在纪念改革开放40周年之际，中国（海南）改革发展研究院与五洲传播出版社联手再次推出重磅作品《中国改革开放全纪录：1978—2018》（中、英文版）。本书采取图文编年史的形式，以中国改革开放所走过的宏伟而又艰辛的历程为主要线索，客观记录改革开放以来中国经济社会所发生的重大事件，直观地呈现40年来中国社会各个领域所发生的巨大变化。

1978
National Science Conference held
Discussion on distribution according to work
Great discussion on the issue of the criteria of truth
Resumption of the college entrance examination
Farmers in Xiaogang Village fixed responsibilities for each household
Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held
Working Conference of the CentralCommittee of CPC
China and the United States announced the establishment of diplomatic relations
1979
Deng Xiaoping’s Visit to the United States
Resumption of domestic insurance business
Putting forward the policy of “adjustment, reform, reorganization and improvement”
Establishing special economic zones
Making great efforts to support township and village enterprises
Pilot on “expanding the autonomy of enterprises”
1980
Redressing cases involving unjust
Xiangyang people’s commune in Guanghan County, Sichuan Province revoked
On the Reform of the System of Party and State Leadership by Deng Xiaoping
The beginning of fiscal system reform
…
2016
Sixth Plenum of the 18th CPC Central Committee: ensuring full and strict governance
over the Party
Deepening the reform of investment and financing systems
Comprehensively advancing the reform of replacing business tax with
value-added tax and resource tax reform
Issuance of the National Innovation-driven Development Strategy Program
Pilot on reform of national supervision system
Yangtze River Economic Belt development and a new round of revitalization of the northeast
Establishing a unified basic medical insurance system for urban and rural residents
Establishing a global-oriented high standard network of free trade zones
2017
19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China held
Xiong’an New Area established
General Provisions of the Civil Law adopted upon deliberation
14th No. 1 document of the CPC Central Committee issued
Plan for Advancing the Equalization of Basic Public Services in “13th Five-Year Plan”
Period promulgated
Pilot free trade zones formed the new pattern of “1+3+7”
Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation
New situation of the reform of introducing mixed ownership gradually shaped
The first midand long-term plan for market regulation in China was issued
2018
Third Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party
of China opened – deepening reform of Party and state institutions
Central Committee for Deepening Overall Reform established
Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2018 held
13th NPC adopted the new constitutional amendment and supervision law
Grant more powers to pilot free trade zones to conduct reform, explore
the opening of free trade ports
Unwaveringly support the development of the private sector of economy
The First China International Import Expo Held

Foreword
President Xi Jinping pointed out in his
keynote speech at Boao Forum for Asia 2018
annual conference: “in 1978, advocated by Mr.
Deng Xiaoping, China started its historical
journey of reform and opening up, with the
Third Plenum of the 11th CPC Central Committee
as the symbol. From countryside to cities,
from pilots to wide application, and from
economic system reform to deepening reform in
an all-round way, with 40 years of united
efforts and 40 years of hard work, the Chinese
people have written a magnificent epic of
national development with their hands.” In
the 40 years of reform and opening up, China
has achieved important historical leaps in the
process of economic modernization: thehistoric
leap from the initial period of
industrialization to the late period of
industrialization, the historic transition
from a closed and semi-closed status to all-
round opening; and the historic rising from a
society of shortage economy to the new era of
consumption. In the past 40 years, an
important reason for the historic achievements
in China's economic and social development is
the continuous development and improvement of
the socialist market economic system, with the
main line as properly handling the
relationship between the government and the
market. In keeping with the trend of
development of the times, we explored a
successful path to building socialism with
Chinese characteristics and established a
socialist market economic system full of
vitality. The reform and opening up, as the
second revolution in China, has not only
profoundly changed China, but also deeply
influenced the world.
From the 18th to the 19th National
Congress of the CPC, under the leadership of
the Party Central Committee with Xi Jinping as
its core, we pushed forward reform and opening
up in an all-round way. Xi Jinping pointed out
in his speech at the conference in
commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the
establishment of Hainan Province as a special
economic zone that, “at present, reform has
come to a new pass in history, and the
complexity, sensitivity and arduousness to
push forward reform is no less than that 40
years ago. There is no way out to follow the
beaten track, and hanging back will only let
slip golden opportunities. Reform and opening
up is a process of emancipating the mind. No
big breakthrough can be made in reform without
emancipation of the mind.” In this great
background, our purpose of celebrating the
40th
anniversary of reform and opening up is to
carry on the reform through to the end.
In 2012, China Institute for Reform and
Development and China Intercontinental Press
cooperated to publish Panorama Of Reform And
Opening-up In China:1978—2012, and issued it
worldwide in English version, receiving
extensive good appraisal from readers both at
home and overseas. At the 40th anniversary of
reform and opening up,
we present to you the new achievements in
the reform and opening up and the new look of
the economic and social development of China
since the 18th National Congress of the CPC,
to put together again the vivid records of the
40 years of reform and opening up in China, as
a gift to the 40th anniversary of reform and
opening up.
This book, in the form of chronicle, takes
the grand and arduous process of reform and
opening up in China as the main line,
objectively records the major events in the
economy and society of China during the period
of reform and opening up, and intuitively
presents the tremendous changes in all areas
of the Chinese society over the past 40 years,
to enable readers to get a fairly objective
and complete picture of reform and opening up
process in China by reading this book.
The compilation of this book was organized
by the team of China Institute for Reform and
Development, with Chi Fulin as the editor-in-
chief, Zhang J

改革开放，当代中国最鲜明的特色，决定当代中国命运的关键抉择。40年风雨同舟，40年披荆斩棘，40年砥砺奋进，中国人民用双手书写了国家和民族发展的壮丽史诗。在这个回顾改革开放40年光辉历程、从站上新起点到进入新时代的历史性时刻，在这幅波澜壮阔、气势恢宏的历史画卷中，有许多精彩片段值得铭记。本书由中国（海南）改革发展研究院团队编撰，迟福林教授主编，集结中国改革开放40年的生动纪录，使广大读者能够通过本书对中国改革开放历程有比较客观完整的了解。