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The epidemic has torn apart the two basic consensuses on China's reconstruction and it has reached the most critical moment

2022-05-24T00:11:00.507Z


The new crown pneumonia epidemic has entered its third year. At a time when other countries and regions in the world have chosen to "coexist with the virus", China is facing increasing challenges in consolidating its previous epidemic prevention results and insisting on "dynamic clearing"


The COVID-19 epidemic has entered its third year. While other countries and regions in the world have chosen to "coexist with the virus", China is facing increasing challenges and tests in consolidating its previous epidemic prevention achievements and insisting on "dynamic clearing".

The challenges and tests here are not only reflected in the economic impact, but also affect and even shake the basic social consensus formed since China's reform and opening up.

In the face of China, which has been torn apart by the epidemic, the two basic consensuses have been rebuilt from top to bottom to the most critical moment.

The first consensus is that it is impossible for China to decouple from the world and move towards a "closed country".

In the past period of time, some events have caused the outside world to imagine.

From Renmin University of China and other universities withdrawing from the world university rankings, to the National Immigration Administration strictly restricting non-essential outbound activities of Chinese citizens, from the relocation of the 2023 Asian Cup due to the epidemic, to the default in some provinces and cities in China to answer international emergencies from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Telephone... These incidents were originally independent of each other, and each had its own cause and effect. However, because they were concentrated in the sensitive stage of China's epidemic prevention, many people began to worry that China is decoupling from the world and going back to the old road of shutting down the country.

Although rational analysis shows that no matter it is objective conditions or subjective wishes, it is impossible for China to decouple from the world and isolate itself, but the worries of Chinese society are real.

Before this round of the epidemic, opening up to the outside world had long been a general consensus among all parties in China. After all, the painful lessons of China’s isolation and isolation are not far away. The reason why Deng Xiaoping’s reform and opening up started in the late 1970s was able to lead China to become richer step by step. , It is also relying on opening up to the outside world.

Deng Xiaoping once pointed out, "Opening up to the outside world is of great significance. It is impossible for any country to develop and isolate itself, and it is impossible without strengthening international exchanges and introducing advanced experience, advanced science and technology and funds from developed countries. of."

Today, the basic social consensus formed since the reform and opening up has been shaken to varying degrees, so that even though high-level officials keep stressing that "the door of China's reform and opening up will not be closed, it will only open wider", the public is still worried. After all, many phenomena seem to be reinforcing this concern.

Therefore, for those in power, it is necessary to take concrete actions to rebuild the consensus on reform and opening up at the social level as soon as possible. This is not only related to people's expectations and confidence, but also to China's national destiny.

The second consensus is that focusing on economic construction and development is the last word, and it will never be out of date at any time.

As early as 1987, "One-King Center, Two Basic Points" was identified as the core content of the basic line of the primary stage of socialism. The "One-King Center" here is centered on economic construction.

Different from the "class struggle as the key link" in the Mao Zedong era, after Deng Xiaoping's comeback, he began to focus on economic construction in response to the changes in the main contradiction in Chinese society.

Since then, focusing on economic construction has gradually become the consensus of the entire society in the process of practice.

During Deng Xiaoping's southern tour in 1992, he further emphasized that this line "must be managed for a hundred years and shall not be shaken." The Central Economic Work Conference in 2021 also reiterated that "adhering to economic construction as the center is the basic line of the party. The whole party must concentrate on implementing it.”

During Deng Xiaoping's southern tour in 1992, he further emphasized that the basic line "must be managed for a hundred years and cannot be shaken." ("Bauhinia" magazine)

However, under the repeated impact of the epidemic, this basic consensus that has been continuously practiced and consolidated for more than 40 years has also been shaken at the social level.

On May 20, an online article titled "No one cares about the economy except Hu Xijin" became popular. The reason why the article resonated strongly with the society was that it not only stated that economists, intellectuals, and entrepreneurs The helplessness of caring about the economy in the face of the current situation has also aroused the general public's memory and consensus on the basic national policy of "focusing on economic construction".

The rulers have obviously been concerned about the economy, and have been emphasizing the need to focus on economic construction, but at the social level, there have been concerns and imaginations that "no one cares about the economy anymore."

There are two reasons for this dislocation: on the one hand, under the unshakable anti-epidemic policy of "dynamic clearing", all localities are still "preventing the epidemic at all costs" in order to be politically correct, and have not achieved true accurate epidemic prevention. , the economy and people’s livelihood have thus brought a huge impact, causing a misunderstanding to the outside world that “for the sake of epidemic prevention, the economy can not be”; , Negative" was deleted and banned from speaking, or, like the economist Li Daokui, he could only give advice and suggestions by calculating a confused life account, but it had the opposite effect on the social level, "concerning about the economy "It turned into a cry for those in power.

Focusing on economic construction, development is the last word. Such basic social consensus needs to be rebuilt urgently, and slogans alone will not work to appease the people. The key is to take action at the practical level and let people see positive results at the effect level. Variety.

When it comes to the most prominent level of epidemic prevention and control, it is urgent to "strive to achieve the greatest prevention and control effect at the least cost, and minimize the impact of the epidemic on economic and social development." Rule of law and common sense.

The "building" of social consensus and public confidence is not built in a day, and requires continuous efforts from top to bottom.

China has emerged from the quagmire of the ten-year Cultural Revolution, and since Deng Xiaoping started reform and opening up with three ups and downs, it has not been easy to form two basic social consensuses on reform and opening up and economic development. There have also been fierce debates and differences in lines, but in the end, the reason why it has been able to develop relatively smoothly in the torrent of internal and external changes and push China from poverty to a new level is that the ruler can maximize social consensus.

Now, under the impact of the epidemic, when the two basic consensuses of Chinese society are shaken, the "building" of people's confidence may collapse in an instant. To rebuild it, I am afraid it will take at least several generations of efforts.

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Source: hk1

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