Why reform is a new revolution, the self-improvement and development of the socialist system

The essence of reform is the self-improvement and development of the socialist system. Such improvement and development cannot be achieved naturally, but always needs to be promoted through reform and developed through opening up and absorbing the excellent fruits of human civilization.

Productivity is the ultimate decisive force driving the progress of human society. As a new great revolution, one of the fundamental purposes of reform and opening up is to break the constraints of the outdated system and mechanism, so that the social productive forces can achieve good and fast development. In the new historical period, we have revolutionized the traditional planned economic system because it has become a shackle on the development of social productive forces. Since the new period, it is through the transformation of the traditional planned economic system and the gradual establishment of a dynamic socialist market economic system that China's social productive forces have continued to develop rapidly at a speed rarely seen in the world. With the deepening of practice, China's reform and opening up has paid more attention to the scientific aspect of the liberation and development of productive forces: not only focusing on accelerating the speed of development of productive forces, but also on upgrading the quality of development of productive forces; not only focusing on expanding the scale of development of productive forces, but also on improving the efficiency of the development of productive forces; not only focusing on eliminating and transforming backward productive forces, but also focusing on fostering new growth points of the development of productive forces; and not only focusing on optimizing the environment for the development of domestic productive forces. Focusing on both optimizing the environment for the development of domestic productive forces and expanding the space for the development of productive forces towards the world, etc.. This shows that reform and opening up, as a new great revolution to liberate and develop social productive forces, has entered and is entering a new scientific realm.