2018 is the opening year of implementing the spirit of the 19th CPC National Congress and marks the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up. It is also a crucial year for securing a decisive victory in the comprehensive construction of a moderately prosperous society in all respects and linking the preceding with the following tasks for implementation of the “13th Five-Year Plan”. The concept of “high-quality development” has frequently appeared at major high-level conferences in China. The report delivered at the 19th CPC National Congress outlined the blueprint of China’s economy and decided that China’s economy has transitioned from a rapid growth stage to a stage of high-quality development. On December 18, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee analyzed and studied the clear economic development trend of 2018 conveyed by the 2018 Economic Work Conference, which is to pursue high-quality development as it is the basic requirement for determining development ideas, formulating economic policies and implementing Macro-control for now and in the time to come. at the recent non-party personage symposium held by the Central Committee of the CPC, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that high-quality development is a prerequisite for both maintaining the sustainable and healthy economic and social development, and adapting to the change of China’s social principal contradictions and building a modern socialist county in an all-round way. By taking high-quality development as the fundamental requirement of the following economic work, we can avoid simply judging economic development level by speed and push forward quality reform, efficiency reform and momentum reform of economic development. How should we implement the grand plan of developing a modern economy in the coming 2018? How should China promote high-quality development? This week, Professor Liu Zhibiao, Dean of Yangtze IDEI, held discussions the first time with relevant experts and scholars on the topic “How to Promote high-quality Development Now and in the Future”.
