Promoting reform and development through opening up is an important experience and Enlightenment of China's reform and opening up in the past 40 years, and an important way for us to face the future and make new achievements continuously.

        Not long ago, the National Museum's "40 Years of Video Witness" National Photography Exhibition attracted a large number of "nostalgic" viewers. 216 works have witnessed the family affairs and state affairs of the world in the past 40 years with the lens, and have outlined a clear historical clue in the diverse memory of the times. From 1987, when two Chinese students waved the Chinese flag at Columbia University's graduation ceremony in New York, USA, to 2017, it is easy to see through the camera that reform and opening up, the interweaving of the two main lines, make China a brilliant place.

       "From the countryside to the city, from the pilot to the promotion, from the reform of the economic system to the comprehensive deepening of reform, 40 years of common aspiration, 40 years of vigorous progress, 40 years of spring wind and rain, the Chinese people with both hands to write a magnificent epic of national and national development." Looking back on the magnificent journey of 40 years, one of the outstanding characteristics of China's reform and opening up is that reform and opening up go hand in hand and promote each other. From the establishment of special economic zones such as Shenzhen to the development and opening up of Pudong, from joining the World Trade Organization to deeply integrating into the global economic system, from free trade zones and ports to revising negative lists and substantially relaxing the restrictions on foreign investment access... Reform actions and opening-up measures are mutually stirring and forming a joint force, so that the economic engine burst out of a strong driving force, and promote the country to speed up the pursuit of modernization and write brilliant.

       Openness brings progress, and closure inevitably falls behind. Martin Jacques, a researcher at Cambridge University, said China's reform and opening up was "one of the most important events of the 20th century". 40 years ago, the mileage of China's Railways was about 50 thousand kilometers, and the vast majority of the trains had a speed of 40 kilometers per hour. Today, China's railway operation mileage reached 127,000 kilometers, including 25,000 kilometers of high-speed rail, accounting for about 66% of the world's total high-speed rail mileage. In today's China, people's livelihood is moving from shortage to abundance, from poverty to well-off. More than 700 million people living in poverty have successfully lifted out of poverty under the current UN standards, accounting for more than 70% of the total global population in poverty reduction during the same period. Why can China? A very important reason is that we dare to swim in the vast ocean of the world market, to face the risks and challenges with an open attitude, through the storm, see the world, and constantly improve their competitiveness.

        Promoting reform and development through opening up is an important experience and Enlightenment of China's reform and opening up in the past 40 years. It is also an important way for us to face the future and make new achievements. Taking the initiative and promoting openness, we can embrace new opportunities for development and create new development momentum. Not long ago, Beijing issued the "Plan of Action on Important Measures to Deepen Reform in an All-round Way and Expand Opening-up", 117 pragmatic and forceful measures, arousing people's expectations for a better future of the capital. In fact, whether it is committed to building a higher level of service-oriented government, determined to create a good business environment, or to further reduce or eliminate access restrictions, increase the introduction and utilization of foreign capital, since this year, a number of new initiatives have been launched to promote the opening up of the region, forming a new round of "policy matrix". This shows that expanding opening up is not only a national strategy at the top-level design level, but also a practical need and action consciousness at the local development level. Facts have also proved that a local reform and development outlook can be refreshed if we are determined to open wider to the outside world and raise the level of opening to the outside world.

       General secretary Xi Jinping stressed that openness is also a reform, and that reform should be carried out in an open way. It can be said that each round of reform is always accompanied by a new round of openness, and the deeper level of openness is always pushing the reform to further depth. Today, China's reform and opening up has entered a new historical position. Looking inward, deepening the reform in an all-round way into the deep-water area, breaking through the barriers of ideology and ideas, breaking through the barriers of interest solidification, further stimulating the vitality of the system, activating grass-roots experience, and encouraging cadres to act, we need to promote reform through opening up. Looking out, the international situation is complex and changeable, and the uncertainty of the world economy is increasing. How to make better use of the world market and promote high-quality economic development, we also need to open to the outside world for power. The report of the Nineteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China puts forward the idea of "promoting the formation of a new pattern of comprehensive opening up", stressing that "China adheres to the basic state policy of opening up to the outside world, insists on opening the door to the outside world for construction" and "develops an open economy at a higher level". Unswervingly promote reform and open to the outside world, we can usher in a new realm of development.

       With its own development achievements, China has powerfully interpreted the value of opening up and told the world in an irreversible trend that "the door of China's opening will not be closed, but will only grow larger and larger". Forty years of daring to take the lead, to overcome difficulties, forty years of both wind and rain journey, not afraid of dangers, "China" Huge ship in the chopping waves in the steady and far, increasingly into more open waters. China's reform and opening-up will remain vigorous and vigorous. China's achievements in development will surely bring more wisdom and Enlightenment to the world.

       Source: People's daily