Source: Qiushi, Issue 8, 2026 | Author: Chen Yixin 陈一新 (Author is Secretary of the Party Committee and Minister of the Ministry of State Security)

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Translated by Claude, via Sinocism.com

Coordinating development and security, strengthening the sense of hardship, and maintaining a mindset of vigilance in times of stability — these are a major principle of our Party's governance. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Party Central Committee designated "upholding the coordination of development and security" as one of the principles that must be followed for economic and social development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, and made major deployments for "advancing the modernization of the national security system and capabilities and building a higher-level Safe China." The 15th Five-Year Plan period is a critical period for consolidating the foundation and exerting full effort to basically achieve socialist modernization; unpredictable and uncertain risk factors have noticeably increased, and the task of coordinating development and security is more arduous. We must uphold the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, deeply implement the Holistic Approach to National Security, provide a good answer to the major historical question of coordinating development and security, use high-level security to escort high-quality development, and lay a solid national security foundation for opening up a new situation in Chinese modernization.

统筹发展和安全，增强忧患意识，做到居安思危，是我们党治国理政的一个重大原则。党的二十届四中全会把"坚持统筹发展和安全"作为"十五五"时期经济社会发展必须遵循的原则之一，对"推进国家安全体系和能力现代化，建设更高水平平安中国"作出重大部署。"十五五"时期是基本实现社会主义现代化夯实基础、全面发力的关键时期，各种不确定难预料的风险因素明显增多，统筹发展和安全任务更加艰巨。我们要坚持以习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想为指导，深入贯彻总体国家安全观，解答好统筹发展和安全这一重大历史课题，以高水平安全护航高质量发展，为开创中国式现代化建设新局面夯实国家安全保障。

1 一

Whether one can properly coordinate development and security is related to the rise and fall of the nation and the direction of history. Security without development as its foundation is bound to be unsustainable over time; development without security as its guarantee is bound to be unsustainable.

能否统筹好发展和安全，关系国家兴衰、历史走向。没有发展作为支撑的安全，必然难以长久；没有安全作为保障的发展，必然不可持续。

Since the 18th Party Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping has put forward a series of new ideas, perspectives, and conclusions on coordinating development and security, profoundly elucidating the dialectical relationship between development and security — emphasizing that the two are the two wings of a single body and the dual wheels of a single drive; that security is the precondition for development and development is the guarantee of security; that development is an absolute imperative and security is equally an absolute imperative. He has profoundly elucidated the goals and tasks of coordinating development and security, stressing the need to adhere to equal emphasis on development and security, both enhancing national security strength through development and deepening innovation in national security thinking, systems, and means, creating a security environment conducive to economic and social development. He has profoundly elucidated the practical requirements, emphasizing the need to consciously unify development and security in our work — jointly planning them, deploying them as one, and promoting them in tandem — persisting in consolidating security within development and pursuing development within security. The General Secretary's important statements scientifically grasp the new situation facing China's development and security, plan and advance the maintenance of national security together with economic and social development from an overall and strategic height, and embody a profound theoretical logic, historical logic, and practical logic. In implementing the spirit of the General Secretary's important statements, we have both done well in development as the "primary task" and handled well national security as the "number one priority," withstood tests and challenges from politics, economics, ideology, and nature, and successfully written a new chapter in the two great miracles of rapid economic development and long-term social stability.

党的十八大以来，习近平总书记围绕统筹发展和安全提出一系列新思想新观点新论断，深刻阐明发展和安全的辩证关系，强调二者是一体之两翼、驱动之双轮，安全是发展的前提，发展是安全的保障，发展是硬道理、安全也是硬道理；深刻阐明统筹发展和安全的目标任务，强调要坚持发展和安全并重，既通过发展提升国家安全实力，又深入推进国家安全思路、体制、手段创新，营造有利于经济社会发展的安全环境；深刻阐明实践要求，强调要在工作中自觉把发展和安全统一起来，共同谋划、一体部署、相互促进，坚持在发展中固安全、在安全中谋发展。总书记的重要论述，科学把握我国发展和安全面临的新形势，从全局和战略高度把维护国家安全同经济社会发展一起谋划、一起推进，具有深刻的理论逻辑、历史逻辑、现实逻辑。贯彻落实总书记重要论述精神，我们既抓好发展这个"第一要务"，又办好保证国家安全这个"头等大事"，经受住了来自政治、经济、意识形态、自然界等方面的风险挑战考验，成功续写了经济快速发展和社会长期稳定两大奇迹新篇章。

High-quality development is the primary task of comprehensively building a socialist modernized country, and national security is an important foundation for Chinese modernization to proceed steadily over the long term. Building a situation of enduring stability and accomplishing the enterprise of good governance requires strengthening systemic thinking, persistently advancing development without pause while maintaining security without relaxation, and striving to achieve a positive interaction between high-quality development and high-level security. We must strengthen bottom-line thinking, firmly hold the line of security-based development, estimate difficulties more fully, think more deeply about risks, implement measures more comprehensively, and use a spirit of historical initiative to overcome difficulties, withstand risks, and meet challenges, building national development on a more secure and reliable foundation. We must strengthen internal-external coordination — concentrating strength on managing our own affairs, unblocking the domestic circulation to consolidate the foundation of development, building solid internal security defenses to resist the transmission of external risks, expanding international circulation through high-level opening up, and working to build a world of lasting peace, universal security, common prosperity, openness and inclusiveness, and cleanliness and beauty — striving to build a development and security architecture with internal and external linkage. We must strengthen coordinated action — adhering to the approach of a unified national deployment and joint effort at all levels, giving full play to the role of specialized organs, strengthening cross-departmental, cross-regional, and cross-mechanism coordination, improving the national security governance mechanism that mobilizes broad social participation, strengthening national security education among the entire population, and advancing the organic connection and integrated linkage of all forces — laying a solid security foundation and building a solid security barrier for high-quality development.

高质量发展是全面建设社会主义现代化国家的首要任务，国家安全是中国式现代化行稳致远的重要基础。建久安之势、成长治之业，要求强化系统观念，坚持推进发展不停步、维护安全不放松，努力实现高质量发展和高水平安全的良性互动。必须强化底线思维，牢牢守住安全发展这条底线，把困难估计得更充分一些，把风险思考得更深入一些，把举措落实得更周密一些，以历史主动精神克难关、战风险、迎挑战，把国家发展建立在更加安全、更为可靠的基础之上。强化内外统筹，集中力量办好自己的事，畅通国内大循环夯实发展根基，筑牢内部安全防线抵御外部风险传导，以高水平对外开放拓展国际循环，推动建设持久和平、普遍安全、共同繁荣、开放包容、清洁美丽的世界，着力构建内外联动的发展和安全格局。强化协同联动，坚持全国一盘棋、上下齐发力，充分发挥专门机关作用，加强跨部门跨地方跨机制协调，完善动员社会多方参与的国家安全治理机制，加强全民国家安全教育，推动各方力量有机衔接、联动集成，为高质量发展打牢安全根基、筑牢安全屏障。

II 二

In today's world, the great changes unseen in a century are accelerating; great-power competition, geopolitical conflicts, and global challenges are intertwined and mutually reinforcing; and the peace deficit, development deficit, security deficit, and governance deficit are continuously deepening. Faced with external challenges, we must effectively guard against and defuse risks, and carry out in depth struggles against subversion, hegemonism, separatism, terrorism, espionage, and blockades, creating a favorable national security environment for China's development.

当今世界，百年变局加速演进，大国博弈、地缘冲突、全球性挑战交织联动，和平赤字、发展赤字、安全赤字、治理赤字持续加重。面对外部挑战，必须有效防范化解风险，深入开展反颠覆、反霸权、反分裂、反恐怖、反间谍、反封锁斗争，为我国发展营造良好国家安全环境。

At present, great-power relations drive the international situation, and the evolution of the international situation profoundly influences domestic development. Looking at the international balance of forces: with the collective rise of emerging market countries and developing countries, the global political and economic map is changing. Certain countries, driven by hegemonic thinking and strategic anxiety, are reviving imperialist means such as armed invasion, resource plunder, territorial partition, and political manipulation, subjecting other countries to "extreme pressure," "bullying transactions," and "coercive diplomacy." Looking at the international security situation: the world is increasingly turbulent; geopolitical conflicts and local wars erupt in one place after another, seriously undermining global security and stability; and the world faces the danger of regressing to the "law of the jungle." China's national sovereignty and territorial integrity face real threats: certain external forces are hollowing out Taiwan through economic and trade bullying and arming Taiwan with exorbitantly priced arms sales; the Democratic Progressive Party authorities are attempting to "rely on external forces to seek independence," stubbornly clinging to their separatist "Taiwan independence" position and brazenly challenging the One China principle; certain countries are fabricating false narratives and intensifying sanctions against China by exploiting Tibet-related, Xinjiang-related, and Hong Kong-related issues; and overseas separatist forces are operating with increasing frequency. Looking at the global governance landscape: multilateralism, international law, and the authority of the United Nations face challenges; certain countries disregard international rules and the rule of law, pursue "their own country first" and engage in unilateral bullying, casually "withdraw from agreements and exit groups" and "defund and cut off" international organizations, and the international community's multilateral capacity to address global challenges has been weakened. Some countries use and foster terrorism as a major strategy; certain terrorist forces exploit turmoil in unstable regions to grow in the chaos; global terrorist activity has shown an upward trend for five consecutive years; more than 95% of terrorist attacks occur in regions where China's overseas interests are concentrated, threatening China's national security and overseas interests. Looking at global development trends: world economic growth momentum is insufficient; the global development deficit is widening; certain countries have politicized, instrumentalized, weaponized, and securitized economic and trade issues; the world's major powers are engaged in fierce competition over strategic minerals such as rare earths, strategic passages such as straits, and strategic energy resources such as oil; and global energy and resource crises, threats to strategic passages, and financial shock risks are continuously intensifying. In order to seize the development initiative and strategic high ground, foreign intelligence and espionage agencies have made China a primary target; espionage activities against China are characterized by escalating intensity, expanding activity domains, increasing infiltration channels, and constantly evolving theft techniques. Looking at the ideological and cultural domain: competition over national cultural influence is intensifying; international anti-China forces have not for a single moment relaxed their strategy of westernizing and splitting China, with their targets aimed directly at Chinese Communist Party leadership and China's socialist system; and in recent years infiltration and subversion activities have shown new characteristics and changes. Looking at global technological evolution: new technologies such as artificial intelligence are driving the in-depth development of a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation; great-power technological competition has entered the most intense, most demanding, and most critical period of "close-quarters combat." The deep application of intelligence-enabled fusion, decision-making intelligent assistance, target intelligent identification, operational intelligent support, and cognitive intelligent shaping in the U.S.-Israel-Iran conflict has shown the world the enormous influence of artificial intelligence on the future form of warfare and even on human civilization; high-technology domains are increasingly becoming the frontline and main battlefield of international competition.