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[Xi Jinping Delivers Important Speech at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection] Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, delivered an important speech at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection on the morning of December 12. Xi Jinping emphasized that the "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a crucial period for laying a solid foundation and making comprehensive efforts to basically realize socialist modernization. Party organizations at all levels and the vast number of Party members and cadres must enhance their sense of political responsibility and historical mission, and take concrete actions to implement the decisions and deployments of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee. He stressed the need to closely focus on implementing the new development philosophy, promoting high-quality development, and accelerating the construction of a new development pattern. This includes focusing on tasks such as building a modern industrial system, developing new productive forces according to local conditions, building a unified national market, expanding high-level opening-up, solidly promoting common prosperity for all the people, preventing the return to poverty on a normalized basis, resolving local government hidden debt, strengthening ecological and environmental protection, and coordinating development and security. He called for strengthened, specific, precise, and normalized supervision and inspection, making good use of the results of inspections, strengthening supervision of rectification, and ensuring that the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee are implemented effectively.