matching system of responsibilities and powers, and resources for towns (streets), and strengthen the service management capacity of towns (streets). Improve the overall prevention and control system for social security, enhance the normalization mechanism for cracking down on organized crime, and severely punish illegal activities that are strongly reported by the public.

　　(53) Improve the foreign-related national security mechanism. Establish and improve the coordination mechanism for surrounding security work. Strengthen the early warning, prevention, and protection mechanisms for overseas interests and investment risks, deepen international law enforcement cooperation in the security field, and safeguard the legal rights and interests of Chinese citizens and legal persons abroad. Improve the mechanisms for counter-sanctions, counter-interference, and counter "long-arm jurisdiction." Improve the mechanism for safeguarding maritime rights and interests. Improve the mechanism for participating in global security governance.

　　Fourteenth, continue to deepen the reform of national defense and the military.

　　National defense and military modernization are important components of Chinese-style modernization. It is necessary to uphold the absolute leadership of the Party over the people's army, deeply implement the strategy of strengthening the army through reform, and provide strong guarantees for achieving the goal of building the army in one hundred years and basically realizing the modernization of national defense and the military on schedule.

　　(54) Improve the leadership and management system and mechanism of the people's army. Improve the system and mechanism for implementing the responsibility system of the chairman of the Military Commission, and deeply promote political building of the army. Optimize the functional configuration of the Military Commission's departments, improve the mechanism for coordinating military construction and preparedness, enhance the major decision-making consultation and evaluation mechanism, deepen strategic management innovation, and improve the military governance system. Improve the mechanism for governing the army according to law. Improve supporting policies and systems in areas such as combat readiness and military HR. Deepen the reform of military academies and promote the connotative development of academies. Implement adjustments and reforms of military enterprises and institutions.

　　(55) Deepen the reform of the joint operations system. Improve the functions of the joint operations command center of the Military Commission, enhance the command functions in major security areas, and establish a coordination mechanism for operation with central and state organs. Optimize the composition of the joint operations command center in the theater, and improve the command grouping model for task forces in joint operations. Strengthen the overall planning and application of the network information system. Build a new type of military branch structure, accelerate the development of strategic deterrence forces, vigorously develop new domain and new quality combat forces, and comprehensively strengthen the construction of traditional combat forces. Optimize the composition of the armed police forces.

　　(56) Deepen cross-military and local reforms. Improve the integrated national strategic system and capability construction work mechanism, and improve the decision-making and coordination system and mechanism related to military affairs. Improve the mechanism for reporting military needs for national defense construction and military-local coordination, and enhance the national defense mobilization system. Deepen the reform of the national defense science and technology industry system, optimize the layout of the national defense science and technology industry, improve the weapon and equipment procurement system, establish a military product design return mechanism, and build a modern management system for weapon and equipment. Improve the overall mechanism for standardization work between the military and localities. Strengthen the overall planning and management of fields such as aerospace and military trade. Optimize the leadership and management system and mechanism for border and coastal defense, and improve the mechanism for joint governance by the Party, government, military, police, and civilians. Deepen the reform of the militia system. Improve the mechanism for supporting the military.

　　Fifteen, improve the Party's leadership level in further comprehensively deepening reform and promoting Chinese-style modernization.

　　The leadership of the Party is the fundamental guarantee for further comprehensively deepening reform and promoting Chinese-style modernization. It is necessary to deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments," enhance the "four consciousnesses," strengthen the "four confidences," and achieve the "two safeguards," maintain a high degree of self-awareness in leading social revolution with the Party's self-revolution, adhere to managing the Party with the spirit of reform and strict standards, improve the system and normative framework for the Party's self-revolution, continuously promote the Party's self-purification, self-improvement, self-renewal, and self-enhancement, and ensure that the Party always becomes the strong leadership core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

　　(57) Adhere to the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee in further comprehensively deepening reform. The Party Central Committee leads the overall design, coordination, and overall promotion of reform. Improve the mechanism for implementing major decision-making deployments of the Party Central Committee, ensuring that the orders of the Party Central Committee are followed. Party committees (leading groups) at all levels are responsible for implementing the decision-making deployments of the Party Central Committee, planning and promoting reforms in their respective regions and departments, encouraging innovation based on actual conditions, and creating replicable and promotable new experiences. Follow the Party's mass line in the new era, fully incorporate social expectations, public wisdom, expert opinions, and grassroots experiences into the reform design. Set reform topics around solving prominent contradictions, optimize the generation mechanism for key reform plans, uphold the truth, correct errors, and promptly identify problems and correct deviations. Improve the reform incentive and public opinion guidance mechanism, creating a good atmosphere for reform.

　　(58) Deepen the reform of the Party's construction system. Focus on mobilizing the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of the entire Party to promote reform and development, and improve the Party's construction system and mechanism. Strengthen the armed forces with the Party's innovative theory, establish and improve a long-term mechanism for cultivating the soul through learning, enhancing wisdom through learning, correcting conduct through learning, and promoting action through learning. Deepen the reform of the cadre personnel system, clearly establish the correct orientation for selecting and employing people, vigorously select cadres who are politically strong, dare to take responsibility, are keen on reform, have outstanding achievements, and are honest and clean, and focus on solving problems of cadre misconduct, inaction, fear of action, and ineptitude. Establish and practice a correct view of political achievements, improve the effective prevention and correction mechanism for deviations in the view of political achievements. Implement the "three distinctions," encouraging cadres to be enterprising and entrepreneurial. Promote the normalization of leadership cadres being able to rise and fall, and increase the adjustment of unsuitable cadres in their current positions. Improve and implement a regular training mechanism, especially for basic training, strengthen professional training and practical exercises, and comprehensively improve the modernization construction capabilities of cadres. Improve and implement the term system for leadership cadres, and establish a handover system for major responsible persons in leadership teams. Enhance the political and organizational functions of Party organizations. Explore effective ways to strengthen the Party's construction in new economic organizations, new social organizations, and new employment groups. Improve the education management and role-playing mechanism for Party members. Improve intra-Party regulations, enhancing the authority and enforcement of intra-Party regulations.

　　(59) Deepen the construction of the Party's work style and integrity and the fight against corruption. Improve the mechanism for political supervision to be specific, precise, and normalized. Unwaveringly implement the spirit of the Central Eight Regulations, and improve the system and mechanism for preventing and addressing formalism and bureaucratism. Continuously streamline and standardize meetings, documents, and various demonstration, evaluation, and festival exhibition activities, strictly control the total amount of inspections, checks, and assessments directed at grassroots levels, improve the quality of research, and make great efforts to solve the problems of excessive frequency and redundancy. Formulate a list of responsibilities for townships (streets), and improve the long-term mechanism for reducing the burden on grassroots levels. Establish a combined mechanism for regular and concentrated discipline education, deepen the application of the "four forms" of supervision and discipline, and comprehensively exert the constraint and guarantee incentive effects of the Party's discipline education.

　　Improve the mechanism for promoting the work of not daring to corrupt, being unable to corrupt, and not wanting to corrupt, focusing on eliminating the soil and conditions for corruption to breed. Improve the mechanism for investigating and addressing unhealthy practices and corruption issues simultaneously, deepen the rectification of corruption in areas with concentrated power, dense funds, and abundant resources, seriously investigate and deal with issues that undermine the political ecology and economic development environment due to collusion between politics and business, improve the joint punishment mechanism for key bribers, and enrich effective methods for preventing and addressing new types of corruption and hidden corruption. Strengthen the governance of false accusations. Improve the mechanism for pursuing and recovering stolen assets. Strengthen the construction of clean culture in the new era.

　　Improve the supervision system of the Party and the state. Strengthen the main responsibility and supervisory responsibility for comprehensively and strictly governing the Party. Improve the supporting system for strengthening supervision over the "top leader" and leadership teams. Improve the power configuration and operational constraint mechanism, oppose privilege thinking and phenomena. Promote the organic connection between discipline enforcement and criminal justice. Improve the system and mechanism for inspection and supervision work. Optimize the functions of supervision, inspection, and investigation agencies, improve the disciplinary inspection and supervision system of vertically managed units, and promote the comprehensive dispatch of disciplinary inspection and supervision teams to centrally managed enterprises. Deepen the reform of the grassroots supervision system and mechanism. Promote national legislation against corruption, amend the supervision law, and introduce laws against cross-border corruption.

　　(60) Grasp the implementation of reform with a spirit of perseverance. For the decision-making deployments of the Party Central Committee to further comprehensively deepen reform, the entire Party must seek truth from facts and pragmatically implement them, dare to act and do well in implementation, adhere to coordination between upper and lower levels, and between sectors, scientifically formulate reform task lists, timelines, and priorities, clarify the main bodies and responsibilities for implementing various reforms, and incorporate the implementation of major reforms into the content of supervision, inspection, and inspection, using actual performance and public satisfaction to test the reform.

　　Chinese-style modernization is modernization along the path of peaceful development. Foreign work must firmly pursue an independent and peaceful diplomatic policy, promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, practice the common values of all humanity, implement global development initiatives, global security initiatives, and global civilization initiatives, advocate for an equal and orderly multipolar world and inclusive economic globalization, deepen the reform of foreign affairs work mechanisms, participate in and lead the reform and construction of the global governance system, firmly safeguard national sovereignty, security, and development interests, and create a good external environment for further comprehensively deepening reform and promoting Chinese-style modernization.

　　The entire Party, the armed forces, and the people of all ethnic groups across the country must unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, hold high the banner of reform and opening up, gather strength, strive for progress, and work hard to fully build a modern socialist strong country, achieve the second centenary goal, and comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese-style modernization.

　　(Source: Xinhua News Agency)