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We will continue to pursue economic development as our central task,
with high-quality development as our main focus, reform and innovation as

the fundamental driving force, meeting the people’s ever-growing needs for a
better life as our fundamental goal, and full and rigorous Party
self-governance as the fundamental underpinning for all our efforts.

We will promote higher-quality economic growth while achieving an
appropriate increase in economic output and make solid headway in
promoting well-rounded personal development and common prosperity for

all. All of this will allow us to secure decisive progress toward basically
realizing socialist modernization.
5. Core Principles

- Upholding the Party’s overall leadership
We must resolutely uphold the Party Central Committee’s authority and
its centralized, unified leadership and improve the Party’s ability to chart the

course, make overall plans, design policies, and promote reform. We must
uphold the Party’s leadership in all areas and at all stages of economic and
social development, so as to fundamentally guarantee China’s socialist

modernization drive.
- Putting the people first
The principal position of the people must be respected. We will rely

closely on the people, protect their fundamental interests, and promote social
fairness and justice. We will focus on ensuring and improving the people’s
wellbeing through development and open up greater space for development

in the course of satisfying their needs. We will promote coordinated economic
and social development, ensure that material progress and cultural-ethical
progress reinforce each other, and see to it that the gains of modernization

benefit all our people fairly.
- Pursuing high-quality development
Our development will be guided by the new development philosophy.

We should develop new quality productive forces in line with local
conditions, strengthen the domestic economy, and promote unimpeded
domestic and international economic flows. We will take coordinated steps to

expand domestic demand and deepen supply-side structural reform, move
faster to foster new drivers of growth, and improve and upgrade the
economic structure. We will optimize the allocation of new resources while

making best use of existing ones. This will help drive sustained, sound
economic development and all-around social progress.

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