The Guiding Principles for Economic and Social Development during the 15th Five-Year Plan Period

The Proposal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the Fifteenth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development (hereinafter referred to as the Proposal), adopted at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, clearly sets forth the guiding principles for economic and social development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, pointing the way forward and providing scientific guidance for the work of economic and social development in the next five years. We must accurately grasp and fully implement these principles, formulate and implement the 15th Five-Year Plan well, and strive to open up new prospects for advancing Chinese-path modernization.

党的二十届四中全会通过的《中共中央关于制定国民经济和社会发展第十五个五年规划的建议》（以下简称《建议》），明确提出了“十五五”时期经济社会发展指导方针，为做好未来五年经济社会发展工作指明了前进方向、提供了科学指引。我们要准确领会把握、全面贯彻落实，制定和实施好“十五五”规划，奋力开创中国式现代化建设新局面。

I. Accurately Grasp the Historical Juncture of China's Development during the 15th Five-Year Plan Period

一、准确把握“十五五”时期我国发展所处的历史方位

The Proposal points out that the 15th Five-Year Plan period occupies an important position of building on the past and ushering in the future in the process of basically realizing socialist modernization, and is a critical period for consolidating the foundation and exerting full efforts to basically realize socialist modernization. We must, with a broad vision and strategic perspective, coordinate both domestic and international imperatives, and accurately grasp the historical juncture of China's development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period.

《建议》指出，“十五五”时期在基本实现社会主义现代化进程中具有承前启后的重要地位，是基本实现社会主义现代化夯实基础、全面发力的关键时期。我们要以宽广的视野和战略的眼光，统筹国内国际两个大局，准确把握“十五五”时期我国发展所处的历史方位。

The development of the 15th Five-Year Plan must be understood within the historical process of Chinese-path modernization. Realizing socialist modernization is a historical process of progressive advancement and continuous development and progress. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, centering on the strategic deployment of modernization, China has successively formulated and implemented five-year plans (programs), which have effectively guided and promoted economic and social development. Especially since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has united and led the entire Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to complete the historical task of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, realize the First Centenary Goal, and successfully advance and expand Chinese-path modernization. The 19th and 20th National Congresses of the CPC made a two-step strategic arrangement for building China into a great modern socialist country in all respects. Among them, the goal of basically realizing socialist modernization by 2035 is to be accomplished through the implementation of three five-year plans, from the 14th to the 16th Five-Year Plan, on the basis of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects. As the five-year period that builds on the past and ushers in the future, the 15th Five-Year Plan must, in terms of work, achieve the consolidation of the foundation and the exertion of full efforts. Consolidating the foundation means making unremitting efforts and carrying on the struggle to lay an even more solid foundation for basically realizing socialist modernization. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, China effectively responded to the severe impact of the once-in-a-century pandemic and a series of major risks and challenges, achieved new major accomplishments in economic and social development, and got off to a good start on the new journey toward the Second Centenary Goal. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, greater attention must be paid to matters that have a fundamental impact on development and security, consolidating and expanding advantages, breaking through bottlenecks and constraints, and reinforcing and strengthening weak links and shortcomings, so as to make the foundation of development more stable and its resilience stronger. Exerting full efforts means anchoring the goals, centering on the Five-Sphere Integrated Plan and the Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy, focusing on coordinated efforts across all areas of economic and social development, and achieving systemic breakthroughs and overall improvements. It means achieving notable results in promoting high-quality development, making major breakthroughs in strategic tasks that are crucial to the overall situation of Chinese-path modernization, and steadily advancing toward the ranks of moderately developed countries.

要把“十五五”发展放在中国式现代化的历史进程中来把握。实现社会主义现代化是一个阶梯式递进、不断发展进步的历史过程。新中国成立以来，围绕现代化建设战略部署，我国接续制定和实施了一个个五年规划（计划），有力引导和推动了经济社会发展。特别是党的十八大以来，以习近平同志为核心的党中央团结带领全党全国各族人民，完成全面建成小康社会历史任务，实现了第一个百年奋斗目标，成功推进和拓展了中国式现代化。党的十九大、二十大就全面建成社会主义现代化强国作出“两步走”战略安排，其中，到2035年基本实现社会主义现代化要在全面建成小康社会基础上，通过实施“十四五”至“十六五”三个五年规划来完成。“十五五”作为承前启后的五年，在工作上要做到夯实基础、全面发力。夯实基础，就是要不懈努力、接续奋斗，为基本实现社会主义现代化奠定更加坚实的基础。“十四五”时期，我国有效应对世纪疫情严重冲击和一系列重大风险挑战，经济社会发展取得新的重大成就，第二个百年奋斗目标新征程实现良好开局。“十五五”时期要更加关注对发展和安全具有基础性影响的事，巩固拓展优势、破除瓶颈制约、补强短板弱项，使发展根基更稳、韧性更强。全面发力，就是要锚定目标，围绕“五位一体”总体布局、“四个全面”战略布局，聚焦经济社会发展各领域协同发力，实现系统性突破、整体性提升。推动高质量发展取得显著成效，推动事关中国式现代化全局的战略任务取得重大突破，稳步向中等发达国家迈进。

The development of the 15th Five-Year Plan must be understood within the profound evolution of the once-in-a-century changes in the world. Today, global turbulence and transformation are intensifying. Some unilateralist and protectionist actions severely impact international rules and order. At the same time, a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating and breaking through, and the competitive and cooperative relationships between countries are facing reshaping. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the global political and economic landscape will continue to undergo major adjustments, divisions, and reorganizations. Uncertain and unpredictable factors will increase. However, the general trend of world multipolarity and economic globalization is irreversible. China's development faces both strategic opportunities and risks and challenges. This requires us to better grasp the dialectical relationship between crisis and opportunity, and between certainty and uncertainty, and to more actively and effectively respond to challenges and promote development. On the one hand, we must look to the world, actively identify, respond to, and seek changes, and win strategic initiative in fierce international competition. In the face of profound and complex changes in the international situation, we must prospectively grasp the impact of new situations and new trends on China's development, shape a new pattern of relations between China and the world, and create a favorable external environment for ourselves. We must expand high-standard opening up, actively expand independent opening up, raise the quality and level of trade and investment cooperation, explore diversified and stable overseas markets, build the Belt and Road Initiative with high quality, enhance China's competitiveness in the global industrial division of labor, and strengthen our voice in the international circulation. On the other hand, we must base ourselves on the domestic front, concentrate our efforts on handling our own affairs well, and respond to various uncertainties with the certainty of high-quality development. In the face of possible high winds and choppy waters, or even stormy seas, internationally, as long as domestic development remains healthy and stable, we will have more confidence to withstand shocks and cope with tests. We must implement the requirements of high-quality development in all areas and aspects of economic and social development, and reflect them in every link and throughout the entire process of development goals, policies, and actions. We must achieve greater breakthroughs in accelerating the cultivation of new drivers of growth and promoting the optimization and upgrading of the economic structure, further strengthen the domestic circulation, promote the dual circulation at home and abroad, and form new development advantages that lead the future. In short, we must grasp the grand logic of the once-in-a-century changes in the world, overcome difficulties, confront risks, and meet challenges with a historical initiative spirit, and continuously expand the development space for Chinese-path modernization.

要把“十五五”发展放在世界百年变局的深刻演进中来把握。当今世界动荡变革加剧，一些单边主义、保护主义行径严重冲击国际规则和秩序，同时新一轮科技革命和产业变革加速突破，国家间的竞争合作关系面临重塑。“十五五”时期，全球政治经济格局将继续经历大调整、大分化、大重组，不确定难预料因素增多，但世界多极化、经济全球化大势不可逆转，我国发展面临的战略机遇和风险挑战并存。这就要求我们更好把握危与机、确定性与不确定性的辩证关系，更加积极有为地应对挑战、推动发展。一方面，要放眼世界，积极识变应变求变，在激烈国际竞争中赢得战略主动。面对国际形势的深刻复杂变化，要前瞻性把握新情况新动向对我国发展的影响，塑造我国和世界关系新格局，营造于我有利的外部环境。要扩大高水平对外开放，积极扩大自主开放，提升贸易投资合作质量和水平，开拓多元稳定的海外市场，高质量共建“一带一路”，提升我国在全球产业分工中的竞争力，增强在国际循环中的话语权。另一方面，要立足国内，集中力量办好自己的事，以高质量发展的确定性应对各种不确定性。面对国际上可能遇到的风高浪急甚至惊涛骇浪，只要国内发展保持健康平稳，我们抵御冲击、应对考验就更有底气。要把高质量发展要求贯彻到经济社会发展各领域各方面，体现到发展目标、政策和行动各环节全过程，在加快培育新动能、促进经济结构优化升级等方面取得更大突破，进一步做强国内循环、促进国内国际双循环，形成引领未来的发展新优势。总之，要把握世界百年变局的大逻辑，以历史主动精神克难关、战风险、迎挑战，不断拓展中国式现代化的发展空间。

II. Deeply Understand the Rich Connotations of the Guiding Principles for Economic and Social Development during the 15th Five-Year Plan Period

二、深刻领会“十五五”时期经济社会发展指导方针的丰富内涵

The Proposal clearly sets forth the guiding ideology and the principles that must be followed for economic and social development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, which together constitute the guiding principles. These were put forward by the Party Central Committee based on an overall consideration of the strategic requirements for basically realizing socialist modernization and the general trend of China's development in the next five years. We must deeply understand their rich connotations to better guide development practice.

《建议》明确提出了“十五五”时期经济社会发展的指导思想和必须遵循的原则，共同构成指导方针。这是党中央统揽全局、综合考虑基本实现社会主义现代化的战略要求和未来五年我国发展大势提出来的。我们要深刻领会其丰富内涵，更好指导发展实践。

The guiding ideology for economic and social development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period is: uphold Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thought of Three Represents, and the Scientific Outlook on Development; fully implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era; thoroughly carry out the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the CPC and the plenary sessions of the 20th Central Committee; focus on comprehensively building a great modern socialist country and achieving the Second Centenary Goal; advance the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese-path modernization; coordinate the implementation of the Five-Sphere Integrated Plan; promote balanced progress in the Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy; coordinate both domestic and international imperatives; fully, accurately, and comprehensively apply the new development philosophy; accelerate the creation of a new development pattern; adhere to the general principle of pursuing progress while ensuring stability; take economic construction as the central task; take high-quality development as the theme; take reform and innovation as the fundamental driving force; take meeting the people's ever-growing needs for a better life as the fundamental purpose; take comprehensive and strict governance of the Party as the fundamental guarantee; promote both effective qualitative improvement and reasonable quantitative growth of the economy; ensure solid progress in the well-rounded development of individuals and common prosperity for all the people; and secure decisive progress in basically achieving socialist modernization. This guiding ideology centrally embodies the worldview and methodology of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and provides strategic guidance for development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period. We must deeply grasp its core essence and innovative viewpoints: from the perspective of mission and tasks, the report of the 20th National Congress of the CPC clarified the central task of the Party for the New Era and the new journey, which is to comprehensively build a great modern socialist country, achieve the Second Centenary Goal, and advance the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese-path modernization. The goals, tasks, ideas, and measures for development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period must closely revolve around this central task, concentrate all forces, eliminate all distractions, and continue to advance Chinese-path modernization. From the perspective of strategic orientation, greater emphasis must be placed on coordinating both domestic and international imperatives. A distinct feature of the 15th Five-Year Plan period is that relations among major powers will shape the international situation, and the evolution of the international situation will profoundly affect domestic development. This requires us to more consciously plan and advance national development within the global framework, adhere to the general principle of pursuing progress while ensuring stability, take economic construction as the central task, expand space for international cooperation and respond to external risks through opening up, seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, seize the initiative, and ensure the steady and sustained progress of Chinese-path modernization. From the perspective of the development path, we must take high-quality development as the theme, reform and innovation as the fundamental driving force, meeting the people's ever-growing needs for a better life as the fundamental purpose, and comprehensive and strict governance of the Party as the fundamental guarantee. This elaborates on the theme, driving force, purpose, and guarantee of development, providing important guidance for development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period. From the perspective of goal orientation, we must promote both effective qualitative improvement and reasonable quantitative growth of the economy, ensure solid progress in the well-rounded development of individuals and common prosperity for all the people, and secure decisive progress in basically achieving socialist modernization. Achieving "decisive progress" means accelerating the breakthrough from quantitative change to qualitative change, achieving landmark results in high-quality development and high-quality life, and ensuring the timely basic realization of socialist modernization by 2035.

“十五五”时期经济社会发展的指导思想是：坚持马克思列宁主义、毛泽东思想、邓小平理论、“三个代表”重要思想、科学发展观，全面贯彻习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想，深入贯彻党的二十大和二十届历次全会精神，围绕全面建成社会主义现代化强国、实现第二个百年奋斗目标，以中国式现代化全面推进中华民族伟大复兴，统筹推进“五位一体”总体布局，协调推进“四个全面”战略布局，统筹国内国际两个大局，完整准确全面贯彻新发展理念，加快构建新发展格局，坚持稳中求进工作总基调，坚持以经济建设为中心，以推动高质量发展为主题，以改革创新为根本动力，以满足人民日益增长的美好生活需要为根本目的，以全面从严治党为根本保障，推动经济实现质的有效提升和量的合理增长，推动人的全面发展、全体人民共同富裕迈出坚实步伐，确保基本实现社会主义现代化取得决定性进展。这一指导思想集中体现了习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想的世界观和方法论，对“十五五”发展作出战略指引。我们要深刻领会其核心要义和创新观点：从使命任务看，党的二十大报告明确了新时代新征程党的中心任务，就是全面建成社会主义现代化强国、实现第二个百年奋斗目标，以中国式现代化全面推进中华民族伟大复兴。“十五五”发展的目标任务、思路举措要紧紧围绕这一中心任务展开，集中一切力量、排除一切干扰，接续推进中国式现代化建设。从战略取向看，要更加注重统筹国内国际两个大局。“十五五”时期的一个鲜明特征就是大国关系牵动国际形势，国际形势演变深刻影响国内发展。这就要求我们更加自觉地把国家发展置于全球格局中谋划推进，坚持稳中求进工作总基调，坚持以经济建设为中心，在扩大开放中拓展国际合作空间、应对外部风险，趋利避害、把握主动，确保中国式现代化行稳致远。从发展路径看，要以推动高质量发展为主题，以改革创新为根本动力，以满足人民日益增长的美好生活需要为根本目的，以全面从严治党为根本保障。这阐述了发展的主题、动力、目的和保障，对“十五五”发展具有重要导向作用。从目标指向看，要推动经济实现质的有效提升和量的合理增长，推动人的全面发展、全体人民共同富裕迈出坚实步伐，确保基本实现社会主义现代化取得决定性进展。取得“决定性进展”意味着加快实现从量变到质变的突破，在高质量发展、高品质生活上取得标志性成果，确保到2035年如期基本实现社会主义现代化。

The Proposal summarizes the principles that must be followed for economic and social development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period from six aspects, namely: upholding the overall leadership of the Party; putting the people first; adhering to high-quality development; adhering to comprehensively deepening reform; combining an efficient market with a competent government; and balancing development and security. These "six upholdings" form an organic whole, reflecting our Party's deepened understanding of the laws of development. Among them, the overall leadership of the Party is the fundamental guarantee; putting the people first embodies the fundamental stance and value pursuit of economic and social development; promoting high-quality development is the theme of economic and social development and the primary task of comprehensively building a great modern socialist country; reform is the driving force for development; combining an efficient market with a competent government is an important method of economic governance; and balancing development and security is a major proposition under the new circumstances. These six aspects are unified in the vivid practice of our country's development and governance. To deeply understand and grasp them as a whole, three aspects need to be highlighted: First, grasp the fundamental guarantee. The key to running China's affairs well lies in the Party. The Proposal lists the overall leadership of the Party as the first principle that must be followed. This requires us to more consciously integrate Party leadership into all aspects and the entire process of economic and social development, and better transform our country's institutional advantages into national governance effectiveness and development advantages. Second, firmly uphold the people's stance. Putting the people first embodies the fundamental purpose and original aspiration and founding mission of our Party. We must respect the principal position of the people, fully mobilize people's initiative, enthusiasm, and creativity, and ensure that development is for the people, relies on the people, and its fruits are shared by the people. Third, strengthen systems thinking. Economic and social development is a complex systems engineering project. We must fully, accurately, and comprehensively apply the new development philosophy, strengthen forward-looking thinking, overall planning, strategic layout, and holistic advancement, properly handle major relationships such as reform and development, government and market, and development and security, and promote new leaps in all aspects of work. A major feature of work during the 15th Five-Year Plan period is to accomplish certain tasks in an uncertain environment. The "six upholdings" provide certainty principles for our country's development and must be firmly grasped.

《建议》从六个方面概括了“十五五”时期经济社会发展必须遵循的原则，即坚持党的全面领导，坚持人民至上，坚持高质量发展，坚持全面深化改革，坚持有效市场和有为政府相结合，坚持统筹发展和安全。这“六个坚持”是一个有机整体，体现了我们党对发展规律认识的深化提升。其中，党的全面领导是根本保证，人民至上体现了经济社会发展的根本立场和价值追求，推动高质量发展是经济社会发展的主题，也是全面建设社会主义现代化国家的首要任务，改革是发展的动力，有效市场和有为政府相结合是经济治理的重要方法，统筹发展和安全是新形势下的重大命题。这六个方面统一于我国发展和治理的生动实践，从整体上深入领会把握需要突出三个方面：一是把握根本保证。办好中国的事情，关键在党。《建议》把党的全面领导作为必须遵循的第一条原则，这就要求我们更加自觉地把党的领导贯穿经济社会发展各方面全过程，把我国制度优势更好转化为国家治理效能和发展优势。二是坚定人民立场。人民至上体现了我们党的根本宗旨和初心使命，要尊重人民主体地位，全面调动人的积极性主动性创造性，做到发展为了人民、发展依靠人民、发展成果由人民共享。三是强化系统观念。经济社会发展是一个复杂系统工程，要完整准确全面贯彻新发展理念，加强前瞻性思考、全局性谋划、战略性布局、整体性推进，处理好改革和发展、政府和市场、发展和安全等重大关系，推动各方面工作实现新的跃升。“十五五”时期工作的一大特征就是在不确定环境下做好确定性的事情，“六个坚持”为我国发展提供了确定性原则，必须牢牢把握。

III. Fully Implement the Practical Requirements of the Guiding Principles for Economic and Social Development during the 15th Five-Year Plan Period

三、全面贯彻“十五五”时期经济社会发展指导方针的实践要求

The guiding principles are overarching and fundamental; they must be fully implemented in all fields and aspects of economic and social development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period. In practice, we must drive the overall situation by making breakthroughs in key areas, ensuring that the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee are implemented.

指导方针是管总、管根本的，必须全面贯彻落实到“十五五”时期经济社会发展的各领域各方面。在实践中，要坚持以重点突破带动全局，确保党中央决策部署落到实处。

We must accelerate the creation of a new development pattern and firmly grasp the initiative in development. Creating a new development pattern clarifies the path choice for China's economic modernization and is a preemptive move for our country to seize the initiative in development. Large economies have the unique advantage of being dominated by domestic demand and capable of internal circulation. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, we should place more emphasis on strengthening the domestic grand circulation as the foundation for development, coordinate the implementation of the strategy of expanding domestic demand and deepening supply-side structural reform, and use the inherent stability and long-term growth potential of the domestic grand circulation to hedge against the uncertainty of the international circulation. Building a unified national market is a key reform for strengthening the domestic grand circulation. Efforts should focus on unifying basic market institutions, unifying market infrastructure, unifying government behavioral standards, unifying market supervision and law enforcement, and unifying markets for factors of production and resources. We must continuously expand opening up both internally and externally, further eliminate local protection and market segmentation, and continuously release the dividends of the super-large market. Of course, strengthening the domestic grand circulation does not mean abandoning the international circulation. We must unswervingly expand high-level opening up, expand the international circulation through multiple channels, enhance the linkage effect between domestic and international markets and resources, and accelerate the formation of a domestic and international dual circulation that is more competitive, secure, and resilient.

要加快构建新发展格局，牢牢掌握发展主动权。构建新发展格局明确了我国经济现代化的路径选择，是我国把握发展主动权的先手棋。大国经济具有内需为主导、内部可循环的独特优势，“十五五”时期要把发展立足点更多放在做强国内大循环上，统筹实施扩大内需战略和深化供给侧结构性改革，以国内大循环的内在稳定性和长期成长性对冲国际循环的不确定性。建设全国统一大市场是做强国内大循环的关键性改革，要着力统一市场基础制度、统一市场基础设施、统一政府行为尺度、统一市场监管执法、统一要素资源市场，持续扩大对内对外开放，进一步消除地方保护和市场分割，持续释放超大规模市场红利。当然，做强国内大循环绝不是不要国际循环，要坚定不移扩大高水平对外开放，多途径拓展国际循环，增强国内国际两个市场两种资源的联动效应，加快形成更具竞争力和安全韧性的国内国际双循环。

We must promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation, and accelerate the development of new quality productive forces. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, facing the new situation of high-quality development and major-power competition, we must place the development of new quality productive forces according to local conditions in a more prominent strategic position. Scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation are the basic paths for developing new quality productive forces. Scientific and technological innovation can give rise to new industries, new models, and new drivers. We must coordinate the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent, improve the national innovation system, target the frontiers of world science and technology, make continuous efforts to strengthen original innovation and tackle key core technologies, and accelerate the achievement of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening. The vitality of scientific and technological achievements lies in their application. We must comprehensively promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, actively develop emerging industries, lay out future industries in advance, accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system, and forge a new path where scientific and technological innovation leads industrial innovation and industrial upgrading promotes technological iteration. It should be noted that developing new quality productive forces requires certain endowments and conditions. We must adhere to scientific rationality and local conditions, leverage comparative advantages to promote the development of new quality productive forces.

要推进科技创新和产业创新深度融合，加快发展新质生产力。“十五五”时期，面对高质量发展和大国博弈新形势，必须把因地制宜发展新质生产力摆在更加突出的战略位置。科技创新和产业创新是发展新质生产力的基本路径。科技创新能够催生新产业、新模式、新动能，要统筹推进教育科技人才一体发展，完善国家创新体系，瞄准世界科技前沿，在加强原始创新和关键核心技术攻关上持续用力，加快实现高水平科技自立自强。科技成果的生命力在应用，要全面推进传统产业转型升级、积极发展新兴产业、超前布局未来产业，加快建设现代化产业体系，走出一条以科技创新引领产业创新、以产业升级促进科技迭代的新路子。需要注意的是，发展新质生产力需要有一定的禀赋条件，要坚持科学理性、因地制宜，发挥比较优势推动新质生产力发展。

We must persist in ensuring and improving people’s wellbeing through development, and solidly advance common prosperity. Common prosperity for all the people is an essential feature of Chinese-path modernization. At present, the problem of unbalanced and inadequate development in our country remains relatively prominent, and there are still many shortcomings in public services. Attention should be paid to organically combining the improvement of people’s wellbeing with the expansion of domestic demand, cultivating new economic growth points in the process of solving the people’s urgent, difficult, and anxious problems and enhancing their welfare. We must strengthen the employment-first orientation, implement a plan to increase residents’ income, continue to do a good job of making the “cake” bigger and distributing it well, while optimizing income distribution, accelerating the increase in income for low-income groups, and continuously expanding the middle-income group. Greater emphasis should be placed on investing in people and serving people’s wellbeing, strengthening universal, basic, and safety-net livelihood construction, rolling out a batch of livelihood policies and measures with strong balance and accessibility, and focusing on solving livelihood issues such as employment, social security, education, medical care, elderly care, and childcare, so as to form a virtuous cycle of economic development and improvement of people’s wellbeing. The urban-rural and regional gaps in our country remain relatively large; we must deeply advance people-centered new-type urbanization, accelerate the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas, optimize regional layout, and raise the level of coordinated urban-rural and regional development.

要坚持在发展中保障和改善民生，扎实推进共同富裕。全体人民共同富裕是中国式现代化的本质特征。当前我国发展不平衡不充分问题仍较突出，公共服务还存在不少短板。要注重把改善民生与扩大内需有机结合起来，在解决群众急难愁盼问题、增进民生福祉中培育新的经济增长点。要强化就业优先导向，实施居民增收计划，持续做好做大“蛋糕”，同时优化收入分配，加快促进低收入者增收，持续扩大中等收入群体。更加注重投资于人、服务于民生，加强普惠性、基础性、兜底性民生建设，推出一批均衡性可及性强的民生政策举措，着力解决就业、社保、教育、医疗、养老、托幼等民生问题，形成经济发展和民生改善的良性循环。我国城乡区域差距仍然较大，要深入推进以人为本的新型城镇化，加快乡村全面振兴，优化区域布局，提高城乡区域协调发展水平。

We must better coordinate development and security, and safeguard the new pattern of development with a new pattern of security. Advancing Chinese-path modernization is an entirely new undertaking, and on the road forward we will inevitably encounter various difficulties, contradictions, and risks and challenges. We must persist in consolidating security through development and seeking development within security, and enhance economic and social resilience. Development is the foundation of security. Resolving prominent contradictions and problems, and preventing and defusing risks and hidden dangers, ultimately depends on development; we must seek security on the basis of continuously strengthening the material and technological foundation, and promote high-level security through high-quality development. Security is the prerequisite for development. We must comprehensively consider internal and external risks and challenges, and effectively and efficiently prevent and defuse risks in key areas. At the same time, we must strengthen the construction of long-term mechanisms for risk prevention, prepare response plans and policy reserves, firmly hold the bottom line of preventing systemic risks, and ensure high-quality development with high-level security.

要更好统筹发展和安全，以新安全格局保障新发展格局。推进中国式现代化是一项全新的事业，前进道路上必然会遇到各种困难矛盾和风险挑战。要坚持在发展中固安全、在安全中谋发展，增强经济和社会韧性。发展是安全的基础。破解突出矛盾问题、防范化解风险隐患，归根到底要靠发展，要在不断壮大物质技术基础上谋求安全，以高质量发展促进高水平安全。安全是发展的前提。要通盘考虑内外部风险挑战，有力有效防范化解重点领域风险。同时，加强风险防范长效机制建设，做好应对预案和政策储备，牢牢守住不发生系统性风险底线，以高水平安全保障高质量发展。

The “Proposal” has been reviewed and approved by the Plenary Session, and the State Council will formulate the outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan on this basis. We must thoroughly comprehend the guiding principles and objectives and tasks set out in the “Proposal” and fully embody them in the compilation of the outline, extensively listen to opinions and suggestions from all sides, conduct in-depth research on major issues, and plan and refine major policies, major reforms, and major projects, so as to produce a high-quality outline. We must strengthen the overall situation awareness and systems thinking, and fully reflect and implement the requirements of the guiding principles when formulating special plans, regional plans, spatial plans, and local plans. All regions and departments must find their proper positioning within the overall development situation, innovate ideas and measures, take the initiative to assume responsibility and act, strengthen coordination and cooperation, and strive to turn the planning blueprint into a beautiful reality.

《建议》已经全会审议通过，国务院将据此制定“十五五”规划纲要。要把《建议》明确的指导方针和目标任务融会贯通、全面体现到纲要编制中，广泛听取各方面意见建议，深入研究重大问题，谋划细化重大政策、重大改革、重大项目，制定出一个高质量的纲要。强化大局意识和系统观念，在制定专项规划、区域规划、空间规划和地方规划时，都充分体现和落实指导方针要求。各地区各部门要在发展大局中找准定位，创新思路举措，主动担当作为，强化协同配合，努力把规划蓝图变为美好现实。

The mission urges us to forge ahead, and solid work achieves the future. We must unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, take

使命催人奋进，实干成就未来。我们要更加紧密地团结在以习近平同志为核心的党中央周围，以习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想为指导，锐意进取、勇毅前行，为以中国式现代化全面推进强国建设、民族复兴伟业而不懈奋斗！

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