The brilliant achievements and successful practice of Guangdong's reform and opening up fully show that reform and opening up is the only way to develop Socialism with Chinese characteristics and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Guided by emancipating the mind, Guangdong has brought order out of chaos in an all-round way, conscientiously implemented policies such as cadres and overseas Chinese, creatively applied special policies and flexible measures given to Guangdong by the central authorities in accordance with the ideas of the central authorities and Deng Xiaoping, fully exerted Guangdong's geographical advantages, established special economic zones, and carried out rural system reform with "fixing production quotas to households" as the main content;
In cities, the market-oriented economic system reform has been gradually launched, and the magnificent process of reform and opening up has begun.
1. Carry out the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party, constantly eliminate the ideological influence of "Left" and correct the guiding ideology of economic work.
1978 In February, the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee was held in Beijing, and a strategic decision was made to shift the focus of the Party's work to socialist modernization. Guangdong leaders boldly suggested to the central authorities that Guangdong should decentralize and open up.
In the early days of Guangdong's reform and opening up and the establishment of special economic zones, the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee focused on the theme of "further emancipating the mind and boldly reforming and opening up" and asked all localities to make full use of the special policies and flexible measures given to Guangdong by the central authorities.
2. Implement special policies and flexible measures. 1In April, 1979, the Central Working Conference endorsed and supported the creative proposal of Guangdong Province, and decided to give full play to Guangdong's advantages of being adjacent to Hong Kong, Macao and the hometown of overseas Chinese, so as to make Guangdong take the lead in the reform and opening up.
In July of the same year, the Central Committee and the State Council officially approved Guangdong to implement special policies and flexible measures, expand local management authority, and conduct pilot projects in three export special zones: Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Shantou. The historic Document No.50 of the Central Committee [1979] opened the prelude of Guangdong's reform and opening up and sounded the March of Guangdong.
3. Successful establishment of special economic zones. 1April, 979, Comrade Deng Xiaoping agreed to the idea of setting up an export processing zone in Guangdong, and named it "Special Zone", earnestly hoping that Guangdong would "fight its way out". 1In May, 1980, the central government accepted Guangdong's suggestion and renamed the "export special zone" as "special economic zone", which had richer meanings.
Since the establishment of Guangdong Special Economic Zone, it has earnestly fulfilled the special historical mission entrusted by the central authorities, fought at the forefront of reform and opening up, dared to take risks, boldly practiced and explored, strived to act in accordance with the laws of market economy, and vigorously developed the export-oriented economy, and achieved remarkable results.
In just a few years, border towns and barren beaches have become modern cities and new industrial areas with high buildings.
4, the full implementation of rural household contract responsibility system. 1978 in the second half of the year, production teams in some mountainous and poverty-stricken areas in Huiyang, Zhanjiang and other places in Hainan began to secretly and spontaneously implement production quotas.
It was opened in the whole province in two or three years. At the same time, adjusting the province's agricultural development policy, changing the economic pattern and industrial structure of "taking grain as the key link" and "taking agriculture as the only thing" in rural areas, vigorously developing township enterprises, developing and perfecting the agricultural socialized service system, and promoting the development of rural economy.
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Brilliant achievements: comprehensive economic strength has been greatly improved. In 2007, the province's GDP was 3,060.6 billion yuan, accounting for 1/9 in 2002 and increasing to 1/8. The per capita GDP is $4,080. Industrial economic benefits have been greatly improved, and the total profits of industrial enterprises above designated size have increased by 3.4 times. The total retail sales of social consumer goods reached105.98 billion yuan, with an average annual growth of14.5%;
The fixed assets investment of the whole society was 958 billion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of 19.3%, keeping the investment growth rate lower than the national average. Significant progress has been made in industrial restructuring. The industrial layout and structure are becoming more and more reasonable, the modern industrial system is initially formed, and the trend of industrial upgrading and moderate emphasis is obvious.
The output value of high-tech products increased from 470 billion yuan in 2002 to 1.87 trillion yuan in 2007, and the upgrading of electronic information and household appliances industries accelerated. The proportion of added value of light and heavy industries was adjusted to 39∶6 1, and the leading role of nine industries was enhanced. The scale of service industry expanded rapidly, and the added value of tertiary industry increased from 634.4 billion yuan to 1.3 trillion yuan. The added value of agriculture reached 654.38+074.6 billion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of 3.8%.
Independent innovation has achieved outstanding results. Good progress has been made in the construction of innovative Guangdong, and the comprehensive index of regional innovation capability has ranked third in the country for many years. The contribution rate of scientific and technological progress to economic growth increased from 45.8% in 2002 to more than 50% in 2007. The number of patent applications and authorizations continues to be the first in China, and the number of invention patent applications has jumped to the first place in China since 2005.
Great progress has been made in building a cultural province. Various social undertakings have flourished, people's spiritual and cultural life has been rich and colorful, and the level of social civilization has been further improved. Great progress has been made in education. Consolidate and improve compulsory education, complete the renovation of dilapidated buildings in compulsory education schools, and comprehensively improve the conditions for running schools in rural areas.
Quality education has been effectively promoted and the quality of education and teaching has been improved. The strategy of strengthening the province with talents has been thoroughly implemented, and the mechanism for introducing and using talents has been continuously improved. Health and sports have achieved fruitful results. The construction of a harmonious Guangdong and a society ruled by law has achieved remarkable results.