Scientifically Grasp the Methods and Approaches of Comprehensively Deepening Reform

Comprehensively deepening reform is a profound and comprehensive social transformation, as well as a complex systemic project; it must adhere to correct reform methods. In May of this year, at a symposium with entrepreneurs and experts held in Jinan City, Shandong Province, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed that to further comprehensively deepen reform, we must closely adhere to the theme of advancing Chinese-path modernization, highlight reform priorities, firmly grasp the value orientation, and emphasize methods and approaches, thereby adding momentum to the completion of the central task and the realization of strategic goals. To further deepen the understanding of the laws of reform and scientifically grasp the methods and approaches of comprehensively deepening reform, we must uphold fundamental principles and break new ground, focus on systemic integration, ensure the implementation of reforms, and push forward the comprehensive deepening of reform in the New Era with a spirit of unremitting effort and an indomitable fighting posture.

全面深化改革是一场深刻而全面的社会变革，也是一项复杂的系统工程，必须坚持正确的改革方法。今年5月，习近平总书记在山东省济南市主持召开企业和专家座谈会时提出，进一步全面深化改革，要紧扣推进中国式现代化这个主题，突出改革重点，把牢价值取向，讲求方式方法，为完成中心任务、实现战略目标增添动力。进一步深化对改革的规律性认识，科学把握全面深化改革的方式方法，就要坚持守正创新，注重系统集成，抓好改革落实，以永不懈怠的精神状态和一往无前的奋斗姿态将新时代全面深化改革推向前进。

Uphold Fundamental Principles and Break New Ground, Ensuring the Direction of Comprehensively Deepening Reform is Clear and Its Momentum is Sufficient

坚持守正创新，确保全面深化改革方向明动力足

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “Upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground is an important ideological method for our Party in governing the country in the New Era.” Upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground complement and promote each other, embodying the dialectical unity of change and constancy, inheritance and development, and principle and creativity. Upholding fundamental principles means adhering to truth and the correct path; it is the foundation and prerequisite for further comprehensively deepening reform. Breaking new ground means daring to explore and being the first to act; it is the source of momentum and vitality for further comprehensively deepening reform. Only by upholding fundamental principles can we avoid losing our direction and committing subversive errors; only by breaking new ground can we grasp the times and lead the times.

习近平总书记指出：“守正创新是我们党在新时代治国理政的重要思想方法。”守正和创新相辅相成、相互促进，体现了变与不变、继承与发展、原则性与创造性的辩证统一。守正即坚守真理、坚守正道，是进一步全面深化改革的基础和前提所在；创新即勇于探索、敢为人先，是进一步全面深化改革的动力和活力源泉。守正才能不迷失方向、不犯颠覆性错误，创新才能把握时代、引领时代。

Adhere to fundamentals, consolidate the foundation, and solidify the cornerstone of reform. To further comprehensively deepen reform, we must perfect the various systems that uphold the authority of the Party Central Committee and its centralized, unified leadership, fully leverage the Party’s core leadership role in commanding the overall situation and coordinating all parties, and integrate Party leadership into every aspect and the entire process of reform, ensuring that reform always advances in the correct direction. Adhere to the fundamental tenets of Marxism and the stances, viewpoints, and methods that run through it, taking Marxism as the fundamental guiding ideology for building the Party and the country and for rejuvenating the Party and the country. Unswervingly adhere to socialism with Chinese characteristics, focus on “why to reform,” clarify “where to reform,” and consider “how to reform,” continuously perfecting and developing the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics and advancing the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. Adhere to the people’s democratic dictatorship, develop whole-process people’s democracy, and continuously advance the institutionalization, standardization, and proceduralization of socialist democratic politics.

坚守根本、培根固本，夯实改革基石。进一步全面深化改革，要完善坚定维护党中央权威和集中统一领导的各项制度，充分发挥党总揽全局、协调各方的领导核心作用，把党的领导贯穿改革各方面全过程，确保改革始终沿着正确方向前进。坚持马克思主义基本原理和贯穿其中的立场、观点、方法，把马克思主义作为立党立国、兴党兴国的根本指导思想。坚持中国特色社会主义不动摇，聚焦“为什么改”，明确“往哪儿改”，着眼“怎么改”，不断完善和发展中国特色社会主义制度，推进国家治理体系和治理能力现代化。坚持人民民主专政，发展全过程人民民主，不断推进社会主义民主政治制度化、规范化、程序化。

Dare to innovate, actively create, and stimulate the vitality of reform. To further comprehensively deepen reform, we must accurately recognize changes, scientifically respond to changes, and proactively seek change, conforming to new trends in the development of the times, new requirements of practical development, and new expectations of the people. View problems comprehensively, dialectically, and with a long-term perspective, combine them with concrete realities, boldly explore, dare to be the first, and seek effective ideas and methods to solve new problems. Enrich and expand the Party’s innovative theories, resolutely eliminate all institutional and mechanistic obstacles that hinder development, accelerate the formation of a system of institutions that is complete, scientifically standardized, and effectively operational, and vigorously promote theoretical innovation, institutional innovation, cultural innovation, and other innovations on the basis of practice. Uphold a fighting spirit of forging ahead with determination, opening roads through mountains and building bridges across waters, overcoming difficulties, and using scientific planning and innovative boldness to grasp and implement various tasks effectively, ensuring that reform always maintains strong vitality.

勇于创新、积极创造，激发改革活力。进一步全面深化改革，要准确识变、科学应变、主动求变，顺应时代发展新趋势、实践发展新要求、人民群众新期待，用全面、辩证、长远的眼光看待问题，结合具体实际，大胆探索、敢为人先，寻求有效解决新问题的思路和办法。丰富拓展党的创新理论，坚决破除一切妨碍发展的体制机制障碍，加快形成系统完备、科学规范、运行有效的制度体系，大力推进实践基础上的理论创新、制度创新、文化创新以及其他各方面创新。秉持锐意进取的斗争精神，逢山开路、遇水架桥、攻坚克难，以科学的谋划、创新的魄力把各项工作抓好抓实，让改革始终保持强大生命力。

Innovate while upholding fundamental principles, develop while innovating, and expand the breadth and depth of reform. The world today is undergoing changes unseen in a century, and our country is advancing Chinese-path modernization, a practice and innovation of immense scale and uniqueness in human history. The new questions posed to us by the queries of China, the queries of the world, the queries of the people, and the queries of the times are more complex and difficult than in the past, urgently requiring us to provide answers from the integration of theory and practice. To further comprehensively deepen reform, we must uphold fundamental principles and break new ground while emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts, adhere to proceeding from reality in everything, deeply grasp the objectives, tasks, and practical requirements of reform, follow objective laws, break free from path dependence, and strive to push reform forward. Uphold fundamental principles and break new ground while consolidating efforts and working earnestly, adhere to the correct direction, strengthen the forward-looking, strategic, and overall planning of reform, focus reform efforts on solving practical problems, and promote the in-depth development of various reforms along the correct path, solidly advancing high-quality economic development.

在守正中创新、在创新中发展，拓展改革广度深度。当今世界正在经历百年未有之大变局，我国正在推进中国式现代化这一人类历史上非常宏大而独特的实践创新，中国之问、世界之问、人民之问、时代之问给我们提出的新考题比过去更复杂、更难，迫切需要我们从理论与实践的结合上提交答案。进一步全面深化改革，要在解放思想、实事求是中守正创新，坚持一切从实际出发，深刻把握改革的目标任务和实践要求，遵循客观规律，摆脱路径依赖，奋力把改革继续推向前进。在凝心聚力、真抓实干中守正创新，坚持正确方向，加强改革的前瞻性、战略性、全局性谋划，把改革重点放到解决实际问题上来，沿着正确道路推动各项改革向纵深发展，扎实推进经济高质量发展。

Focus on Systemic Integration, Enhancing the Systemic, Holistic, and Synergistic Nature of Reform

注重系统集成，增强改革系统性整体性协同性

Systemic integration is an important feature of comprehensively deepening reform and also an important methodology for advancing various reforms. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has coordinated the advancement of major reforms in various fields, continuously enhancing the systemic, holistic, and synergistic nature of reform. Breakthrough progress has been made in reforms in important areas and key links, and our country’s development has acquired a more solid material foundation and more complete institutional guarantees. Comprehensively deepening reform concerns the overall situation of the development of the Party and the state’s undertakings; it is an organic whole composed of multiple reform contents, multiple structural elements, and multiple system levels. It is necessary to uphold the holistic thinking of a single chessboard for reform, coordinate all aspects, levels, and elements with an overall perspective and systemic thinking, and promote mutual promotion, benign interaction, and coordinated cooperation among various reforms.

系统集成是全面深化改革的重要特征，也是推进各项改革的重要方法论。党的十八大以来，以习近平同志为核心的党中央统筹推进各领域重大改革，不断增强改革的系统性整体性协同性，重要领域和关键环节改革取得突破性进展，我国发展具备了更为坚实的物质基础、更为完善的制度保证。全面深化改革关系党和国家事业发展全局，是多项改革内容、多个结构要素、多个系统层次构成的有机整体，必须秉持改革一盘棋的整体思维，以全局观念和系统思维统筹好各方面、各层次、各要素，推动各项改革相互促进、良性互动、协同配合。

Make overall plans and take all factors into consideration, strengthening top-level design and overall planning. To further comprehensively deepen reform, we must always anchor the overall goal of continuing to perfect and develop the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics and advancing the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, closely adhere to the theme of advancing Chinese-path modernization, strengthen the overall layout, do a good job of top-level design, perfect methods and pathways, and promote better adaptation between the relations of production and the productive forces, between the superstructure and the economic base, and between national governance and social development. Focus on planning reform measures for overall and strategic issues, deeply study the interconnections of reforms in various fields and the coupling of various reform measures, enhance the consistency of macro-policy orientations, so that various reform measures complement each other in policy orientation, promote each other in the implementation process, and bring out the best in each other in reform effectiveness. Combine top-level design and overall planning with adapting measures to local conditions and practical innovation, combine solving practical problems in regional development with overcoming common difficulties, and combine key breakthroughs with overall advancement, further releasing the vitality of reform and promoting reform measures in various fields and aspects to work in the same direction and form a synergy.

统筹兼顾，加强顶层设计和整体谋划。进一步全面深化改革，要始终锚定继续完善和发展中国特色社会主义制度、推进国家治理体系和治理能力现代化这个总目标，紧扣推进中国式现代化主题，加强总体布局，做好顶层设计，完善方法路径，推动生产关系和生产力、上层建筑和经济基础、国家治理和社会发展更好相适应。聚焦全局性、战略性问题谋划改革举措，深入研究各领域改革关联性和各项改革举措耦合性，增强宏观政策取向一致性，使各项改革举措在政策取向上相互配合、在实施过程中相互促进、在改革成效上相得益彰。把顶层设计、总体规划与因地制宜、实践创新结合起来，把解决区域发展实际问题与攻克共性难题结合起来，把重点突破与整体推进结合起来，进一步释放改革活力，推动各领域各方面改革举措同向发力、形成合力。

Implement measures holistically, promoting coordinated development across various fields and aspects. To further comprehensively deepen reform, it is not a single reform in a certain field or aspect, but a comprehensive, systemic reform and improvement. It is necessary to focus on deepening the reform of systems and mechanisms in various fields and aspects, accelerate the maturation and finalization of systems in various aspects, transform institutional advantages into national governance effectiveness, and provide stronger institutional support for advancing Chinese-path modernization. Focus on building a high-level socialist market economy system, perfect the basic systems of the market economy, unblock the key bottlenecks restricting the economic cycle, and promote the rational flow and efficient allocation of factor resources. Focus on promoting high-quality development, fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development philosophy, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, deepen supply-side structural reform, vigorously develop new quality productive forces, deepen reforms in fiscal, taxation, financial, scientific and technological systems, and empower new industries and new business forms.

整体施策，推动各领域各方面协同发展。进一步全面深化改革，不是某个领域某个方面的单项改革，而是全面的系统的改革和改进。要围绕深化各领域各方面体制机制改革，加快推动各方面制度更加成熟更加定型，将制度优势转化为国家治理效能，为推进中国式现代化提供更有力的制度支撑。围绕构建高水平社会主义市场经济体制，完善市场经济基础制度，打通制约经济循环的关键堵点，促进要素资源合理流动和高效配置。围绕推动高质量发展，完整、准确、全面贯彻新发展理念，加快构建新发展格局，深化供给侧结构性改革，大力发展新质生产力，深化财税、金融、科技等体制改革，蓄势赋能新产业新业态。

Adopt multiple measures simultaneously, strengthening the coordination and cooperation of various reform measures. To further comprehensively deepen reform, it is necessary to make overall plans for reform ideas, focus on achieving efficiency in resource integration, smooth flow of factors, and efficient cooperation, promote the coordination, cooperation, and linkage of various reform measures, ensure the effective connection and formation of synergy among various policies, and play a good “combined punch” in reform. Leverage the integration effect of reforms, correctly handle the relationship between reform, development, and stability, break down institutional and mechanistic barriers hindering development, and fully release the dividends of reform and the vitality of development.

多措并举，强化各项改革举措的协调配合。进一步全面深化改革，要统筹谋划改革思路，着力在资源整合、要素畅通、配合高效上下功夫，促进各项改革举措协调配合、协同联动，确保各项政策有效衔接、形成合力，打好改革“组合拳”。发挥改革的集成效应，正确处理好改革发展稳定关系，打破阻碍发展的体制机制壁垒，充分释放改革红利和发展活力。

Ensure the Implementation of Reforms, Making Reform Measures Take Effect on the Ground

抓好改革落实，让改革举措落地见效

The key to reform lies in implementation, and the difficulty also lies in implementation. Promoting the achievement of new accomplishments in comprehensively deepening reform ultimately depends on the effective implementation of each reform measure on the ground, and must be reflected in the actual feelings of each individual in society. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has focused on solving the practical problems of reform, opening up, and socialist modernization in the New Era, concentrated efforts to implement them one by one, ensuring that reform advances steadily and orderly, and that reforms in important areas and key links continuously achieve major breakthroughs. On the new journey, it is necessary to firmly grasp implementation with the spirit of driving a nail, allowing new reform achievements to continuously emerge.

改革重在落实，也难在落实。推动全面深化改革取得新的成就，最终要落到每一项改革举措的落地见效上，要体现到每一个社会个体的实际感受中。党的十八大以来，以习近平同志为核心的党中央着眼解决新时代改革开放和社会主义现代化建设的实际问题，集中力量一项一项抓好落实，确保改革稳步有序推进、重要领域和关键环节改革不断取得重大突破。新征程上，必须以钉钉子精神狠抓落实，让新的改革成果不断涌现。

Implement without compromise, ensuring that the final outcomes align with the decision-making intent of the Party Central Committee. To further comprehensively deepen reform, it is necessary to adhere to grasping the overall situation and seizing the key points, scientifically analyze the circumstances, distinguish priorities and urgencies, discern the primary from the secondary and the difficult from the easy, and place greater emphasis on important areas and key links, clarifying the order of priority. Adhere to combining a goal-oriented approach with a problem-oriented approach, conduct in-depth investigation and research, identify shortcomings and weaknesses, and strive to enhance the targetedness and precision of reform. Adhere to a people-centered approach, follow the mass line of the Party in the New Era, base efforts on the urgent needs of the people's livelihood and the direction of popular sentiment, and roll out a batch of practical matters that benefit people's livelihoods, warm people's hearts, and align with people's wishes, allowing the broad masses of the people to share in the fruits of reform and development.

不折不扣抓落实，确保最终效果符合党中央决策意图。进一步全面深化改革，要坚持站位全局扭住关键，科学分析形势，分清轻重缓急，辨别主次难易，更加突出重要领域和关键环节，明确优先序。坚持目标导向与问题导向相结合，深入调查研究，梳理短板弱项，着力提高改革的针对性和精准性。坚持以人民为中心，走好新时代党的群众路线，立足民生所急、民心所向，推出一批惠民生、暖民心、顺民意的实事，让广大人民群众共享改革发展成果。

Implement with vigor and swiftness, comprehensively grasp the timing, intensity, and effectiveness of reform. Faced with the complex and ever-changing international and domestic situation, faced with a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, and faced with the new expectations of the people, it is necessary to strengthen the determination and courage for reform, anchor the goals and tasks, and comprehensively plan reforms in the fields of education, science and technology, talent, politics, rule of law, culture, society, ecology, national security, and Party building. With a sense of urgency that cannot afford to wait and a sense of crisis that cannot afford to be slow, work steadfastly, diligently, scientifically, skillfully, and earnestly toward the established goals and directions, driving comprehensively deepening reform to achieve new breakthroughs at a new starting point.

雷厉风行抓落实，统筹把握好改革的时度效。面对纷繁复杂的国际国内形势，面对新一轮科技革命和产业变革，面对人民群众新期待，必须坚定改革的决心和勇气，锚定目标任务，统筹谋划好教育科技人才、政治、法治、文化、社会、生态、国家安全和党的建设领域的改革，以等不起的紧迫感、慢不得的危机感，朝着既定的目标方向踏实肯干、埋头苦干、科学巧干、真抓实干，推动全面深化改革在新起点上实现新突破。

Implement with a realistic and pragmatic approach, turning the grand blueprint of reform into a beautiful reality. To further comprehensively deepen reform, it is necessary to do one's utmost, give full play to subjective initiative, forever maintain an enterprising spirit of pioneering and innovation, overcome difficulties, and act with steadfastness and practicality. Act according to one's capacity, respect actual conditions and the laws of reform, achieve realism and pragmatism, be steady and prudent, and ensure that reform progresses steadily. Persevere over the long term, properly handle various relationships such as short-term and long-term, overall and partial, macro and micro, and grasp the rhythm and intensity well. Advance reform with the broad-mindedness and realm of "achievement need not be in my name, but achievement must include my effort," ensuring that reform proceeds steadily and swiftly, and is well-executed and successfully completed.

求真务实抓落实，把改革的宏伟蓝图变为美好现实。进一步全面深化改革，要尽力而为，发挥好主观能动性，永葆开拓创新的进取精神，攻坚克难，笃行实干。量力而行，尊重现实条件和改革规律，做到求真务实、踏实慎重、稳妥有序，确保改革稳步向前。久久为功，处理好短期和长期、整体与局部、宏观与微观等多种关系，把好节奏力度，以“功成不必在我、功成必定有我”的胸怀境界推进改革，确保改革蹄疾步稳、善作善成。

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