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fundamentally reform the economic structure that constrains the development of

the productive forces and uphold and improve the socialist market economy; and
in congruence with this it must undertake political structural reform and reform in
other fields. The Party must uphold the fundamental national policy of making
China open to the world and embrace and learn from all achievements of human

society. In carrying out reform and opening up, the Party should be boldly
explorative and brave in breaking new ground; the Party should improve the

scientific nature of reform-related decision making, pursue reform in a more
systematic, holistic, and coordinated way, and pioneer new approaches through
practice.

The Communist Party of China shall lead the people in developing the socialist
market economy. It shall be firm in consolidating and developing the public sector

of the economy and shall remain steadfast in encouraging, supporting, and
guiding the development of the non-public sector. It shall give play to the decisive
role of market forces in resource allocation and ensure the government plays its
role better, and establish a sound system for macroeconomic regulation. The Party

shall work to balance urban and rural development, development among regions,
economic and social development, relations between humankind and nature, and

domestic development and openness to the world. It shall adjust the economic
structure, transform the growth model, and advance supply-side structural reform.
The Party shall promote the synchronized development of new industrialization,
information technology application, urbanization, and agricultural modernization,

and shall build a new socialist countryside, take a new path of industrialization
with Chinese characteristics, and build China into a country of innovation and a

global leader in science and technology.
The Communist Party of China shall lead the people in developing socialist
democracy. It shall preserve the organic unity of Party leadership, the running of

the country by the people, and law-based governance, follow the Chinese socialist
path of political development and the path of socialist rule of law with Chinese

characteristics, expand socialist democracy, develop a socialist rule of law system
with Chinese characteristics, and build a socialist rule of law country, thereby
consolidating the people’s democratic dictatorship and developing a socialist

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