Political Lens 2024-05-16    

Xi's article on reform, opening-up to be published

An article by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, on deepening reform and opening-up across the board will be published on Thursday.

The article by Xi, who is also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, will be published in this year's 10th issue of the Qiushi Journal, the flagship magazine of the CPC Central Committee.

The article consists of excerpts from important discourses made by Xi from December 2012 to March 2024.

Noting that reform and opening-up is a crucial move in deciding the future of Chinese modernization, the article said that since the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee in 2013, historic and remarkable accomplishments have been made in comprehensively deepening reform.

The direction of comprehensively deepening reform is to continuously promote the self-improvement and development of the socialist system, and it will remain the fundamental driving force for promoting Chinese modernization, said the article.

With an aim to build a modern socialist country in all respects, a number of strategic, creative and pioneering reforms should be launched and major initiatives in comprehensively deepening reform should be put forward to inject strong momentum into promoting high-quality development and Chinese modernization, it noted.

Russian version of Xi's book on modernization available

The Russian language version of a book featuring discourses on Chinese modernization by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, has been published by the Central Compilation and Translation Press.

Compiled by the Institute of Party History and Literature of the CPC Central Committee, the book collects a series of key discourses by Xi between November 2012 and October 2023 regarding Chinese modernization.

The Russian version and the previously published English and French versions of the book will help foreign readers gain deeper insights into the theoretical system and practical requirements of Chinese modernization, and is of great significance to enhancing the international community's understanding on jointly striving toward modernization.