LATEST ISSUE
2026 No. 02
Pursuing a Financial Development Path with Chinese Characteristics to Boost China’s Strength in Finance
To promote high-quality financial development and boost China’s strength in finance, we must integrate the rule of law with the rule of virtue, vigorously promote the best elements of traditional Chinese culture, and actively foster a distinctively Chinese financial culture.
How President Xi Jinping Has Charted the Course for Boosting China’s Strength in Finance
President Xi has stressed time and again that “finance and the real economy exist in a relationship of symbiosis and shared prosperity.” He has also emphasized that “the inherent mission of finance is to serve the real economy.” Financial development must be rooted in our endeavors to expand the real economy and especially to build a modernized industrial system.
Vigorously Enhancing the Competitiveness of China’s Financial Sector
At this historic stage of transitioning from a major financial country into a financial powerhouse, China must move faster to strengthen the competitiveness of its financial sector. It must make solid strides to prevent financial risks, tighten regulatory oversight, and advance high-quality development. It must place particular emphasis on achieving breakthroughs in a number of fundamental and overarching issues of overall importance.
Methodologies for Economic Governance
Since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012, in the face of a complex international landscape and the challenging tasks of reform, development, and stability, President Xi Jinping has put forward a series of new ideas, viewpoints, and propositions. Grounded in the Marxist worldview and methodology, and informed by a deep understanding of the laws governing economic performance and the CPC’s practical experience in leading economic development, these contributions systematically address how economic work should be conducted and provide guidance for development in the new era.
Continuously Boosting the Confidence and Vitality of Private Investment
Sustained efforts to strengthen the confidence and vitality of private investment and promote its high-quality development constitute an important task in our economic agenda. At present, it is essential to focus on the prominent concerns of private enterprises, prioritize expanding market access, removing bottlenecks, and strengthening safeguards, and ensure that the CPC Central Committee’s decisions and plans for promoting private investment are effectively implemented.
Cities for the People: A Philosophy to Guide Modern Urban Development
The philosophy that cities are for the people transcends the instrumental rationality that once dominated the production of physical space. In essence, it represents a profound transformation in the relationship between cities and their residents. By re-envisioning space as socially produced, it has brought about a shift in urban development from the accumulation of material value to people-centered advancement. By redefining the goals, operational mechanisms, and governance models of urban development, this philosophy effectively integrates the advancement of people’s wellbeing with the transition to a new development model and the modernization of governance.
Rural Residents: The Key to Advancing Agricultural and Rural Modernization
Chinese modernization is essentially the modernization of the people, the goal of which is to achieve the people’s well-rounded development. Therefore, our ability to effectively solve the development issues of rural residents and continuously meet their aspirations for a better life directly determines the quality of agricultural and rural modernization and profoundly influences the overall progress and ultimate success of Chinese modernization.
Exclusive Interview | Understanding and Tapping China’s Economic Potential
Economic potential is the source of sustained momentum for growth and underpins a country’s confidence in its development. The process of tapping China’s economic potential is also a process of creating additional models of economic development driven by domestic demand and consumption and sustained by self-generating momentum. The objective of tapping the economic potential, as proposed at the Central Economic Work Conference, not only reflects a profound insight into and a precise understanding of the laws governing economic operations, but also aligns precisely with the strategic requirements and characteristics of China’s current stage of economic development.
In-Depth Research | Scientific and Technological Innovation: How Enterprises Are Taking Center Stage — A Study of Enterprises in Anhui Province
Anhui has followed a development path of first building leading enterprises and then industrial chains, industrial clusters, and ultimately industrial ecosystems. On this basis, it has established a collaborative research model that is spearheaded by leading enterprises with the participation of both upstream and downstream firms, universities, and research institutes. This model has spurred leading scientific and technological enterprises to open up innovation resources to micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises and provide them with technological guidance and support in the application of research outcomes. It has thus driven integrated innovation among enterprises of all sizes, facilitated the clustering of emerging industries into innovation chains, and helped these clusters scale up into powerful ecosystems.
