CCTV News:According to the website of the National Bureau of Statistics, in 2022, China’s economic and social development was hit by multiple unexpected factors at home and abroad, and the risk challenge was unprecedented. From an international point of view, the changes in the past 100 years are intertwined with the epidemic in the century, the Ukrainian crisis has evolved in a complex way, the risk of stagflation in the world economy has risen, and the unstable and uncertain factors have increased significantly. From the domestic point of view, the epidemic situation has been delayed repeatedly, natural disasters such as high temperature and drought have occurred frequently, and the triple pressures of demand contraction, supply shock and expected weakening have superimposed, making it more difficult to stabilize growth and employment. Facing the stormy international environment and arduous domestic tasks of reform, development and stability, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core unites and leads the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country, adheres to the general tone of striving for progress while maintaining stability, implements the new development concept completely, accurately and comprehensively, accelerates the construction of a new development pattern, resolutely increases the implementation of macro policies, effectively responds to the impact of unexpected factors, stabilizes the macro-economic market, promotes the steady improvement of development quality, and maintains the overall social harmony and stability. The latest statistical bulletin on national economic and social development in 2022 comprehensively records the process of the whole party and the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country struggling against pressure and vividly shows the new achievements made in socialist modernization.
First, economic strength has reached a new level.
In 2022, the first quarter started better than expected, and in the early part of the second quarter, due to unexpected factors, the economy once declined. Faced with the difficult situation, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council made decisive decisions, and timely introduced a package of policies and successive measures to stabilize the economy. All localities and departments better coordinated epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, actively promoted the efficiency of fiscal policies, accelerated the implementation of combined tax and fee support policies, adopted a prudent monetary policy with reasonable and sufficient liquidity, and the economic market recovered in the third quarter. In the fourth quarter, although the impact of the epidemic increased again, with the joint efforts of all parties, the overall recovery trend continued. The economy achieved 3.0% growth in the whole year against the pressure, leading the growth rate among the top major economies in the world. The total economic output continued to expand, the development foundation was more solid, and the comprehensive national strength was further enhanced.Breakthrough of economic aggregate120One trillion yuan.In 2022, China’s gross domestic product (GDP) reached 121 trillion yuan, which is a new step after breaking through 100 trillion yuan and 110 trillion yuan in 2020 and 2021. According to the annual average exchange rate, China’s total economic output reached 18 trillion US dollars, ranking second in the world. The per capita GDP was 85,698 yuan, which reached 12,741 dollars at the annual average exchange rate, and remained above 12,000 dollars.The basic position of agriculture has been further consolidated.Compacting the responsibility of grain production, strengthening the policy of supporting agriculture and benefiting farmers, improving the comprehensive agricultural production capacity, and achieving a new high in grain output. In 2022, the annual grain output was 1,373.1 billion Jin, an increase of 0.5% over the previous year, and it remained stable at more than 1.3 trillion Jin for eight consecutive years. The soybean oil production capacity improvement project was solidly promoted. In 2022, the national soybean and oilseed output increased by 23.7% and 1.1% respectively over the previous year. The production of animal husbandry grew steadily, and the output of pork, cattle, sheep and poultry increased by 3.8%.The role of industrial "ballast stone" is prominent.In 2022, the total industrial added value exceeded 40 trillion yuan for the first time; Among them, the added value of manufacturing reached 33.5 trillion yuan, and China continued to maintain its position as the world’s largest manufacturing country.Energy supply has achieved remarkable results.In view of the fluctuation of the international energy market, we will strengthen the domestic coal security and increase oil and gas storage and production, make overall plans to ensure the supply of coal, electricity, oil and gas transportation, effectively cope with the severe challenges such as extreme high temperature and drought in China, and ensure the energy consumption for daily life and production. In 2022, the output of raw coal was 4.56 billion tons, an increase of 10.5% over the previous year; The crude oil output was 204.72 million tons, rising to more than 200 million tons for the first time since 2016; The output of natural gas increased by 6.0%, exceeding 10 billion cubic meters for six consecutive years.Infrastructure construction has been strengthened.By the end of 2022, China’s railway operating mileage reached 155,000 kilometers; Among them, the high-speed rail is 42,000 kilometers, ranking first in the world. Information and communication capabilities have been comprehensively improved. By the end of 2022, the total number of mobile phone base stations reached 10.83 million, including 2.31 million 5G base stations, accounting for over 60% of the world’s total, and the world’s largest and technologically advanced network infrastructure was built.
Second, the overall stability of employment prices
In 2022, the situation at home and abroad is complicated and severe. Under the impact of the epidemic, enterprises have difficulties in production and operation, and their ability to absorb employment has decreased, and the employment difficulties of migrant workers have increased. At the same time, the number of college graduates has exceeded 10 million, reaching a record high, and the pressure of total employment and structural contradictions are prominent. The shortage of international commodity supply has brought about an increase in imported inflationary pressure, and the challenge of stabilizing employment and prices has increased. All localities and departments have put stable employment and stable prices in a more prominent position, made every effort to help enterprises tide over difficulties, stabilize posts and expand posts, strengthened entrepreneurship to promote employment, increased employment assistance for key groups, provided employment services and comprehensive protection, increased the production of key livelihood commodities and the docking of supply and marketing, strengthened the implementation of market price control mechanism, and made every effort to promote stable supply and prices, thus ensuring the overall stability of employment and price situation.The employment base is generally stable.In 2022, 12.06 million new jobs were created in cities and towns nationwide, exceeding the annual target of 11 million. The unemployment rate in urban surveys has generally declined. Affected by the epidemic situation and other factors, the national urban survey unemployment rate rose to 6.1% in April 2022. With the gradual implementation of measures to stabilize employment, the employment situation generally improved, and the national urban survey unemployment rate decreased to 5.5% at the end of the year. The employment of key groups such as migrant workers has been effectively guaranteed. In 2022, the total number of migrant workers was 295.62 million, an increase of 1.1% over the previous year.Consumer prices rose moderately.While effectively implementing a prudent monetary policy and insisting on not engaging in "flood irrigation" to lay a solid foundation for the stable operation of prices, we will continue to do a good job in stabilizing production and ensuring supply, and adjust reserves in a timely manner to promote the convergence of production, transportation and marketing, thus ensuring the overall stability of market prices. In 2022, the monthly increase of China’s consumer price index (CPI) was always less than 3%, but only increased by 2.0% for the whole year, which was significantly lower than that of developed economies such as the United States (8.0%), the euro zone (8.4%) and the United Kingdom (9.1%), and also significantly lower than that of emerging economies such as India, Brazil and South Africa (6%— With a 10% increase, "China’s price is stable" is in sharp contrast with "global inflation".
Third, new kinetic energy continues to grow.
In 2022, the competition in the international market will become more intense, and the external pressure on our science and technology field will continue, and the risk of chain breakage and decoupling will increase. China has firmly implemented the strategy of innovation-driven development, solidly promoted innovation and entrepreneurship, deepened the reform of scientific and technological system and mechanism, increased the innovation incentives of enterprises, vigorously stimulated the vitality of innovation, and strengthened key core technology research. The national strategic scientific and technological strength has continued to increase, major scientific and technological achievements have emerged, and new development momentum has continued to grow.Innovation input and output continued to increase.In 2022, the total social research and experimental development funds (R&D) reached 3.1 trillion yuan, exceeding 3 trillion yuan for the first time, increasing by 10.4% over the previous year, and maintaining double-digit growth for seven consecutive years; The ratio of R&D expenditure to GDP was 2.55%, up by 0.12 percentage points. By the end of 2022, the effective number of invention patents in China reached 4.212 million, ranking first in the world. The dominant position of enterprise innovation has been strengthened, and the transformation of innovation achievements has been accelerated. In 2022, the industrialization rate of invention patents of Chinese enterprises was 48.1%, 1.3 percentage points higher than the previous year.The national strategic scientific and technological strength has been accelerated.The construction of the national laboratory system has been solidly promoted, and the construction of international science and technology innovation centers, comprehensive national science centers, national manufacturing innovation centers and regional science and technology innovation centers has been accelerated. Major scientific and technological achievements have come out one after another, which has effectively promoted the development of industrial modernization. In 2022, the "Chang ‘e" lunar exploration, "Tian Wen" fire exploration and Shenzhou series spacecraft took off in relay, the China Space Station was fully built, the first C919 large aircraft was officially delivered, and the third aircraft carrier Fujian ship was launched.New kinetic energy continues to increase.A new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation have accelerated evolution, and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data and blockchain have been widely used, and new industries have grown rapidly. In 2022, the added value of high-tech manufacturing industries above designated size increased by 7.4% over the previous year, and investment in high-tech industries increased by 18.9%; The output of new energy vehicles, solar cells and industrial robots increased by 90.5%, 46.8% and 21.0% respectively. Accelerate the construction of mobile Internet of Things. By the end of 2022, the number of cellular Internet of Things users in China reached 1.845 billion, an increase of 447 million over the end of last year, accounting for 70% of the global total.
Fourth, the green and low-carbon transformation has progressed steadily.
The construction of ecological civilization is a fundamental plan for the sustainable development of the Chinese nation. In 2022, while actively stabilizing the economic operation, the whole country will firmly implement Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets’s development concept, vigorously promote the construction of beautiful China, jointly promote carbon reduction, pollution reduction, greening and growth, continue to deepen the tough battle of pollution prevention, actively and steadily promote carbon neutrality in peak carbon dioxide emissions, accelerate the green transformation of development mode, continuously optimize the ecological environment, and accelerate the formation of green and low-carbon production and lifestyle.Energy conservation, consumption reduction and emission reduction have been steadily advanced.In 2022, the national energy consumption per 10,000 yuan GDP decreased by 0.1% compared with the previous year, and the carbon dioxide emissions per 10,000 yuan GDP decreased by 0.8%. The low-carbon transformation of energy continued to deepen, the production of clean energy increased rapidly, and the proportion of non-fossil energy consumption continued to increase. In 2022, the power generation of clean energy such as hydropower, nuclear power, wind power and solar power generation increased by 8.5% over the previous year; Non-fossil energy consumption accounted for 17.5% of the total energy consumption, an increase of 0.8 percentage points.The effectiveness of pollution control continues to show.In-depth efforts have been made to defend the blue sky, clear water and pure land, and the quality of the ecological environment has been continuously improved. Urban air quality has generally improved. In 2022, the annual average concentration of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in 339 cities at prefecture level and above decreased by 3.3% compared with the previous year. The surface water environment continued to improve. Among the surface water assessment sections in 3641 countries, the proportion of sections with excellent water quality (I-III) was 87.9%, up by 3.0 percentage points.The ecological security barrier continued to be consolidated.Adhere to the systematic management of grass and sand in landscapes, forests, fields and lakes, strengthen the protection and restoration of ecosystems, promote large-scale land greening actions, and improve the natural ecosystem as a whole. In 2022, the afforestation area was 3.83 million hectares, including 1.2 million hectares of artificial afforestation; The improved area of planting grass is 3.21 million hectares, and the new area of soil erosion control is 63,000 square kilometers.
V. High-level opening-up continues to expand.
In 2022, the recovery of the world economy slowed down, the volatility of global financial markets increased, unilateralism and protectionism warmed up, and the uncertainty faced by the development of foreign trade and economic cooperation increased significantly. China insists on coordinating the two overall situations at home and abroad, makes great efforts to build a new development pattern, firmly upholds and practices multilateralism, speeds up the creation of a new open economic system at a higher level, actively promotes institutional opening, continuously improves the level of liberalization and facilitation of trade and investment, makes great efforts to promote the stable scale and excellent structure of foreign trade, makes greater efforts to attract and utilize foreign capital, solidly promotes the high-quality development of the "Belt and Road", continuously expands the space for foreign trade and economic cooperation, and continuously increases foreign trade and foreign capital, demonstrating the economic resilience and strong international competitiveness of big countries.Trade in goods reached a new high.In 2022, the total import and export volume of goods exceeded 40 trillion yuan for the first time, reaching 42.1 trillion yuan, an increase of 7.7% over the previous year, achieving a new breakthrough on a high base. Trade in services has grown steadily. In 2022, the total import and export of services increased by 12.9% over the previous year; Among them, the import and export of knowledge-intensive services increased by 7.8%. The potential of cross-border e-commerce has been accelerated. In 2022, China’s cross-border e-commerce import and export was 2.1 trillion yuan, an increase of 9.8% over the previous year.Use foreign capital to grow against the trend.Market-oriented and legalized international business environment has been accelerated, and China has continued to become a hot spot for global investment. In 2022, the actual use of foreign capital in China increased by 6.3% compared with the previous year according to the comparable diameter, and the scale of attracting foreign investment reached a new high. The use of foreign capital in high-tech industries increased rapidly. In 2022, the actual use of foreign capital in high-tech industries increased by 28.3% over the previous year, accounting for 36.1% of the total use of foreign capital, an increase of 7.1 percentage points over the previous year.The effectiveness of building the "Belt and Road" with high quality has emerged.China’s economic and trade exchanges with countries along the "Belt and Road" have become increasingly close. In 2022, China’s import and export volume to countries along the Belt and Road reached a record high, reaching 13.8 trillion yuan, an increase of 19.4% over the previous year; The non-financial direct investment of Chinese enterprises in countries along the Belt and Road increased by 7.7%. In 2022, the number of trains in China and Europe totaled 16,000, an increase of 9% over the previous year; The trains in the new land and sea passage in the west sent a total of 756,000 TEUs, an increase of 18.5%.New progress has been made in the construction of the free trade zone.High-quality implementation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) to promote regional integration and cooperation. In 2022, China’s import and export volume and non-financial direct investment to RCEP trading partners increased by 7.5% and 18.9% respectively over the previous year, and its direct investment increased by 23.1%. The level of trade liberalization and facilitation continued to improve, and the demonstration and driving role of the open highland in the Pilot Free Trade Zone was highlighted. In 2022, the import and export volume of 21 free trade pilot zones in China increased by 14.5% over the previous year; The import and export volume of goods in Hainan Free Trade Port exceeded 200 billion yuan, an increase of 36.8%.
Sixth, people’s livelihood and well-being continued to improve.
Enhancing people’s livelihood and satisfying people’s yearning for a better life is the fundamental purpose of development. In 2022, the epidemic will have a great impact on residents’ employment, income and life, and the problems of people in education, medical care and other fields will increase, and the pressure on basic people’s livelihood security will increase significantly. All localities and departments have thoroughly implemented the people-centered development thought, focused on people’s concerns, tried every means to increase residents’ income, continuously improved the quality of education, strengthened the medical and health service guarantee, strengthened the function of social security, improved the level of public services, made new progress in the development of people’s livelihood, continuously improved people’s lives, and enhanced people’s sense of acquisition, happiness and security.Residents’ income growth is basically synchronized with economic growth.In 2022, the per capita disposable income of the national residents increased by 2.9% over the previous year, which was basically in step with economic growth. The achievements of poverty alleviation have been consolidated and expanded. In 2022, the per capita disposable income of rural residents in poverty-stricken counties actually increased by 5.4%, faster than the income growth rate of rural residents nationwide.Ensure that the basic bottom line is solid and strong.Social insurance coverage continued to expand. By the end of 2022, the number of people participating in basic pension, unemployment and work-related injury insurance in China increased by 24.3 million, 8.49 million and 8.25 million respectively. The work of expanding the minimum living allowance and increasing efficiency was solidly promoted, and social assistance was intensified. By the end of 2022, there were 6.83 million people in urban and 33.49 million people in rural areas, and 10.83 million people received temporary assistance in the whole year. The per capita income of social assistance and subsidies in China increased by 3.8% over the previous year.Social undertakings have made all-round progress.The popularity of education has steadily increased. In 2022, the consolidation rate of nine-year compulsory education and the gross enrollment rate of high school will increase to 95.5% and 91.6% respectively. The medical and health forces continued to strengthen. By the end of 2022, there were 1.033 million medical and health institutions and 11.55 million health technicians in China. The construction of public cultural service system has been solidly promoted. By the end of 2022, there were 3,503 cultural centers and 3,303 public libraries in China. The comprehensive population coverage rate of TV programs is 99.8%.
Through the wind and frost, the ambition is stronger and the new journey of forging ahead is much more magnificent. In 2022, China’s economic and social development withstood the pressure, went through an extraordinary course, and its economic strength, comprehensive national strength and people’s living standards continued to improve, writing a new chapter in Chinese modernization. These achievements are the result of the scientific guidance of the Supreme Leader Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era, the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, and the United struggle of the whole party and people of all ethnic groups throughout the country. Practice has once again proved that as long as the Party and the people stand together, want to be together and work together, no difficulty can stop the sonorous pace of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Walking in the surging spring tide, although the external environment is becoming more complicated, severe and uncertain, the triple pressures of shrinking domestic demand, supply shock and expected weakening are still relatively large, and the foundation for recovery is still not solid, but the characteristics of China’s economy with strong resilience, great potential and full vitality have not changed, the fundamentals for long-term improvement have not changed, and the factors supporting high-quality development have not changed. We have the foundation, confidence and ability to resist various risk challenges and strive for the realization of the second century. Let us unite more closely around the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, adhere to the guidance of the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era, comprehensively implement the spirit of the 20th Party Congress and the arrangements of the Central Economic Work Conference, implement the new development concept, build a new development pattern, promote high-quality development, and strive for new glories without thinking in vain.Make a good start for building a socialist modern country in an all-round way.
