改革开放十几年来，党中央、国务院为了深化国有企业改革，搞活国有经济，促进两个转变，建立和完善社会主义市场经济体制，相继制定了一系列重大政策和具体措施。1995年中共十四届五中全会着眼于搞好整个国有经济，按照对国有企业改革实行分类指导的原则，提出了“抓大放小” In the past decade and more since reform and opening up, the Central Party Committee and the State Council have intensified the reform of state-owned enterprises, invigorated the state-owned economy, promoted two changes, established and improved a socialist market economic system, and successively formulated a series of major policies and specific measures. The Fifth Plenary Session of the 14th CPC Central Committee in 1995 focused on doing a good job of the entire state-owned economy. In accordance with the principle of classifying and guiding state-owned enterprise reforms, it put forward the principle of “grasping the big and letting go”.