Social construction - maintaining long-term harmony and stability that is both orderly and dynamic

Author: Chu Songyan (Director and Professor, Department of Social and Ecological Civilization, Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China [National School of Administration])

In 2021, remarkable progress has been made in all aspects of social construction on the mainland, showing three distinct characteristics.

First, great historic achievements have been made in poverty alleviation. In 2021, we have achieved the first centenary goal, the problem of absolute poverty that has plagued the Chinese nation for thousands of years has been historically solved, a moderately prosperous society has been built in an all-round way, and the material life of the people has begun to shift from the traditional state of lack of food and clothing to a relatively abundant state of guarantee.

Second, with the comprehensive construction of a moderately prosperous society, the strategic planning in the field of social construction has begun to shift from focusing on "whether there is any" to paying attention to "whether it is good or not.". For example, the No. 1 document of the Central Committee in 2021 regards the comprehensive promotion of rural revitalization as a major task to achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation; remarkable progress has been made in solidly promoting the theory and practice of common prosperity, and the basic connotations, promotion principles and institutional innovation directions of common prosperity have become increasingly clear.

Third, the needs of people's livelihood have been responded to efficiently. In 2021, the mainland has effectively met the most basic and urgent people's livelihood needs of the broad masses of the people. In terms of bottom-line demand, in the face of the continuous spread of the global covid-19 epidemic, the party has led the people of all ethnic groups across the country to continue to carry forward the great anti-epidemic spirit, and while protecting people's life safety and physical health to the greatest extent, the economy has recovered rapidly and comprehensively, highlighting the significant advantages of the Chinese system. In terms of basic needs, the relevant achievements are even more numerous: the education reform represented by the "double reduction" in the field of compulsory education has continued to advance and achieved remarkable results. The reform of the social security system has continued to deepen, and the national overall planning of endowment insurance has been solidly promoted. The policy that a couple can have three children has been officially implemented, and relevant supporting measures have been continuously introduced.

Based on this, in 2022, the issues that need to be paid attention to in the field of social construction mainly include:

Continue to exert efforts in social governance innovation, continuously improve the social governance system, improve the social governance system of co-construction, co-governance and sharing, and create a safe and stable social environment for the victory of the 20th National Congress of the Party. In the new year, we must strengthen the modernization of the social governance system and governance capabilities, continue to exert efforts to improve the socialization, rule of law, intelligence and professionalization of social governance, especially focus on the innovation of grass-roots social governance, stimulate collaborative vitality with refined services, and continue to write a miracle of long-term social stability at a higher level.

Grasp the development trend of the global new crown pneumonia epidemic, continuously improve the mainland's epidemic prevention and control system, strengthen policy design and encourage multiple explorations in terms of better overall planning and promotion of epidemic prevention and control, economic and social development and ensuring people's normal lives, so as to better safeguard people's lives and health and promote high-quality development.

Comprehensively promote economic development and people's livelihood security, continue to introduce and implement various policies to benefit the people in education, employment, pension, social security and other basic people's livelihood, and give play to the role of social policies as the foundation. For example, multiple measures should be taken to solve the employment problems of young people such as college graduates; improve the labor contracts of flexible employment personnel such as network couriers and social security policies such as work injury insurance; promote the national overall planning of basic old-age insurance; promote the implementation of new birth policies, continuously optimize the population structure, and so on.

It is foreseeable that with the institutional innovation and practical innovation in the field of social construction on the mainland, the sense of happiness and security of the broad masses of the people will continue to increase, and the mainland society will maintain a harmonious and stable state of both order and vitality for a long time.

Guangming Daily ( 2022-01-20 07 edition)

Source: Guangming Network - Guangming Daily