On November 2, 2021, Consul General tan Banglin in Jeddah published a signed article entitled "China's All-round Well-off" in the Mainstream Saudi media "Okaz Newspaper". The full text is as follows:
Recently, the Information Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China issued a white paper entitled "China's All-round Well-off", which records the great course of China's comprehensive construction of a moderately prosperous society, introduces China's exploration and practice of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, and shares the experience of Chinese-style modernization. In order to help readers better understand China's all-round well-off, the author would like to interpret and share with you the main contents of the White Paper.
First, moderate prosperity is the millennium dream and long-cherished wish of the Chinese nation
For thousands of years, Chinese people have dreamed of achieving a well-off society. After modern times, China has gradually become a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, with the country humiliated, the people suffering, and civilization dusting, and the Chinese nation suffering unprecedented disasters.
100 years ago, the Communist Party of China was born, taking the rejuvenation of the nation and the happiness of the people as its original intention and mission, leading the Chinese people to achieve the most extensive and profound social changes in the history of the Chinese nation after a hundred years of unremitting struggle, turning a poor and white eastern country into a moderately prosperous society, and the millennium dream came true.
Second, the all-round well-off is a well-off society with all-round development
Economic strength, scientific and technological strength and comprehensive national strength have been significantly enhanced. For 11 consecutive years, China has ranked as the world's second largest economy, the largest manufacturing country, the largest country in goods trade, the second largest country in service trade, the second largest country in commodity consumption, and the largest country in foreign exchange reserves. In 2020, the per capita GDP will exceed $10,000, and the middle-income group will exceed 400 million and continue to expand.
China has joined the ranks of innovative countries and is moving from a scientific and technological power to a scientific and technological power. China ranks 12th in the Global Innovation Index. A series of major original achievements have been made in the frontier directions of quantum information, iron-based superconductivity, neutrinos, stem cells, brain science, etc., and a large number of strategic high-tech fields such as manned spaceflight and lunar exploration, Beidou navigation, manned deep diving, high-speed railways, 5G mobile communications, and supercomputing have made major breakthroughs.
China has built the world's most complete industrial system, the modern infrastructure network continues to improve, the total mileage of high-speed railways is 38,000 kilometers, the world's first; the total length of highways is 161,000 kilometers, the world's first; the total mileage of urban rail transit is the world's first, and the number of deep-water berths in ports is the first in the world. Among the top 10 ports in the world in terms of cargo throughput, Chinese ports account for 8; among the top 10 ports in the world in terms of container throughput, Chinese ports account for 7. The total turnover of civil aviation transport has ranked second in the world for many years. The Rapid popularization of the Internet, the number of 5G terminal connections reached 365 million, and the number of Internet users exceeded 1 billion.
People's democracy has been continuously expanded and whole-process democracy has been practiced. People enjoy broad democratic rights. The people practice democratic elections, democratic consultation, democratic decision-making, democratic management, and democratic supervision in accordance with law. Chinese-style democracy allows the people's expectations, hopes, and demands to have a place to say, someone to listen to, and someone to listen to and feedback to truly solve the problems that the people want to solve. The basic strategy of governing the country according to law has been fully implemented, and social fairness and justice have been continuously highlighted.
Culture is more prosperous, and the soft power of culture is constantly improving. The spiritual life of the Chinese people has become richer, their spiritual outlook has undergone profound changes, and their spiritual strength has been significantly enhanced. Socialism with Chinese characteristics and the Chinese dream have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the self-confidence of all people in the road, theory, system and culture has been significantly enhanced. Stressing benevolence, valuing the people, keeping good faith, advocating justice, upholding harmony, seeking great unity, filial piety and love for the elderly, unremitting self-improvement, dedication to work and music, upholding righteousness and promoting goodness, helping the needy, seeing righteousness and courage, and so on, the ideological concepts, humanistic spirit, and moral norms in china's outstanding traditional cultures, such as collective consciousness, unity spirit, quality of struggle, and feelings of home and country, have been carried forward and expanded, condensing the spiritual strength of the Chinese people. Film and television publishing is booming, and high-quality cultural products and cultural activities can better meet people's personalized, diversified, and international cultural needs. Cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries are expanding day by day, Chinese excellent traditional culture such as traditional Chinese medicine, martial arts, Peking Opera, and tea ceremony has gone global, Chinese films have gone abroad, gastronomic beauty has been warmly welcomed, and film and television variety shows, online literature, and popular music have been widely popular. The 56 World Heritage Sites show the world the full authenticity of ancient and modern China. The appeal of Chinese culture in the international affinity has been continuously improved. The national fitness fever is quietly rising, and China is moving from a sports power to a sports power.
The people's livelihood and well-being have been significantly improved, and social security has been continuously improved. The per capita annual disposable income of residents increased from about $27 in 1978 to about $5,033 in 2020. The Engel coefficients of urban and rural residents decreased from 57.5% and 67.7% in 1978 to 29.2% and 32.7% in 2020, respectively, and the quality of life continued to improve. People's consumption structure has gradually transitioned from survival type to development type and enjoyment type. All preschool children are better raised, all school-age children and adolescents receive better and fairer education, workers can achieve employment and receive reasonable remuneration, the people enjoy a full range of full-cycle health services, the establishment of a pension service system has been accelerated, the housing conditions of lower-middle-income families have been effectively improved, and the vulnerable and difficult groups in society have been effectively helped. China's effective control of the covid-19 epidemic has demonstrated the superiority of the medical and health system and the effective maintenance of people's lives and health. China has maintained social harmony and stability for a long time and has become one of the most secure countries recognized by the international community.
The ecological environment continues to improve. The implementation of the "strictest environmental protection law in history" has achieved remarkable results in pollution control. The concept of "green water and green mountains is golden mountains and silver mountains" has become increasingly popular, and ecological priority and green and low carbon have gradually become the development path followed by the general. By the end of 2020, the national forest coverage rate will reach 23.04%, the comprehensive vegetation coverage of grassland will reach 56.1%, and the wetland protection rate will reach more than 50%. In 2020, the satisfaction of the Chinese people with the quality of the ecological environment reached 89.5%. China has become the world's largest country in the use of new energy and the world's fastest progress in energy conservation, with energy consumption per unit of GDP and carbon emissions falling by 13.2% and 18.8% respectively compared with 2015 in 2020.
Third, the all-round well-off is a well-off shared by all the people
Achieving common prosperity is the essential requirement of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Leave no one behind, let an area fall behind, let a nation lag behind.
Chinese, poor foundation, weak foundation, large differences in natural resource endowments in various regions, unbalanced development, and long-term plagued by poverty. Lifting the poor out of poverty, especially in areas with difficult conditions, and ethnic minorities, is the most arduous task. The party has taken the alleviation of the rural poor population and the poverty alleviation of the ethnic minority population as the task of tackling tough problems, implemented the strategy of precise poverty alleviation, and after years of continuous and arduous struggle, completed the arduous task of eliminating absolute poverty by the end of 2020, and the people of all regions and ethnic groups across the country have jointly entered the well-off. The urbanization rate has reached 63.9%, and the coordinated development of the region has been steadily advancing.
Fourth, the all-round well-off is the result of the hard work and hard work of the Chinese people by relying on their own hard work and wisdom. China is willing to share its successful experience with all countries in the world.
The Communist Party of China comes from the people, is rooted in the people, is a political party that struggles for the people, has always regarded the fundamental interests of the broadest masses of the people as the highest criterion for making policy decisions and formulating policies, and in different historical periods, it has always proceeded from the interests of the people, thought of what the people think, was anxious about the people's anxieties, and relieved the people's difficulties. Unite all forces that can be united, mobilize all positive factors that can be mobilized, and gather the forces of all parties for building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way. In order to achieve the goal of moderate prosperity, the party scientifically formulates strategic planning and top-level design, adopts a gradual strategy, puts forward goals and tasks that can be achieved within a period of time, and formulates and implements the national economic and social development plan in a five-year cycle, so that the construction of a well-off society can be continuously advanced in stages, stability, and consistency.
Reform and opening up is the only way to build a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way and is a key move to determine the fate of contemporary China. Reform has injected impetus and released vitality into the all-round well-off. In the face of new situations and new problems that have emerged in the process of development, we should emancipate our minds, seek truth from facts, advance with the times, carry out reform and innovation, and constantly break down the contradictions and shackles that hinder development. In the practice of promoting reform, we have not only boldly tried and boldly broken through, but also sought truth from facts, done good deeds and done good deeds, persisted in combining "crossing the river by feeling the stones" with top-level design, persisted in the unity of problem-oriented and goal-oriented, persisted in promoting pilots first and comprehensively promoting each other, realized the organic unity of reform, development, and stability, and enabled the construction of a well-off society to actively advance.
Fifth, the world significance of China's comprehensive well-off
Only when the world is good can China be better; if China is good, the world will be better. China has always placed its own development in the coordinate system of human development, integrated the interests of the Chinese people with the common interests of the people of all countries, and become a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, a defender of international order, and a provider of public goods. China has built a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, contributing Chinese wisdom and Strength to building a community with a shared future for mankind.
As the world's most populous country and the largest developing country, China's comprehensive construction of a moderately prosperous society is a great contribution to world peace and development. From 1979 to 2020, China's GDP grew at an average annual rate of 9.2%, becoming an important engine of world economic growth. Since 2006, China has been the largest contributor to world economic growth for 15 consecutive years, with an average contribution rate of more than 30% to world economic growth.
After the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, China took the lead in controlling the epidemic, taking the lead in resuming work and production, and taking the lead in turning economic growth from negative to positive, once again becoming an important engine driving global trade and economic recovery. China feeds nearly 20 percent of the world's population with 9 percent of the world's arable land. In the past 20 years, China's new vegetation coverage has accounted for about 25% of the world's new total, and China's contribution has ranked first in the world, becoming the country with the largest increase in forest resources in the world. China actively promotes green and low-carbon development, and commits to strive to achieve carbon peaking by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060, which means that China will complete the world's largest carbon emission intensity reduction and achieve carbon peaking to carbon neutrality in the shortest time in global history.
China's 770 million rural poor people have been lifted out of poverty, and the poverty reduction population accounted for more than 70% of the global poverty reduction population in the same period. China's building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way is an unprecedented major change and event in human history, and has made important contributions, confidence and strength to the global poverty reduction cause.
China unswervingly pursues an open strategy of mutual benefit and win-win results, and provides more market opportunities, investment opportunities and growth opportunities for all countries. Among the 190 economies in the world, China's business environment ranking jumped from 91st in 2012 to 31st in 2020, and the business environment continued to be optimized. In 2020, China's actual use of FDI amounted to US$161.65 billion, ranking first in the world and hitting a record high. China is the largest trading partner of more than 50 countries and regions, and the top three trading partners of more than 120 countries and regions.
China has built a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way and explored a new path for mankind to modernize. China has explored a path and method suitable for itself, built a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, embarked on a new path of Chinese-style modernization, and created a new form of human civilization. This modernization is a modernization with a huge population, a modernization in which all the people prosper together, a modernization in which material civilization and spiritual civilization are in harmony, a modernization in which man and nature coexist in harmony, and a modernization that takes the road of peaceful development. China's building of a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way has provided a new choice for those countries and nations in the world that want to accelerate development and maintain their independence, and has provided opportunities for the development of all countries. In the future, China will embrace the world with a more open and inclusive attitude, form a more benign interaction with the world, and make new and greater contributions to building a community with a shared future for mankind and building a better world.