On the one hand, the traditional concept of planned economy still has a certain market. Some people either can't correctly understand the role of the market, or exaggerate the blindness of the market, which leads to the government's keen participation and intervention in economic activities and inhibits the play of market vitality. One of the tasks of continuing to emancipate the mind is to give full play to the role of the market at a higher level, making good use of both the domestic market and the international market; It is necessary to make good use of both the commodity market and the factor market, especially the capital market, so that the market can really play a fundamental role in resource allocation. Accordingly, the government should further change its functions and play a more important role in maintaining market order, providing high-quality public products and building a harmonious society.
On the other hand, it will take time to overcome the shackles of the small-scale peasant economy thought with thousands of years of history. Small-scale peasant economy thought has some weaknesses, such as focusing on short-term but neglecting long-term, focusing on quantity but neglecting quality, focusing on local but neglecting overall situation, and focusing on individual but neglecting cooperation, which restricts the vision of decision makers and makes it difficult to adapt to the conditions of increasing globalization, informationization and integration. This requires constant reflection, learning and reference, in order to enhance the long-term, overall and systematic work, enhance the concept of quality and cooperation, and determine and standardize it through institutional arrangements.
Second, we should overcome new misunderstandings in the development process and prevent new empiricism and dogmatism.
Empiricism, burdened with past success, ignores changing circumstances and conditions, and is superstitious about itself and experience, forming a strong "path dependence". However, experience often fails because of changes in conditions, and even causes huge losses. Many places in Jiangsu have gained successful experience in the past development, which is a valuable asset, but if it is not handled properly, it may also become a burden and obstacle to progress. The key point is to sum up and look for general laws and development trends from past successes, be brave in breaking through and constantly innovate. For the experience gained in one place at a time, we should assess the situation and apply and popularize it in combination with the reality in other places. For example, we can learn a lot from the industrialization and development of northern Jiangsu, including the spirit of southern Jiangsu, but the requirements and internal and external conditions for the development of northern Jiangsu have changed greatly compared with the past, and the development of northern Jiangsu must take a new path.
Under the new historical conditions, dogmatism is often manifested in the way of accepting correct guidance, following international practices and adopting advanced models, but its basic characteristics of being bookish, not realistic, following the crowd without characteristics and less innovation have not changed. Emancipating the mind is to combine the general call of superiors, advanced development models and international common practices with local reality, creatively implement the guidance of superiors and apply international practices on the basis of accurately grasping the changes and new trends in development stages, selectively and innovatively learn advanced models, and form a policy system, development environment and development mode that meet local reality and development requirements. Otherwise, it is impossible to give full play to the relative advantages of resources and elements in the region, form the core competitiveness of the region, actively adjust strategic decisions in a predictable way, strive for new advantages, and maintain sustainable development.