The most striking feature of contemporary China is reform and opening up. Reform and opening up have greatly liberated and developed social productive forces, broken through the institutional obstacles that bound the development of productive forces, and promoted the initial establishment of the socialist market economic system; It has greatly mobilized the enthusiasm of hundreds of millions of people, created a brand-new situation of China's all-round economic, political, cultural and social development, formed a brand-new pattern of opening up to the outside world, and achieved a new historic breakthrough. Today, a socialist China facing modernization, the world and the future stands tall in the east of the world.
Contemporary China is in a period of in-depth development of industrialization, informationization, urbanization, marketization and internationalization. Since the reform and opening up, China's industrialization has advanced rapidly, and it has entered the middle stage of industrialization as a whole, becoming a veritable industrial power; Informatization has entered the ranks of countries with medium human level, and the integration of informatization and industrialization has achieved initial results; Urbanization has entered an accelerated period, and the urbanization rate is gradually approaching the average level of middle-income countries; The level of marketization has been continuously improved, the socialist market economic system has been initially established, the basic role of the market in resource allocation has been continuously enhanced, and the market system has been initially formed; Internationalization is increasingly profound, international status and influence are constantly improving, and integration with the world is closer. For a long time to come, China will be in the historical process of deepening the mutual influence and promotion of the "five modernizations".
The relationship between contemporary China and the world has undergone historic changes. Since the founding of New China, especially since the reform and opening up, China has stepped onto the world stage with a brand-new look and become an important force for promoting world peace, development and cooperation. Contemporary China is closely linked with the world as never before. The development of China cannot be separated from the world, and the prosperity and stability of the world cannot be separated from China.
The Basic National Conditions of Contemporary China
China is and will be in the primary stage of socialism for a long time, which is the most basic national condition of our country at present. Population: China is a populous country, not a talent country; Per capita GDP: China still lags behind the world; People's living standard: the living standard of China people only reaches a well-off level on the whole; Resource possession: the per capita resource possession is small, and the pressure on resources and environment is great; Urbanization: China is still below the world average; Degree of industrialization: lower than the world average.
National conditions determine principles and policies. A clear understanding of China's basic national conditions at this stage will make us realize the importance, long-term and arduous nature of building a well-off society in an all-round way, realizing China's basic modernization, and consolidating and developing the socialist system, and realize that it is impossible to build socialism in China overnight, blindly leap forward, and overnight; It can strengthen the firmness of concentrating on construction and development, always regard development as the top priority of the party in governing and rejuvenating the country, and always regard the liberation and development of productive forces as the fundamental task of socialism; Improve the consciousness of thinking and doing things without being divorced from reality, always regard the greatest reality of the primary stage of socialism as the basic basis for guiding production, distribution and consumption, as the basic basis for value construction, social management and public services, and never condone the spread of extravagance. To grasp the relationship between national conditions and roads at a new historical starting point, there are several points that need to be emphasized: it is very important for us to keep in mind the national conditions. No matter what kind of interference, resistance and impact China encounters, it will make him more convinced that Socialism with Chinese characteristics is the only correct development path that conforms to China's national conditions and is the banner of development, progress and United struggle in contemporary China, so as to unswervingly follow the development path of Socialism with Chinese characteristics and unswervingly adhere to the Party's basic line in the primary stage of socialism. To achieve the "four steadfasts", it is very important to keep in mind the national conditions. It will urge us to deeply understand the weak foundation and institutional obstacles of development, continue to emancipate our minds, persist in reform and opening up, solve contradictions and promote development with new development ideas and methods, deeply solve the institutional obstacles faced by development, and strive to achieve national rejuvenation, national prosperity and people's happiness in the in-depth implementation of Scientific Outlook on Development.