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Contributing Greater Strength from Central State-owned Enterprises to Chinese-path Modernization

国务院国资委党委:为中国式现代化建设贡献国资央企更大力量

· · Modern Chinese History · People's Daily (2 March 2026) · 15 min read

State-owned enterprises are an important pillar and supporting force for our Party to govern and rejuvenate the country, playing a significant role in advancing and expanding Chinese-path modernization. At the end of last year, General Secretary Xi Jinping issued important instructions on the work of central enterprises, fully affirming the backbone and pillar role they play in the national economy, further clarifying the responsibilities and missions they bear on the new journey, and making major deployments on continuously optimizing the layout of the state-owned economy, promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation, further deepening reform, coordinating development and security, upholding and strengthening the Party's overall leadership, and striving to foster a clean and upright political environment. These instructions are highly political, ideological, strategic, targeted, and instructive, pointing the way forward and providing fundamental guidance for the work of state-owned assets and central enterprises in the current and future periods. The "15th Five-Year Plan" period [1]1 The "15th Five-Year Plan" period refers to the years 2026-2030, the next five-year plan for national economic and social development in China. holds a crucial transitional position in the process of basically realizing socialist modernization. We must unwaveringly use the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions to unify thinking and consolidate strength, closely integrating them with the study and implementation of the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the CPC [2]2 The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the CPC was held in 2025, focusing on further deepening reform and advancing Chinese modernization. and the Central Economic Work Conference, unswervingly making state-owned enterprises and state capital stronger, better, and larger, and contributing greater strength to Chinese-path modernization.

国有企业是我们党执政兴国的重要支柱和依靠力量,在推进和拓展中国式现代化中发挥着重要作用。习近平总书记去年底对中央企业工作作出重要指示,充分肯定中央企业在国民经济中发挥的骨干和支柱作用,进一步明确新征程上中央企业肩负的职责使命,对持续优化国有经济布局、推动科技创新和产业创新深度融合、进一步深化改革、统筹发展和安全、坚持和加强党的全面领导、着力营造风清气正的政治生态等作出重大部署,具有极强的政治性、思想性、战略性、针对性和指导性,为做好当前和今后一个时期国资央企工作指明了前进方向、提供了根本遵循。“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,我们必须坚定不移用习近平总书记重要指示精神统一思想、凝聚力量,与学习贯彻党的二十届四中全会和中央经济工作会议精神紧密结合起来,坚定不移做强做优做大国有企业和国有资本,为中国式现代化建设贡献更大力量。

Fully Recognizing Responsibilities and Missions, Better Playing the Role of Strategic Support

充分认识职责使命,更好发挥战略支撑作用

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "State-owned enterprises are an important force for strengthening the country's comprehensive national strength and safeguarding the common interests of the people; they must be made stronger, better, and larger with full confidence." Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, General Secretary Xi Jinping has attached great importance to the work of state-owned assets and central enterprises, personally planning, personally deploying, and personally promoting the reform, development, and Party building of state-owned assets and central enterprises. At every important juncture and critical moment, he has made strategic plans for the reform and development of state-owned assets and central enterprises. In the important instructions on the work of central enterprises issued at the end of last year, General Secretary Xi Jinping required central enterprises to "fully recognize the responsibilities and missions they bear, better serve the overall work of the Party and the state, serve high-quality economic and social development, serve to safeguard and improve people's livelihoods, bravely shoulder social responsibilities, and contribute greater strength to Chinese-path modernization."

习近平总书记指出:“国有企业是壮大国家综合实力、保障人民共同利益的重要力量,必须理直气壮做强做优做大”。党的十八大以来,习近平总书记高度重视国资央企工作,亲自谋划、亲自部署、亲自推动国资央企改革发展和党的建设,每逢重要节点、关键时刻,都对国资央企改革发展作出战略擘画。在去年底对中央企业工作作出的重要指示中,习近平总书记要求中央企业“充分认识肩负的职责使命,更好服务党和国家工作大局,服务经济社会高质量发展,服务保障和改善民生,勇担社会责任,为中国式现代化建设贡献更大力量”。

Guided by General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speeches and important instructions and directives, state-owned assets and central enterprises have conscientiously implemented the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, actively served national strategies, and played a backbone and pillar role in the national economy. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period [3]3 The "14th Five-Year Plan" period refers to the years 2021-2025, the previous five-year plan cycle., the total assets of central enterprises successively crossed three major thresholds of 70 trillion yuan, 80 trillion yuan, and 90 trillion yuan, exceeding 95 trillion yuan by the end of 2025, contributing nearly 13 trillion yuan in taxes cumulatively, and completing the transfer of 1.2 trillion yuan in state-owned equity to the social security fund. Their scale, strength, value creation capability, and brand influence have been significantly enhanced, and the competitiveness, innovation, control, influence, and risk resistance of the state-owned economy have been markedly strengthened.

在习近平总书记重要讲话和重要指示批示精神指引下,国资央企认真贯彻党中央决策部署,积极服务国家战略,在国民经济中发挥了骨干和支柱作用。“十四五”时期,中央企业资产总额连续跨上70万亿元、80万亿元、90万亿元3个大台阶,2025年底突破95万亿元,累计贡献税收近13万亿元,完成向社保基金划转国有股权1.2万亿元,规模实力、价值创造能力和品牌影响力明显增强,国有经济竞争力、创新力、控制力、影响力、抗风险能力显著增强。

Bravely Undertaking the Glorious Mission of Serving the Overall Work of the Party and the State. State-owned assets and central enterprises were born for the Party, started their undertakings following the Party, and strive for the Party. They are the "pillars" of the socialist economy with Chinese characteristics and bear significant mission responsibilities in the great cause of building a strong country and rejuvenating the nation. Most state-owned assets and central enterprises are located in important industries and key fields related to national security and the lifeline of the national economy. They are an important force for realizing national strategic intentions and actively responding to changes in the external environment and major risks and challenges. Only by consciously planning and promoting work from the perspective of the overall work of the Party and the state, and always focusing on what the Party Central Committee cares about and what the cause of the Party and the state needs, can we stabilize the overall situation, respond to changes, and open up new prospects with the certainty of our own development, better playing the important role as an important pillar and supporting force for our Party to govern and rejuvenate the country, and continuously making new contributions to Chinese-path modernization. In recent years, state-owned assets and central enterprises have always kept in mind the "greatest concerns of the state" and the "great plans of the Party," unswervingly consolidating and developing the public-owned economy, creating and accumulating enormous material wealth for our country's economic and social development, and further consolidating the important material and political foundation for the Party's governance.

勇担服务党和国家工作大局的光荣使命。国资央企因党而生、跟党创业、为党奋斗,是中国特色社会主义经济的“顶梁柱”,在强国建设、民族复兴伟业中肩负着重大使命责任。国资央企大多处在关系国家安全、国民经济命脉的重要行业和关键领域,是实现国家战略意图、积极应对外部环境变化和重大风险挑战的重要力量。自觉从党和国家工作大局出发谋划推动工作,始终做到党中央关心什么就重点抓什么、党和国家事业需要什么就重点干什么,才能以自身发展的确定性稳大局、应变局、开新局,更好发挥作为我们党执政兴国的重要支柱和依靠力量的重要作用,为中国式现代化建设不断作出新的贡献。近年来,国资央企始终胸怀“国之大者”、党之大计,毫不动摇巩固和发展公有制经济,为我国经济社会发展创造和积累了巨大物质财富,进一步巩固了党执政的重要物质基础和政治基础。

Playing the Important Function of Serving High-quality Economic and Social Development. High-quality development is the primary task of building a modern socialist country in all respects and the hard truth of the New Era. The "Proposal" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the CPC [2]2 The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the CPC was held in 2025, focusing on further deepening reform and advancing Chinese modernization. proposed promoting the economy to achieve effective qualitative improvement and reasonable quantitative growth, and proposed achieving the goal of per capita GDP reaching the level of moderately developed countries by 2035. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to maintain a reasonable economic growth rate over the next decade under the premise of improving the quality and efficiency of economic development. State-owned assets and central enterprises play an important role in consolidating and expanding the positive momentum of economic stability and improvement. High-quality development is not only reflected in the improvement of their own development quality and efficiency but also in the organic unity of fulfilling economic, political, and social responsibilities, in the demonstration and leadership of maintaining market order and enhancing industry value, and in the proactive actions to boost sustained economic improvement and overall social stability. In recent years, state-owned assets and central enterprises have consciously integrated into national strategies such as the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, actively undertaken the construction of major projects such as the Sichuan-Tibet Railway and the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link, proactively helped small and medium-sized enterprises overcome difficulties, firmly held the bottom-line guarantee for key products and basic raw materials such as grain and energy resources, and comprehensively built globally leading road networks, power grids, pipeline networks, water networks, and communication networks, injecting strong momentum into high-quality economic and social development.

发挥服务经济社会高质量发展的重要功能。高质量发展是全面建设社会主义现代化国家的首要任务,是新时代的硬道理。党的二十届四中全会《建议》提出,推动经济实现质的有效提升和量的合理增长,并提出到2035年实现人均国内生产总值达到中等发达国家水平。实现这一目标,需要在提高经济发展质量效益的前提下,在未来十年保持合理的经济增长速度。国资央企在巩固拓展经济稳中向好势头中发挥着重要作用,高质量发展不仅体现在自身发展质量效益的提升上,更体现在履行经济责任、政治责任、社会责任的有机统一上,体现在维护市场秩序、提升行业价值的示范引领上,体现在助推经济持续向好和社会大局稳定的主动作为上。近年来,国资央企自觉融入京津冀协同发展、长江经济带发展、粤港澳大湾区建设等国家战略,积极承担川藏铁路、深中通道等重大工程建设,主动帮助中小企业纾困解难,牢牢守住粮食、能源资源等关键产品和基础原材料的托底保障底线,全面构筑全球领先的路网、电网、管网、水网、通信网,为经济社会高质量发展注入强劲动能。

Firmly Upholding the Value Pursuit of Serving to Safeguard and Improve People's Livelihoods. Chinese-path modernization is the modernization of common prosperity for all the people. Safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods in the course of development is a major task of Chinese-path modernization. State-owned assets are the common wealth of all the people and an important force for safeguarding the common interests of the people and promoting the realization of common prosperity for all the people. State-owned assets and central enterprises take benefiting the people as their fundamental value orientation, take realizing the people's aspiration for a better life as the fundamental starting point and ultimate goal of fulfilling social responsibilities, and strive to do more practical things for the people, which can promote the fruits of modernization to benefit all the people more and more fairly. In recent years, state-owned assets and central enterprises have always adhered to putting the people first and prioritizing people's livelihoods, actively undertaken many infrastructure and basic public service construction projects with large investments and strong public welfare nature, fully participated in rescue and relief efforts for many major natural disasters and emergencies, invested and introduced over 100 billion yuan in assistance funds to help win the battle against poverty, organized a large number of public welfare and charitable activities to help the needy, support the elderly and disabled, and improve people's well-being, playing an important role in serving to safeguard and improve people's livelihoods.

坚定服务保障和改善民生的价值追求。中国式现代化是全体人民共同富裕的现代化,在发展中保障和改善民生是中国式现代化的重大任务。国有资产是全体人民的共同财富,是保障人民共同利益、推动实现全体人民共同富裕的重要力量。国资央企把造福人民作为根本价值取向,把实现人民对美好生活的向往作为履行社会责任的根本出发点和落脚点,努力为人民群众多办实事,能够促进现代化建设成果更多更公平惠及全体人民。近年来,国资央企始终坚持人民至上、民生为大,积极承担许多投资大、公益性强的基础设施和基本公共服务建设,全力参与许多重大自然灾害、突发事件的抢险救援,投入和引进超千亿元帮扶资金助力打赢脱贫攻坚战,组织开展大量扶危济困、扶老助残、增进民生福祉的公益慈善活动,在服务保障和改善民生方面发挥了重要作用。

On the new journey, state-owned assets and central enterprises should focus on the overall situation, resolutely fulfill the responsibility of maintaining national security, actively serve national strategies for regional coordinated development and major regional strategies, and enhance strategic support capabilities; strive to enhance value creation capabilities, expand effective investment, and improve development quality and efficiency; actively do a good job in people's livelihood services and basic guarantees, and continuously enhance the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security.

新征程上,国资央企要着眼大局全局,坚决履行维护国家安全责任,积极服务国家区域协调发展战略和区域重大战略等,增强战略支撑能力;着力提升价值创造能力,扩大有效投资,提升发展质效;积极做好民生服务和基础保障,不断增强人民群众的获得感、幸福感、安全感。

Accurately Grasping the Key Points of Reform and Development, Contributing Greater Strength to Chinese-path Modernization through Their Own High-quality Development

准确把握改革发展重点,以自身高质量发展为中国式现代化建设贡献更大力量

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "We must focus on main responsibilities and main businesses, continuously optimize the layout of the state-owned economy, effectively enhance core functions and improve core competitiveness. We must base ourselves on the real economy, strengthen the tackling of key core technologies, and promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation. We must further deepen reform, improve the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics, perfect the corporate governance structure, strive to solve deep-seated problems restricting enterprise development, and endeavor to build world-class enterprises. We must coordinate development and security, effectively prevent and resolve risks, and continuously consolidate the foundation for the safe development of enterprises." For state-owned assets and central enterprises to better fulfill their responsibilities and missions, it is inseparable from enhancing core functions and improving core competitiveness. General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions are imbued with a strong sense of problem awareness and a clear problem orientation, putting forward clear requirements and ardent hopes for state-owned assets and central enterprises. Only by unswervingly making state-owned enterprises and state capital stronger, better, and larger can we contribute greater strength to Chinese-path modernization.

习近平总书记指出:“要聚焦主责主业,持续优化国有经济布局,切实增强核心功能、提升核心竞争力。要立足实体经济,强化关键核心技术攻关,推动科技创新和产业创新深度融合。要进一步深化改革,完善中国特色现代企业制度,健全公司治理结构,着力解决制约企业发展的深层次问题,努力建设世界一流企业。要统筹发展和安全,有效防范化解风险,不断夯实企业安全发展的基础。”国资央企更好履行职责使命,离不开增强核心功能、提升核心竞争力。习近平总书记的重要指示,贯穿着强烈的问题意识、鲜明的问题导向,对国资央企提出了明确要求和殷切希望。坚定不移做强做优做大国有企业和国有资本,才能为中国式现代化建设贡献更大力量。

Take multiple measures simultaneously to optimize layout and adjust structure, enhance core functions and improve core competitiveness. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasizes: “It is necessary to follow the development concepts of innovation, coordination, green, openness, and sharing, to advance structural adjustment, innovative development, and layout optimization, so that state-owned enterprises play a leading role in supply-side structural reform.” [4]4 Xi Jinping, “Speech at a Symposium on State-owned Enterprise Reform,” 2016. In the current period and for some time to come, China’s development faces a new strategic environment and new strategic tasks. To advance Chinese-path modernization and promote high-quality development, it is necessary to further strengthen the strategic supporting role of the state-owned economy. To this end, it is necessary to advance the optimization of the layout and structural adjustment of the state-owned economy, further clarify the functional positioning of different types of state-owned enterprises, and promote the state-owned economy to be more directed toward major national strategic fields such as safeguarding national security, supporting scientific and technological progress, concerning the national economy and people’s livelihood, and providing public services. This is a major deployment to promote the state-owned economy to better serve national strategic objectives and effectively support Chinese-path modernization, and it is also an inherent requirement for deepening the reform of state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises and for making state-owned enterprises and state-owned capital stronger, better, and larger. In recent years, central state-owned enterprises have resolutely implemented the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, deeply advanced the “three concentrations” of state-owned capital (concentration in important industries and key fields related to national security and the lifeline of the national economy, concentration in public services, emergency response capabilities, and public welfare fields related to the national economy and people’s livelihood, and concentration in forward-looking strategic emerging industries), successively established a number of important backbone enterprises such as Aero Engine Corporation of China, China Oil & Gas Pipeline Network Corporation, China Satellite Network Group Co., Ltd., China Electric Equipment Group Co., Ltd., and China Yajiang Group Co., Ltd., promoted the strategic reorganization of multiple central enterprises, promoted the continuous improvement of industrial layout and the continuous optimization of regional layout, and continuously improved the efficiency of state-owned capital allocation and operation, effectively enhancing the strategic mission function of the state-owned economy and fully exerting the leading role of the state-owned economy in the national economy.

多措并举优布局、调结构,增强核心功能、提升核心竞争力。习近平总书记强调:“要按照创新、协调、绿色、开放、共享的发展理念的要求,推进结构调整、创新发展、布局优化,使国有企业在供给侧结构性改革中发挥带动作用。”当前和今后一段时期,我国发展面临新的战略环境、新的战略任务,推进中国式现代化、推动高质量发展,必须进一步强化国有经济战略支撑作用。为此,要推进国有经济布局优化和结构调整,进一步明晰不同类型国有企业功能定位,推动国有经济更多投向保障国家安全、支持科技进步、关系国计民生、提供公共服务等国家重大战略领域。这是推动国有经济更好服务国家战略目标、有力支持中国式现代化建设的重大部署,也是纵深推进国资国企改革、做强做优做大国有企业和国有资本的内在要求。近年来,国资央企坚决贯彻落实党中央决策部署,深入推进国有资本“三个集中”(向关系国家安全、国民经济命脉的重要行业和关键领域集中,向关系国计民生的公共服务、应急能力、公益性领域等集中,向前瞻性战略性新兴产业集中),先后组建中国航发、国家管网集团、中国星网、中国电气装备、中国雅江集团等一批重要骨干企业,推动多家中央企业战略性重组,促进产业布局不断完善、区域布局不断优化、国有资本配置和运行效率不断提高,有效增强了国有经济战略使命功能,充分发挥了国有经济在国民经济中的主导作用。

Focus on integration to strengthen innovation and promote transformation, driving the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasizes: “Chinese-path modernization relies on scientific and technological modernization as its support, and achieving high-quality development relies on scientific and technological innovation to cultivate new momentum.” [5]5 Xi Jinping, “Speech at the National Conference on Scientific and Technological Innovation, the Academician Conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and the Ninth National Congress of the China Association for Science and Technology,” 2024. Currently, a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating and evolving, and the high-tech field has become the forefront and main battlefield of international competition. Central enterprises are the backbone and core strength of China’s real economy, an important component of the national strategic scientific and technological strength, and have obvious advantages in R&D investment, resource integration, and scenario construction. They have the responsibility, foundation, and conditions to play a leading role in promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation. In recent years, central state-owned enterprises have focused on developing new quality productive forces, continuously improved the organizational system, business system, and policy system, with R&D investment exceeding one trillion yuan for four consecutive years, concentrated on overcoming a number of key core technologies, and created a number of world-renowned national heavy equipment such as Chang’e-6, the Mengxiang drilling vessel, and the Fendouzhe deep-sea submersible. They have built a number of world-class industrial clusters in fields such as new-generation information technology, new energy, new materials, and high-end equipment manufacturing, making positive contributions to advancing high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening and building a modern industrial system.

聚焦融合强创新、促转化,推动科技创新和产业创新深度融合。习近平总书记强调:“中国式现代化要靠科技现代化作支撑,实现高质量发展要靠科技创新培育新动能。”当前,新一轮科技革命和产业变革加速演进,高技术领域成为国际竞争最前沿和主战场。中央企业是我国实体经济的骨干中坚力量,是国家战略科技力量的重要组成部分,在研发投入、资源整合、场景建设等方面具有明显优势,有责任、有基础、有条件在推动科技创新和产业创新深度融合中发挥带头作用。近年来,国资央企聚焦发展新质生产力,持续健全组织体系、业务体系、政策体系,研发投入连续4年超过万亿元,集中攻克了一批关键核心技术,打造了嫦娥六号、梦想号、“奋斗者”号等一批举世瞩目的大国重器,在新一代信息技术、新能源、新材料、高端装备制造等领域打造了一批世界级产业集群,为推进高水平科技自立自强、建设现代化产业体系作出了积极贡献。

Seize opportunities to increase vitality and further deepen the reform of state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises. General Secretary Xi Jinping attaches great importance to the reform of state-owned enterprises, creatively putting forward the important exposition of the “two unswervingly uphold” — “upholding the Party’s leadership over state-owned enterprises is a major political principle and must be consistently applied; establishing a modern enterprise system is the direction of state-owned enterprise reform and must also be consistently applied” — and the important requirement of the “three favorable” — “advancing the reform of state-owned enterprises should be conducive to the preservation and appreciation of state-owned capital, conducive to improving the competitiveness of the state-owned economy, and conducive to amplifying the function of state-owned capital.” [6]6 Xi Jinping, “Speech at a Symposium on State-owned Enterprise Reform,” 2016. Central state-owned enterprises have advanced through reform and played an important role in the development of the socialist market economy. Deepening the reform of state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises is a crucial part of comprehensively deepening reform, an important magic weapon for making state-owned enterprises and state-owned capital stronger, better, and larger, and is of great significance for consolidating the dominant position of public ownership, better exerting the strategic supporting role of the state-owned economy, and ensuring the Party’s long-term governance and the country’s lasting peace and stability. In recent years, central state-owned enterprises have firmly grasped the correct direction of reform, fully implemented the “1+N” policy system for state-owned enterprise reform, successively advanced the three-year action plan for state-owned enterprise reform and the deepening and upgrading action for state-owned enterprise reform, effectively broke through some deep-seated institutional and mechanistic obstacles, continuously improved the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics, accelerated the construction of a number of enterprises into world-class enterprises, and led the vast number of Party members, cadres, and employees to inject entrepreneurial motivation, innovative vitality, and creative strength into enterprises in the struggle to gnaw hard bones and wade through dangerous shoals.

乘势而上抓机遇、增活力,进一步深化国资国企改革。习近平总书记高度重视国有企业改革,创造性作出“坚持党对国有企业的领导是重大政治原则,必须一以贯之;建立现代企业制度是国有企业改革的方向,也必须一以贯之”的“两个一以贯之”重要论述,提出“推进国有企业改革,要有利于国有资本保值增值,有利于提高国有经济竞争力,有利于放大国有资本功能”的“三个有利于”重要要求。国资央企是在改革中前进的,在发展社会主义市场经济中发挥了重要作用。深化国资国企改革,是全面深化改革的重要一环,是做强做优做大国有企业和国有资本的重要法宝,对于巩固公有制主体地位、更好发挥国有经济战略支撑作用、确保党长期执政和国家长治久安具有十分重要的意义。近年来,国资央企牢牢把握改革的正确方向,全面落实国企改革“1+N”政策体系,接续推进国企改革三年行动和国企改革深化提升行动,有力破除一些深层次体制机制障碍,推动中国特色现代企业制度不断健全,一批企业加快建成世界一流企业,引领广大党员干部职工在啃硬骨头、涉险滩的奋斗中为企业注入创业动力、创新活力、创造实力。

Address both symptoms and root causes to prevent risks and guard the bottom line, coordinate development and security. General Secretary Xi Jinping points out: “Security is the prerequisite for development, and development is the guarantee of security.” [7]7 Xi Jinping, “Speech at a Meeting on National Security,” 2014. Adhering to the coordination of development and security is a major principle of our Party’s governance. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, General Secretary Xi Jinping has made a series of important expositions on coordinating development and security and preventing and defusing major risks, and put forward the holistic approach to national security. [8]8 The holistic approach to national security (总体国家安全观) is a framework proposed by Xi Jinping in 2014 that integrates political, economic, military, cultural, social, and other dimensions of security. Central state-owned enterprises are the “ballast stone” for maintaining national security, involving multiple industries such as energy, communications, and major equipment manufacturing. They must better coordinate development and security, both safeguarding national strategic security and ensuring the safety of their own production and operations, continuously strengthening the bottom line of “prevention” and enhancing the ability of “stability.” In recent years, central state-owned enterprises have continuously strengthened bottom-line thinking and risk awareness, highlighted the prevention and control of risks in key areas, continuously increased investment in areas such as food security and energy resource security, and significantly improved the resilience and security level of industrial and supply chains; continuously improved safety supervision measures and risk prevention and control systems, firmly held the bottom line of not having major risks, and made every effort to maintain the safety of people’s lives and property and the overall stability of society.

标本兼治防风险、守底线,统筹发展和安全。习近平总书记指出:“安全是发展的前提,发展是安全的保障。”坚持统筹发展和安全,是我们党治国理政的一条重大原则。党的十八大以来,习近平总书记围绕统筹发展和安全、防范化解重大风险作出一系列重要论述,并提出总体国家安全观。国资央企是维护国家安全的“压舱石”,涉及能源、通信、重大装备制造等多个行业,必须更好统筹发展和安全,既保障国家战略安全,也抓好企业自身生产经营安全,不断筑牢“防”的底线,提升“稳”的能力。近年来,国资央企不断强化底线思维、风险意识,突出抓好重点领域风险防控,持续加大粮食安全、能源资源安全等领域投入力度,大幅提升产业链供应链韧性和安全水平;不断完善安全监管措施、健全风险防控体系,牢牢守住不发生重大风险底线,全力维护人民群众生命财产安全和社会大局稳定。

On the new journey, central state-owned enterprises must firmly grasp the theme of high-quality development, focus on cultivating and developing new quality productive forces, take deepening the reform of state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises as the driving force, adhere to coordinating development and security, and achieve greater results in making state-owned enterprises and state-owned capital stronger, better, and larger.

新征程上,国资央企要牢牢把握高质量发展这个主题,以培育发展新质生产力为重点,以深化国资国企改革为动力,坚持统筹发展和安全,在做强做优做大国有企业和国有资本上取得更大成效。

Adhere to the overall leadership of the Party over central state-owned enterprises, and implement the responsibility for Party governance and Party building with higher standards.

坚持党对国资央企的全面领导,以更高标准落实管党治党责任

General Secretary Xi Jinping points out: “It is necessary to adhere to and strengthen the overall leadership of the Party, strengthen the construction of enterprise leadership teams, consolidate the responsibility for Party governance and Party building, promote the integration of Party leadership into all aspects of corporate governance, and promote the deep integration of Party building work with production and operation. It is necessary to improve systems, strengthen supervision, resolutely punish corruption, persistently correct the ‘four forms of decadence,’ [9]9 The “four forms of decadence” (四风) refers to formalism, bureaucratism, hedonism, and extravagance, which were the target of a Party-wide rectification campaign launched in 2013. and strive to create a clean and upright political ecosystem.” [10]10 Xi Jinping, “Speech at a Symposium on the Work of Central State-owned Enterprises,” 2021. This important instruction provides a fundamental guideline for central state-owned enterprises to adhere to Party leadership and strengthen Party building.

习近平总书记指出:“要坚持和加强党的全面领导,加强企业领导班子建设,压实管党治党责任,推动党的领导融入公司治理各环节,促进党建工作与生产经营深度融合。要完善制度、强化监督,坚决惩治腐败,锲而不舍纠治‘四风’,着力营造风清气正的政治生态。”这一重要指示,为国资央企坚持党的领导、加强党的建设提供了根本遵循。

Party leadership and Party building in state-owned enterprises can only be strengthened, not weakened. Adhering to Party leadership and strengthening Party building is the glorious tradition of China’s state-owned enterprises, is the “root” and “soul” of state-owned enterprises, and is also the unique advantage of state-owned enterprises. In recent years, central state-owned enterprises have unswervingly adhered to and strengthened the overall leadership of the Party, deeply implemented systems such as the “first agenda,” [11]11 The “first agenda” (第一议题) system requires that the first item on the agenda of Party committee meetings be the study and implementation of Xi Jinping’s important speeches and instructions. comprehensively grasped basic organizations, basic teams, and basic systems, coordinated and improved the quality and effectiveness of Party organization construction at all levels and in all fields, and fully exerted the role of grassroots Party organizations and Party members in urgent, difficult, dangerous, and heavy tasks such as scientific and technological breakthroughs, poverty alleviation, and disaster relief.

国有企业党的领导党的建设只能加强、不能削弱。坚持党的领导、加强党的建设是我国国有企业的光荣传统,是国有企业的“根”和“魂”,也是国有企业的独特优势。近年来,国资央企毫不动摇坚持和加强党的全面领导,深化落实“第一议题”等制度,全面抓好基本组织、基本队伍、基本制度,统筹提升各层级各领域党组织建设质效,在科技攻关、脱贫攻坚、抢险救灾等急难险重任务中充分发挥基层党组织和党员作用。

Comprehensive and strict governance of the Party has no special status and no exceptions in state-owned enterprises. Central state-owned enterprises are capital-intensive, resource-rich, and asset-concentrated, involving a wide range of areas, covering many personnel, and with complex and diverse situations. Only by strengthening comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, integrating the anti-corruption struggle with all aspects of Party building, and coordinating it with various types of supervision such as investor supervision, can we address both symptoms and root causes, eliminate the source, and create a clean and upright political ecosystem. In recent years, central state-owned enterprises have resolutely implemented the political responsibility for comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, regularly held special research and consultations, coordinated the advancement of inspection and rectification, fully integrated intra-Party supervision with various types of supervision, continuously deepened rectification in key areas such as finance, energy, medicine, and infrastructure engineering, seriously investigated and dealt with various violations of discipline and law, formulated and improved institutional norms, strictly and consistently corrected the “four forms of decadence,” carried out graded and classified warning education, promoted the filling of clean and upright atmosphere, and further boosted the spirit of entrepreneurship and work.

全面从严治党在国有企业没有特殊、没有例外。国资央企资金密集、资源富集、资产聚集,涉及范围广、覆盖人员多、情况复杂多样。加强全面从严治党,把反腐败斗争同党的各方面建设贯通起来、同出资人监督等各类监督协同起来,才能标本兼治、肃清源头,营造风清气正的政治生态。近年来,国资央企坚决落实全面从严治党政治责任,定期开展专题研究会商,统筹推进巡视整改,全面贯通党内监督与各类监督,持续深化金融、能源、医药、基建工程等重点领域整治,严肃查处各类违纪违法行为,制定完善制度规范,一严到底纠治“四风”,分级分类开展警示教育,推动清风正气更加充盈,干事创业精气神进一步提振。

On the new journey, central state-owned enterprises must thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important thoughts on Party building and on the Party’s self

新征程上,国资央企要深入贯彻落实习近平总书记关于党的建设的重要思想、关于党的自我革命的重要思想,以高质量党建引领保障高质量发展为导向,加快构建同国资央企新征程新使命相适应的党建工作新格局。旗帜鲜明加强党的领导党的建设,健全以学铸魂、以学增智、以学正风、以学促干长效机制,巩固深化“第一议题”等制度成果,推动党建工作与生产经营深度融合。坚定不移推进全面从严治党,贯彻落实二十届中央纪委五次全会精神,一体推进“三不腐”,常态化开展全面从严治党主体责任约谈,巩固拓展深入贯彻中央八项规定精神学习教育成果,以全面从严治党新成效为“十五五”良好开局提供根本保障。

Notes

  1. The "15th Five-Year Plan" period refers to the years 2026-2030, the next five-year plan for national economic and social development in China. ↩
  2. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the CPC was held in 2025, focusing on further deepening reform and advancing Chinese modernization. ↩
  3. The "14th Five-Year Plan" period refers to the years 2021-2025, the previous five-year plan cycle. ↩
  4. Xi Jinping, “Speech at a Symposium on State-owned Enterprise Reform,” 2016. ↩
  5. Xi Jinping, “Speech at the National Conference on Scientific and Technological Innovation, the Academician Conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and the Ninth National Congress of the China Association for Science and Technology,” 2024. ↩
  6. Xi Jinping, “Speech at a Symposium on State-owned Enterprise Reform,” 2016. ↩
  7. Xi Jinping, “Speech at a Meeting on National Security,” 2014. ↩
  8. The holistic approach to national security (总体国家安全观) is a framework proposed by Xi Jinping in 2014 that integrates political, economic, military, cultural, social, and other dimensions of security. ↩
  9. The “four forms of decadence” (四风) refers to formalism, bureaucratism, hedonism, and extravagance, which were the target of a Party-wide rectification campaign launched in 2013. ↩
  10. Xi Jinping, “Speech at a Symposium on the Work of Central State-owned Enterprises,” 2021. ↩
  11. The “first agenda” (第一议题) system requires that the first item on the agenda of Party committee meetings be the study and implementation of Xi Jinping’s important speeches and instructions. ↩