Ji Zhengju: The Dialectical Thinking Contained in Xi Jinping's Economic Thought
General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out that the more our cause develops in depth, the more we must continuously enhance our capacity for dialectical thinking. Dialectical thinking is a mode of thought that reflects and conforms to the process and regularities of the dialectical development of objective things. Its characteristic lies in its skill at using perspectives of connectedness, development, change, essence, and totality to understand things—moving from spontaneity to consciousness. It represents a unity of the theories of development, of two points [1], of key points [2], of contradictions, of unity, and of comprehensiveness. In his report to the 20th National Congress of the CPC, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized the need to "continually improve our capacity for strategic thinking, historical thinking, dialectical thinking, systems thinking, innovative thinking, legal thinking, and bottom-line thinking, providing scientific ideological methods for forward-looking thinking, overall planning, and the holistic advancement of the various causes of the Party and the state."
Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is the unity of the Marxist worldview, outlook on history, epistemology, theory of practice, theory of value, and methodology. It contains rich and profound Marxist ideological and working methods, leadership and management methods, and scientific concepts and thinking; it is the fundamental compliance and guide to action for doing work well in the New Era. Xi Jinping economic thought is a vital component of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. Xi Jinping economic thought contains profound dialectical thinking; it is both a scientific worldview and outlook on history, as well as a scientific epistemology and methodology, possessing great significance for us in strengthening our ideological armament and promoting our work.
Grasping the relationship between quality and quantity, promoting high-quality development, and driving the economy to achieve effective improvement in quality and reasonable growth in quantity
The law of the transformation of quantitative change into qualitative change is a fundamental law of materialist dialectics. China's economy has transitioned from a stage of high-speed growth to a stage of high-quality development. In the report to the 20th National Congress of the CPC, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out the need to "promote the economy to achieve effective improvement in quality and reasonable growth in quantity." Entering the New Era, the previous model of extensive expansion and crude development—which relied excessively on factor inputs and scale expansion while neglecting quality and efficiency—is no longer viable. We must continuously meet the people's ever-growing needs for a better life. This means shifting from "whether something exists" and "how much there is" to "how good it is." Specifically, it means having better education, more stable jobs, more satisfactory incomes, more reliable social security, higher-level medical and health services, more comfortable living conditions, a more beautiful environment, and a richer spiritual and cultural life. Therefore, we must focus on resolving the problem of unbalanced and inadequate development.
On one hand, we must work hard on the reasonable growth of quantity. The characteristics of China's ultra-large-scale market require that the total volume of the industrial system must match it; a large industrial scale is the foundation upon which other advantages can play their role. At the same time, China possesses a complete range of industrial categories, with the output of over 220 types of industrial products ranking first in the world. The advantages of a complete industrial system are obvious, with the scale of manufacturing and foreign exchange reserves firmly ranking first in the world in many aspects. We should further leverage these advantages. Furthermore, China is a major populous and agricultural nation; first, we must eat, and second, we must build [3]. Economic development cannot revolve around GDP alone, but we must maintain stable GDP growth and keep a certain speed. The Chinese economy has a huge volume and mass; it is the world's most important and vibrant economic entity. China's GDP accounts for 18.5% of the world total, and its contribution rate to global economic growth over the past decade has exceeded that of the G7 combined. At the same time, we must arrange employment for the newly added labor force each year and hold the "red line" of 1.8 billion mu [4] of arable land to ensure that the rice bowls of the Chinese people are held firmly in their own hands. There must be a certain increment in the newborn population to provide abundant labor resources for a major manufacturing nation.
On the other hand, we must focus our efforts on "improving quality and increasing efficiency." The "gold content" of GDP must be high. We must pay more attention to performance, benefits, and results, making development more green, circular, low-carbon, secure, fair, efficient, and sustainable. The development model must bid farewell to high energy consumption, high pollution, high labor intensity, and high investment, and instead realize high technology, high greenness, high humanity, and high output, achieving harmony between humanity and nature. We must vigorously promote the implementation of the strategy for coordinated regional development, major regional strategies, the functional zoning strategy, and the new-type urbanization strategy. We must optimize the layout of major productive forces and construct a regional economic layout and spatial system for land use characterized by complementary advantages and high-quality development, achieving coordinated development between urban and rural areas, regions, and industries. We should implement projects to rebuild industrial foundations and tackle key problems in major technical equipment, support the development of "specialized, refined, differential, and innovative" firms, and promote the high-end, intelligent, and green development of the manufacturing industry. We must recognize that while China is a major manufacturing nation, becoming a manufacturing power requires unremitting efforts. Currently, there is a lot of low-to-mid-end manufacturing but little high-end manufacturing; there are insufficient high-quality technical workers and "Great Craftsmen of the Nation" [5], and the talent dividend has not been fully released. We must build a new system for high-quality and efficient services and promote the deep integration of modern services with advanced manufacturing and modern agriculture. We must vigorously implement innovation-driven development, placing innovation—especially scientific and technological innovation—in a prominent position. In terms of quantity, China's patent applications currently rank first in the world, but there are many patents spanning "from 1 to 99" and few patents spanning "from 0 to 1" [6]. Scientific and technological innovation must adhere to the "four orientations" (orienting toward the global frontiers of science and technology, the main economic battlefield, the major needs of the country, and the life and health of the people), thereby transforming the mode of economic development, optimizing the economic structure, switching growth drivers, purifying the market environment, enhancing the quality of human capital, perfecting the industrial and policy systems, and strengthening governance capacity. This will accelerate the construction of a manufacturing power, a quality power, an aerospace power, a transport power, a cyber power, an education power, a science and technology power, a talent power, and a Digital China, achieving a state that is both "large and strong," "plentiful and excellent," and "prosperous and beautiful."
Grasping the relationship between stability and progress, persisting in seeking progress while maintaining stability, taking proactive actions, and ensuring the economic growth shift occurs without losing momentum
General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out that the general principle of "seeking progress while maintaining stability" is an important principle for our governance of the country and a methodology for doing economic work well. In recent years, China's economic development has faced a grim and complex situation, confronting the triple pressures of shrinking demand, supply shocks, and weakening expectations, alongside increasing downward pressure on the economy. To this end, the Party Central Committee promptly proposed the "Six Stabilities" [7] and "Six Guarantees" [8], implemented a proactive fiscal policy, a prudent monetary policy, and effective real estate market regulations among other policies to benefit the people's livelihoods. Various policies have been implemented with "front-loaded" efforts, coordinating epidemic prevention and control with economic and social development, making China the main engine of world economic development, a source of growth power, and a new high ground for cooperation.
We must accelerate the layout and guidance of the healthy development of new business forms, new tracks, and new drivers, striving to maintain and consolidate existing leading advantages, preserve the good momentum already formed, and create competitive advantages in new tracks. We should promote the integrated and clustered development of strategic emerging industries, building a batch of new growth engines such as next-generation information technology, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, new energy, new materials, high-end equipment, and green environmental protection, thereby winning the future of these new tracks.
To respond to various possible "black swan" and "gray rhino" events, we must resolutely overcome behaviors and phenomena that do not conform to the New Development Philosophy. We must fully implement the "Three Deleveragings (de-capacity, de-stocking, and de-leveraging), One Reduction (cost reduction), and One Strengthening (strengthening weak links)" [9] to achieve the effect of "slimming down and strengthening the sinews and bones." For some low-quality and inefficient enterprises, we should "wean" them if necessary; for "zombie enterprises," we should "unplug the tubes" if necessary. We must set up "traffic lights" for capital to prevent its "barbaric growth" and "unorderly expansion," and to prevent and curb the "hunting" [10] of public power by capital. In terms of development methods, we must persist in bottom-line thinking and achieve secure, green, and sustainable development. We absolutely cannot "wear new shoes to walk the old path," and we must resolutely correct and prevent the old path of blindly launching projects, over-spreading resources, and "spreading the pancake" [11] in certain localities. Of course, conditions vary greatly across different regions; we must pay attention to strategy and avoid reckless action, analyzing specific problems specifically. We should adapt to local conditions without forced implementation and apply precise policies. We must coordinate multiple factors without chaotic action and promote systems holistically. Finally, we must work persistently and unswervingly to achieve lasting results.
Grasping the relationship between supply and demand, improving supply-demand matching, deepening supply-side structural reform, expanding demand, and enhancing supply
In the report to the 20th National Congress of the CPC, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed to "organically combine the implementation of the strategy to expand internal demand with the deepening of supply-side structural reform." Supply and demand constitute the most important set of economic relations, and the two promote each other. Demand gives rise to new supply, and supply creates new demand. The Central Economic Work Conference held at the end of 2021 identified "shrinking demand" as one of the triple pressures. Currently, the main problems on the supply side are: insufficient effective supply; a surplus of low-to-mid-end supply with a shortage of high-end supply; the existence of ineffective supply that does not match high-quality effective demand; and structural problems where some industries face overcapacity while certain key equipment, core technologies, and high-end products depend excessively on imports or are even "strangled" by others. Furthermore, the prices of some agricultural products fluctuate wildly. Problems and new phenomena on the demand side include: demand-side leakage, where some consumers spend large sums of money on "overseas shopping" (haitao), especially for luxury goods; and low-to-mid-end supply being unable to adapt to personalized, branded, high-end, and differentiated consumption.
In addition, there is an imbalance between finance, real estate, and the real economy. In some places, industrial development has "shifted from the real to the virtual," becoming lopsided with no clear characteristics, advantages, or competitiveness. The developmental layout is unreasonable, the economic foundation is not solid, and there is a lack of sustained momentum. In response, we must actively promote supply-side structural reform, clearing the pain points, difficulties, and bottlenecks in various links of the economic cycle (production, distribution, circulation, and consumption). We must smooth the "domestic great circulation," construct a unified national market, accelerate the growth of "specialized, refined, differential, and innovative" firms, speed up the digital and intelligent transformation of manufacturing, promote the upgrading of traditional industries, and vigorously cultivate new industries, business forms, tracks, drivers, and markets.
Grasping the relationship between the government and the market, promoting the better combination of an efficient market and a capable government
General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out that making the market play the decisive role in resource allocation and letting the government play its role better is both a major theoretical proposition and a major practical one. The relationship and roles of the government and the market have always been a focus of research in economic relations, and our Party has been searching for a new scientific positioning based on the expansion of practice and the deepening of understanding. The Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee changed the market's role in resource allocation from a "basic role" to a "decisive role," marking a breakthrough in our Party's understanding of the laws of building socialism with Chinese characteristics. The government and the market are the "visible hand" and the "invisible hand"; they have their respective boundaries of action. We must fully leverage the market's decisive role in resource allocation while letting the government play its role better, promoting the better combination of an efficient market and a capable government. This will allow the vitality of all factors—labor, knowledge, technology, management, and capital—to burst forth, and let all sources of social wealth flow fully. While making the "cake" larger and better, we must also distribute and slice the "cake" well.
On one hand, the market must be effective. We should optimize the business environment and establish a unified, open, competitive, and orderly modern market system by improving fundamental market economy institutions such as property rights protection, market access, fair competition, and social credit, thereby allowing the market to play its decisive role in resource allocation.
On the other hand, the government must be capable. We should build a clean and efficient law-based government, administer in accordance with the law, promote the modernization of governance capacity, and ensure a favorable market environment. This will allow the fruits of development to benefit all people more fairly and extensively, giving the masses a greater sense of gain, happiness, and security. In our research in various localities, we found that if a local government understands enterprises, is good at management, and knows how to provide services, then the business environment in that area is good and the economy is full of vitality. For example, if a local government ensures it "does not disturb when there is no need" but "provides charcoal in the snow" [12] or "timely rain" [13], and if its policies are heartwarming and considerate, then market entities will be active and vigorous. Entrepreneurs will also feel at ease starting businesses, confident in investing, diligent in their work, focused on their tasks, comfortable putting down roots, happy to engage in charity, and content in their lives.
Grasping the relationship between internal and external, implementing high-level opening up to the outside world, and accelerating the construction of the New Development Paradigm
General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized the need to "persist in high-level opening up to the outside world and accelerate the construction of a New Development Paradigm with the domestic great circulation as the mainstay and the domestic and international dual circulations mutually promoting each other." Internal and external are physical positions, but also represent the primary and secondary aspects of a contradiction. The complex and grim international situation has made us realize more clearly that to achieve internal and external harmony and balance, we must coordinate the relationship between development and security, and between opening up and security.
Time and momentum (shi), as well as the Way (dao) and justice, are on our side [14]. We do the right things and do our own things correctly. No matter how the international situation changes, we must concentrate our energy on running our own affairs well, responding to external uncertainties with the certainty of our own continuous development and strengthening. Running our own affairs well involves many aspects, the most fundamental of which is standing on the commanding heights of the correct path, morality, and righteousness.
It is necessary to accelerate the cultivation of a complete domestic demand system, speed up the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening, promote the optimization and upgrading of industrial and supply chains, and advance the modernization of agriculture and rural areas, thereby remaining invulnerable within an impregnable position. We must promote institutional opening-up and create a world-class business environment that is market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized. Relying on the advantages of our country’s ultra-large-scale market, we should use the domestic macro-circulation to attract global resource elements, enhance the linkage effect between domestic and international markets and resources, and improve the quality and level of trade and investment cooperation. We must steadily expand institutional opening-up in terms of rules, regulations, management, and standards. By expanding high-level opening-up to the outside world and coordinating the introduction of capital, intelligence, and talent, we should strive to "make those nearby happy and those far away come" [15]. We must promote the construction of a community with a shared future for humanity with depth and substance, advocate for economic globalization, trade liberalization, and multilateral cooperation, and allow China to play a greater role in global governance, maintaining world peace, and promoting world economic development—thereby winning the initiative and advantage in development, competition, and the future through the initiative of opening-up.
Grasping the relationship between the present and the long term: both "looking up at the stars" and "keeping one's feet on the ground" to strive for the realization of great goals
General Secretary Xi Jinping has engaged in profound reflection on a series of major theoretical and practical issues, such as the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the in-depth advancement of Chinese-path modernization. He requires unremitting struggle to complete these tasks, while simultaneously emphasizing that we must base ourselves on the Chinese reality of being the "world's largest developing country" and remaining in the "primary stage of socialism" [16]. Success will require a process—even a very arduous one—to be realized step by step. We must prevent "sitting and discussing the Path" [17], empty talk that neglects practical work, aiming too high, or or acting with impetuous rashness. We should do more practical and good deeds that lay foundations, provide stepping stones, and benefit the long term. We must not engage in "image projects," "vanity projects," or "prestige projects" [18] that exhaust the people and drain the treasury. We must act within our means, "cut the garment according to the cloth," do our utmost, and act in accordance with the prevailing trends. This requires both the magnanimity of believing that "success does not have to happen during my term" and the spirit of struggle that "success must include my contribution."
We must correctly understand and grasp five major theoretical and practical issues in our country's development: the strategic goals and practical paths for achieving common prosperity; the characteristics and behavioral laws of capital; the guarantee of primary product supply; the prevention and resolution of major risks; and carbon peaking and carbon neutrality. These issues focus on the present but also concern the long term; they cannot wait, yet they cannot be rushed. We must coordinate all factors, distinguish between the urgent and the less pressing, and both seize the hour while advancing steadily and solidly. For example, gradually achieving common prosperity is not about egalitarianism or "eating from the same big pot" [19], much less "robbing the rich to give to the poor," nor is it the Western "welfarism" that breeds laziness. Promoting "dual carbon" work [20] is not about "one-size-fits-all" approaches or "swarming" [21] into action; it is not about formalism. The practices in certain individual areas, such as simply cutting off electricity or banning coal-fired heating, are even more undesirable. Furthermore, we must manage expectations well, provide proper guidance, and view China's economic development comprehensively and dialectically. We must fully recognize that China's economy has great resilience and strong potential, possesses the world's largest market and middle-income group, and that its upward trend remains unchanged. We must bolster confidence, build up momentum, and sing loudly the theories of China’s economic "brightness," "opportunity," and "contribution."
Grasping the relationship between crisis and opportunity: being adept at seizing opportunities amidst challenges, nurturing new opportunities in crises, and opening new chapters amidst shifting situations
The road ahead cannot be smooth sailing. The more achievements we make, the more we must possess the prudence of "walking on thin ice" and the vigilance of "thinking of danger in times of peace." We absolutely cannot commit strategic or subverting errors. As the changes unseen in a century overlap with the pandemic of the century, trends such as unilateralism, hegemonism, trade protectionism, populism, and anti-globalization have surfaced from time to time in some countries. The characteristics of uncertainty, instability, and imbalance in the world situation have become more apparent. Global issues are prominent, and world governance faces numerous difficulties. Some major Western powers continue to use various means and forms of blackmail, containment, encirclement, suppression, blockade, and extreme pressure against China. It can be said that the current and future period is a time when various types of contradictions and risks in our country are likely to occur, with various contradictions, risks, and challenges intertwined. Facing the volatile international situation, complex and sensitive surrounding environments, and the arduous tasks of reform, development, and stability, we must have both "prior moves" to prevent risks and "clever moves" to respond to and resolve risk challenges. We must fight both a "prepared war" to prevent and resist risks and a "strategically proactive war" to turn danger into safety and crisis into opportunity. Therefore, we must insist that national interests are paramount and domestic politics take priority, maintain strategic resolve, carry forward the spirit of struggle, demonstrate a firm will that does not fear power politics, and safeguard national dignity and core interests through struggle, firmly grasping the initiative in development and security.
In January 2018, at the opening ceremony of a thematic workshop for high-level officials on implementing the spirit of the 19th CPC National Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping listed 16 specific risks across 8 areas. In January 2019, at a workshop for provincial and ministerial-level leading cadres on adhering to bottom-line thinking and focusing on preventing and resolving major risks, he provided a profound analysis and set clear requirements for addressing major risks across multiple fields. To prevent and resolve risks and challenges: first, we must adhere to bottom-line thinking, stay alert to danger in times of peace, nip problems in the bud, and enhance our sense of vigilance, risk, and responsibility. Second, we must establish and improve relevant systems and mechanisms, place the prevention and resolution of risks in a prominent position, and eliminate systemic risks. Third, we must improve our capabilities and be adept at using institutional advantages and power to respond to risks and challenges, eliminating various hidden dangers, traps, and obstacles on the road ahead. Fourth, we must be mindful of methods and strategies, make the first move, fight proactive battles, and spot and plan for opportunities within crises, transforming and neutralizing danger into opportunity. Fifth, we must maintain strategic resolve, accurately identify changes, respond to changes scientifically, and seek changes proactively. We must oppose unilateralism, protectionism, and isolationism through openness, multilateralism, and cooperation, while coordinating epidemic prevention and control with economic and social development.
Grasping the relationship between the macro and the micro: strengthening the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee over economic work while motivating local initiative
Among ten thousand towering mountains, there must be a main peak. Strengthening the Party's leadership over economic work is the fundamental guarantee for doing our economic work well. General Secretary Xi Jinping’s series of speeches, instructions, and requirements on economic work, along with the Central Economic Work Conference, the "14th Five-Year Plan," and the 2035 Long-Range Objectives, have all made scientific deployments and top-level institutional designs for economic work. These must be resolutely implemented without fail. We must firmly oppose local protectionism and departmental protectionism, oppose "perfectionism" [22] and departmentalism, and oppose the practices of shifting responsibilities through layers of bureaucracy, "idling" [23], inaction, and lack of accountability. Responsibility must be consolidated.
We must translate our understanding of the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments" into political consciousness by firmly establishing the "Four Consciousnesses," strengthening the "Four Confidences," and achieving the "Two Upholds." All localities and departments must implement the Central Government's deployments and the New Development Philosophy with precision and detail, grasping them in daily routines and strictly in ordinary times. We must ensure constant effort, establish long-term mechanisms, carry out work creatively, and promote high-quality development, giving the people a greater sense of happiness, gain, and security.
Grasping the relationship between the point and the surface: highlighting key points, solving difficulties, and using the point to promote the surface to achieve comprehensive depth
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that we must learn to use dialectics and be adept at "playing the piano" [24]—handling the relationships between the local and the global, the present and the long term, and the key and the non-key. "All things that grasp their foundation survive; all undertakings that find their way succeed" [25]. General Secretary Xi Jinping has conducted comprehensive and in-depth thinking on major issues concerning the overall situation, such as emphasizing the coordinated promotion of the Five-Sphere Integrated Plan, the Four Comprehensives, the construction of the New Development Paradigm, the comprehensive building of a modern socialist country, and the construction of a modern economic system. This requires our work to go "vertically to the bottom and horizontally to the edge," being comprehensive, in-depth, and solid. In the comprehensive building of a moderately prosperous society, not a single person could be left behind; on the road to common prosperity, no one can fall behind. At the same time, work cannot be "one-dimensional," nor should we apply force evenly or "scatter pepper" [26]. We must push reform to greater depths, focus on solving the urgent problems and anxieties of the masses, take more measures that benefit people's livelihoods and warm their hearts, fight tough battles, find the right points of application, and break through the "pain points," "bottlenecks," and "difficulties" that hinder the construction of the New Development Paradigm and the implementation of the New Development Philosophy, thereby cultivating points of growth. For matters that yield merit for the present generation and benefit for a thousand years, no matter how tiring, bitter, or difficult, they must be handled well.
Grasping the relationship between efficiency and fairness: placing more emphasis on fairness, realizing a transformation in effectiveness and efficiency, and promoting common prosperity
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that to make development more balanced, provide more equal opportunities, and allow everyone to share in the fruits of development, we must improve development concepts and models and enhance the fairness, effectiveness, and synergy of development. Being more efficient and fairer than capitalism is an essential requirement of socialism and a manifestation of its institutional superiority. The market is not omnipotent; for things the market cannot manage well or at all, the role of the government must be put into full play. In particular, we must conduct macro-control well, optimize services, ensure fair competition, strengthen market supervision, compensate for market failures, and maintain market order. In the New Era, we have done a great deal of work in promoting fairness in employment, education, and medical health, improving the basic public service system, raising public service levels, and enhancing balance and accessibility. Concerning the improvement of the distribution system, we strive to increase the share of personal income in the distribution of national income and increase the share of labor remuneration in primary distribution. We adhere to the principle of "more pay for more work," encourage wealth through hard work, promote equality of opportunity, increase the income of low-income earners, expand the middle-income group, regulate the order of income distribution, regulate wealth accumulation mechanisms, protect legal income, adjust excessively high income, and outlaw illegal income. We guide and support willing and capable enterprises, social organizations, and individuals to actively participate in public welfare and charitable undertakings. Regarding employment, we implement the employment-priority strategy, coordinate the urban and rural employment policy system, break down institutional and policy barriers hindering the flow of labor and talent, eliminate unreasonable restrictions and employment discrimination affecting equal employment, and ensure everyone has the opportunity to achieve self-development through diligent labor. We will improve the lifelong vocational skill training system and promote the resolution of structural employment contradictions. Simultaneously, we will improve a multi-level social security system that covers the whole population, coordinates urban and rural areas, is fair and unified, secure and standardized, and sustainable. We will improve the national unified management system for basic old-age insurance and develop a multi-level and multi-pillar old-age insurance system. In terms of increasing efficiency, we promote scientific and technological innovation, focus on digital empowerment, implement distribution policies oriented toward increasing the value of knowledge, eliminate local protectionism, oppose monopolies, and promote the orderly development of capital. In short, in handling the relationship between efficiency and fairness, we must "calculate the big account," the long-term account, the overall account, and the comprehensive account, rather than simply calculating the economic account or the minor account. When there is fairness, there will be fewer contradictions, and efficiency will naturally follow. Of course, fairness is not common poverty, egalitarianism, or a one-size-fits-all approach; it is more about guaranteeing fairness in starting points and opportunities through institutional design to promote fairness in outcomes.
In addition, we must handle and grasp the relationships for coordinated and collaborative development between urban and rural areas, between regions, between provinces, between industries, and between various market entities. We must also handle and grasp the relationships between the real economy and the virtual economy, development and security, those getting rich first and common prosperity, and opening-up and security.
In conclusion, the dialectical thinking contained within Xi Jinping's economic thought is rich and profound, powerful and effective, and systematic and scientific. It fully demonstrates "why Marxism works" and "why Sinicized and modernized Marxism works." It is of great significance and value for us to enhance our scientific thinking capabilities and to improve and perfect our methods of leadership, management, thought, and work.