The Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy

The new version of the Four-pronged Comprehensive Strategy consists of comprehensively building a modern socialist country, comprehensively expanding in-depth reform, comprehensively promoting law-based governance, and comprehensively enforcing strict Party discipline. This is a major part of the strategic thought on governance produced by the CPC Central Committee with Xi Jinping at the core. It is a Marxist point of view based on an integration of Marxism with China's realities.

During an inspection tour in Fujian Province in November 2014, Xi Jinping talked about completing the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects, comprehensively expanding in-depth reform, and comprehensively promoting law-based governance. When he visited Jiangsu Province in December that year, Xi added a fourth requirement: comprehensively enforcing strict Party discipline.

Speaking to officials at the provincial/ministerial level attending a training session at the Party School of the Central Committee in February 2015, he called this a Four-pronged Comprehensive Strategy, a term he used for the first time to summarize the governance framework of the CPC Central Committee following the 18th CPC National Congress.

At its fifth plenary session in October 2020, the 19th CPC Central Committee updated the first prong of this strategy and replaced it with the new goal of comprehensively building a modern socialist country. The session called for a determined effort by the Party and the nation to win the battle against poverty, achieve the first centenary goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, and lay solid foundations for a new journey toward fully building a modern socialist country. From completing the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects through realizing basic modernization, and on to fully building a great modern socialist country – this two-step development plan is based on China's current conditions and follows the trend of its future development. It is a timetable and roadmap for building China into a great modern socialist country.

The four prongs are closely interconnected. The strategic goal of socialist modernization cannot be achieved without the support of the other three strategic prongs. Expanding in-depth reform creates impetus for development and creates vitality for society, law-based governance ensures order in state governance and guarantees stability and harmony in society, and strict Party discipline enables the CPC to better play its core leadership role.

The Four-pronged Comprehensive Strategy is the CPC's general strategy of governance for the new era. It ensures the long-term prospects of the Party and the country, and is an important guarantor of the Two Centenary Goals and the Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation.

“四個全面”戰略布局

“四個全面”戰略布局，即全面建設社會主義現代化國家、全面深化改革、全面依法治國、全面從嚴治黨。“四個全面”戰略布局是以習近平同志為核心的黨中央治國理政戰略思想的重要內容，閃耀著馬克思主義與中國實際相結合的思想光輝，飽含著馬克思主義的立場觀點方法。

2014年11月，習近平在福建調研時，提出了“協調推進全面建成小康社會、全面深化改革、全面推進依法治國進程”的“三個全面”。同年12月，他在江蘇調研時，又提出了“全面從嚴治黨”的要求。2015年2月，習近平在中共中央黨校省部級主要領導干部研討班開班式上，明確“四個全面”是“戰略布局”，并第一次用“戰略布局”來概括中共十八大以來黨中央治國理政的總體框架。2020年10月，中共十九屆五中全會在北京舉行。全會強調，全黨全國各族人民要再接再厲、一鼓作氣，確保如期打贏脫貧攻堅戰，確保如期全面建成小康社會、實現第一個百年奮斗目標，為開啟全面建設社會主義現代化國家新征程奠定堅實基礎。從全面建成小康社會到基本實現現代化，再到全面建成社會主義現代化強國的“兩步走”戰略安排，既立足于當前中國發展的實際，也適應未來中國發展的新趨勢，完整勾畫了中國社會主義現代化強國建設的時間表、路線圖。

“四個全面”新表述之間具有內在有機聯系，三大戰略舉措對實現社會主義現代化戰略目標一個都不能缺。不全面深化改革，發展就缺少動力，社會就沒有活力。不全面依法治國，國家生活和社會生活就不能有序運行，就難以實現社會和諧穩定。不全面從嚴治黨，黨就做不到“打鐵必須自身硬”，也就難以發揮好領導核心作用。

“四個全面”戰略布局，是中國共產黨在新形勢下治國理政的總方略，是事關黨和國家長遠發展的總戰略，為實現“兩個一百年”奮斗目標、實現中華民族偉大復興的中國夢提供了重要保障。