Qiushi Journal Issue Preview: No. 1, 2025

An article by General Secretary Xi Jinping on Chinese modernization was published in the first issue of Qiushi Journal in 2025. 

The article notes that Chinese modernization is the result of the Chinese people’s long-term experiments and endeavors under the CPC’s leadership. Since its 18th National Congress, the CPC has built on existing foundations to make innovative breakthroughs in theory and practice that have successfully advanced and expanded Chinese modernization. In this process, a problem-oriented approach has been taken to resolve prominent issues and problems in our efforts to further reform.

According to the article, the Chinese path to modernization, which is being pursued under the leadership of the CPC, represents the only correct path open to us for building a strong country and realizing national rejuvenation. As a new model for human advancement, Chinese modernization is a systemic project, which calls for coordinated, systematic and holistic endeavors. Notably, we must correctly manage a series of major relationships, including those between top-level design and practical explorations, strategies and tactics, the need to uphold fundamental principles and to break new ground, efficiency and fairness, vitality and order, and self-reliance and opening up. All of these need to be well balanced in advancing Chinese modernization.

The article also emphasizes that to promote Chinese modernization, a long-term task in building a modern socialist country, we should make unremitting efforts both in theoretical studies and practical explorations, so as to ensure that our understanding of, policies for, and measures related to Chinese modernization are more in line with objective laws.

Readers will find in this issue an editorial piece inspired by Xi’s vision.

This issue features an article from the Institute of Party History and Literature of the CPC Central Committee, which holds that General Secretary Xi Jinping’s expositions on Chinese modernization serve as the fundamental principle and a guide to action for us to advance Chinese modernization in the new era.

Qiushi editorial reviews the year of 2024 and looks forward to the year of 2025, calling on the Chinese people to continue maintaining firm confidence, working diligently, and forging ahead with resolve.

Han Wenxiu, Executive Deputy Director of the Office of the CPC Central Commission for Financial and Economic Affairs, and Director of the Office of the Central Rural Work Leading Group, believes that more proactive and effective macro policies should be taken to maintain positive momentum of economic recovery in his article.

Zhou Zuyi, Secretary of the CPC Fujian Provincial Committee and Director of the Standing Committee of the Fujian Provincial People’s Congress, interprets the goal of building a new Fujian and furthering reform comprehensively.

The article from the Party Committee of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council elucidates how to further reform state-owned assets and enterprises and promote their high-quality development.

The China Law Society explains the major theoretical innovations of Xi Jinping thought on the rule of law.

Cai Fang, Member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and a chief expert of the National High-End Think Tank at CASS, introduces trends and characteristics of China’s demographic changes and our strategies for population development. 

China Academy of Cultural Heritage shares with readers the story of the Great Canal, a living culture and a precious cultural heritage.

This issue closes with a diagram released by the National Bureau of Statistics which shows major indicators of China’s national economy from January to November in 2024.

Editor: Yi Xiaowei