The third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China further emphasized the importance of national security by specifying arrangements for modernizing China's national security system and capacity. It stressed the need to “ensure that high-quality development and greater security reinforce each other,” fully demonstrating China's commitment to and reflecting the natural requirement of balancing development and security on the new journey. To achieve this, China should coordinate the following four aspects. First, domestic and international imperatives. China should steadily advance its national rejuvenation based on an accurate understanding of the once-in-a-century changes taking place in the world, leading global trends with its governance. Second, China's new development pattern and new security architecture. China should accelerate the creation of a new security architecture that aligns with and safeguards its new development pattern. Third, new quality productive forces and new quality national security capabilities. To achieve high-quality development and high-level security, China must ensure that its new quality productive forces and new quality national security capabilities effectively integrate with and boost each other. Fourth, Chinese modernization and the path of national security with Chinese characteristics. China should accurately grasp the defining features of its modernization and the path of national security with Chinese characteristics, safeguarding Chinese modernization by modernizing its national security system and capacity.