On The Economic Reform Of The Fourth Division Of Xinjiang Production And Construction Corps Since The Third Plenary Session Of The Eleventh Central Committee

In 1954,the Central Government decided to establish the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps(hereinafter referred to as "the Corps").The Corps has been in existence for nearly 70 years and has become an important force in the stabilisation of Xinjiang.Since1978,when China began its reform and opening-up policy,the successive leaderships of the Fourth Division of the Corps have conscientiously implemented the Party’s basic line,adhered to the correct leadership of the Party and,under the unified leadership of the Corps,implemented strong measures throughout the Division to deepen reforms and strive to achieve the goal of strengthening the Division and enriching the people.Since the restoration of the establishment,the Fourth Division of the Corps has vigorously implemented the reform of "one body,two wings" in agriculture,with the establishment of workers’ family farms as the main body and the development of family farms and courtyard economy as the two wings;in industry,the responsibility system of factory directors has been gradually implemented in enterprises,further converting the operation mechanism of state-owned enterprises and establishing a modern enterprise system and a scientific and standardized In industry,the system of responsibility for factory directors is gradually being implemented in enterprises to further transform the business mechanism of state-owned enterprises and establish a modern enterprise system and a scientific and standardised corporate governance structure.Entering the new century,the reform has become more in-depth.The Fourth Division of the Corps seized the historical opportunity period of the western development to speed up the reform of the animal husbandry industry,further develop the combination of the courtyard economy of workers and farming,and encourage workers to divest themselves from the land and engage in specialized farming.And actively support farmers to establish shareholding breeding cooperatives,to promote large-scale,intensive,scientific breeding;state-owned enterprise reform around the construction of a new type of industrialization,optimization and restructuring of state-owned assets,bigger and stronger advantageous enterprises,adjust and optimize the economic structure.According to the actual Corps to speed up the construction of new types of regiments in the cantonment and garrisoning of the border,strengthen the construction of infrastructure,promote the process of urbanization,and initially form a basic town development structure with complementary functions with the local cities and towns where they are located;relying on the geographical advantages,efforts to expand foreign trade channels,optimize the import and export structure,actively explore the international market,adhere to the path of quality for market,and promote the development of high-quality foreign trade.The Party Central Committee,with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core,has taken stock of the situation and made the decision to "comprehensively deepen the reform of the Corps" in order to solve the problems of the Corps’ institutional mechanism.The Fourth Division of the Corps,in accordance with the unified deployment of the Corps,has taken the integrated and complementary reform of the corps as a breakthrough point under the premise of systemic and coordination,and implemented a new mechanism of "separation of three rights" for land in response to the problems of "five unified" agricultural production and the poor connection between farming and herding workers and land on the production line."At the same time,the regiment has issued certificates for state-owned agricultural land,providing a legal basis for workers to obtain the right to contracted land,further clarifying the ownership of contracted land management rights;coordinating the reform of state-owned capital and state-owned enterprises,focusing on solving old problems such as the lack of separation between government and enterprises in state-owned enterprises in the regiment,innovating the institutional mechanism for the management of state-owned assets,and further clarifying the status of state-owned enterprises as "enterprises "The reform of the financial management system has been strengthened;the concept of modern finance has been enhanced,the financial relationship between the division and the corps has been rationalized,the Finance Bureau and the General Administration of Taxation have been established,the budget management has been strictly regulated and the financial guarantee capacity has been improved.Steadily pushing forward various reforms,the first results were seen.The Fourth Division took the opportunity of deepening reforms to further promote the high-quality development of the divisional economy.Under the leadership of the Party,the Fourth Division of the Corps has steadfastly followed the path of socialist market economy over decades of economic reform.It has firmly established the idea of "the soldiers and the land are one piece of chess,the soldiers and the land are one family",and actively seeks to integrate the soldiers and the land;it has always insisted on constantly improving the capacity of cantonment and garrisoning the borders,and has gradually changed to "building the city and garrisoning the borders" in the new era,so that the cause of garrisoning the borders can become an important support for maintaining the stability of the motherland’s borders.We attach importance to ethnic unity,maintain ethnic stability and promote the development of ethnic economies.