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complete the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects, we
must, with greater political courage and vision, lose no time in deepening
reform in key sectors and resolutely discard all notions and systems that hinder

efforts to pursue development in a scientific way. We should set up a

well-developed, scientific, standardized and effective framework of systems
and ensure that operating institutions in all sectors are fully functioning.
The congress endorsed the plan made in the report for promoting socialist

economic, political, cultural, social, and ecological progress in China. The

congress emphasized the need to speed up the improvement of the socialist
market economy and the change of the growth model and make development
based more on improved quality and performance; and to fire all types of

market participants with new vigor for development, increase motivation for

pursuing innovation-driven development, establish a new system for
developing modern industries, and create new favorable conditions for
developing the open economy. This will make economic development driven

more by domestic demand, especially consumer demand, by a modern service

industry and strategic emerging industries, by scientific and technological
progress, by a workforce of higher quality and innovation in management, by
resource conservation and a circular economy, and by coordinated and

mutually reinforcing urban-rural development and development between

regions. Taking these steps will enable us to sustain long-term development
and promote harmonized development of industrialization, IT application,
urbanization and agricultural modernization. The congress required us to keep

to the socialist path of making political advance with Chinese characteristics,

promote reform of the political structure and make people’s democracy more
extensive, fuller in scope and sounder in practice. We should ensure the unity
of the leadership of the Party, the position of the people as masters of the

country and law-based governance; and in order to guarantee the fundamental

position of the people as masters of the country and reach the goal of

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