Constructing Political Economy with Chinese Characteristics

Contents
1 Overview
1.1 Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era
1.1.1 The New Juncture in China’s Development
1.1.2 Chinese Nation Has Stood up, Grown Rich, and Become Strong
1.1.3 Scientific Socialism with Full Vitality
1.1.4 A New Option for Developing Countries to Achieve Modernization
1.2 Guidelines for Building a Socialist Political Economy with Chinese Characteristics
1.2.1 Under the Guidance of Marxist Political Economy
1.2.2 Standing on China’s Five-Thousand-Year Civilization
1.2.3 Summarizing and Refining China’s Reform and Opening-Up
1.2.4 Referring to Helpful Western Economics
1.3 Main Content
1.3.1 The People-Centered Philosophy
1.3.2 Principal Contradiction Facing Chinese Society in a New Era
1.3.3 Taking the Release and Development of Productive Forces as the Fundamental Task of Socialism
1.3.4 The Alignment of the Socialist System and the Market Economy
1.3.5 Toward a Proper Balance between Government and the Market with the Latter Playing a Decisive Role
1.3.6 Coordinating Conflicts of Interests and Mobilizing Enthusiasm of All Sides
1.3.7 Promoting Fairness and Justice and Achieving Common Prosperity
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2 Epistemology and Methodology
2.1 Learning and Mastering Marxist Philosophy
2.1.1 Learning and Mastering Dialectical Materialism
2.1.2 Learning and Mastering Historical Materialism
2.2 Biding Time and Maintaining Strategic Focus
2.2.1 Biding Time
2.2.2 Maintaining Strategic Focus
2.3 Following the General Principle of Pursuing Progress While Ensuring Stability
2.3.1 The Dialectics Between Stability and Progress
2.3.2 Basing the Bigger Picture on Stability
2.4 Promoting Innovative Thinking
2.5 Getting Ready for Worst-Case Scenarios
2.6 Adhering to the Combination of Problem-Oriented and Goal-Oriented Approaches
2.7 Conducting Pilot Projects as an Important Method to Advance Reform
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3 Following the Most Sensible and Logical Course of the New Normal of Economic Development
3.1 Understanding New Normal in All Respects
3.1.1 China’s New Normal Is Different from the World’s New Mediocre
3.1.2 New Normal Is Not a Safe Haven
3.2 Time Dimension: Vicissitudes from the Macro Perspective of History
3.2.1 The New Normal and Potential Growth Rate
3.2.2 Marco Perspective of History on New Normal and Its Stage Characteristics
3.2.3 China in New Normal vs. Global Economy in New Mediocre
3.3 Spatial Dimension: New Phase of Globalization and China’s Strategic Choice
3.3.1 Deglobalization Trend
3.3.2 Global Growth Is Sluggish
3.3.3 China’s Strategic Choice for Leading Globalization
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4 Using the New Development Philosophy for Guiding the New Normal
4.1 Implementing the New Development Philosophy
4.1.1 Toward a New Understanding of the Laws of Development
4.1.2 Toward a Unity of Development Goals and Paths
4.1.3 A Two-Step Development Strategy in the New Era
4.2 Innovative Development
4.2.1 Implications of Innovative Development
4.2.2 Innovative Development as a Common Task of the World
4.2.3 Innovation as the Primary Driving Force for Development
4.2.4 Innovation Capacity Determines Future
4.2.5 From Imitation to Independent Innovation
4.3 Coordinated Development
4.3.1 Increasing the Integrity and Coordination of Development
4.3.2 Coordinated Development Between Different Regions, Between the Urban and Rural Areas, and Rural Revitalization
4.3.3 Coordinated Development Between Material and Cultural Progress
4.3.4 Coordinated Development Between Economy and National Defense
4.4 Green Development
4.4.1 The Essence of Green Development is Harmonious Coexistence Between Humans and Nature
4.4.2 The Relationship Between Conservation and Development
4.4.3 Promoting Green, Low-Carbon, and Circular Development
4.4.4 Improving the Environmental Governance System
4.5 Open Development
4.5.1 An Inevitable Way to Prosperity and Development
4.5.2 The New Stage of Open Development
4.5.3 A New Pattern of Opening-Up in All Respects
4.6 Shared Development
4.6.1 The Essential Requirement of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
4.6.2 Achievements and Challenges of Shared Development
4.6.3 Sticking to and Implementing Shared Development
4.6.4 Ensuring and Improving People’s Wellbeing amid Development
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5 Developing a Modernized Economy
5.1 An Urgent Requirement for Smoothing Through the Critical Transition
5.2 Furthering Supply-Side Structural Reform
5.2.1 Defining the Socialist Political Economy with Chinese Characteristics
5.2.2 Perceiving New Normal in China’s Economic Development from the Perspective of the Supply-Side
5.2.3 Developing the Real Economy and Improving the Supply System Quality
5.3 Accelerating Efforts to Improve the Socialist Market Economy
5.3.1 Improving the Socialist Economic System
5.3.2 Improving the Property Rights System and Ensuring the Market-Based Allocation of Production Factors
5.3.3 Innovating and Improving Macro Regulation and Control
5.3.4 Expediting the Establishment of the Modern Fiscal System and Deepening the Reform of the Financial System
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6 Chinese Wisdom and Chinese Approaches
6.1 The Plight of Global Governance and the Poverty of a Country
6.2 China’s Experience and the Belt and Road Initiative
6.3 China’s Plan for Modernization
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