On February 23, Premier Li Keqiang, who is about to retire, visited the Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance.
Among them, when Li Keqiang was about to leave the National Development and Reform Commission, he gave a short speech to the staff of the National Development and Reform Commission who applauded him. The short video has been circulating on social media in the mainland for several days. Some analysts regard it as Li Keqiang's farewell speech.
In the short video, Li Keqiang said, "The Development and Reform Commission is the leading and
most important department of our country's macro-control.
" Reform Commission, "You have to measure the weight of these five words", "It's entrusted to you", "It depends on the joint efforts of our 1.4 billion people across the country. You are at the forefront and entrusted to be the key players and the main offensive team. of".
In a report by the state-run Xinhua News Agency, Li Keqiang also emphasized during his trip that he "continues to be a doer of development and a champion of reform" and "consolidate the momentum of economic growth and recovery." , "The development and reform system actively proposed countermeasures and implemented them, which played an important role in stabilizing the economic market."
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As Li Keqiang emphasized, the National Development and Reform Commission is the core department of China's economic macro-control. Its predecessor was the State Planning Commission that played a centralized leadership role in the era of planned economy. With the transformation of the economic system, the Development and Reform Commission came into being.
Many people who study China's economic growth will agree that
decentralization competition under the coordination of the central government is the key. The government plays an extremely important role in the process of economic development, and the Development and Reform Commission is the core economic department of the government.
For a long time, the National Development and Reform Commission has been called the "small State Council" by many people because of its strong comprehensiveness and important status.
Li Keqiang chose to inspect the Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance on the eve of his retirement, which shows that he attaches great importance to development, reform and national finance. This is actually in line with his repeated emphasis on development and reform during his ten-year premiership.
Especially in recent years, there are domestic pressures of economic transformation, unsustainable high growth and the impact of the epidemic; No longer the tendency to regard economic development as the core work, Li Keqiang has always called for "development is the foundation and key to solving all problems in our country", "focus on running our own affairs well", and "focus on development and protect people's livelihood".
On April 7, 2022, Premier Li Keqiang hosted a symposium for experts and entrepreneurs in Beijing to analyze the economic situation.
(Xinhua News Agency)
The most prominent example was in March and April last year, when the epidemic spread everywhere, Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Beijing were successively harassed by the epidemic, and Shanghai even "silent" for two months. The impact of unexpected factors once fell into a predicament that has not been seen in many years.
Under such circumstances, Li Keqiang held meetings non-stop to deploy and coordinate countermeasures.
A node that has attracted much attention is the national video conference on stabilizing the economic market held in May last year. The purpose is to get rid of the economic difficulties. At that time, more than 10,000 people participated.
In the end, China's economy still achieved positive growth despite such a large downward pressure in the second quarter last year.
It should be said that the development and reform repeatedly advocated by Li Keqiang is indeed a summary of China's economic and social development experience since Deng Xiaoping launched the reform and opening up, and it is the foundation that supports the rise of China today and the improvement of people's living standards.
As the People's Daily pointed out in the article "Concentrate on running your own affairs well" in June last year, "In the late 1980s and early 1990s, in the face of the complex international situation of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the drastic changes in Eastern Europe, we followed Comrade Deng Xiaoping's "Be calm, calm, calm again, work hard, do one thing well, our own business", withstood the pressure and opened up a new situation in reform and opening up", "Since there was no reform and opening up, we have concentrated on construction and single-
mindedly "We cannot have the international influence, appeal, and shaping power we have today, and we cannot create new situations in the great changes in the world and turn crises into opportunities in the chaos of the world.
" "Development is the Party's top priority in governing and rejuvenating the country, and it is the foundation and key to solving all problems in our country."
For many years, the trend of China's economic development has been closely watched by the outside world.
(Xinhua News Agency)
Regarding this point, Justin Yifu Lin, Dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University, said: "China will face many problems in its future development, but it must not slow down because of problems. From the historical experience of various countries, each
country Each has its own development problems. When the development is fast, there are problems, but when the development is slow, the problems are usually more and more difficult to solve, because only when the development is fast can more resources be created and problems can be solved with more confidence.
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Combining the changes in China's political economy and society since the release of the epidemic prevention and control policy at the end of last year, the signal of fighting the economy is already very obvious.
Under such circumstances, it is of practical significance for Li Keqiang to emphasize development and reform again on the eve of his retirement.
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