How to View China's Progressive Economic Transformation

The goal determines the method, and the method is endogenous to the goal; the question of the method of reform cannot be discussed in abstraction from the nature and goal of the reform. The reason why China's economic reform has adopted a gradual reform approach is fundamentally determined by the special nature of the goal of a socialist market economy. This is because: First, reform is the self-improvement and development of the socialist system, not its fundamental negation. This fundamental nature of reform determines that the manner and process of reform must be characterized by a gentle gradualism. Here, the old and new systems are not distinct and diametrically opposed to each other, but have obvious continuity and succession.　　Secondly, China is now in the primary stage of socialism, where marketization and industrialization, and the transformation of the institutional model and the development model are combined, so the formation and development of a market economy is bound to go through a relatively long historical process.　　Thirdly, people's understanding of reform is not fixed a priori, but evolves with the development of practice and theory. In particular, the socialist market economy, as a new form of market economy in the history of mankind, will inevitably require a longer process for its maturation and perfection as well as for the scientific understanding of it.　　Practice has proved that China's gradual reform is a successful way of reform. So, is it still necessary to adopt this kind of gradual reform in order to deepen the reform of the economic system under the new historical conditions? The answer is yes. Because, the decision of China's progressive reform of some of the basic conditions such as the nature of the reform, the goal and specific national conditions have not undergone fundamental changes.