An article by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on accelerating the creation of a new development pattern was published on April 16, 2023.

The article by Xi, also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, was published in this year's eighth issue of the Qiushi Journal, a flagship magazine of the CPC Central Committee.

China is working to achieve modernization for more than 1.4 billion people, more than the combined population of all developed countries today. It is a task of unparalleled difficulty and complexity, so China must maintain a firm grasp on its development, stressed the article.