In the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "China’s economy has changed from a high-speed growth stage to a high-quality development stage, and it is in the key period of changing the development mode, optimizing the economic structure and transforming the growth momentum. Building a modern economic system is an urgent requirement for crossing the barrier and a strategic goal for China’s development." To speed up the construction of a modern economic system, we must adhere to the principle of quality first and efficiency first, take the supply-side structural reform as the main line, promote the quality change, efficiency change and power change of economic development, and improve the total factor productivity, so as to build a solid foundation for continuously enhancing China’s economic innovation and competitiveness and realizing the goal of "two hundred years".

　　First, the transformation of development stage needs to promote three important changes

　　In the past 40 years since the reform and opening up, China’s economy has maintained a rapid growth of nearly 10%. The achievement of this world-famous historic achievement depends on many conditions. During this period, China’s economic development level is generally low, with a weak foundation, a small base and a large room for growth. A large number of technologies and experiences created by human society can be introduced for reference. China has the largest population in the world, which means that the demand scale and potential are large, the labor force is large and the cost is low; The cost of land and other natural resources is low, and the ecological environment constraints are loose; More importantly, China’s social and political stability, the establishment and gradual improvement of the socialist market economic system, the development of an open economy, and the effective use of international and domestic markets. The cooperation and interaction of the above conditions have contributed to the miracle of long-term high-speed economic growth in a populous country that has never been seen in human history. At the same time, this growth is inevitably characterized by rapid expansion in quantity and scale, accompanied by some unbalanced, uncoordinated and unsustainable contradictions and problems.

　　In 2008, in the face of the impact of the international financial crisis, we adopted the stimulus policy of steady growth, and the growth rate took the lead in the world, reaching a high point in the first quarter of 2011, and then the growth rate gradually slowed down. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, faced with new situations and problems, the CPC Central Committee has made a major judgment that China’s economic development has entered a new normal. Judging from the factors and conditions supporting China’s economic growth, there have been or are undergoing many important changes, including the decline in the number of labor force aged 15-59 in China since 2012, the decrease in the number of migrant workers entering cities, the corresponding increase in wages, and the weakening of the advantage of low-cost labor force; The terminal demand such as real estate and important industrial products such as steel and coal have successively experienced historical peak demand, and the growth rate has obviously slowed down, and problems such as overcapacity and excessive product inventory are prominent; The prices of land and other resources have risen, housing prices in some cities are high, and the pressure on the ecological environment has increased, and some aspects are close to or even exceed the bottom line; With the increase of factor cost, the increase of export base and the change of international market environment, the rapid growth of export in the past is unsustainable and we must rely more on domestic demand; There is a serious imbalance between finance and the real economy, between real estate and other fields, and within the real economy. The leverage ratio in some areas is too high, financial risks increase, and the efficiency of economic growth shows a downward trend. With these changes, China’s economic structure has undergone major changes, and economic growth has turned to rely more on consumption, service industry and domestic demand, and more on the improvement of workers’ quality, technological progress and total factor productivity. Accordingly,The stage of economic development began to change, from the past high-speed growth stage to the high-quality development stage.

　　From the history of industrialization and economic growth, the transformation of China’s economic development stage conforms to the law, and there are also international experiences to learn from. This transformation has not changed the judgment that China’s development is still in an important strategic opportunity period, but the connotation of the opportunity period has changed greatly. If it used to be mainly "paving stalls", it will be mainly "going up the steps" in the future. Although China’s growth rate has slowed down, the annual increment and its driving effect on the global economy are still the biggest. While maintaining the competitive growth rate, the main difficulty lies in how to turn the challenge of improving the quality and efficiency of economic growth into new development opportunities.

　　Second, the key to change is to improve the total factor productivity.

　　Promoting quality change, efficiency change and power change is an inevitable requirement in the stage of high-quality development, and an important content in the key period of changing development mode, optimizing economic structure and transforming growth momentum.

　　Quality reform includes improving the quality of products and services, and more importantly, comprehensively improving the quality of all fields and levels of the national economy. This is an all-round change from concept, goal and system to the details of work in specific fields. We should take improving the quality of the supply system as the main direction, conform to the international advanced quality standards, carry out quality improvement actions, significantly enhance China’s economic quality advantages, and make China manufacturing and China service a symbol of high quality; Promote the survival of the fittest of enterprises and products, concentrate resources on high-quality enterprises and products, and gradually form a number of high-quality brand enterprises and products with long-term and stable international competitiveness through full and effective market competition; Create an environment conducive to innovation, promote the flow and agglomeration of innovation elements, encourage all kinds of innovations aimed at improving the quality of products and services, and make innovation a powerful kinetic energy for improving quality; Take green development as an important content of quality improvement, accelerate all-round green transformation from consumption, production, circulation, investment to lifestyle, and make green and low carbon an important feature of high-quality products and services.

　　Efficiency reform is to find out and fill all kinds of low-efficiency depressions that were concealed or ignored in the previous high-speed growth stage, and lay a solid foundation for high-quality development. Market competition, in the final analysis, is the competition of input-output comparison and efficiency. We must deepen the reform in areas where administrative monopoly is still prominent, focus on introducing and strengthening competition in oil and gas, electric power, railways, telecommunications, finance and other industries, comprehensively reduce the costs of energy, logistics, communications and financing in the operation of the real economy, and improve the attractiveness and competitiveness of developing the real economy, especially manufacturing; Further substantially relax market access, improve the exit mechanism, improve the social security system, so that efficient factors can enter and inefficient factors can be withdrawn, and comprehensively improve the input-output efficiency of the economy through rational flow and optimal combination of production factors, mergers and acquisitions of enterprises, and industrial transformation and upgrading; Enhance the ability of financial services to the real economy, prevent and control various economic bubbles, reduce excessive leverage ratio, resolve financial risks, and provide effective financial services for the innovative development, transformation and upgrading of the real economy; Improve the level of open economy, combine bringing in with going out, participate in international competition and cooperation on a larger scale and at a higher level, and steadily enhance the position of China’s industry in the global value chain.

　　Dynamic change is to adapt to the needs of building a modern economic system with high quality and high efficiency after the advantages of labor quantity and cost are gradually weakened, and accelerate the transformation from labor quantity dividend to quality dividend. We must give priority to the development of education, speed up the modernization of education, comprehensively improve the quality of education from basic education, higher education to vocational education, and improve the quality of workers at all levels of economic and social development; Strengthen the protection and encouragement of intellectual property rights, cultivate and bring up a large number of strategic scientific and technological talents, leading scientific and technological talents, young scientific and technological talents and high-level innovation teams with international standards, promote the rational flow of all kinds of talents, and mobilize the initiative, enthusiasm and creativity of entrepreneurs, scientists, technicians and other talents to a greater extent; Create a glorious social fashion of labor and a professional atmosphere of striving for perfection, respect labor and creativity, build an army of knowledge-based, skilled and innovative workers, improve the social status of front-line workers, break the class solidification, and expand channels and opportunities for vertical mobility and struggle to become talents.

　　After China’s economy has entered the stage of high-quality development, it is no longer possible to rely mainly on the growth of factor input as before, and it must turn to rely more on the improvement of total factor productivity. Among the three major changes, quality change is the main body, efficiency change is the main line, power change is the foundation, and the key is to effectively and continuously improve the total factor productivity. Only by solving this key problem can we create a new development situation with obviously improved quality and efficiency, stability and sustainability while maintaining a certain growth rate.

　　Third, to realize the three major changes, we must deepen reform and create an environment.

　　International experience shows that it is relatively easy for economically backward countries to achieve rapid growth in the early stage of industrialization, but the difficulty of development is obviously increased in the transition from middle income stage to high income stage. After World War II, many countries entered the industrialization process and reached the middle-income stage, but only 13 economies entered the high-income stage. Some countries fall into the "middle income trap", and their growth is slow or even retrogressive. If the expansion of quantity and scale is easy to be effective in the high-speed growth stage, it will be greatly changed in the short term, but in the high-quality development stage, it will take a long time to make the improvement of quality and efficiency effective and step up. After entering the stage of high-quality development, it will encounter challenges that have never been encountered in the previous high-speed growth stage. To face and solve many new contradictions and problems, fundamentally speaking, it is necessary to further deepen the supply-side structural reform and accelerate the creation of an institutional and policy environment that is compatible with high-quality development.

　　First of all, we should solve the problem of understanding the economic development goals. After entering the stage of high-quality development, if we try to maintain the previous high-speed growth without paying attention to quality and efficiency, either the speed will not go up, or it will go up in a short time, and it will fall down, causing ups and downs in the economy. After a period of time, the actual growth rate will be low. Therefore, emphasizing quality and efficiency and the stability and sustainability of development is actually beneficial to maintaining the necessary growth rate in the long run. We must correct the tendency of "GDP only" and pay more attention to employment and entrepreneurship, quality and efficiency, risk prevention and control, stability and sustainability in development goals.

　　Secondly, truly make the market play a decisive role in resource allocation. Whether it is to promote the flow of production factors and optimize the allocation, break the monopoly, encourage competition, and eliminate the fittest, or to stabilize the expectations of entrepreneurs and mobilize the enthusiasm and creativity of talents in all aspects, it is required to implement the decisive role of the market in resource allocation. Whether the government can play a better role depends on whether it is conducive to the market playing a decisive role in resource allocation. We must focus on improving the property rights system and the market-oriented allocation of factors, and deepen the reform in key areas such as property rights protection, state-owned assets of state-owned enterprises, land, taxation, finance, and government administration. To deepen reform, we should attach importance to top-level design, clarify the direction and draw the bottom line; At the same time, we should pay attention to the reform exploration of local, grass-roots and enterprises, reduce the uncertainty of reform through trial and error, and find a reform method that conforms to the long-term direction and the actual situation.

　　Thirdly, pay more attention to the construction of innovative environment. Successful innovation depends on many conditions. The fundamental one is to form favorable environmental conditions for innovation, including the protection and encouragement of intellectual property rights, the stable expectation of innovation subjects such as entrepreneurs and scientists, the free flow and optimal combination of various innovation elements, the effective service of financial products at different stages of innovation, the supporting conditions of industries and the support of innovation infrastructure. Experience at home and abroad shows that successful innovation mainly comes from regional innovation centers and innovative cities, because these areas have better innovation environment than other regions. We must speed up the reform of science and technology system, further open the market of innovation factors, form an inter-regional competition mechanism to improve the innovation environment, and promote more regional innovation centers and innovative cities to stand out.

　　Fourth, form an institutional mechanism to promote green development. The new concept of ecological civilization construction and green development is deeply rooted in people’s hearts. The key is how to turn the concept into action and truly implement the "Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" strategic concept put forward by the Supreme Leader General Secretary. Green development is a new way of development, which requires not only subtraction to control pollution, but more importantly addition and multiplication to form new kinetic energy of consumption upgrading, economic growth and innovation development. To promote green development, we should pay attention to the research and practical exploration of ecological capital accounting, and gradually turn green development into public welfare activities provided by the government, social groups and individuals into daily economic activities in which more enterprises and individuals participate; Accelerate the formation of a legal system and policy orientation for green production and consumption, and establish and improve the economic system of green and low-carbon circular development; Form a market-oriented green technology innovation system, develop green finance and actively explore effective ways for green development to drive underdeveloped areas out of poverty.

　　Fifth, make better use of both domestic and international markets and resources. China is still a developing country. Compared with developed countries, we are still in the catch-up period, and we cannot be complacent. We need to continue to learn advanced technology and experience from developed countries and integrate into the global division of labor system at a higher level. This is the reason why China is no longer short of funds on the whole, but we still want to introduce foreign capital. On the other hand, we should actively and steadily go out and connect with high-quality elements such as technology, management, supply chain, marketing channels, brands and talents in the international value chain, comprehensively enhance the international competitiveness of China’s industries and enterprises, and form an open economic system with more breadth and depth.

　　Since the 1990s, Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province, has been a frequent and high-risk area for smuggling cases. In the meantime, although the State Council, the CPC Central Committee, constantly increased its anti-smuggling efforts. However, since 1996, smuggling activities in this area have not only been repeatedly banned, but have intensified and become a "smuggler’s paradise".

　　Among the leaders of criminal gangs, Chen Lisheng, known as the "king of car smuggling", has the deepest "water" and the most background, because his father is Chen Tongqing, the former secretary of Zhanjiang Municipal Committee. After Chen Lisheng graduated from Beijing Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1987, relying on Chen Tongqing’s power and influence, he first went to Hong Kong for fake formalities, became a Hong Kong resident, and then returned to Zhanjiang to set up a fake joint venture company, smuggling wildly, and earned hundreds of millions of dollars in a few years. At the beginning of 1996, Chen Lisheng and Deng Chong ‘an conspired with Li Shen and others to smuggle cars in Hong Kong and make profits from them. Deng Chong ‘an is responsible for organizing the supply of goods, Chen Lisheng is responsible for customs declaration in Hong Kong, export, shipping and picking up smuggled goods in Zhanjiang, and handing them over to Deng Chong ‘an, while Li Shen and Zhang Yi are responsible for clearing the relationship and customs declaration, and collecting customs clearance remuneration of HK$ 70,000-100,000 per container. What they often use in smuggling is to falsely report the name and quantity of the goods. For example, on December 29th, 1996, they shipped 68 cars to Zhanjiang Port in 12 containers, and declared them as auto parts. Only this sum evaded the tax payable of more than 13 million yuan. From May 1996 to April 1998, Deng Chongan participated in the smuggling of more than 2,900 car bodies and evaded the tax payable of 230 million yuan. Chen Lisheng participated in the smuggling of 1,905 car bodies, and smuggled more than 10,000 tons of diesel oil, and evaded the tax payable by 170 million yuan.

　　Chunhua Lin is the most nouveau riche among the leaders of criminal gangs. He was a salesman of a company in the 1980s, and within a few years he became the "king of oil smuggling" in Zhanjiang, accounting for more than 85% of the smuggled oil in Zhanjiang. In order to make huge profits, Chunhua Lin built his own wharf, which realized Jackie Chan’s matching of transportation, storage and sales of smuggled oil. The amount of refined oil smuggled by him was equivalent to 1/10 of China’s total import of gasoline and diesel in 1997.

　　Li Shen and Zhang Yi gangs are the most arrogant among the smuggling gangs in Zhanjiang. Li Shen’s car number plate in Zhanjiang is "11111", and these five "1s" show Li Shen’s arrogance and strength. At the beginning of 1996, Li Shen and Zhang Yi met Cao Xiukang, the Commissioner of Zhanjiang Customs, in Zhanjiang, and used Zhang Yi’s hue to pull Cao into the water.

　　Later, Li and Zhang Cheng set up "Zhongzheng Company", specializing in smuggling activities. They used various means to get through all the key positions of important law enforcement departments such as customs, frontier defense, commodity inspection and port affairs. After the smugglers’ cargo ship arrived at Zhanjiang port, Zhongzheng Company was fully responsible for customs declaration, and Li Shen and Zhang Yi shared the spoils and collected customs clearance fees. According to statistics, Zhongzheng Company has almost monopolized the customs declaration business of smugglers in Zhanjiang in the past two years. Li Shen is known as the "King of Customs Declaration", be worthy of the name. Li Yong, a subordinate of Li Shen, even started an auction house in partnership with the smuggling office and the public security frontier branch of Chikan District of the city. In this way, Li Shen’s gang formed a one-stop operation of smuggling, customs clearance and auction of confiscated smuggled goods.

　　To be fair, before 1996, despite the frequent smuggling activities in Zhanjiang, it did not reach the serious point of opening the country, and smugglers did not dare to do whatever they wanted in front of a relatively solid country.

　　Some municipal leading cadres headed by Chen Tongqing, secretary of Zhanjiang Municipal Party Committee, and the heads of key departments are seriously corrupt and act as umbrellas for smugglers. Some leading cadres are directly involved in smuggling, which is one of the reasons for the rampant smuggling activities in this area in the past two years.

　　Since Chen Tongqing was in charge of Zhanjiang in 1992, he has been pursuing pleasure, not enterprising, and gradually degenerated. He is known as the "blue ribbon" secretary because of his drinking and drinking. Over the years, he has also tried his best to use his power, selling officials and titles, and trading power and money. From October, 1994 to July, 1998, Chen Tongqing took advantage of his position to accept other people’s property, totaling more than RMB 1.1 million, by means of promotion, transfer and job arrangement. How can such a greedy party secretary seriously deploy and ask about smuggling activities?

　　In addition, in the activities of smuggling, Chen Tongqing is not hard-backed, and his son Chen Lisheng is known as the "king of smuggling". In recent years, Chen Tongqing has actually played the role of an umbrella for Chen Lisheng’s smuggling activities: in order to find an outlet for Chen Lisheng’s smuggled goods, Chen Tongqing has the cheek to call and make connections everywhere; In order to make his son have sufficient smuggling funds, he exerted influence and asked the Zhanjiang municipal government to come forward to guarantee a loan of 40 million Hong Kong dollars to Chen Lisheng’s company in an overseas bank.

　　"fish begins to stink at the head", under the influence of Chen Tongqing, some government officials in Zhanjiang have also joined the "get rich quick" smuggling crime. Yang Quqing, the former vice mayor, participated in smuggling, and he personally got 400,000 yuan in stolen money. During his tenure, he also accepted a bribe of 540,000 yuan from Li Shen; Binglin Zheng, director of the Municipal Anti-smuggling Office, personally coordinated the privatization and accepted the bribe of Li Shen’s partner Li Yong with peace of mind; Xiashan district State Taxation Bureau and smuggler Chunhua Lin set up a company in partnership, providing them with false VAT invoices, so that smuggled oil can be legally sold.

　　As we all know, customs, frontier defense, public security, commodity inspection, port affairs and other administrative law enforcement departments are all guardians of the country to ensure the normal import and export trade. They jointly guard the Great Economic Wall, and any department with loopholes will bring endless disasters to the country. Facts have proved that the weakness of law enforcement and supervision departments, and even collusion with smugglers, is another reason for the proliferation of smuggling in Zhanjiang.

　　Cao Xiukang, Commissioner of Zhanjiang Customs, was transferred from the General Administration of Customs to Zhanjiang Customs in August 1995. At the beginning of 1996, I fell at Zhang Yi’s pomegranate skirt. He gave Zhang Yi everything he wanted, listened to everything he said, and left party spirit and revolutionary principles behind him. Li Shen and Zhang Yi’s "Zhongzheng Company" was established less than 10 days ago, and Cao Xiukang agreed that it enjoyed the preferential policy of "putting it first and collecting it later". Over the past two years, "Zhongzheng Company" has smuggled nearly 100 times, but only two or three times were seized by Zhanjiang Customs. When the smuggled goods of "Zhongzheng Company" were seized by other customs, Cao Xiukang went to the door in person or pleaded by phone, and actively ran for Zhang Yi.

　　Due to the fall of Cao Xiukang, the heads of some key positions in Zhanjiang Customs have followed suit. For example, Zhu Xiangcheng, director of the investigation department, not only showed extra-legal kindness to smuggling gangs, but also revealed to them the deployment of the General Administration for smuggling.

　　While the customs is out of control, with the help of the smuggling gangs, some people from other law enforcement and supervision departments at Zhanjiang Port, such as frontier defense, public security, marine police, commodity inspection, port services, shipping and other important departments, have also accepted bribes for their own interests, let them go private, protect them, and escort the smugglers. In more than two years, Li Shen, Zhang Yi, Chunhua Lin and others paid bribes to public officials amounting to more than 7 million yuan. After the smuggled ships are seized by Zhanjiang Frontier Branch, they can be released smoothly as long as they pay a certain amount of sponsorship fee and give some extra benefits to Director Deng Ye and Political Commissar Chen En. After accepting bribes, the person in charge of the port and dock dared to let the smugglers take all the smuggled goods off the dock and sell them without any customs clearance certificate. After being bought, the salesman of the shipping company took the initiative to change the manifest and bill of lading for the smuggling gang, falsely reported the name and quantity, deceived the customs, evaded the license management and paid less taxes. A few people in the commodity inspection department issue false certificates for smuggled goods to make them legally sold in China.

　　As a result, the door of the Great Economic Wall is so open that it exists in name only.

　　The successful detection and investigation of the extra-large smuggling bribery case in Zhanjiang once again shows that no matter who he is, he will be severely punished as long as he ignores the party discipline and tries to break the law.

　　In recent years, Zhanjiang smugglers colluded with local public officials to engage in power and money transactions, which were sometimes reflected by local cadres and the masses.

　　At the beginning of September 1998, shortly after the Central Conference on Combating Smuggling, the masses exposed the rampant smuggling activities in Zhanjiang. The CPC Central Committee and leading comrades in the State Council attached great importance to this and decided that the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection would take the lead, and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, the Ministry of Public Security and Guangdong Province would jointly form an on-site command leading group (hereinafter referred to as the leading group) to investigate and deal with the extraordinarily serious smuggling and bribery cases in Zhanjiang.

　　Immediately, discipline inspection, public security, procuratorial, customs, auditing and other departments formed a working group with the participation of relevant central and local departments, and a batch of case handlers went to Zhanjiang, and one investigation and evidence collection work started rapidly, which opened the prelude to the detection of extraordinarily serious cases.

　　On September 16, 1998, according to the arrangement of the leading group, the public security and procuratorial organs of Guangdong Province launched the first major action in this case, and arrested smugglers Chunhua Lin, Li Shen, Chen Lisheng, Zhang Yi, Li Yong and others in Shanghai, Guangxi, Guangdong and Zhanjiang respectively. At the same time, the procuratorial organs took compulsory measures against six people, including Cao Xiukang, former director of Zhanjiang Customs, and Deng Ye, former director of Zhanjiang Frontier Branch, which laid an important foundation for breaking through the whole case.

　　There are more than 300 people involved in the extra-large smuggling and bribery case in Zhanjiang, so it is extremely important to pay attention to the handling strategy. After the working group entered Zhanjiang, according to the actual situation, it adhered to the principle of proceeding from reality, and clearly focused on the leaders and backbones of gangs and leading cadres among law enforcement and supervision personnel who took bribes and colluded with smuggling groups; For most ordinary people who have made such mistakes, as long as they truthfully confess their problems to the organization and withdraw from illegal income, they will implement a lenient policy.

　　On October 8, 1998, Zhanjiang Customs held a general meeting of all cadres, and the leading group and the relevant responsible persons of Guangdong political and legal organs announced on the spot that they would honor the leniency and strictness policy. Zhan Rirong, deputy section chief of the Customs Container Supervision Department, voluntarily confessed the problem and actively returned the stolen goods. Although he received a large amount of bribes, he was still treated leniently and announced on the spot that he would be released on bail pending trial. Three other customs officers were found to have serious economic problems, concealed the situation and had a bad attitude, and were announced on the spot to be accepted according to law. As a result of the correct decision to crack down on the minority, educate the majority and get rid of the majority, more than 160 people have voluntarily confessed their problems and collected more than 16 million yuan, which fully won the time to handle cases and won the initiative.

　　Break the routine practice of case breakthrough and carry out classified investigation as a whole. In the past, cases were usually handled by one person, one case, one case and one case breakthrough. At the beginning of investigating this case, this traditional method was also used.

　　However, with the continuous expansion of the results, people discovered that the iceberg of Zhanjiang’s extraordinarily large smuggling and bribery case has just revealed a small corner. This case involves many party and government departments, many gangs and a wide range of people. If we still use the old method, we will get twice the result with half the effort and delay the fighter plane. Faced with the complicated situation, with the consent of the person in charge of the leading group, the working group decided decisively to break away from the routine and investigate a single smuggling activity. In order to go deep into Zhanjiang Customs, the "master gate" gathered by various smuggling gangs, it conducted a unified investigation and evidence collection according to the general categories of goods such as automobiles, steel products and refined oil products, which enabled the investigation and handling of the whole case to break through quickly and achieved twice the result with half the effort.

　　Zhanjiang’s extraordinarily serious smuggling and bribery case involved more than 300 people, reflecting all aspects of the problem. When investigating this case, the task force concentrated its fists, highlighted key points and concentrated on private investigations. Grasp the problem of smuggling and smuggling, and fight hard; As for other economic problems and abuse of power for personal gain exposed by smuggling, we should pay attention to collecting information and suspend the attack. It is precisely because the investigation and handling of the whole case has been carried out in an orderly, step-by-step and strategic manner that despite the large number of departments and personnel involved, there have been no problems, which is really rare.

　　The leaders of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council attached great importance to investigating and handling the extraordinarily serious smuggling and bribery case in Zhanjiang. The central leading comrades specifically instructed that the Zhanjiang smuggling case is the biggest and most serious smuggling case since the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Thoroughly detecting and severely sentencing criminals according to law is of great significance to the party style, the national movement, the reorganization of economic order and the restoration of people’s trust. Please make persistent efforts, pursue hard and win the final victory.

　　The Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government attach great importance to the investigation and handling of this case, regard it as a major event in the construction of a clean and honest government in Guangdong, give full support to the handling of cases in terms of manpower and material resources, and deploy a number of business backbones from the provincial discipline inspection and supervision, public security, procuratorial and other departments to enrich the handling team. The main responsible comrades of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee often ask about the progress of the case, personally preside over the on-site office meeting, adjust the leadership of Zhanjiang, solve difficult problems, and provide financial support for the development of Zhanjiang.

　　It took more than seven months to investigate and deal with the extra-large smuggling and bribery case in Zhanjiang. During these more than 200 days and nights, the case handlers who fought in the front line suffered a lot and endured a lot of hard work with a high sense of responsibility and selfless dedication, and they just gnawed this "hard bone".

　　In order to fully and accurately grasp the situation and command and make decisions quickly and efficiently, a member of the Standing Committee of CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection has been stuck in Guangdong Province for a long time and has been fighting with everyone, always insisting on front-line command. From October to December last year, at the critical stage of the case, the combatants fought hard day and night for three months and gave up all holidays. Everyone’s National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival were spent in the task force. Some gay wives were in a car accident, but they couldn’t get home to cook because they were involved in the case. The investigators of Guangdong Provincial Public Security Bureau who go out to arrest fugitives often go all the way around the clock, and sometimes they "stare" at the waiting point for dozens of hours. Among them, two investigators died gloriously while chasing fugitives in Hainan. On the Mid-Autumn Festival night last year, when thousands of families were reunited, the case handlers who stuck to the front line once wrote such a simple poem of self-encouragement: "On the Mid-Autumn Festival, people are affectionate, but this year is different. The lights of the leisurely family are bright, and the soldiers are evil in Jiangcheng. "

　　In April this year, after the case was brought to court by the procuratorate, due to the large number of people involved, according to the law, the Guangdong Provincial High Court appointed five intermediate courts in Guangzhou, Zhanjiang, Maoming, Shenzhen and Foshan to be responsible for the trial of the case respectively. Each hospital arranges the competent vice president as the presiding judge, and selects competent judges to form a collegiate bench to conduct trials in strict accordance with the law to ensure the quality of handling cases. Thanks to effective leadership and effective measures, the trial of Zhanjiang’s extraordinarily serious smuggling and bribery case fully embodies the principles of legality, openness and fairness, and the criminals involved have been severely punished by the law, and the people applauded.

　　In Zhanjiang, there are more than 200 cadres involved in this case. Their violations of law and discipline are shocking, and their corruption is thought-provoking:

　　-We must conscientiously carry out the education of "stressing study, politics and healthy atmosphere" and comprehensively strengthen the team building focusing on the construction of leading bodies.

　　The root cause of this extraordinarily serious smuggling case in Zhanjiang is a problem in the construction of leading bodies. This is the most profound lesson left by this case. Facts have shown that "stressing study, politics and righteousness" is not an empty slogan or an abstract concept, but a concrete and tangible requirement for leading bodies and leading cadres. In recent years, the central government has repeatedly applied to crack down on smuggling, but a few leading cadres in Zhanjiang City have been perfunctory, indulgent and even involved in smuggling activities, and they have lost their way in the face of right and wrong, resulting in this evil result today.

　　The leading cadres of the party hold the power entrusted by the people and play a decisive role in the success or failure of a place or a department. Chen Tongqing doesn’t talk about learning, politics and righteousness. He usually craves what is in the cup, which not only drinks his prestige, but also drinks the image of the party and the government. He developed from "anyone dares to drink wine" to "anyone dares to accept any kind of money", and then "anyone dares to use it" Pang Guoguang, the contractor who paid bribes to him, suddenly became the director of the Municipal Construction Committee.

　　-leading cadres should effectively manage their spouses, children and staff around them and make friends carefully.

　　One of the major problems exposed by the extraordinarily serious smuggling and bribery case in Zhanjiang is that many leading cadres involved in the case relaxed their self-demands and ideological vigilance on the issues of spouses, sons and daughters, and were gradually broken through the defense line and gradually embarked on the road of illegal crimes.

　　According to the masses, Chen Tongqing, former secretary of Zhanjiang Municipal Party Committee, came to visit local leading cadres with his son and relatives on the first day of his transfer to Zhanjiang. People say that on the surface, it was his son and relatives who saw Chen Tongqing off, but in fact it was the new secretary who paved the way for them to make a fortune in Zhanjiang in the future.

　　Cao Xiukang’s daughter was going to study abroad. He found Zhang Yi, and Zhang Yi asked Li Shen to help him complete the procedure of studying in Canada at his own expense, and Li Shen ‘an arranged a villa for his daughter to live in. Yang Quqing, the former vice mayor of Zhanjiang City, took advantage of his position to accept a bribe of 540,000 yuan from the smuggler Li Shen, in order to apply for his son’s residence permit in Hong Kong …

　　Cao Xiukang, who once listened to the smuggler Zhang Yi’s words and regarded him as a confidante, wrote in his Confession: "When those so-called friends frequently expressed their’ true feelings’ to me with money and things, I was timid and wavered, stretched out my sinful hands, and gradually fell into the mire of crime and became a sinner of the party and the people."

　　-We must strengthen the education, management and supervision of cadres and earnestly implement the responsibility system for building a clean and honest party style.

　　The case of smuggling and bribery in Zhanjiang once again proves the truth that "power without restriction will inevitably lead to corruption", and it also shows that our current system of supervision and management of cadres can not fully meet the needs of the anti-corruption struggle under the conditions of socialist market economy. Cao Xiukang did some work when he first arrived in Zhanjiang. Later, the General Administration of Customs heard some reflections about him, that is, he sent working groups to investigate and inspect many times. In recent years, he also audited Zhanjiang Customs every year, but failed to find problems in time. What is particularly shocking is that in this case, the "top leaders" of Zhanjiang Municipal Committee, Customs, Commodity Inspection, Frontier Defense, Port Affairs and other departments were all corrupted, and the supervision of Zhanjiang Port was out of control, and the country was opened and even a "black channel" where smugglers could freely enter and exit appeared. (Xinhua News Agency)

　　

As many places in the country enter the "two sessions" in 2024, various places have also announced the "annual report" of the economy in 2023.

As of January 25th, 29 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) have announced the annual economic performance in 2023. Judging from the published information, the growth rate of 15 provinces has outperformed the whole country.

The growth rate of 15 provinces outperformed the whole country

Statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics show that the gross domestic product (GDP) of China in 2023 was 126,058.2 billion yuan, an increase of 5.2% over the previous year at constant prices.

The reporter consulted the work reports of local governments and the official data of statistical departments and found that among the 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in China, except Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Hubei, the growth rate of 15 provinces outperformed the whole country in 2023, while Beijing was the same as the whole country. All provinces with disclosed data have achieved positive GDP growth.

Specifically, Tibet’s GDP growth rate reached 9.5%, temporarily leading the country; Hainan, which followed closely, grew by 9.2%; Inner Mongolia ranked third with a growth rate of 7.3%. Other provinces with growth rates above 6% include Ningxia, Gansu, Jilin, Chongqing, Shandong, Sichuan and Zhejiang.

Multi-provincial GDP has reached a new level.

Present potential of western China

Looking through the "transcripts", we can find that the economic development of many places has reached a new level. Guangdong, Jiangsu and Shandong accounted for the top three economic aggregates of China Province in 2023, all exceeding 9 trillion yuan. In particular, Guangdong, as the largest province in economy, became the first province in China to exceed 13 trillion yuan in annual GDP, ranking first in the country for 35 consecutive years.

The economic aggregates of Shandong and Zhejiang, two other major economic provinces, have also leapfrogged, with annual GDP exceeding 9 trillion yuan and 8 trillion yuan respectively. Hunan’s annual GDP exceeded 5 trillion yuan for the first time. Liaoning has successfully entered the "3 trillion GDP Club", surpassing the national growth rate for the first time in 10 years.

In addition, the rise of the western region is obvious. In addition to Tibet, where the economic growth rate leads the country, the growth rates of Ningxia and Gansu both exceed 6%, and Ningxia even announced that all economic indicators are the best in the past years; Sichuan and Chongqing announced that their GDP exceeded 6 trillion yuan and 3 trillion yuan respectively, and the Chengdu-Chongqing double circle as a whole reached a new level. Yunnan’s GDP exceeded 3 trillion yuan for the first time, and Qinghai’s economic growth rate was 5.3%, which also outperformed the whole country.

"Trillion City" expanded by 3 trillion into a new benchmark

Cities also provide a new perspective for observing China’s economy in 2023, among which the most striking thing is that the "GDP Trillion Club" welcomes the new again.

After Changzhou, Jiangsu, and Yantai, Shandong successively announced that they had broken through one trillion yuan, the number of "GDP trillion clubs" in China has increased to 26. Among them, Jiangsu has five "trillion cities", surpassing Guangdong and becoming the province with the largest number of trillion cities in China. From the perspective of urban agglomerations, the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta with strong economic vitality have also become "trillion cities" gathering areas, with 9 and 4 respectively.

At the same time, "3 trillion" is also becoming a new starting point for competition among domestic head cities.

Chongqing and Guangzhou announced that the regional GDP will break the 3 trillion yuan mark in 2023. After Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen, the number of "3 trillion GDP clubs" in China has expanded to five. Chongqing became the first city in the western region whose GDP exceeded 3 trillion yuan, while Guangzhou was the second city in Guangdong Province after Shenzhen.

Set goals in various places to make progress steadily.

After the economic aggregates of many provinces and cities reached a new level in 2023, how to set economic targets in 2024 attracted people’s attention. Of the 29 provinces that have disclosed data, 26 mentioned the growth target in 2024 in their government work reports.

Up to now, Tibet and Hainan, the two provinces with the fastest GDP growth in 2023, have the highest growth expectations this year, both of which are around 8%. Most other provinces that have disclosed data have set the regional target of economic growth in the range of 5%-6%.

For example, Guangdong, Jiangsu and Shandong, which ranked the top three in China in 2023, have all aimed at the figure of 5% this year. Among them, the goal of Guangdong is set at "5%", while Jiangsu and Shandong should strive for "more than 5%". The expected target of Tianjin’s economic growth rate is below 5%, which is set at around 4.5%, but it is still higher than its economic growth rate of 4.3% in 2023.

The goal has been set, and the key to the future lies in how to accomplish it. When planning the road map for development in 2024, many places showed strong interest in emerging industries, and new quality productivity and new industrialization became the focus of attention.

Shanghai: We will actively promote new industrialization, cultivate and upgrade high-end industrial clusters such as new energy vehicles, high-end equipment, advanced materials, civil aviation and space information, and accelerate the construction of future industrial leading areas.

Chongqing: Insist on putting the high-quality development of manufacturing industry in a more prominent position, persistently grasp the leading belt ecology, promote industrial agglomeration, technological innovation and integrated development, and vigorously cultivate new quality productivity.

Promoting consumption is still the key work in the work reports of many provincial governments.

Jiangsu: Vigorously develop digital consumption, green consumption, healthy consumption, sports and leisure consumption, increase the cultivation and promotion of new consumption formats of cultural tourism, and create more domestic "trendy products" and brand-new consumption scenarios.

Beijing: We should "make great efforts to stimulate potential consumption", promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional business districts, build an international consumption experience zone, boost bulk consumption, cultivate "fashionable products" of domestic products, support the development of service consumption, and promote the integration of diversified consumption formats.