By Jaime Ortega.
The Chinese Communist Party is committed to gradually increase the role of the market in the economy to promote the ” great revival of the nation” to ensure their own survival. The Third Plenum of the 18th CPC Central Committee , which closed on Tuesday after four days of deliberations in Beijing , agreed a roadmap for the next decade that passes through grant a “decisive” role to markets and reform to the judicial system by assigning property rights to farmers on the land .
Despite reformist winds , the Chinese leaders showed clearly enough that some things never change . ” The most important thing is to persist in the Party’s leadership , we must persevere on the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics,” reads the policy document , which emphasizes the ” predominant role ” in state in the economy.
The president, Xi Jinping , Premier , Li Keqiang , and the other 370 senior leaders issued an ambiguous estament , full of administrative rhetoric . It covers areas such as culture , defense, administration , agriculture or the tax system. Only two specific measures emerge above strategic principles : the creation of a central committee to monitor the implementation of the reforms and the establishment of a national security council.
The first would be paramount . “In the past , the ministries themselves had to reform themselves ,” said Dang Guoying , a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. “The creation of this committee reinforces the central control , which could help to overcome the obstacles of interest groups ,” explains.
A lime and sand
The program gives a lime and sand in the economic sphere . On the one hand , a commitment to ” give more rights to peasants ” , ” improve pricing mechanisms for market share” , ” remove access barriers for investors ” , ” speed up the construction of regional free trade ” encourage” consumer choice ” and establish ” fair competition ” among all stakeholders , public and private firms .
On the other hand , support the leaders “primordial role” that the government must continue to play in the economy. You have to ” persevere in the development of the state economy ,” increasing “influence , control and vitality to the public” and ” promote the improvement and modernization of state enterprises ,” states the policy document .
“The key will be to see to what extent the state withdraws and leaves more room for the market,” says Wang Fuzhong , an economist and professor at the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing. ” I do not see any particular reform movement ,” he says . Statements openness and reform of the leaders in the past have not always been accompanied by concrete results.
Transparency in the budget
Another of the key points of the roadmap is to reform the administration. The Communist Party believes in ” transparency in budgets ” of the different levels of government – an area where they have already taken some steps , ‘ ” fight against corruption” , ” deepen the reform of the judicial system ” , “improving protection of human rights “and ” deepen the reform of the tax system . ”
On this last point , the paper argues the need to allocate tax revenues to levels of government that have expenditure responsibilities . So far , the municipalities, which are responsible for many public services were obliged to be financed through the sale and redevelopment of land.
The ultimate goal of this long -term plan of the Communist Party is summarized in one sentence: ” Achieving the dream of the great renaissance of the Chinese nation .” A concept invoked by Xi Jinping and most Asian leaders like Sun Yat -sen .
If the plan succeeds , the communist leaders could rule at the end of the decade on the world’s largest economy and finally recover from the colonial humiliation suffered at the hands of the West during the nineteenth and early twentieth Centuries.
