People's Daily: Protectionism can't stop the pace of China's reform and opening up

China's reform and opening up will not stop because self-improvement and development are important advantages of China's socialist system. Only in the socialist society where reform and opening up is implemented, the production relations and the superstructure can actively and constructively transform themselves, maximize all positive factors, and continuously emancipate and develop productive forces.

Reform and opening up is China's independent choice, the source of vitality for the development and progress of contemporary China, and the only way to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Over the past 40 years, from a highly centralized planned economic system to a dynamic socialist market economic system, from closed and semi-closed to full-scale opening to the outside world, the historic breakthrough brought about by reform and opening up has created China's economy, politics, culture and society. A new situation in the overall development of ecological civilization. Today, China has become the world's second largest economy, the largest industrial country, the largest cargo trading country, and the largest foreign exchange reserve country. More than 700 million poor people have successfully lifted out of poverty, accounting for more than 70% of the total global poverty reduction population. The people's living standards have increased by more than ten times; the contribution rate to world economic growth has exceeded 30% for many years, which has effectively promoted the recovery of the world economy and brought many development opportunities for people all over the world.

The reason why reform and opening up has such a huge magic is because it conforms to the law of economic development and conforms to the laws governing the development of human society. Numerous examples and studies have shown that market mechanisms are the most effective way of resource allocation in human society to date; the speed of development of an economy is positively correlated with its degree of openness. In the process of reform and opening up, we combine the strengths of the market economy with the advantages of the socialist system, establish and improve the socialist market economic system, make the market play a decisive role in resource allocation, and give full play to the role of the government; We pursue an open strategy of mutual benefit and win-win, and promote the formation of an open pattern of internal and external linkages between the land and the sea, and mutual benefit between the two sides. We will work hard to make greater contributions to the world and to build a community of human destiny.

External pressures and challenges can't stop China's reform and opening up, and only stimulate the determination and motivation of the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese people to further deepen reform and expand opening up. In the early 1990s, in the face of a severe international environment, our party clearly proposed the reform goal of establishing a socialist market economic system, achieved a major breakthrough in the theory and practice of reform and opening up, and created a new situation in China's socialist modernization. At the beginning of this century, under the circumstances that many industries in China have developed a large gap with developed countries and we are not very familiar with international economic and trade rules, our party has made strategic decisions to join the World Trade Organization and promote the full integration of China's economy into economic globalization. I learned to swim in the swimming in the sea, making China the world's largest manufacturing and goods trade.

In recent years, populism has emerged in some western countries, trade and investment protectionism has risen, anti-globalization has surged, and economic globalization has reached a new crossroads. In his keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the 2017 Annual Conference of the World Economic Forum, President Xi Jinping emphasized that China adheres to the basic national policy of opening up to the outside world and pursues an open strategy of mutual benefit and win-win. International public opinion commented that China has become "the key to the stability of the world economy." In the keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the Boao Forum for Asia 2018 Annual Meeting, President Xi Jinping announced a series of major initiatives such as substantially relaxing market access, creating a more attractive investment environment, strengthening intellectual property protection, and actively expanding imports. Promoting reform and opening up with greater determination and strength is our attitude towards trade and investment protectionism. Protectionism can't stop the pace of China's reform and opening up.

China's reform and opening up will not stop because self-improvement and development are important advantages of China's socialist system. Only in the socialist society where reform and opening up is implemented, the production relations and the superstructure can actively and constructively transform themselves, maximize all positive factors, and continuously emancipate and develop productive forces.

China's reform and opening up will not stop, because keeping pace with the times is the distinctive character of the Chinese Communist Party. From "surrounding the city from the countryside, taking power from the armed forces" to "taking the road of its own, building socialism with Chinese characteristics", from "liberating the mind, seeking truth from facts" to "only when the reform and opening up is not completed, not completed", with the times Progress is the distinctive theoretical character and practical character of the Chinese Communist Party. It is the source of power for the reform and opening up.

China's reform and opening up will not stop, because the integrity of innovation is the spiritual gene of the Chinese nation. "Only knowing can always be strained." There are changes in the middle, and the change is passed, and the general rule is long. The Chinese nation has an excellent tradition of adhering to principles and being highly flexible, with great winds and great volume. Therefore, the Chinese civilization can continue to innovate and develop for 5,000 years. In the face of today's great changes in the world, we must not be afraid of any risks, and will not be confused by any interference. We will comprehensively deepen reforms to the end.