Beijing, July 26th—The International Department of the CPC Central Committee (IDCPC) held here today a thematic briefing on the spirit of the third plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee for senior foreign diplomats in China. More than 150 senior diplomats attended, including over 100 ambassadors and chargés d’affaires to China. Xie Chuntao, Member of the Central Publicity Group and Vice President of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee (National Academy of Governance), and Jiang Xiaojuan, former Deputy Secretary-General of the State Council and Professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, introduced the main content of the third plenary session to the attendees. Sun Haiyan, Vice-minister of the IDCPC, presided over the event.
Xie stated that the Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Further Deepening Reform Comprehensively to Advance Chinese Modernization, which was reviewed and adopted at the third plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, pools the wisdom of the entire CPC and society, reflecting intra-Party democracy, national democracy, and people’s democracy. The Resolution is centered on the overall objective of continuing to improve and develop the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics and modernize China’s system and capacity for governance. It emphasizes reform directions focused on seven key areas and proposes over 300 significant reform measures. The Resolution will provide robust development momentum and institutional guarantees for Chinese modernization and create more new opportunities for China to deepen mutually beneficial cooperation with countries around the world.
Jiang stated that opening up is a distinctive feature of Chinese modernization. We will remain committed to the basic state policy of opening to the outside world and continue to promote reform through opening up, actively align with high-standard international trade rules, expand institutional opening up, deepen reform of the foreign trade system, improve and promote high-quality Belt and Road cooperation mechanism, and ensure national treatment and legitimate rights for foreign-invested enterprises. Chinese modernization has been advanced continuously through reform and opening up and will surely embrace broader horizons through further reform and opening up.
Xie, Jiang, and Sun also engaged in exchanges with foreign diplomats in China. They answered questions on topics including China’s reform plans and deployment, economic development and transformation, China's endeavor to expand domestic demand and promote growth in consumption spending, fiscal and social security, policies on the private economy, green development, and foreign investment in China, as well as the economic and trade relations between China and other countries.
The foreign diplomats in China congratulated on and welcomed the discussion and adoption of the Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Further Deepening Reform Comprehensively to Advance Chinese Modernization at the third plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee. They expressed their gratitude to the IDCPC for organizing the thematic briefing on the spirit of the plenary session. They stated that the Resolution demonstrates the CPC’s resolute determination to further deepen reform comprehensively and advance Chinese modernization with greater courage and boldness, sending a positive signal of the CPC’s commitment to promoting high-quality development and expanding high-level opening up. This has profound significance for both China and the rest of the world. China’s comprehensive deepening of reform and advancement of Chinese modernization will not only promote its own development, but also have a significant positive impact on global economic recovery and development. They expressed the hope to share opportunities and achieve mutual benefit and win-win outcomes.
On July 29th, the International Department of the CPC Central Committee (IDCPC) held a briefing for the international business communities in China on the spirit of the third plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee. More than 120 representatives of international business associations, enterprises and economic and trade officials from some embassies in China attended the briefing. Ma Hui, Assistant-minister of the IDCPC, Han Baojiang, former director of the Economics Teaching and Research Department of the Party School of the Central Committee of CPC (National Academy of Governance), Zhang Yansheng, Chief Researcher of China Center for International Economic Exchanges, and Yang Xuedong, Director of the Department of Political Science of Tsinghua University, introduced the important spirit and main outcomes of the plenary session to the guests.
Ma said, the third plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee has laid out a scientific blueprint and comprehensive deployment for further deepening reform and promoting Chinese modernization in the new journey of the new era, sending a strong message that China will stay committed to reform and opening up in the new era. It is hoped that the international business communities will seize the opportunity to deepen cooperation with China and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results.
Han said, the Resolution adopted at the plenary session stressed that China will build a high-level socialist market economy, adhere to unswervingly consolidating and developing the public sector and unswervingly encouraging, supporting, and guiding the development of the non-public sector, ensure that economic entities under all forms of ownership have equal access to factors of production in accordance with the law, compete in the market on an equal footing, and are protected by the law as equals, and provide a better institutional guarantee for international enterprises in China.
Zhang said, while further deepening reform comprehensively, China continues to improve the high-level opening up system and mechanism, and insists on promoting reform through opening up. The Chinese modernization is not only aimed at achieving China's own development but also focuses on win-win cooperation with other countries worldwide.
Yang said, the more than 300 major measures proposed in the Resolution show the rational expectations of Chinese communists for the future, systematic planning to achieve its vision, and practical spirit to strive for these goals.
The experts and scholars exchanged with representatives of international business communities in China and answered questions. Representatives of the international business communities and diplomats attending the meeting thanked the IDCPC for organizing the briefing, saying that the briefing has enhanced their understanding of the spirit of the plenary session, especially regarding economic policies, and strengthened their confidence in continuing to invest and operate in the Chinese market.
