Main Report: Zhejiang’s Experiments Regarding the Chinese Dream and Its Inspirations

Abstract

Since the beginning of the 21st century, guided by the principles established during the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Zhejiang, a province which has gradually gained prominence since reform and opening-up, has stayed ahead by carrying out the “Eight-Eight Strategies” and pragmatic work, thus making a series of brilliant achievements and bringing about Zhejiang’s experience—which has been widely recognized at home and abroad and has actively been drawn upon in the rest of the country—which is mainly characterized by and basically covers a people-oriented diversified economy, an inclusive and orderly society, cultural self-improvement and innovation, well-functioning services from the government, a strong and vigorous building up of the Party (See Liu Yingqiu et al. in Zhejiang Experience and Its Implication for the Development of China, Social Sciences Academic Press, pp. 1–35, 2007), as well as yielding the first batch of fruitful results at the provincial level with respect to the Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation.

This report was prepared by the authors on the basis of field surveys in Zhejiang conducted by the Research Group including the authors and subsequently, for three times, by the Group of the General Report led by the authors; the opinions from the Department of Publicity under the Party Committee of Zhejiang Province, the Research Office under the Party Committee of Zhejiang Province, the Research Center of the People’s Government of Zhejiang Province, the research offices under the People’s Congress and the People’s Political Consultative Conference of Zhejiang Province, the Party History Research Office of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Academy of Social Sciences, relevant departments of the Party Committee and the People’s Government of Zhejiang Province, the people in charge of some cities, counties, towns, villages and enterprises, the representatives of urban and rural residents, relevant experts and scholars; a great deal of relevant literature; the research results of Yuan Lei, Ge Daoshun, Zhong Qi, Yu Hongxia from the Group of the General Report and Yun Jie, the person in charge of the Politics Volume and Jia Xudong, the person in charge of the Culture Volume from the sub-report groups. After the first draft of this paper was completed, relevant revision and improvement opinions were solicited from Huang Qunhui and Wang Jinling as the Deputy Directors of the Group of the General Report, and Peng Shan as the Secretary of the Group of the General Report. After further revision, relevant opinions were solicited from research fellow Li Peilin, an alternate member of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, a member of the Leading Party Group of and Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Leader of the Research Group for “The Chinese Dream and Zhejiang’s Practice”; Ge Huijun, an alternate member of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, a member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of Zhejiang Province, Director of the Department of Publicity under the Party Committee of Zhejiang Province; comrade Hu Jian, the coordinator of the research and Executive Deputy Director of the Department of Publicity under the Party Committee of Zhejiang Province; Zhejiang Academy of Social Sciences. The final draft was defined through further revision and improvement based on their valuable opinions.