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top-level-design

A strategic framework established by the CPC Central Leading Group to oversee and coordinate comprehensive reforms across multiple sectors.

3 chapters across 1 book

Xi Jinping’s Governance and the Future of China (2017)Zhou Xinmin

III. DRIVING THE REFORM TO A DEEPER LEVEL

This chapter outlines the deepening of China's reform efforts under the leadership of the CPC since 2012, emphasizing the move into more complex and challenging areas of reform. It highlights the establishment of a top-level design framework guiding comprehensive reforms across economic, political, social, legal, cultural, ecological, and military sectors. The chapter also discusses the orderly distribution of reform benefits, including increased market vitality, government efficiency, social fairness, and improved well-being for the Chinese people.

II. LEADING NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT WITH MODERN THINKING

This chapter outlines Xi Jinping's strategic approach to modernizing China's national governance by emphasizing a top-level design for a modern governance system, enhancing governing capabilities, and improving government operation efficiency. It highlights the importance of aligning governance with Chinese socialism, integrating state, society, and market mechanisms, and strengthening the core governing teams to ensure effective execution of policies. The chapter details specific institutional reforms, operational frameworks, and the necessity of transforming government functions to support sustainable national development.

I. OUTSTANDING CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PRACTICE

This chapter outlines the core characteristics of Xi Jinping's governance philosophy, emphasizing adherence to objective laws, grounding policies in China's realities, prioritizing top-level design, and fostering coordinated efforts across sectors. It details how these principles guide reforms and governance across political, economic, social, cultural, and international domains to modernize national governance and achieve the Chinese Dream and Two Centenary Goals. The chapter highlights the systemic, strategic, and people-centered nature of governance aimed at sustainable development and socialist modernization.