--Interview with Hou Xiaochun, Secretary of CPC Guang'an Municipal Committee, Deng Xiaoping's hometown, 19th CPC National Congress

(Study and implementation of the spirit of the 19th CPC National Congress series of special reports of Guang'an)

By Wang Chiyun, Chief Correspondent, Newsweek Asia, Beijing

      "In the report of the 19th Party Congress, the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech focuses on the latest achievements of the Party's innovative theories and contains rich and profound ideological and theoretical connotations. The report puts forward many new ideas and views and new requirements, such as grasping more accurately the changing characteristics of the primary stage of socialism in China; socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new stage of development; embarking on a new journey to build a modernized socialist country; and comprehensively governing the Party with strictness is always on the road.......We will earnestly comprehend the 19th CPC National Congress Spirit, learning and implementing the spirit of the 19th CPC National Congress is a political mission!" Hou Xiaochun, a delegate to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and secretary of the Guang'an Municipal Committee of Sichuan Province, the hometown of Deng Xiaoping, said so in a quick-thinking interview with Wang Chiyun, chief reporter of Asia News Weekly, at the Sichuan delegation to the 19th CPC National Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 19, 2017, in the city of Guang'an, Sichuan Province, China.

The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) was successfully held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing from October 18 to 24, 2017

      From October 18 to 24, 2017, the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (hereinafter referred to as the "19th CPC National Congress") was successfully held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, and the reporter was honored to once again participate in the meeting on-site to cover the whole process. In the face of reporters, the 19th CPC National Congress delegates, Deng Xiaoping's hometown - Secretary of the CPC Guang'an Municipal Committee of Sichuan Province, Hou Xiaochun once again on the occasion of the closing of the 19th CPC National Congress as promised, on how to "study and implement the spirit of the 19th CPC National Congress, and work hard to build a new Guang'an, the hometown of the great man. Reporter interview.

Hou Xiaochun, Secretary of Guang'an Municipal Committee of Sichuan Province, the hometown of Deng Xiaoping, a delegate to the 19th CPC National Congress, receives an on-site interview with Wang Chiyun, Chief Correspondent of Newsweek Asia, at the Sichuan Delegation to the 19th CPC National Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Photo by Yasutaka Kobayashi, The Red Flag, Central Party Newspaper of the Communist Party of Japan

      Reporter: As a delegate to the 19th CPC National Congress from the hometown of Deng Xiaoping, the chief architect of China's reform and opening-up, Guang'an City, Sichuan Province, would Secretary Hou please talk about the significance of studying and implementing the spirit of the National Party Congress?

      Hou Xiaochun: The 19th CPC National Congress is a very important conference held at the critical stage of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and at the critical period of the development of socialism with Chinese characteristics, which is of great significance in inspiring and mobilizing the whole Party and the whole country and all ethnic groups to continue to push forward the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects and to adhere to and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics. We will closely unite around the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, earnestly study, publicize and implement the spirit of the 19th CPC National Congress, comprehensively examine the general trend of development of today's world and contemporary China, comprehensively grasp the new requirements of China's development and the new expectations of the people, deeply summarize the vivid practice and fresh experience of the Party in leading the people to promote reform and opening up and socialist modernization, and, starting from a new historical starting point and under new conditions, continuously create socialism with Chinese characteristics. Starting from a new historical starting point and new conditions of the times, the Party will continue to create a new situation of socialism with Chinese characteristics and a better life. For Guang'an, the spirit of the 19th CPC National Congress should be used to unite the strength of party members, cadres and masses in the city, fully implement the major decisions and deployments of the Central Government and Sichuan Provincial Party Committee, promote the overall layout of the "Five-in-One" and the coordinated advancement of the "Four Comprehensives" in Guang'an, and lead the whole city to unite as one to materialize the "Four Comprehensives" in Guang'an. Concretize, lead the whole city united, make persistent efforts to accelerate to the overall well-off, strong economy across the city, and strive to realize the beautiful vision of building a beautiful, prosperous and harmonious Guang'an, and strive to write a new chapter of the Chinese dream Guang'an.

Sichuan Delegation to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China Considers the Report of the 19th CPC National Congress

      Reporter: The 19th CPC National Congress has made appropriate amendments to the Party's Constitution, and written into the Constitution the major theoretical perspectives and strategic ideas established in the report of the 19th CPC National Congress. May I ask Secretary Hou, what is your opinion on this?

      Hou Xiaochun: The Party Constitution is the general constitution of the Party, which has a fundamental normative and guiding role in adhering to the Party's leadership and strengthening the Party's construction. The 19th CPC National Congress has made appropriate amendments to the Party Constitution in accordance with the new situation and new tasks, fully reflecting the latest achievements of the Chineseization of Marxism, fully reflecting the supreme will of the whole Party and the common will of the people, fully reflecting the new concepts and new ideas and new strategies for governance put forward by the CPC Central Committee since the 18th CPC National Congress, and fully reflecting the fresh experience of adhering to and strengthening the Party's leadership and comprehensively governing the Party from a strict standpoint. It is conducive to the whole party to better study the party constitution, abide by the party constitution, implement the party constitution, safeguard the party constitution, better safeguard the core position of general secretary Xi Jinping, better safeguard the authority of the party central committee, safeguard the party's unity and centralized unity of the party, and better push forward the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the party's construction of a new great project. Next, we will be a high sense of political responsibility and sense of mission, seriously organize the study, comprehensive and accurate publicity of the new Party Constitution, guide the majority of Party members and cadres to unify their thoughts and actions to the General Assembly's various deployments and requirements, to be a qualified member of the Party, when the officer vanguard, and strive to write a good great Chinese dream and beautiful, prosperous and harmonious Sichuan chapter of Guang'an, in order to achieve the "two one hundred year" goal to contribute! Contribute to the realization of the "two hundred years" goal!

Hou Xiaochun (center), Secretary of Guang'an Municipal Committee of Sichuan Province, the hometown of Deng Xiaoping, a delegate to the 19th CPC National Congress: Don't forget the original heart, keep the mission in mind, hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and build a moderately affluent society in all respects in Guang'an, the hometown of the great man.

      Reporter: The overall strict governance of the party is always on the road, style construction is always on the road. Implement the spirit of the eight provisions of the central government, change the style of work can only be strengthened and can not be weakened. Please Secretary Hou talk about Guang'an practice?

      Hou Xiaochun: General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in the first batch of the Party's mass line education and practice activities summarized and the second batch of the deployment of the meeting, "the implementation of the mass line there is no stopgap, style construction is always on the road". As the hometown of the great man, Guang'an in-depth study and implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of important speeches on the overall strict governance of the party, strengthen the style of construction, by grasping the implementation of the spirit of the central eight provisions, deepening the party's understanding of the regularity of the style of construction, and has accumulated valuable experience. We lead from above, starting from the municipal party committee, leading cadres at all levels to take the lead, compaction of party organizations at all levels, especially the main leading cadres of the main responsibility for party management and party governance, action as a silent order, to teach as an example of the implementation of the example. Focus on the problem, for the people's strong reflection of the problem, twisting, continuous force, iron face discipline, focused on solving the formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism and extravagance. Precise force, the integration of inspection, supervision, monitoring forces, from the management of grass-roots "micro-corruption", punishing the masses around the unethical and other specific things to start, easy to breed corruption in key areas of the implementation of the whole process of supervision, grasp the iron trace, leave a mark on the stone to promote the spirit of nails. Cure both the symptoms and the root causes, focusing on the system to govern the party, control power and officials, with reform ideas and methods to crack the style of stubbornness, and strive to plug the loopholes in the system and mechanism. Through careful study of the report of the 19th CPC National Congress, we deeply realize that the implementation of the spirit of the 19th CPC National Congress, the spirit of the eight provisions of the Central Committee, and change the style of work can only be strengthened and can not be weakened. We will maintain strategic strength, adhere to the problem-oriented, perseverance, perseverance, strengthen the responsibility, strengthen the supervision, strengthen the investigation and punishment, and constantly bring the style of construction to a deeper level, to ensure that the party and the people are always with the same breath, share the same destiny, heart to heart.

Hou Xiaochun, Secretary of Guang'an Municipal Committee of Sichuan Province, the hometown of Deng Xiaoping, a delegate of the 19th CPC National Congress, is interviewed and photographed by Wang Chiyun, Chief Correspondent of Newsweek Asia, in the Sichuan Delegation to the 19th CPC National Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Photograph by Yasutaka Kobayashi, The Red Flag, Central Party Newspaper of the Communist Party of Japan

      Reporter: Around the spirit of the 19th CPC National Congress, in accordance with the deployment of the Fourth Plenary Session of the Fifth CPC Guang'an Municipal Committee, what will your city do to implement and enforce the next step? What aspects of work will be carried out?

      Hou Xiaochun: In order to thoroughly study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of important speeches and new ideas and strategies of governance, accelerate the major deployment of the central and Sichuan Provincial Party Committee and then the implementation of Guang'an, with excellent results to the nineteenth CPC National Congress, in September of this year, Guang'an City, the municipal party committee held the fifth session of the Fourth Plenary Session. Through the plenary session, we focused on the wisdom of the city's party members, cadres and masses, depicted a beautiful vision of building a beautiful, prosperous and harmonious Guang'an, emphasized the victory of the overall well-off, building a strong economy, "two leaps forward" goal, put forward the implementation of the "three development strategies "and the strategy of military-civilian integration development, and made it clear to promote the comprehensive economic strength, people's quality of life, ecological civilization, cultural prosperity and development, and modern governance capacity to "five new levels", which constitutes the overall work layout of Guang'an in the current and future period, and forms a grand blueprint for promoting the various undertakings of Guang'an to a new level. It has formed a grand blueprint for promoting all undertakings in Guang'an to a new level.

      Next, we will use the spirit of the 19th CPC National Congress to gather strength, deeply implement the development strategy of multi-point multi-pole support, continuously grow the county economy, develop and grow the economic strength of industrial parks and parks, further develop and grow state-owned enterprises, and build a new pattern of competing across the development. In-depth implementation of the "two" interactive urban and rural development strategy, promote new urbanization with people at the core, build livable, business-friendly and tourists-friendly cities, so that the people can enjoy more urban development results. In-depth implementation of the innovation-driven development strategy, adhere to the innovation in the development of the overall situation of the core position, the development of the base on innovation, innovative talents, innovative platforms, innovative technologies, and accelerate the construction of innovation-driven development in Sichuan Province, the first city. On this basis, comprehensively promote the development of modern industry, reform and opening up, poverty alleviation, green development, comprehensive and strict governance of the party and other key center of work to achieve new achievements, and promote Guang'an fast-paced, high-speed, super-conventional development.

From October 18 to 24, 2017, the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) was successfully held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. This is the venue of the congress

      Reporter: Around the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, according to the deployment of the Fifth and Fourth Plenary Meetings of the CPC Guang'an Municipal Committee, the development of civil-military integration as a strategy for the implementation of Guang'an together. May I ask Secretary Hou what measures your city has taken in this regard?

      Hou Xiaochun: Since the 18th CPC National Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping has put forward the proposition of comprehensively doing a good job in the deep development of civil-military integration. He emphasized that "civil-military integration is a national strategy, which is related to national security and the overall situation of development, and is both a move to develop the country and a strategy to strengthen the military". We accurately grasp the development trend, early planning, and fully promote the development of civil-military integration, highly in line with the central and provincial decision-making and deployment, civil-military integration and development has achieved significant results. Successfully attracted a large number of civil-military integration enterprises to Guang'an to invest in temperature difference chip, non-destructive compression of intelligent chips, special vehicle production and other civil-military integration projects, the formation of a 100-billion industry clusters. Supporting the city's enterprises to participate in civil-military integration has created a good development foundation for the implementation of the civil-military integration development strategy in Guang'an. The next step, we will be in accordance with the major deployment of the 19th CPC National Congress on civil-military integration, focusing on opening up the development channel of civil-military integration, forming a full element, multi-field, highly effective pattern of deep development of civil-military integration. We will promote the construction of collaborative innovation platforms for military-civilian integration and support the joint construction of technology research and development centers by the military and civilians. Growing the civil-military integration industry, accelerating the cultivation of temperature difference chip, non-destructive compression intelligent chip, special vehicles and other civil-military integration industry, accelerating the development of 100 billion-level civil-military integration industry clusters. Continuing to carry out "civil participation in the military" mechanism innovation, encourage Guang'an enterprises to participate in the scientific research and production of military products, and strive to build Guang'an into a national military-civilian fusion innovation demonstration zone through unremitting efforts.

From October 18 to 24, 2017, the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) was successfully held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. This is the venue of the congress

      Reporter: Centering on the spirit of the 19th CPC National Congress, and according to the deployment of the Fifth and Fourth Plenary Session of the CPC Guang'an Municipal Committee, the city adheres to the main line of supply-side structural reform. May I ask Secretary Hou, what high tactics has your city adopted?

      Hou Xiaochun: We have studied in depth the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speeches on supply-side structural reform, adhering to the main line of supply-side structural reform, the establishment of a major industrial working group, the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, and accelerate the development of new industries, electronic information, biomedicine, high-end equipment manufacturing and other high-end industrial industries to achieve the development of clusters and scale, and accelerate the pace of industry to the middle and high end. Deepen the structural reform of the supply side of agriculture, building bases, processing, branding, "production and village integration, agriculture and tourism" development model has been popularized in the country, and was created as a national modern agricultural demonstration zone. Vigorously develop modern service industry, e-commerce, modern logistics, cultural tourism, modern finance and other industries are developing rapidly, the tertiary industry has grown into a new growth point of Guang'an's economic development. Next, we will be guided by the spirit of the 19th CPC National Congress, adhere to the main line of supply-side structural reform, promote the industry to the middle and high end, deepen the structural reform of the supply side of the agricultural sector, make every effort to develop the tertiary industry, and accelerate the transformation and upgrading of industrial development. Insist on promoting comprehensive deepening of reform, promoting opening up and cooperation at a higher level, and continuously enhancing the power and vitality of deepening supply-side structural reform. Insist on solidly promoting accurate poverty alleviation and poverty alleviation, vigorously developing social and livelihood undertakings, ensuring synchronization with the whole country and Sichuan Province into a moderately prosperous society, and making up for the short board of people's livelihood. Firmly promote ecological priority and green development, resolutely fight the "three wars" of pollution prevention and control, and develop a green, low-carbon and recycling economy, so as to promote the supply-side structural reform and sustainable development, leaving a greater environmental capacity and more ecological wealth.

Deng Xiaoping's hometown, Guang'an City, Sichuan Province, welcomes the victory of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC)!

      Reporter: Around the spirit of the 19th CPC National Congress, in accordance with the deployment of the CPC Guang'an Municipal Committee of the Fifth Fourth Plenary Session of the CPC Guang'an City Council, to promote the cause of Guang'an to a new level of the grand blueprint. May I ask Secretary Hou, your city's goal of struggle?

      Hou Xiaochun: Standing at the historical intersection of the goal of "two hundred years", the 19th CPC National Congress for us to draw a beautiful blueprint, so that we are more determined to realize the great national rejuvenation of the Chinese dream of confidence and determination. As the hometown of Comrade Xiaoping, our goal is to closely unite around the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, fully implement the spirit of the 19th CPC National Congress and the spirit of the 11th CPC Congress of Sichuan Province, consciously shoulder the historical mission, accurately grasp the historical orientation, and fully develop the spirit of Guang'an, which is "to open up the road on every mountain, build bridges over the water, and to overcome the thorns and go forward". "Guang'an spirit, with a beautiful vision of building a beautiful, prosperous and harmonious Guang'an cohesion of forces, firm implementation of the "three major development strategies" and civil-military integration development strategy, and strive to achieve the victory in the overall well-off, building a strong economic city "two leaps forward! "goal, accelerate the comprehensive strength of the city's economy, people's quality of life, ecological civilization, cultural prosperity and development, modern governance capacity, "five to a new level", for the construction of a beautiful, prosperous and harmonious Sichuan, to achieve the "two hundred year" goal. The city will make greater contributions to building a beautiful, prosperous and harmonious Sichuan and realizing the goal of "two hundred years".

      Looking to the future development, we will use the beautiful vision of building a beautiful, prosperous and harmonious Guang'an to gather the strength to move forward, unswervingly towards the goal of winning the overall well-off and building a strong economic city "two leaps forward", and to promote the comprehensive strength of the economy to a new level, the quality of life of the people to a new level, and the construction of ecological civilization to a new level, Cultural prosperity and development to a new level, the ability of modern governance to a new level!

      A Guang'an of reform and innovation, prosperity of all industries, an open and tolerant Guang'an of self-confidence and strength, a green and healthy and fresh Guang'an, and a Guang'an of righteousness and unity of purpose, stand on a new historical starting point, and are also displayed in front of the countrymen and the world.

      The grand blueprint has been drawn and the trumpet has been blown! Guang'an will closely unite around the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, comprehensively implement the spirit of the 19th CPC National Congress, firmly establish and implement the development concept of "innovation, coordination, green, openness, and sharing" in accordance with the overall layout of the "Five-in-one" and the "Four Comprehensives", and work hard to build a moderately prosperous society in all aspects, and strive to write a great China. In accordance with the overall layout of the "five-in-one" and the strategic layout of the "four-round", firmly establish and implement the development concept of "innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing", unite and strive to build a moderately prosperous society in a comprehensive manner, and strive to write a new chapter of the great Chinese dream of Guang'an!

(Except for attribution, photo credits: Xinhua News Agency and Photo by Wang Chiyun, Chief Correspondent, Newsweek Asia)