Xi Jinping presided over the fourth meeting of the Central Commission for Comprehensively Deepening Reform, emphasizing that…
Enhance the capacity of land resources to underpin high-quality development in regions with comparative advantages.
Further enhance grassroots emergency management capabilities.
Li Qiang, Wang Huning, and Cai Qi attended.

BEIJING, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) — Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People’s Republic of China, Chairman of the Central Military Commission, and Director of the Central Commission for Comprehensively Deepening Reform, presided over the fourth meeting of the Central Commission for Comprehensively Deepening Reform on the afternoon of February 19. The meeting reviewed and approved the following documents: “Opinions on Reforming the Land Management System to Strengthen Support for High-Quality Development in Priority Regions,” “Opinions on Promoting a Comprehensive Green Transformation of Economic and Social Development,” “Opinions on Further Enhancing Grassroots Emergency Management Capabilities,” “Opinions on Accelerating the Establishment of Basic Systems to Support All-Round Innovation,” the “Work Summary Report of the Central Commission for Comprehensively Deepening Reform for 2023,” and the “Key Work Priorities of the Central Commission for Comprehensively Deepening Reform for 2024.”

While presiding over the meeting, Xi Jinping emphasized the need to establish and improve a land management system that is more efficiently aligned with macro policies and regional development, enhance the precision of land‑resource allocation and its utilization efficiency, and foster a spatial development pattern characterized by effective constraints on primary functions and coordinated, orderly land use. He also underscored the importance of strengthening the capacity of land resources to underpin high‑quality development in regions with comparative advantages. Promoting a comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development is a fundamental strategy for addressing resource, environmental, and ecological challenges. It requires adhering to a holistic, coordinated, innovative, and secure transition, guided by the “dual carbon” goals, and advancing decarbonization, pollution reduction, greening, and growth in tandem, while embedding the concept of green development throughout all stages and aspects of economic and social progress. Efforts must be further intensified to bolster grassroots emergency‑management capabilities, pushing resources, support, and preventive measures down to the community level and moving control points upstream, so as to effectively prevent and defuse major safety risks, respond promptly, forcefully, and efficiently to various disasters and accidents, fortify the safety foundation, and safeguard the safety bottom line. Attention should be focused on the most salient issues hindering the deep integration of science, technology, and the economy. By addressing key questions—what innovation should pursue, who should lead it, and how to provide support, incentives, and protection for innovation—we must continue to deepen reform, tackle tough challenges, and accelerate the establishment of a robust institutional framework for comprehensive innovation.

Li Qiang, Wang Huning, and Cai Qi, members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice chairpersons of the Central Commission for Comprehensively Deepening Reform, attended the meeting.

The meeting emphasized the need to coordinate regional economic planning with land‑use spatial planning, leveraging each region’s functional positioning and resource endowments to refine land‑management policy units, enhance the efficiency of resource development and utilization, and better harness the demonstration and leading role of regions with comparative advantages. It is imperative to strictly enforce spatial‑control boundaries, firmly uphold the three red lines—arable land and permanent basic farmland, the ecological protection red line, and the urban development boundary—and strengthen ongoing and post‑event oversight. For certain reform initiatives that are both exploratory and urgently needed, thorough research and prudent, steady implementation are essential.

The meeting emphasized that to promote a comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, it is essential to focus on key areas, establish a spatial layout for green, low-carbon, high-quality development, and advance the green transformation of industrial structure, energy structure, transportation structure, and urban–rural development. Efforts should be accelerated to foster production and lifestyle patterns that conserve resources and protect the environment. Key links in driving the green transition must be firmly grasped, with a push for comprehensive resource conservation, an expedited shift in consumption patterns, and strengthened innovation in green technologies as well as the wider application of advanced green solutions. Furthermore, fiscal, tax, financial, investment, and pricing policies, along with relevant market-based mechanisms, should be improved to provide robust policy support and institutional safeguards for the green transition.

The meeting emphasized the need to streamline the management system, strengthen the Party’s leadership over grassroots emergency management, and leverage the comprehensive strengths of emergency management agencies alongside the specialized expertise of relevant departments and stakeholders. It called for seamless coordination across the entire chain of responsibilities—from prevention to response—and for the establishment of a robust framework for comprehensive safety and emergency preparedness. Mechanisms must be refined to foster a closed-loop management system encompassing hazard identification, risk assessment, monitoring and early warning, and timely response, ensuring that prevention takes priority, issues are detected early, and incidents are addressed at their earliest stage. A sound support mechanism should be put in place, with increased investment in foundational infrastructure, and emergency rescue capabilities appropriately equipped and strengthened based on factors such as regional population size, economic scale, patterns of disasters and accidents, and levels of safety risk. Finally, training and capacity-building for grassroots officials should be intensified, while public awareness of risk prevention and self‑rescue and mutual‑assistance skills should be enhanced.

The meeting emphasized that accelerating the establishment of foundational institutions to support comprehensive innovation is a crucial step in deepening reforms of the science and technology system and mechanisms and in advancing high‑level scientific and technological self‑reliance. It called for improving the CPC Central Committee’s centralized and unified leadership over science and technology work, refining the new national‑system approach, and addressing key challenges in areas such as coordinated actor engagement, resource allocation, incentive and constraint mechanisms, and openness and security, thereby closing institutional gaps. Based on the distinct principles governing scientific research, technological development, and industrial innovation, it is necessary to tailor institutional designs accordingly and to pilot major reforms first. Furthermore, systematic integration must be strengthened, with policy coherence assessments conducted for newly introduced measures and newly formulated systems, ensuring aligned efforts and synergistic effects.

The meeting noted that over the past year, we have comprehensively implemented the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, deeply understood the new requirements posed by advancing Chinese modernization for comprehensively deepening reform, and strategically planned reform efforts at this new starting point. By applying targeted, coordinated, and sustained efforts, we have injected momentum and vitality into the initial phase of our new journey. We have advanced the implementation of the reform tasks outlined at the 20th National Congress, deliberated and adopted a number of important reform documents, and concentrated resources on addressing pressing issues that are critical to high-quality development and urgently concern the people. We have organized and carried out institutional reforms of the Party and the state, improved the system of Party leadership, and optimized the allocation of functions and responsibilities in key areas such as science and technology and finance; at the central level, the majority of reform tasks have been completed. We have strengthened coordination, oversight, and enforcement of priority reform initiatives, ensuring that reforms are effectively implemented and deliver tangible results.

This year marks another pivotal year in the comprehensive deepening of reform. The primary task is to map out further steps to deepen reform across the board—both a continuation of the practical efforts initiated since the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee and a new chapter in the era of advancing Chinese modernization on a new journey. We must steadfastly rely on reform and opening-up as the key strategy to address development challenges and navigate the risks and uncertainties ahead. We will continue to implement reform measures that expand domestic demand, optimize the economic structure, bolster market confidence, safeguard people’s livelihoods, and prevent and defuse systemic risks, concentrating on tackling the most critical and pressing issues. We will carefully plan major initiatives for further deepening reform, focusing on institutional and mechanistic barriers that impede the smooth progress of Chinese modernization. We will clearly define strategic priorities, sequencing, priority areas, and implementation approaches, emphasizing a problem‑oriented reform agenda and highlighting key reform tasks across all sectors. Reform measures must be sharply targeted, squarely aimed at resolving the most salient problems, with a strong reform orientation and tangible results. We will fully mobilize the enthusiasm of all sectors for reform, further build consensus around reform, and marshal the concerted efforts of the entire Party and the nation to advance and implement major reform tasks. We will solicit broad input from all quarters, promptly distill the fresh experiences and innovative practices emerging at the grassroots level, and inspire Party members and cadres to step up, take responsibility, and deliver concrete results, thereby fostering a robust climate of reform characterized by bold innovation, pragmatic action, and pioneering spirit.

Members of the Central Commission for Comprehensively Deepening Reform attended the meeting, while responsible officials from relevant departments of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council were present in an observer capacity.