Achieving Great Undertakings Through Pragmatic Action and Securing the Future Through Innovation — Warm Congratulations on the Successful Concluding of the Fourth Session of the 14th National People’s Congress

Discussing major issues, gathering collective wisdom, and drawing new chapters, the Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress successfully completed all its agendas and concluded triumphantly in Beijing on March 12. This conference fully promoted democracy, strictly adhered to the law, and the attending representatives remembered the people's trust, earnestly fulfilling the duties granted by the Constitution and laws. On the new journey of advancing Chinese-style modernization, it played the era's melody of democracy, unity, pragmatism, and progress. The conference achieved fruitful results, clarified goals and tasks, and conveyed confidence and strength. We warmly congratulate the success of the conference!

This conference was an important meeting held in the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan." The meeting highly praised the new major achievements of the party and the country's undertakings over the past year and during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period. The representatives unanimously believed that this fundamentally relied on General Secretary Xi Jinping's leadership and the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. The conference reviewed and approved the government work report and other important reports. The representatives unanimously believed that the government work report fully reflected the arrangements and deployments of the Central Committee for the current and future work periods, objectively and comprehensively summarized achievements, and scientifically and reasonably arranged goals and tasks. It is a good report with a clear theme, practical progress, unity, and encouragement. The conference reviewed and passed the Ecological Environment Code, the Law on Promoting National Unity and Progress, and the National Development Planning Law, fully affirming the National People's Congress Standing Committee's lawful performance of duties and responsibilities over the past year. Various aspects of work have made new progress and achievements, laying a legal foundation for vigorously creating a new situation in Chinese-style modernization construction.

As an important achievement of this conference, the Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development, reviewed and approved by the conference, runs through Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, transforming the grand blueprint drawn by the Central Committee into a pragmatic and feasible construction plan. It centrally reflects the wisdom and common aspirations of the entire party and people of all ethnic groups nationwide, fully embodying the unity of the party's propositions and the people's will. It is a high-quality planning outline that conforms to reality, meets expectations, and leads the future. The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a critical period for laying a solid foundation and making comprehensive efforts to basically achieve socialist modernization, with an important position of inheriting the past and ushering in the future. Our country's development strategic opportunities and risks coexist, and uncertain and unpredictable factors are increasing. Anchoring the "15th Five-Year Plan" goals, combining good planning and execution, consolidating and expanding advantages, breaking bottlenecks, and strengthening weak points, using the certainty of stable development to respond to various uncertainties, and promoting major breakthroughs in strategic tasks concerning the overall situation of Chinese-style modernization, will surely lay a more solid foundation for basically achieving socialist modernization.

General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "To complete the '15th Five-Year Plan' economic and social development goals and tasks, we need to deal with a more complex environment and solve more deep-seated contradictions." Advancing the unprecedented pioneering undertaking of Chinese-style modernization requires bold exploration in practice, relying on innovation to lead development and win the future. In the "15th Five-Year Plan," we must fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development concept, with promoting high-quality development as the theme, reform and innovation as the fundamental driving force, meeting the people's growing needs for a better life as the fundamental purpose, and comprehensively and strictly governing the party as the fundamental guarantee. We must blaze new trails in deeply integrating technological innovation and industrial innovation and grasp strategic initiative in promoting the economy towards new and better directions. We must adhere to, improve, and operate the people's congress system well, ensuring that the party's theories, lines, principles, policies, and decision-making arrangements are fully implemented and effectively executed in national work, reflecting the people's will, safeguarding people's rights, and stimulating people's creative vitality throughout the development process of people's democracy. We must more effectively gather the wisdom and strength of all the people to achieve the "15th Five-Year Plan" goals and tasks.

The great way is simple, and practical work is essential; to create a new situation, responsibility comes first. Looking back on the journey, from a poor and weak agricultural country to the world's largest manufacturing country and the second-largest economy, from winning the battle against poverty on schedule and building a moderately prosperous society in all respects to achieving a good start on the new journey towards the second centenary goal, we have created a glorious past through practical work and will continue to create a better future through practical work. The vast number of party members and cadres must firmly establish and practice the correct view of political achievements, adhere to starting from reality and doing things according to the rules, consciously achieving political achievements for the people, and striving to create achievements that can withstand the test of practice, the people, and history. Promoting the comprehensive implementation of the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline, the National People's Congress and local people's congresses at all levels have a mission on their shoulders and a heavy responsibility. Standing firm in political positions, enhancing political concepts, legal concepts, and mass concepts, fully playing the role of people's congress representatives, continuously improving the ability and level of performing duties, better connecting with the grassroots, understanding public sentiment, gathering public wisdom, and benefiting people's livelihood, responding to the people's calls, will surely gather a strong force for entrepreneurship and unity and progress.

The new journey is a new Long March, our future is bright, but the road under our feet will not be smooth. Let us unite more closely around the Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, fully implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments," enhance the "four consciousnesses," strengthen the "four self-confidences," and achieve the "two safeguards." Achieving great undertakings through practical work, winning the future through innovation, striving to achieve a good start for the "15th Five-Year Plan," and turning the grand vision into a beautiful reality step by step.

"People's Daily" (March 13, 2026, Page 04)