How to modernize national governance

The Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Communist Party of China Central Committee, which concluded last week, summarized 13 advantages that China's national governance system enjoys, and proposed 13"insists and improves", laying down the timetable and road map for the modernization of the national governance system and governance capability. Specifically, three points should be underlined to implement the decision of the Fourth Plenary Session.

First, the concept of national governance should be modernized, as development ideas determine actions, and the pioneering role of ideas should be given full play in order to improve the national governance system and governance capability. The ideas of comprehensively promoting law-based governance, people-centered governance, scientific governance, comprehensive governance and putting equal emphasis on innovation, and reducing risks should be integrated into the process of modernizing the national governance system and governance capability.

Second, the modernization of the national governance mechanism should be expedited in accordance with the principles of socialism with Chinese characteristics. And the key to improve governance capability lies in adhering to the Party's leadership. CPC Central Committee General Secretary Xi Jinping's status as the core of the Party, as well as the authority and centralized, unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee should be firmly safeguarded to improve the mechanisms for the Party's leadership in major initiatives, and the institutional advantage of accomplishing major tasks fully leveraged.