Chinanews.com, Beijing, January 1, headline:Prospects for major events in 2023: state institutions renew the Asian Games in Hangzhou
Reporter: Kan Feng
2023 starts today, with a new historical coordinate, and a series of major events related to the national economy and people’s livelihood will take place in 2023.
This year is the first year after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. After the re-election of the Communist Party of China last year, a new leadership of state institutions will be elected during the Two National Sessions this year. In addition, major events and important nodes, including the adjustment of epidemic prevention and control policies, the Hangzhou Asian Games, and the 45th anniversary of reform and opening up, also deserve attention.
these big things matter
——Change of national agency
In October 2022, the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China mapped out a new blueprint for China’s development, and the 1st Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee elected a new central leading team.
During the country’s two sessions this year, the National People’s Congress, the State Council and the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference will also complete the transition and elect a new leader.
2023 is the first year to fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the year to start the new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country.
——Major changes to epidemic prevention and control policies
On January 8, the new corona virus infection will be changed from “Class B and A test tubes” to “Class B and B test tubes”, which is an important adjustment of China’s new epidemic prevention and control policy. crown.
According to the official news released earlier, according to the Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Law, isolation measures will no longer be implemented for people infected with the new coronavirus, and close contacts will no longer be identified; high and low risk areas will no longer be delineated; people infected with the new coronavirus will be classified and hospitalized in a timely manner. Adjust the medical safety policy; adjust the test strategy to “willing to check everything”; adjust the frequency and content of the release of information on the epidemic. Under the Frontier Health and Quarantine Law, no quarantine and infectious disease management measures will be taken for incoming personnel and cargo.
According to the introduction of the National Immigration Administration, the office has resumed the acceptance and approval of ordinary passports for Chinese citizens traveling abroad and visiting friends in an orderly manner since January 8, and has resumed the acceptance and approval of ordinary visa extensions, renewals, and reissues for aliens.
Datamap: Hangzhou Asian Games Venues. Photo courtesy of the Hangzhou Asian Organizing Committee
——The Asian Games in Hangzhou will be held
The Hangzhou Asian Games will be held from September 23 to October 8 this year.
The 19th Asian Games was originally scheduled to be held in Hangzhou from September 10 to 25, 2022, but was postponed to May 2022 due to the new corona epidemic. Subsequently, the Olympic Council of Asia announced a new date for the Hangzhou Asian Games Games and The name of the postponed Asian Games is still the 19th Hangzhou Asian Games in 2022.
The Hangzhou Asian Games is the third time the Asian Games come to China, and after the Beijing Winter Olympics, China will once again attract global attention for its sporting events.
——The Fifth National Economic Census
What is the latest situation of the Chinese economy? This year the fifth national economic census will be carried out.
The economic census is an important survey of the national condition and national strength, and forms three periodic items of the national census together with the population census and the agricultural census. The National Economic Census is conducted every five years, having previously been conducted four times in 2004, 2008, 2013 and 2018.
In November 2022, the Council of State issued a notice, resolving to carry out the fifth national economic census in 2023. The object of the census are all legal persons, industrial activity units and families of self-employed workers engaged in activities of the secondary and tertiary industry within the Chinese territory.
After five years, this “comprehensive physical examination” of China’s economy has attracted a lot of attention.
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——The 45th anniversary of reform and opening up
Reform and opening up is a key move to determine the fate of contemporary China. In 2023, China will usher in the 45th anniversary of reform and opening up.
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clarified the “five fundamental principles” that must be firmly grasped on the way forward, one of which is “persevere in deepening reform and opening up”.
The Central Economic Work Conference held in December 2022 once again made deployments on the comprehensive deepening of reform and opening up: “Planning a new round of comprehensive reform of deepening”, “adhere to promoting openness to high ever-expanding institutional level and openness such as rules, regulations, management and standards”…
In the new journey, it is worth looking forward to how China will promote reform and opening up from a higher starting point and create new and bigger miracles that will impress the world.
——The 10th Anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative.
In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed the “Silk Road Economic Belt” and the “21st Century Maritime Silk Road” in Kazakhstan and Indonesia, respectively. Over the past decade, the high-quality joint construction of the “Belt and Road” has progressed steadily, with frequent reports of success.150 countries and 32 international organizations have formed the “Belt and Road” family.
Recently, Wang Yi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and a State Counselor, said at the Symposium on China’s International Situation and Diplomacy in 2022 that all sides are looking forward to holding the third “Belt and Road” Forum of the International Cooperation Summit to jointly summarize the results and map out a blueprint. Make this “development belt” that benefits the world more prosperous and the “road to happiness” that benefits humanity at large.
——10th anniversary of the construction of the Pilot Free Trade Zone
The construction of pilot free trade zones is a milestone in China’s reform and opening-up process.
On September 29, 2013, China’s first free trade pilot zone, the “China (Shanghai) Free Trade Pilot Zone”, was established.
Today, China has 21 pilot free trade zones, forming a pilot model covering east, west, north, south and central. With less than four thousandths of the country’s land area, the free trade zone contributed 17.3% of the country’s import and export volume and absorbed foreign investment amounting to 18.5% of the country…
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to “implement the strategy of upgrading the pilot free trade zones and expand the network of high-level free trade zones facing the world.” (use)
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