Strengthening the Party’s overall leadership over economic work is an inevitable requirement.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) is the strong leading core of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s cause and the highest political leading force. Upholding and perfecting the Party’s leadership is the root and lifeblood of the Party and the country, and the interests and happiness of the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country. We must firmly and consciously uphold the Party’s leadership in all fields and aspects of work. Economic construction is the central work of the party. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out that "as the ruling party, we must earnestly strengthen the party’s leadership over economic work and do a solid job in economic work".
Marxist historical materialism holds that there is a dialectical relationship between politics and economy, with economy as the foundation and politics as the concentrated expression of economy. The General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "The political system of a country depends on its economic and social foundation, and at the same time it reacts on its economic and social foundation, and even plays a decisive role." As a powerful organizational form among the elements of the superstructure, political parties have a direct and powerful reaction to the economic base. Since its establishment, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has always regarded seeking happiness for the people of China and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation as its initial intention and mission. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, China has created a miracle of rapid economic development and long-term social stability. When Socialism with Chinese characteristics enters a new era, only by strengthening the Party’s overall leadership over economic work can we ensure the development of Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the right direction, provide a strong political guarantee for the realization of socialist modernization, promote high-quality economic development, and meet the growing needs of the people for a better life. Strengthening the Party’s overall leadership over economic work is an inevitable requirement for respecting the dialectical relationship between politics and economy.
Conform to the law of socialized mass production
The reason why modern society adopts the political system under the leadership of the political party is closely related to socialized mass production. Socialized mass production has the following characteristics: First, product socialization. The purpose of this production is no longer just to meet their own needs, but more importantly, to meet the needs of society through exchange. The second is the socialization of the use of means of production. Under the socialized mode of production, the means of production are no longer used by individuals or families, but by a large number of workers based on machine industry. Today’s digital technology and artificial intelligence have broken the way of using the means of production with factories as the boundary, and further improved the socialization of the use of means of production. The third is the socialization of the production process. Under the condition of socialized production, the whole production process is completed under a certain social division of labor system, which requires producers to cooperate. Cooperation makes producers become closely linked interest communities, and whether the relationship between all parties can be coordinated is the key to improving production efficiency.
There is a contradiction between capitalist private ownership and socialized mass production. The essence of this contradiction is the contradiction between the narrow interests of the capitalist class and the economic and social adjustment and the expansion of the scope of public interests required by socialized mass production. Marx’s scientific revelation of capitalist economic laws shows that bourgeois political parties cannot coordinate the contradiction between capitalist private ownership and socialized mass production. We can see that in some capitalist countries, in addition to periodic economic crises, there are also various social problems, especially since the international financial crisis in 2008, some developed countries have fallen into systematic crises such as politics, economy, society and values.
On behalf of the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people, the Communist Party of China (CPC) adheres to the principle of public ownership as the mainstay and the common development of various forms of ownership, and the principle of distribution according to work as the mainstay and the coexistence of various modes of distribution, which conforms to the requirements of socialized mass production. The higher the degree of socialized mass production, the higher the coordination of production is objectively required. Strengthening the Party’s overall leadership over economic work and ensuring and guiding the balanced and coordinated development between industries and departments through long-term planning and major proportional arrangements within the whole society are not only conducive to liberating productive forces and creating conditions for socialized large-scale production, but also conducive to solving the problem of insufficient imbalance in China’s economic development and meeting the people’s growing needs for a better life.
The Communist Party of China (CPC)’s leadership can ensure the coordination and organization of production within the enterprise. By perfecting the modern enterprise system with China characteristics and embedding the enterprise party organization into the corporate governance structure, we can ensure that the principles, policies and major arrangements of the party and the state are truly implemented and implemented, and provide a strong organizational guarantee and political guarantee for making the state-owned capital and state-owned enterprises stronger and better. It can be seen that strengthening the party’s overall leadership over economic work is an inherent requirement of conforming to the law of socialized large-scale production and is conducive to better liberating and developing productive forces.
Follow the laws of socialist market economy
As a way of resource allocation, market economy combines with capitalist system to form capitalist market economy and with socialist system to form socialist market economy. The basic law of market economy is the law of value, but the specific application and grasp of the law of value are significantly different between capitalist market economy and socialist market economy.
In the capitalist market economy, the bourgeoisie advocates the free market economy, and the law of value plays a self-initiated role. Capital makes full use of the law of value to pursue self-expansion, and wherever it makes money, it goes. The socialist market economy is a market economy that explores the organic combination of socialism and market economy. It is a market economy that respects and applies the law of value, while giving play to the advantages of the socialist system and overcoming the limitations of the law of value. Developing market economy under socialist conditions is a great pioneering work of the Communist Party of China (CPC). To develop the socialist market economy, we must uphold the Party’s overall leadership over economic work.
Our party insists on combining paying attention to top-level design with respecting the initiative of the masses, constantly exploring how the government and the market can play an organic role, and striving to solve the world-wide problems in economics in practice. The Party’s Report to the 20th CPC National Congress clearly put forward: "Deepening the administration of decentralization, combining the administration with the management, and optimizing the service reform. Build a unified national market, deepen the reform of factor marketization, and build a high-standard market system. Improve the basic systems of market economy such as property rights protection, market access, fair competition and social credit, and optimize the business environment. " These requirements and arrangements are conducive to stimulating the vitality of various business entities and effectively giving play to the decisive role of the market in resource allocation.
In practice, the market plays a decisive role in resource allocation, but the market mechanism is not omnipotent; Theoretically, the market economy is spontaneous, blind and lagging. Therefore, to develop the socialist market economy, we should not only give full play to the positive role of the market economy, but also improve the ability of the party and the government to control the market economy. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "In China, the strong leadership of the Party is the fundamental guarantee for the government to play its role." The fundamental purpose of our party to control the market economy is to mobilize the enthusiasm of all parties, use the market to meet the people’s growing needs for a better life, and at the same time prevent the disorderly expansion of capital.
To control the socialist market economy well, first, we must adhere to the dominant position of public ownership. Second, we must promote the modernization of government governance system and governance capacity, innovate ways and means of macro-control, improve the macroeconomic governance system, give play to the strategic guiding role of national development planning, strengthen the coordination and cooperation between fiscal policy and monetary policy, keep the bottom line of systemic risk, and improve the ability and level of macroeconomic governance. Third, by strengthening the party’s overall leadership over economic work, maintaining macroeconomic stability, optimizing public services, ensuring fair competition, strengthening market supervision, promoting sustainable development, and promoting common prosperity and all-round development of people. The General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "Whether we can control the world’s second largest economy and maintain sustained and healthy economic and social development fundamentally depends on whether the party plays a leading role in economic and social development." It can be seen that strengthening the party’s leadership over economic work is an inevitable requirement for exploring and following the laws of the socialist market economy. We must build a high-level socialist market economic system in the process of making good use of the advantages of the market economy and controlling it well.
Exploring the development law of Chinese modernization
Modernization is the common pursuit of human society. What kind of modernization to build and how to build it are questions that the ruling party of every country pursuing modernization should explore and answer. When it comes to modernization, people tend to be confined to the modernization of western developed countries, because human modernization really started in the West. For a long time, people’s measure of modernization is mainly based on the level of industrialization development, which can reflect a country’s productivity development level in the process of modernization to a certain extent, but it is difficult to reflect the contradictions and problems existing in this country’s modernization process, such as economic crisis, ecological crisis and polarization in western modernization, which runs counter to the modernization dream pursued by mankind. Therefore, we must break the myth that "modernization equals westernization". General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed: "There is neither a model of modernization in the world nor a universal standard of modernization."
To explore the law of modernization development, we must stand on the height of the law of human social development and combine our national conditions. As an important force leading and promoting the modernization process, political parties have the responsibility to answer a series of questions about modernization. The foundation and concept of the ruling party are directly related to the nature, goal, value orientation and development direction of modernization. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader profoundly expounded the problems that need to be considered and answered in the development of human modernization. First, what is the fundamental force and ultimate goal of promoting modernization. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "The people are the creators of history, the most solid foundation and the deepest force to promote modernization. The ultimate goal of modernization is to realize the free and all-round development of human beings. " Therefore, the modernization development must adhere to the people as the center. Second, the question of the road to modernization. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out, "Modernization is not owned by a few countries ‘ Patents ’ , nor is it either ‘ Multiple choice questions ’ " . The diversity of human civilization determines that the road to modernization must also have diversity. Therefore, countries pursuing modernization must respect each other’s road choices. Third, the relationship between countries in the process of modernization. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out that "any country pursuing modernization should adhere to the concept of unity, cooperation and common development and take the road of joint construction, sharing and win-win".The development process of human modernization should not be a zero-sum game, but a win-win situation. Therefore, all countries should go hand in hand in promoting the construction of a community of human destiny.
For more than 100 years, the Communist Party of China (CPC) United and led the people of China to explore the law of modernization and embarked on the road of Chinese modernization. Chinese-style modernization is a modernization with a huge population, the common prosperity of all people, the coordination of material civilization and spiritual civilization, the harmonious coexistence of man and nature, and the modernization of peaceful development. The essential requirements of Chinese modernization are: adhering to the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s leadership and Socialism with Chinese characteristics, achieving high-quality development, developing people’s democracy in the whole process, enriching people’s spiritual world, achieving common prosperity for all people, promoting harmonious coexistence between man and nature, promoting the construction of a community of human destiny and creating a new form of human civilization. Chinese modernization is not only based on its own national conditions, but also draws lessons from the experience of other countries, which not only inherits history and culture, but also integrates modern civilization, which not only benefits the people of China, but also promotes the common development of the world. The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward and elaborated the Chinese modernization theory, which reflected our party’s new understanding of the law of modernization development.
To promote Chinese modernization, we must strengthen the Party’s overall leadership over economic work. First, it is conducive to ensuring the correct direction of Chinese modernization. The party’s nature and purpose, initial mission, beliefs and policy propositions determine that Chinese-style modernization is socialist modernization, which requires that we must persist in taking the people as the center, promote people’s all-round development, and let all people continuously enhance their sense of acquisition and happiness in the process of modernization. Second, it is conducive to rallying strength for promoting Chinese modernization. Under the centralized and unified leadership of the Party, we can always insist on doing everything for the people, relying on the people, responding to people’s concerns, reflecting people’s wishes, respecting people’s creative spirit, mobilizing the enthusiasm and creativity of all parties, and gathering the wisdom of all the people into great power to promote modernization. Third, it is conducive to coping with the risk challenges in the process of Chinese modernization. Modernization is a systematic project. China’s development has entered a period in which strategic opportunities and risks and challenges coexist, and uncertainties and unpredictable factors increase. All kinds of "black swan" and "grey rhinoceros" incidents may occur at any time. We must uphold and strengthen the overall leadership of the party, implement the leadership of the party in all aspects of the cause of the party and the state, make every effort to overcome all kinds of difficulties and challenges on the way forward, and comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese modernization.
(This article Source: The author of Economic Daily is the deputy director of the Political Economy Research Center of Nankai University and Liu Fengyi, a researcher at the Tianjin Socialism with Chinese characteristics Theoretical System Research Center)