The National Statistical Work Conference and the National Bureau of Statistics Party Building Work Conference were held in Beijing.

　　On January 23-24, the National Statistical Work Conference and the Party Building Work Conference of the National Bureau of Statistics were held in Beijing. Guided by Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era, the meeting thoroughly studied and implemented the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Second Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee, conscientiously implemented the deployment of the Central Economic Work Conference, thoroughly implemented the spirit of the important speech and instructions of the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader on statistical work, conveyed the instructions of the leading comrades of the State Council, summed up the statistical work in 2023 and deployed the key statistical tasks in 2024. Kang Yi, Party Secretary and Director of the National Bureau of Statistics, made a work report. Sheng Laiyun, member of the party group and deputy director of the National Bureau of Statistics, presided over the meeting.

　　The meeting pointed out that 2023 is the first year of fully implementing the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the year of economic recovery and development after the transition of epidemic prevention and control. Over the past year, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, the statistical departments have thoroughly studied, publicized and implemented the spirit of the 20th Party Congress, fully implemented the general requirements for Party building in the new era, adhered to the lifeline of statistical data quality, made great efforts to promote statistical reform and development, and achieved new results and showed a new atmosphere in all work. First, firmly grasp the general requirements of "learning thoughts, strengthening party spirit, emphasizing practice and building new achievements", promote theoretical study, investigation and research, promote development, examine and rectify, establish rules and regulations, and study and implement the theme education of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the new era in the National Bureau of Statistics. Second, thoroughly implement the spirit of the important instructions of the Supreme Leader General Secretary, severely punish statistical fraud, and achieve a staged victory in the special treatment of statistical fraud. The third is to implement the 21 special statistical tasks of the Party’s 20 major strategic arrangements, and the Party’s 20 major decision-making arrangements have achieved results in the statistical departments. The fourth is to do a solid job in key tasks such as census support, unit inventory, and on-site registration, and the fifth national economic census was carried out in an orderly manner. Fifth, focus on high-quality development, deepen the reform of key statistical areas such as carbon emissions statistical accounting, digital economy statistical monitoring, modern industrial system statistics, and common prosperity statistical monitoring, and make more efforts in statistical reform and innovation. Sixth, strengthen the monitoring and analysis of the economic situation, do a good job in interpreting the release of statistical data, and provide high-quality and efficient statistical analysis services. Seventh, the main construction tasks of statistical cloud were successfully completed.Carry out the overall design of smart statistics, deepen the application of big data statistics, and build a strong network and data security defense line. The results of statistical informatization construction are gratifying. Eighth, efforts should be made to strengthen departmental statistical cooperation, promote the improvement of departmental statistical work, and optimize the statistical efficiency of departments. Ninth, strengthen political guidance, firmly practice the first phalanx of "two maintenance", and comprehensively strengthen the party building of the National Bureau of Statistics.

　　The meeting held that Chinese-style modernization is the broad road to building a strong country and national rejuvenation. Statistical departments should take promoting Chinese-style modernization as the biggest politics, firmly grasp the significance, fundamental requirements, major tasks and realization paths of serving Chinese-style modernization with statistical modernization, adhere to the Party’s overall leadership over statistical work, unswervingly improve the quality of statistical data, accelerate statistical modernization, better serve high-quality development, serve the common prosperity of all people, serve the coordinated development of material civilization and spiritual civilization, serve the construction of beautiful China, and serve the diplomacy of a big country with China characteristics, so as to provide reliable statistical guarantee for Chinese-style modernization.

　　The meeting emphasized that 2024 is the 75th anniversary of the founding of People’s Republic of China (PRC) and a crucial year for the implementation of the 14th Five-Year Plan. The statistical department should take the supreme leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era as the guidance, take high-quality development as the last word in the new era, and do all the key tasks well. First, continue to thoroughly implement the spirit of the important instructions of the Supreme Leader General Secretary on preventing and controlling statistical fraud. Regard the truthfulness and accuracy of statistical data as the most important achievement of the statistical department, consolidate and expand the effectiveness of the special action against statistical fraud, solidly carry out statistical supervision, accelerate the construction of rigid system, and promote the coordination between statistical supervision and other types of supervision. The second is to organize and implement the fifth national economic census. Go all out to complete on-site registration, carry out in-depth census propaganda, strengthen the whole process management of census data quality, and do a good job in census data release and data development and utilization. The third is to continuously deepen the reform of key areas of statistics. Accelerate the Chinese-style modern statistical monitoring, do a solid job in carbon emissions statistical accounting, deepen the reform of statistical accounting in building a unified national market, improve statistics in the field of scientific and technological innovation, carry out statistical accounting in the digital economy, promote statistical monitoring of common prosperity, and continuously improve social and people’s livelihood statistics. The fourth is to strengthen the judgment and monitoring analysis of the economic situation. Focusing on consolidating and strengthening the positive trend of economic recovery, we will strengthen the tracking and monitoring of economic operation, predict and predict early warning, and provide strong information support for continuously promoting the effective improvement of quality and reasonable growth of quantity. The fifth is to focus on strengthening economic propaganda and public opinion guidance. Strictly implement the responsibility system for ideological work,Earnestly grasp the interpretation of data release, boost development confidence and improve social expectations. The sixth is to accelerate the construction of smart statistics. Strengthen the application of statistical cloud engineering results, continue to promote the work of enterprise electronic statistical ledgers, and further improve the statistical network and data security. Seventh, persistently improve the standardization level of statistical work. Further strengthen departmental statistical work, focus on filling the shortcomings of grassroots statistical work, and optimize the division of responsibilities between the national investigation team and the local statistical bureau.

　　The meeting demanded that the National Bureau of Statistics should conscientiously implement the important thought of the Supreme Leader General Secretary on Party building, profoundly understand the decisive significance of "two establishment", strengthen "four consciousnesses", strengthen "four self-confidences" and achieve "two maintenance". We should persist in using the Party’s innovative theory to build a team of statistical cadres armed with the supreme leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era. Persevere in implementing the party’s organizational line in the new era and vigorously select loyal, clean and responsible statistical cadres. We will continue to deepen the building of a clean and honest party style and push forward anti-corruption work all the time. We will consistently pay close attention to the implementation of the work and ensure that all objectives and tasks are completed on time and with good quality. Strictly implement the responsibility for production safety and keep the safety bottom line.

　　At the meeting, responsible comrades of relevant departments, local statistical bureaus, investigation corps of the National Bureau of Statistics, and bureau-level units made speeches on exchange of experience. All units of the bureau and the main responsible comrades of provincial statistical bureaus and investigation corps signed the responsibility letter for network security and data security in 2024.

　　Lin Tao, Mao Shengyong, Ruan Jianhong, deputy directors of the National Bureau of Statistics, Xia Yuchun, chief engineer, and Liu Aihua, chief economist attended the meeting. The meeting was attended by the leading comrades of the statistical bureaus of all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, the investigation corps of the National Bureau of Statistics, the leading comrades of relevant departments and some trade associations in the State Council, and the leading comrades of administrative units at all levels of the National Bureau of Statistics and enterprises and institutions directly under Beijing. The meeting invited the organs of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Central Organization Department, the Central Editorial Office, the Working Committees of the Central and State Organs, the Ministry of Finance, the Audit Office, the Strategic Planning Office of the Central Military Commission, the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Team of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in the National Development and Reform Commission, and responsible comrades of relevant universities. Some former bureau leaders of the National Bureau of Statistics attended the meeting as nonvoting delegates. (Zheng Yan)