The central government has deployed to deepen the "AI Plus" action, and the relevant governance system will be further improved
The recent Central Economic Work Conference clearly stated that it is necessary to deepen and expand "AI Plus" and improve artificial intelligence governance. This means that artificial intelligence will be deeply integrated in more fields, and at the same time usher in a more standardized and sustainable development path.
The Central Economic Work Conference was held in Beijing
Xi Jinping delivered an important speech Li Qiang made a concluding speech
Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, and Li Xi attended the meeting
The Central Economic Work Conference was held in Beijing from December 10 to 11. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, attended the meeting and delivered an important speech. Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, and Li Xi, members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, attended the meeting.
In his important speech, Xi Jinping summarized the economic work in 2025, analyzed the current economic situation, and deployed the economic work in 2026. Li Qiang made a concluding speech, putting forward requirements for implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech and doing a good job in economic work next year.
The meeting pointed out that this year is a very extraordinary year. The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core unites and leads the whole party and the people of all ethnic groups in the country to face difficulties and work hard, unswervingly implement the new development concept, promote high-quality development, coordinate the overall situation at home and abroad, and implement more active and promising macro policies, and the main goals of economic and social development will be successfully completed. Our country's economy has moved forward under pressure and developed to the new and excellent. The construction of a modern industrial system has continued to advance, new steps have been taken in reform and opening up, positive progress has been made in risk resolution in key areas, and people's livelihood security has become more powerful. In the past five years, we have effectively responded to various shocks and challenges, promoted the cause of the party and the country to achieve new major achievements, the "14th Five-Year Plan" is about to come to a successful conclusion, and the new journey of the second centenary goal has achieved a good start.
The meeting held that through practice, we have a new understanding and experience of doing a good job in economic work under the new situation: we must fully tap the economic potential, we must adhere to policy support and reform and innovation at the same time, we must be both "alive" and "well managed", we must adhere to the close combination of investing in things and people, and we must deal with external challenges with hard work.
The meeting pointed out that there are still many old problems and new challenges in our country's economic development, the impact of changes in the external environment has deepened, the contradiction between strong domestic supply and weak demand is prominent, and there are many risks and hidden dangers in key areas. Most of these problems are problems in development and transformation, which can be solved through hard work, and the supporting conditions and basic trends of our country's long-term economic improvement have not changed. It is necessary to strengthen confidence, make good use of advantages, cope with challenges, and continuously consolidate and expand the momentum of economic stability and improvement.
The meeting emphasized that to do a good job in next year's economic work, it is necessary to take Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as the guide, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the 20th Plenary Session of the Communist Party of China, fully and accurately implement the new development concept, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, focus on promoting high-quality development, adhere to the general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability, better coordinate domestic economic work and international economic and trade struggles, better coordinate development and security, implement more active and promising macro policies, enhance the forward-looking and targeted coordination of policies, and continue to expand domestic demand. Optimize supply, optimize increments, revitalize stocks, develop new quality productive forces according to local conditions, promote the construction of a unified national market in depth, continue to prevent and resolve risks in key areas, focus on stabilizing employment, enterprises, markets, and expectations, promote the economy to achieve effective qualitative improvement and reasonable quantitative growth, maintain social harmony and stability, and achieve a good start in the 15th Five-Year Plan.
The meeting pointed out that next year's economic work should adhere to the policy orientation of seeking progress while maintaining stability, improving quality and efficiency, giving full play to the integrated effect of stock policies and incremental policies, increasing counter-cyclical and cross-cyclical adjustments, and improving the efficiency of macroeconomic governance. We must continue to implement a more active fiscal policy. Maintain the necessary fiscal deficit, total debt and total expenditure, strengthen scientific fiscal management, optimize the structure of fiscal expenditure, and standardize tax incentives and financial subsidy policies. Pay attention to solving local financial difficulties and strengthen the bottom line of the "three guarantees" at the grassroots level. Strict financial discipline and adhere to the tight life of party and government organs. We should continue to implement a moderately loose monetary policy. Promote stable economic growth and reasonable price recovery as important considerations for monetary policy, flexibly and efficiently use various policy tools such as RRR and interest rate cuts, maintain sufficient liquidity, smooth the monetary policy transmission mechanism, and guide financial institutions to strengthen support for expanding domestic demand, scientific and technological innovation, small, medium and micro enterprises and other key areas. Maintain the basic stability of the RMB exchange rate at a reasonable and balanced level. It is necessary to enhance the consistency and effectiveness of macro policy orientation. Various economic and non-economic policies, stock policies and incremental policies should be included in the macro policy orientation consistency assessment. Improve the expectation management mechanism and boost social confidence.
The meeting determined that next year's economic work will do a good job in the following key tasks.
First, adhere to the dominance of domestic demand and build a strong domestic market. In-depth implementation of special actions to boost consumption, formulate and implement plans to increase the income of urban and rural residents. Expand the supply of high-quality goods and services. Optimize the implementation of the "two new" policies. Clean up unreasonable restrictions in the field of consumption and release the potential of service consumption. Promote investment to stop falling and stabilize, appropriately increase the scale of investment in the central budget, optimize the implementation of "double" projects, optimize the management of local government special bonds, continue to play the role of new policy financial instruments, and effectively stimulate the vitality of private investment. Promote urban renewal with high quality.
The second is to adhere to innovation-driven and step up the cultivation and expansion of new momentum. Formulate an integrated plan to promote the development of educational science and technology talents. Build international science and technology innovation centers in Beijing (Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei), Shanghai (Yangtze River Delta), and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Strengthen the main position of enterprises in innovation and improve the intellectual property protection system in emerging fields. Formulate an action plan for expanding the capacity and quality of the service industry. Implement a new round of high-quality development actions for key industrial chains. Deepen and expand "artificial intelligence +" and improve artificial intelligence governance. Innovative technology financial services.
The third is to adhere to reform and enhance the vitality of high-quality development. Formulate regulations on the construction of a unified national market and deeply rectify "involution" competition. Formulate and implement plans to further deepen the reform of state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises, and improve the supporting laws and policies of the Private Economy Promotion Law. Accelerate the clearance of arrears of enterprises. Promote the win-win development of platform enterprises, operators and workers within the platform. Expand the pilot reform of factor marketization. Improve the local tax system. Further promote the reduction and quality improvement of small and medium-sized financial institutions, and continue to deepen the comprehensive reform of investment and financing in the capital market.
Fourth, adhere to opening up to the outside world and promote win-win cooperation in multiple fields. Steadily promote institutional opening-up, orderly expand independent opening up of service fields, optimize the layout of the pilot free trade zone, and solidly promote the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port. Promote the integration of trade and investment and the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade. Encourage and support the export of services, and actively develop digital trade and green trade. Deepen the reform of the foreign investment promotion system and mechanism. Improve the overseas comprehensive service system. Promote the high-quality development of the "Belt and Road". Promote the signing of more regional and bilateral trade and investment agreements.
Fifth, adhere to coordinated development and promote urban-rural integration and regional linkage. Coordinate and promote urbanization and comprehensive rural revitalization with the county as an important carrier, and promote the high-quality development of the county economy. Strictly abide by the red line of cultivated land, do not relax grain production, and promote the price of grain and other important agricultural products to maintain a reasonable level. Continue to consolidate and expand the achievements of poverty alleviation, incorporate normalized assistance into the overall implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, and adhere to the bottom line of not returning to poverty on a large scale. Support major economic provinces to take the lead. Strengthen coordination and linkage in key urban agglomerations and deepen cross-administrative cooperation. Strengthen the overall planning of major bays and promote the high-quality development of the marine economy.
Sixth, adhere to the guidance of "double carbon" and promote comprehensive green transformation. Further promote the transformation of energy conservation and carbon reduction in key industries. Formulate an outline of the plan for building an energy power, accelerate the construction of a new energy system, and expand the application of green electricity. Strengthen the construction of the national carbon emission trading market. Implement comprehensive solid waste management actions, fight the battle of blue sky, clear water and pure land, and strengthen the treatment of new pollutants. Solidly promote the "Three Norths" project and implement the integration and optimization of nature reserves. Strengthen the construction of meteorological monitoring, forecasting and early warning systems, step up the shortcomings of flood control, drainage and disaster resistance infrastructure in the northern region, and improve the ability to cope with extreme weather.
Seventh, adhere to the people's livelihood as the most important thing and strive to do practical things for the people. Implement actions to stabilize jobs, expand capacity and improve quality, stabilize the employment of key groups such as college graduates and migrant workers, and encourage and support flexible employment personnel and new forms of employment to participate in employee insurance. Promote the restructuring of educational resources, increase the supply of ordinary high school degrees and the undergraduate enrollment of high-quality colleges and universities. Optimize the centralized procurement of drugs and deepen the reform of medical insurance payment methods. Implement the rehabilitation nursing expansion and improvement project, implement the long-term care insurance system, and strengthen care and assistance for groups in need. Advocate a positive concept of marriage and childbearing, and strive to stabilize the size of the new birth population. Do a solid job in safe production, disaster prevention, mitigation and relief, food and drug safety, etc.
Eighth, adhere to the bottom line and actively and steadily resolve risks in key areas. Efforts should be made to stabilize the real estate market, and the city should implement policies to control increments, destock, and optimize supply, and encourage the acquisition of existing commercial housing to focus on affordable housing. Deepen the reform of the housing provident fund system and promote the construction of "good houses" in an orderly manner. Accelerate the construction of a new model of real estate development. Actively and orderly resolve local government debt risks, urge all localities to take the initiative to reduce debt, and do not add hidden debts in violation of regulations. Optimize debt restructuring and replacement methods, and take multiple measures to resolve the operating debt risks of local government financing platforms.
The meeting pointed out that it is necessary to consciously unify thoughts and actions with the scientific judgment of the Party Central Committee on the situation, grasp the general trend of our country's development, and strengthen confidence in future development. It is necessary to fully implement the overall requirements and policy orientation of next year's economic work, adhere to the positive and pragmatic goal orientation, focus on solving existing difficulties, make greater breakthroughs in qualitative and effective improvement, and enhance the sense of gain of residents and enterprises; Enhance the synergy between reform and policy, and promote the continuous improvement of economic operation and market expectations. It is necessary to grasp the key focus of next year's economic work in the overall situation, focus on strengthening the domestic cycle, and expand new space for domestic demand growth; focusing on the development of new quality productive forces, promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation; focusing on stimulating the driving vitality of high-quality development, unswervingly deepening reform and expanding opening up; focusing on continuously improving people's livelihood and well-being, increasing protection and improvement of people's livelihood; Focus on keeping the bottom line of safety and do a good job in risk resolution in key areas.
The meeting emphasized that it is necessary to strengthen the party's overall leadership over economic work and form a unified will and a strong joint force. It is necessary to adhere to the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, and all regions and departments should fully implement the Party Central Committee's ideas, tasks and policies on next year's economic work in light of actual conditions and local conditions. It is necessary to establish and practice a correct view of political performance, adhere to making political achievements for the people and doing practical work, consciously act according to the law, and improve the differentiated assessment and evaluation system. It is necessary to prepare national and local "15th Five-Year Plans" and special plans in accordance with the "Recommendations" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to promote high-quality and sustainable development. It is necessary to create a good political, talent, business, and public opinion environment, strengthen policy publicity and interpretation, and fully stimulate positive social energy.
The meeting demanded that we should do a good job in ensuring the supply of important livelihood commodities at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, care about the production and life of the people in need, and resolutely prevent and curb the occurrence of major accidents.
The meeting called on the whole party and society to unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, work together and forge ahead, strive to achieve next year's economic and social development goals and tasks, and ensure that the "15th Five-Year Plan" has a good start and a good start.
Members of the Political Bureau, Members of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, relevant leading comrades of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, State Councilor, President of the Supreme People's Court, Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, relevant leading comrades of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and members of the Central Military Commission attended the meeting.
The main responsible comrades of the party and government of all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government, cities with separate plans, and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, relevant departments of the central and state organs, relevant people's organizations, some financial institutions and enterprises managed by the central government, and the main responsible comrades of various departments of the Central Military Commission attended the meeting.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, December 11)
