From June 5438+065438+1October 17 to June 5438+08, 2007, China (Hainan) Reform Research Institute and the German Technical Cooperation Corporation jointly held the International Forum "China's Reform in the Past 30 Years-Retrospect and Prospect". Nearly 300 experts and scholars from home and abroad attended the forum. As the result of this forum, the book "The Road to a Powerful Country-China's Reform Entering 3 0 Years" (hereinafter referred to as "The Road to a Powerful Country") was published by China Economic Publishing House. In addition to Gao Shangquan's "Only Reform and Opening-up Can Develop China" as the preface, the whole book is divided into five parts: First, "China enters a new stage of comprehensive reform", which contains the overall evaluation and discussion of some experts, scholars and officials on the 30 years of reform and opening-up; The second is "30 Years of Progressive Reform: Exploration and Practice", which carries out in-depth analysis and discussion from different levels such as administrative management system reform, macro-control, financial system reform, enterprise reform, rural reform, distribution system reform and opening up. Third, "Market-oriented economic system reform: challenges and impacts", focusing on the reform of state-owned assets management, urban-rural integration and Shenzhen's reform and exploration as an important window of China's reform and opening up. Fourthly, "social reform: the institutional basis for ensuring and improving people's livelihood", focusing on in-depth analysis of hot issues such as promoting equalization of basic public services, social reform and local government reform in China in recent years; Fifthly, "Stones from Other Mountains: International Experience and Reference" focuses on the reform practices of Germany, Britain, EU integration, Vietnam and other countries, as well as the research results and views of some foreign politicians and scholars on the reform of China and other countries in transition.

As far as I know, The Road to a Powerful Country is the first book published in China that comprehensively and systematically summarizes China's 30 years of reform and opening up. Throughout this book, the author believes that there are at least the following three characteristics.

Summarize, observe and overlook the 30 years of reform and opening up with the vision and strategy of development.

How to treat China's 30-year reform and opening up seems not to be a problem, but it has actually become a social topic of general concern. Because, over the years, people's understanding of the 30 years of reform and opening up is not very consistent in both society and the party. Some people even simply blame some problems in the reform and opening up on the reform and opening up itself. Although few people hold these views, their impact on society cannot be ignored. In a certain sense, whether China can reach an understanding of the reform and rally the popularity of the reform under the new historical conditions will directly affect the realization of the strategic goal of China's national development in the future, and it is also related to whether it can truly implement the overall work of emancipating the party's mind, persisting in reform and opening up, and persisting in Scientific Outlook on Development's goal of promoting social harmony and striving for a well-off society.

Many articles in Road to a Powerful Country, with a large number of facts, data and in-depth analysis, explain the historic changes that have taken place in China since the reform and opening up, the epoch-making significance of the reform and opening up, and the great changes that have brought to China's economy, society and ordinary people. On this basis, the causes and consequences of problems in China's reform and opening up are deeply analyzed. The basic conclusion of most articles is that some prominent problems in China's reform and opening-up are related to our gradual reform strategy, but the most important reason is that some key reforms have not been deepened and put in place. Therefore, it is very important to continue to deepen the reform, especially in some key areas, such as the government's own reform and political system reform, which is also the only way to solve the problems we encounter on the way forward. Analyzing and understanding the reform and opening up with such a vision and height can not only clearly analyze and judge the general trend, but also keep a clear head, and will not affect the overall evaluation of the reform and opening up because of too many specific details. As stated in the report of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the most striking feature of the new period is reform and opening up, the most remarkable achievement of the new period is rapid development, and the most prominent symbol of the new period is to keep pace with the times, and there is no way out for stagnation and retrogression. In a sense, this is the best summary of the 30 years of reform and opening up.

The reform in some key areas is deeply analyzed, and its advantages and disadvantages are summarized.

As we all know, China's reform and opening up in the past 30 years was based on China's 30-year planned economy. Reform and opening up should not only adhere to the socialist direction, but also reform a series of stereotypes formed in the planned economy era and explore without any model to learn from. The difficulty can be imagined. Therefore, an important feature of China's reform and opening up is to reconstruct the economic and social order, and at the same time, to speed up the system transition and social transformation. This determines that China's reform must be a grand and huge social project, involving a wide range and great difficulty. In this process, our exploration started with bringing order out of chaos and shifting the focus of the work of the party and the state, and closely focused on market-oriented reform and the establishment of a market economic system, and launched a series of fruitful reforms and practices.

Many papers in The Road to a Powerful Country have been preliminarily summarized from different aspects, such as the reform of state-owned enterprises, the management of state-owned assets, the reform of fiscal and taxation system, the reform of income distribution system, the reform of rural areas, social reform, the reform of administrative management system, and opening to the outside world. These articles not only sum up the achievements and experiences of the reform in the above-mentioned related fields, but also describe the course of the reform, and also pay a lot of attention to the existing problems and future reform trends. Some viewpoints are forward-looking, such as emphasizing the connotation, characteristics, mechanism, objectives and approaches of China's development model, giving priority to economic growth objectives in financial system reform as social public service objectives, guiding coordinated development between urban and rural areas with more active urbanization policies in rural reform, paying more attention to the interactive relationship between income distribution and property distribution in income distribution system reform, preventing risks in opening up, and improving the promotion strategy of government reform in administrative system reform. These viewpoints have certain reference value for further deepening the reform in related fields.

The trend of China's reform in the future is predicted and analyzed.

Reviewing and summarizing the course of reform and opening up is undoubtedly to better carry out the great cause of reform and opening up in China to the end. In a sense, whether China's future reform and opening up can continue to develop in depth is not only related to the solution of a series of deep-seated social and economic problems we are facing, but also related to the future and destiny of China. It is from this height that The Road to a Powerful Country makes a multi-angle analysis and prediction on the future reform and opening up of China. Its basic judgment is: after nearly 30 years of practice, China's reform and opening up has generally entered a new historical stage; Generally speaking, China society has changed from a survival society to a development society. Under such a specific historical condition, we must comprehensively deepen the reform in accordance with the requirements of scientific development and social harmony. Specifically, we should speed up market-oriented reform in accordance with the requirements of changing the mode of economic development; According to the requirements of urban and rural planning, accelerate the comprehensive rural reform; In accordance with the requirements of improving the quality and level of open economy, we will more actively promote opening up; According to the requirements of social harmony, accelerate the reform of social system; Deepen the reform of the political system in accordance with the requirements of developing socialist democratic politics. At the same time, there are also articles that analyze the more complicated situation that China will face after entering a new stage of reform and a development-oriented society, such as the special significance of people's all-round development at this stage, the adjustment of interest relations will be more profound and complicated, and the actual demand for political system reform will increase. Based on this, many papers emphasize the need to further emancipate the mind and coordinate the reform relations in different fields such as economy, society and politics. At present, according to the requirements of developing democratic politics and political system reform put forward by the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the political system reform should be promoted to a more important position, and bold exploration and practice should be carried out to keep it in overall balance with other reforms. Only in this way can China's reform and opening up develop healthily and play a greater role in enhancing China's competitiveness in the international community and accelerating the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

In order to better promote the reform, many scholars suggest that the central government set up an independent reform coordination body, which is not subordinate to a certain government department and directly led by the Prime Minister, so as to prevent and avoid the interference and influence of departmental interests on the reform to the maximum extent.