"Top-level design" is of great significance to guiding economic development and reform. Over the past 30 years of reform and opening-up, China's share in the world economy has increased from 1.8% in 1978 to about 8.5%-8.6% in 2009, and it surpassed Japan to become the second largest economy in the world in 20 10. With the increasing scale of economy, the factors affecting China's economic development are becoming more and more complicated, and there are more and more deep-seated contradictions. There must be a "top-level design" for how to avoid "treating the headache and treating the foot pain", resolve the accumulated disadvantages from the source and make a breakthrough in key areas.

First of all, all-round reform needs "top-level design"

Social construction is not only the social welfare system and social security system, but also the construction of social management system, social organization, social structure and social interest coordination mechanism. It should be said that China's social construction has obviously lagged behind economic construction for a long time, and the reform of cultural system and democratic system has also appeared short-board effect, which is not conducive to the deepening of economic reform. Therefore, multi-field reforms must go hand in hand through "top-level design".

"Top-level design" is different from the bottom-up "crossing the river by feeling the stones" in the early days of reform and opening up, but a top-down "system planning". At the beginning of reform and opening up, China's economic construction was the first effort, but its social construction was relatively backward, which became the bottleneck of economic attack.

Secondly, the rise of a powerful country needs "top-level design"

China is an economic power, but not a financial power. For an industrial country like China, linking the local currency with an increasingly unstable credit currency to achieve long-term economic and financial stability will not only make its monetary policy lose its due independence, but also easily lead to external pressure. A series of inevitable problems are caused by the unbalanced development of industry, finance and economy in China. The global pattern of "East Rising and West Falling, South Hot and North Cold" is doomed: China will face the risk of asset expansion and RMB appreciation too fast for a long time. Therefore, China should focus on solving the internal and external economic imbalance, implement the long-term strategy of "combining industry with finance" in monetary policy, exchange rate system, "fund pool" policy, foreign exchange reserve risk management countermeasures, and actively promote the reform of the international monetary system and the internationalization of RMB, and make overall planning.

Finally, the government should be the "chief designer"

Of course, the "top-level design" has a deeper meaning, that is, the government should be a "helmsman" and a "chief designer" of the future China economy. "Top-level design" will more accurately locate the government and the market. The government can't replace the market, nor can the market replace the government. To avoid market failure and government failure, we should not only break monopoly resources to reduce market distortion and externalities, but also reduce the blindness of government behavior and reduce the risks and costs of reform.