The 23rd Annual Conference of the China Economic Law Research Association and the 2nd National Marxist Economics Forum Held in Fujian

The “23rd Annual Conference of the China Economic Law Research Association and the 2nd National Marxist Economics Forum—System Reform, Innovation-Driven Development, and Structural Adjustment,” jointly sponsored by the China Economic Law Research Association, the Marxist Research Division of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Fujian Normal University, was held at Fuzhou Normal University from April 20 to 21, 2013. Distinguished economists including Liu Guoguang, Research Fellow and Member of the Academic Division of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Wei Xinghua, Professor Emeritus (First Class) at Renmin University of China; Cheng Enfu, President of the China Economic Law Research Association and Director of the Marxist Research Division of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Wu Xuangong, former Party Secretary of Xiamen University; Wen Kui, former President of Capital University of Economics and Business; and Li Jianping, former President of Fujian Normal University, along with over 150 experts and scholars from across the country, attended the conference.

由中国经济规律研究会、中国社会科学院马克思主义研究学部与福建师范大学联合主办的“中国经济规律研究会第23届年会暨第2届全国马克思主义经济学论坛——体制改革、创新驱动与结构调整”，于2013年4月20至21日在福州师范大学召开。中国社会科学院学部委员刘国光研究员，中国人民大学荣誉一级教授卫兴华，中国经济规律研究会会长、中国社会科学院马克思主义研究学部主任程恩富教授，厦门大学原党委书记吴宣恭教授，首都经济贸易大学原校长文魁教授，福建师范大学原校长李建平教授等著名经济学家，以及来自全国150多位专家学者出席了本次会议。

The attending experts and scholars conducted extensive and in-depth discussions closely centered on the core theme of “comprehensively deepening economic system reform, implementing an innovation-driven development strategy, and accelerating industrial structural transformation and upgrading.” They provided thorough answers to hot-button and difficult issues in contemporary China’s economic development, achieving fruitful research results.

与会专家学者紧密围绕“全面深化经济体制改革，实施创新驱动战略和加快产业结构转型升级”中心议题进行了广泛和深入的研讨，深入回答了当代中国经济发展中的热点和难点问题，取得丰硕研究成果。

In his speech, Liu Guoguang pointed out that China has already established and preliminarily perfected a socialist market economy system, and the task ahead is one of further improvement. Operating a market economy requires cultivating diversified market competition entities and establishing a fair competitive market environment. However, it is necessary to resolutely oppose excessive marketization, oppose privatization carried out in the name of marketization, oppose achieving diversification of competition entities by weakening, dividing, and dismembering the state-owned economy, and oppose establishing a capitalist-style free-competition market economy that lacks planning and strong state regulation. The erroneous view that China’s current socialist market economy is a “semi-dominant, semi-market” mixed economy is a poisonous legacy of neoliberal thought. If this is allowed to develop unchecked, and if in practice the state-owned economy’s control over key industries is dismantled and government intervention in the market is reduced, then the great cause of reform will inevitably head down the irreversible path of “Westernization,” “fragmentation,” and “capitalist transformation.”

刘国光在演讲中指出，中国已经建立并初步完善了社会主义市场经济体制，今后是进一步完善的问题。搞市场经济需要培育多元化的市场竞争主体，需要建立一个公平竞争的市场环境。但是，必须坚决反对过度市场化，反对以市场化为名进行的私有化，反对通过弱化分化肢解国有经济实现竞争主体的多元化，反对建立一个不讲计划、没有国家强有力调节的资本主义式的自由竞争的市场经济。那些认为中国目前实行的社会主义市场经济是“半统制、半市场”的混合经济的错误观点是新自由主义思潮的遗毒。如果听任其发展，并在实践中破除国有经济对重要产业的控制和减少政府对市场的干预，那么改革大业一定会走向“西化”、“分化”和“资本主义化”的不归路。

In his speech, Cheng Enfu argued that, in accordance with the spirit of the 18th National Congress of the CPC [1]1 The 18th National Congress of the CPC, held in November 2012, formally established the goal of comprehensively deepening reform and set forth the guiding principles for building a moderately prosperous society in all respects., and on the basis of having initially established and largely perfected the socialist market economy system, China should henceforth combine adherence to the socialist orientation with adherence to the orientation of a modern market economy. It should accelerate the adjustment and improvement of the socialist market economy system from the “four key words” of property rights, distribution, regulation, and opening up, and promptly construct a socialist “four-principal-type economic system” [2]2 “Four-principal-type economic system” (四主型经济制度) is a term coined by Cheng Enfu to denote an economic system in which public ownership, labor distribution, state regulation, and self-reliant opening-up each play the dominant role.. This system comprises a public-ownership-dominant, multi-type property rights system; a labor-dominant, multi-factor distribution system; a state-led, multi-structure market system; and a self-reliance-dominant, multi-directional opening-up system. It must never follow the path proposed by certain individual economists who claim that China is currently under a “semi-dominant, semi-market” dual system, that “state capitalism or crony capitalism” has caused reform to stagnate or regress, and that therefore reform must be oriented and targeted toward “privatization of state-owned enterprises, privatization of land, and financial liberalization,” in order to establish a market economy system based on the so-called “social justice + market economy = socialism” as the direction of reform. The organic combination of socialism or public ownership as the mainstay with a market economy can produce higher efficiency and fairness than the combination of capitalism or private ownership as the mainstay with a market economy system. Capitalism and monopoly private ownership deviate considerably from the principles of a market economy, and the two have profound internal contradictions and conflicts.

程恩富在演讲中认为，依据十八大精神，在初步建立和大体完善社会主义市场经济体制的基础上，我国今后应该将坚持社会主义取向与坚持现代市场经济取向结合起来，从产权、分配、调节和开放这“四个关键词”上加快社会主义市场经济体制的调整和完善，尽快构建起社会主义的“四主型经济制度”，即公有主体型的多种类产权制度、劳动主体型的多要素分配制度、国家主导型的多结构市场制度以及自立主导型的多方位开放制度，决不能像个别经济学家所提出的，中国现在是“半统制、半市场”的双重体制，“国家资本主义或权贵资本主义”造成了改革处于停滞或倒退状态，因而必须以“国有企业私有化、土地私有化和金融自由化”为方向和目标进行改革，以建立所谓的“社会公正+市场经济=社会主义”的市场经济体制作为改革的方向。社会主义或公有制主体与市场经济的有机结合，可以比资本主义或私有制主体与市场经济体制结合，产生更高的效率和公平。资本主义和垄断私有制在相当程度上是背离市场经济原则的，两者具有内在的深刻矛盾和冲突。

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