One day, I came across the book "Thirty Years of Reform and Opening-up" and saw the great changes of the motherland in these thirty years. Later, I asked my mother with an expectant heart. My mother recalled the past-at that time, there were no asphalt roads and cement roads. Thick soil makes people step on narrow roads. When it rains, it is muddy and the road is full of puddles. If you accidentally step on the pool, your whole foot will sink in, and finally you pull your foot out, but your shoes are left in the mire ... It was terrible in the past, since the reform and opening up. The children are also sitting in the comfortable and bright classroom, and there is no longer any fear of being afraid of the cold.
Reform and opening up have made the national economy develop rapidly. In just 30 years, the people of China have gradually changed from not having enough to wearing well to eating well and wearing warm clothes. Some people even use their spare money to buy bicycles, motorcycles and even cars.
The motherland is getting richer and stronger day by day, as indestructible as the Great Wall of Steel! 1997, 1999, and Heixiazi Island in 2008, making China the second largest country in land area. In the face of SARS, the once-in-a-century snowstorm in the south and the sudden Wenchuan earthquake, the Chinese people overcame all kinds of difficulties with one heart. In 200 1 year, China was fortunate to be the host country of the 2008 Olympic Games, and the people of China also became the masters of the Olympic Games. At the same time, it also proves to foreigners that China people are no longer the sick man of East Asia. With the continuous progress of science and technology, Shenzhou VIII completed the spacewalk for the first time with the cheers of people all over the world, and ascended into the sky with the long-awaited wish of the people of China.
In the past 30 years, countless things have happened and changed. I believe that in the next thousands and tens of thousands of years, China will be more prosperous!
Thirty years can be described as a snap of your fingers! Thirty years' experience will let us touch the pulse of social progress, and thirty years' reform and opening up will benefit everyone in China.
Thirty years is only a short moment for the long river of history. However, this is a rich and unforgettable process for a country like ours, which has gradually moved from poverty and backwardness to prosperity, civilization and harmony.
After 30 years' history, the Chinese nation has re-established itself among the nations of the world with a brand-new attitude. 30 years of vicissitudes and great changes, 30 years of glorious course, casting a nation's dream for nearly a hundred years!
1978, the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee made a major decision on reform and opening up, thus opening a new historical period of China's reform and opening up. This undoubtedly became a milestone in the history of China, because it was the reform and opening up that liberated the mind and achieved a historic turning point in the contemporary development of China, thus changing the fate of China and opening up the social transformation.
In 2008, we celebrated the 30th anniversary of reform and opening up. China embarked on the road of reform and opening up in 1978. Reform and opening up have stimulated the vitality of all walks of life and made China's productive forces develop continuously. One by one, new cities have sprung up. Made and developed major scientific and technological achievements. Large-scale projects have been completed. Super-large enterprises have developed rapidly. China is tall and strong. Reform and opening up is the fundamental driving force for social progress and development in China in the past 30 years.
The 30 years of reform and opening up are the 30 years of rapid economic growth in China! High-rise buildings have sprung up, and people's living standards have been continuously improved. From 1978 to 2006, China's economic aggregate expanded rapidly, and its GDP increased from 364.5 billion yuan to 2 187 1 billion yuan, an increase of nearly 60 times! China's economic achievements are written not only in the history of China, but also in the history of the world. Over the past 25 years, nearly 70% of global poverty reduction achievements have been attributed to China! China has changed from a primary industrial economy to a high-level industrial economy, and the output of many industrial products, including steel and household appliances, ranks first in the world. At the same time, China's economic scale and economic aggregate are also expanding. China's international status is constantly improving. The rapid economic growth makes China's position in the world economy rise continuously. Marked by China's accession to the WTO, China's economy has completed the process of marketization and internationalization, integrated into the world economic system and the wave of economic globalization, and achieved all-round social and economic progress. China's reform and opening up has released enormous productive forces, and China's economic growth has always been higher than that of the world, thanks to the government's leadership, strong investment and growing industrial economy. With the deepening of China's reform and opening up, the level of economic development has been greatly improved.
The 30 years of reform and opening up are 30 years of social harmony and stability in China! Since the downfall of the Gang of Four, the Chinese nation has been as indestructible as the Great Wall of Steel! Hong Kong returned to China in 1997 and Macao returned to China in 1999. 1998 in the face of the extraordinary floods rarely seen in southern history, the frightening SARS epidemic in 2003, the once-in-a-century ice and snow disaster in more than a dozen provinces in 2008, and the Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan, the Chinese people are United and hand in hand to block their suffering!
The 30 years of reform and opening up are 30 years of steady development of education! China has made great progress in education development. Comrade Deng Xiaoping proposed in 1983 that education should face modernization, the world and the future! Educational development is an important indicator to measure a country's development level and development potential. At the beginning of the resumption of the college entrance examination system, 5.7 million people took the college entrance examination nationwide, but only 270,000 people were admitted. By 2007, the enrollment of colleges and universities nationwide reached 1, 065438+ million, and the enrollment was 5.67 million! With the development of education scale, more and more Chinese sons and daughters occupy an increasingly important position among the top talents in the world!
The 30 years of reform and opening up are 30 years of continuous innovation in China's space industry! From the successful launch test of 1979 long-range rocket, to the first manned space flight in 2003, and the successful return of Shenzhou VI manned space satellite in 2005, China astronauts have made the motherland a space science and technology power through exploration! In 2008, China's first lunar exploration satellite "Chang 'e-1" was launched, and the Millennium dream of Chinese people became a reality! The successful launch of Shenzhou VII and its spacewalk made China people leave their footprints in space for the first time!
The 30 years of reform and opening up are also the 30 years of vigorous development of sports in China! Xu Haifeng won the first gold medal of China Olympic Games with 1984. Since then, China athletes have fought bravely for the first place: in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, the China delegation won 28 gold medals, ranking third in the gold medal list and medal list; In Athens in 2004, China Legion expanded the total number of gold medals to 32, ranking second in the gold medal list! This year, the Olympic Games kicked off in China, and we became the hosts of the Olympic Games! China, as the host, took the gold medal of 5 1 and the medal of 100 to the podium of the champion.
In the past 30 years of reform and opening up, people's living standards have improved significantly, people's lives have become more colorful, and national life expectancy has increased significantly. The material life and cultural life of the people of China have entered an era of synchronization with the world. Life expectancy is a comprehensive index to measure a country's social and economic development. The improvement of life expectancy not only means the improvement of economic development level, but also means the improvement of social security ability. According to the census data of China, the average life expectancy in China in 1982 was 67.77 years, and in 2000, the average life expectancy in China rose to 7 1.40 years, an increase of 3.63 years.
In a word, with the reform and opening up, we have "transformed" a socialism with China characteristics. Looking at our real society intuitively, after the reform and opening up, compared with 30 years ago, it is really very different. Judging from the focus of the work of the whole party and the whole country, it has already changed from focusing on class struggle to focusing on economic construction; From the ownership of the means of production, from "one big, two big and three pure" and public ownership to an economic system with public ownership as the main body and multiple ownership systems developing together; From the perspective of economic system, it has changed from a highly centralized and unified planned economic system to a market economic system; From the social state, it has changed from a closed and rigid society to an increasingly active society that is open to the outside world, integrated into the world and comprehensively reformed; From the starting point, in the past, building socialism emphasized making contributions to the country and mankind, but now it emphasizes improving people's lives and putting people first.
At that time, Deng Xiaoping once said: "Persisting in reform and opening up is a measure to determine the fate of China." Looking back, it is true. Reform and opening up is a powerful driving force for China's development and progress. Socialism with Chinese characteristics was formed and developed in the process of reform and opening up. From a realistic and historical point of view, the significance of reform and opening up is no less than finding a way for rural areas to surround cities during the democratic revolution.
However, we should be soberly aware that the transformation from the traditional socialist model to Socialism with Chinese characteristics is far from complete, and our reform and opening up has a long way to go.
Observing our society, the market economic system is not perfect, the market order is not standardized enough, and the market development degree is still relatively low; The traditional socialist model still exists, and the ideas, concepts, habits, activities and leadership styles of the old system still exist, and so on. We should also see that there are still some non-socialist things in our real society, mainly referring to the residual influence of feudalism. Deng Xiaoping once pointed out that in the leadership system of the Party and the state, there are bureaucratic phenomena, excessive concentration of power, paternalism, tenure of leadership positions and various privileges, which are feudal. The recently exposed black brick kilns in Shanxi are even more backward than feudalism, with the color of slavery. All the above are non-socialist and are being abolished.
Looking back on the reform and opening up in the past 30 years, it is generally successful, but there are also some mistakes and imbalances. The most basic relationship in real society is the relationship between economy and politics, and between economic system and political system. However, the economic system reform and the political system reform are not coordinated enough. Great strides have been made in the reform of the economic system and breakthroughs have been made, while little progress has been made in the reform of the political system. The "official standard" has not been weakened, but it may increase. At present, people's livelihood problems are prominent, the gap between the rich and the poor is widening, the phenomenon of being rich but heartless is increasing, ugly phenomena are emerging, the social atmosphere is corrupt and corruption is serious, all of which are related to the inadequate political system reform.
At present, the reform is at a critical stage, with many problems, complicated contradictions, great difficulties and many disputes. We must make the greatest determination, show the determination, spirit and courage during the democratic revolution, and unswervingly push forward reform and opening up.
Looking back on the reform in the past 30 years, we realize that the transformation from the old system to the new system and from the traditional socialist model to Socialism with Chinese characteristics is indeed a revolution. In the process of reform, a big problem that puzzles reformers is that "the surname of the capital is the surname of the society". From the beginning of the reform, some people accused it of taking the capitalist road; Every step of the reform is accompanied by the argument that "the surname is capital and the surname is society".
Deng Xiaoping clearly pointed out that "the criterion of judgment should mainly be whether it is conducive to developing the productive forces of socialist society, enhancing the comprehensive national strength of socialist countries and improving people's living standards". This is the famous "three benefits" standard. The "three benefits" standard is not only the development of practical standards, but also embodies the basic requirements of scientific socialism. The standard of "Three Benefits" is the essence of Deng Xiaoping's reform thought.
The "three benefits" standard is an effective weapon to dispel the fog of "surname society and surname capital". As some leading cadres have said, in recent years, we have gained confidence because of the "three benefits" standard.
Adhere to the reform and opening up, we must adhere to the "three benefits" as the standard. We see that some articles talk about reform and quote many words from Deng Xiaoping, but they don't talk about the standard of "three benefits". It's really strange! If we don't agree to take the "three benefits" as the standard, we must set another standard, that is, the practice of provoking the debate about "social surname and capital" has proved that it is probably the opposite to talk about reform and opening up without the "three benefits" standard. We should keep a clear head on this issue.
Engels said that socialism "is not a static thing, but should be regarded as a constantly changing and reforming society like any other social system". This is an important principle of scientific socialism. Our adherence to reform and opening up fully meets the requirements of the principles of scientific socialism and the inherent requirements of the development of the socialist system. Socialism with Chinese characteristics was formed and developed in the process of reform and opening up. As long as we persist in reform and opening up, Socialism with Chinese characteristics will surely achieve greater development and progress.