Zhang Yuanxin: Chinese-style modernization and people's livelihood are the greatest

During his visit to Chongqing from April 22 to 24, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Chinese-style modernization is based on people's livelihood. All the work of the party and the government is for the sake of the people living a happier life. The spirit of this important instruction clarifies the value orientation and goals of Chinese-style modernization, further reveals the distinctive characteristics of Chinese-style modernization that distinguish it from Western modernization, greatly demonstrates the rich connotation and people's characteristics of Chinese-style modernization, and highlights the profound feelings of the people of the leaders of major countries. This has anchored the direction, clarified the goals, and pointed out the methods for promoting Chinese-style modernization with high-quality development, which has important theoretical and practical significance.

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General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Chinese-style modernization is socialist modernization under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. This is the qualitative statement of Chinese-style modernization, which is the fundamental point of managing the general and fundamental, and comprehensively grasping the Chinese characteristics, essential requirements, and major principles of Chinese-style modernization.

The Communist Party of China (CPC) is the core of the leadership of Chinese-style modernization, and the nature of the party determines that Chinese-style modernization must focus on people's livelihood. The leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) is the most essential feature and greatest advantage of Chinese-style modernization, and it is the highest political principle that must be adhered to in promoting Chinese-style modernization. The party's leadership is not only directly related to the fundamental direction, future and destiny, and ultimate success or failure of Chinese-style modernization, but also directly determines the fundamental purpose of Chinese-style modernization. The Communist Party of China (CPC) is a Marxist political party that serves the people wholeheartedly, and this purpose determines that the modernization under its leadership must always care about the people's livelihood, seek more benefits for the people's livelihood, and solve the worries of the people's livelihood. The Party's original aspiration to seek happiness for the people and rejuvenation for the nation determines that the modernization under its leadership must always pay attention to the happiness of the people and continuously improve the well-being of the people. The Party adheres to the lofty ideals of communism and the common ideal of socialism with Chinese characteristics, which determines that the modernization under its leadership must always seek the interests of the people, and strive to promote common prosperity and achieve all-round human development. The Party adheres to the mass line and the mass viewpoint, which determines that the modernization under its leadership must always be people-centered, believe in the people, rely on the people, and do everything for the people, so that the fruits of modernization can benefit all the people more and more fairly. In short, the Communist Party of China (CPC) is a political party that adheres to the supremacy of the people, and the Chinese-style modernization under its leadership will inevitably focus on people's livelihood.

Socialism is the institutional foundation of Chinese-style modernization, and the nature of the system determines that Chinese-style modernization will inevitably focus on people's livelihood. Adhering to socialism with Chinese characteristics is one of the essential requirements of Chinese-style modernization, and adhering to the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics is one of the major principles that must be firmly grasped in building a modern socialist country in an all-round way. Socialism with Chinese characteristics adheres to the guidance of Marxism and provides an ideological guarantee for ensuring and improving people's livelihood. The Communist Party of China (CPC) is a political party of the people, and it is the party's unswerving goal to seek well-being for the people. The cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics is the cause of hundreds of millions of people themselves, and the people are the masters of building socialism with Chinese characteristics. The people's congress system is the fundamental political system of the mainland, with public ownership as the mainstay, the common development of economies under various forms of ownership, and the coexistence of various forms of distribution according to work as the mainstay, which is the basic economic system of the mainland, and provides an institutional guarantee for safeguarding and improving the people's livelihood. The liberation and development of the productive forces is the essential requirement of socialism, and socialism with Chinese characteristics adheres to economic construction as the central task, regards development as the party's top priority in governing and rejuvenating the country, and provides a huge material guarantee for ensuring and improving people's livelihood. Fairness and justice are the intrinsic requirements and basic principles of socialism, and socialism with Chinese characteristics takes the promotion of fairness and justice as the core value pursuit, providing a basic criterion for ensuring and improving people's livelihood. Due to the inherent provisions of the socialist system, Chinese-style modernization will inevitably concretize the people-centered value orientation in all fields of modernization, strive to improve people's livelihood and well-being, and strive to achieve a better life for the people.

Chinese modernization focuses on people's livelihood, highlighting the essential difference from capital-centered Western modernization. The biggest drawback of Western modernization is that it is capital-centered rather than people-centered, and pursues the maximization of the benefits of capital, resulting in a large gap between the rich and the poor and serious polarization. Chinese modernization is based on public ownership, guided by the core values of socialism, and people-centered modernization, and the people's nature is a distinctive feature of Chinese modernization. It not only stresses the need to firmly uphold the people's dominant position and the people's position, but also stresses the need to adhere to the people's goal and achieve common prosperity and all-round human development for all the people. Chinese-style modernization has not only promoted rapid economic and social development and all-round progress, but also promoted the vigorous development of the cause of scientific socialism.

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The report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) made clear the strategic arrangements and overall goals of building China into a great modern socialist country in an all-round way, proposing to "build the mainland into a prosperous, strong, democratic, civilized, harmonious and beautiful modern socialist country from 2035 to the middle of this century". This goal contains a wealth of people's livelihood needs and construction content.

Achieve common prosperity for all people. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Chinese modernization is the modernization of common prosperity for all people. "Common prosperity is the essential requirement of socialism with Chinese characteristics and an important feature of Chinese modernization. Chinese modernization adheres to the realization of the people's yearning for a better life as the starting point and the end goal, fully implements the new development concept, accelerates the construction of a new development pattern, and strives to promote high-quality economic development, laying a strong material foundation for the realization of common prosperity for all people. At the same time, we should continue to raise the people's income level, consciously and proactively resolve regional disparities, urban-rural disparities, and income distribution disparities, strive to safeguard and promote social fairness and justice, gradually realize common prosperity for all people, and resolutely prevent polarization.

Realize that the people are the masters of the country. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed: "People's democracy is the life of socialism and the proper meaning of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way. "The development of socialist democratic politics is an intrinsic requirement and an important goal of Chinese-style modernization. Chinese modernization is the modernization of all the people, and it inevitably requires a highly developed democratic politics. To promote Chinese-style modernization, the people are the decisive force, and it is inevitable that the people's creative vitality be effectively stimulated. People's democracy promotes the self-improvement and development of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, enhances the efficiency of national governance, improves the modernization level of the national governance system and governance capacity, and provides a strong institutional guarantee for Chinese-style modernization. The Chinese-style modernization upholds the dominant position of the people, vigorously develops whole-process people's democracy, fully embodies the will of the people, protects the rights and interests of the people, stimulates the people's creative vitality, and ensures that the people are the masters of the country.

Realize the coordinated development of material civilization and spiritual civilization. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Chinese modernization is the modernization of material civilization and spiritual civilization in harmony. Material and spiritual prosperity are the fundamental requirements of socialist modernization. "Chinese-style modernization is a modernization of coordinated development and all-round progress, which requires great material wealth and spiritual wealth. Taking the satisfaction of the people's spiritual and cultural needs as the starting point, Chinese-style modernization vigorously develops advanced socialist culture, strengthens education in ideals and beliefs, strengthens ideological, moral, scientific and cultural education, strengthens the supply of public cultural services, enriches the spiritual world of the people, improves the cultural quality of the people, enhances the spiritual strength of the people, promotes the common prosperity of the spiritual life of all the people, and promotes the all-round enrichment of materials and the all-round development of people.

Achieve social harmony and stability. Chinese modernization is a people-centered modernization. Improving people's livelihood and well-being, improving people's quality of life, and maintaining social harmony and stability are the most important, core and realistic interests of the people, as well as the fundamental purpose of Chinese modernization and the pursuit of people's livelihood. By creating huge material and spiritual wealth and maintaining long-term social harmony and stability, Chinese modernization comprehensively strengthens the construction of inclusive, basic and comprehensive people's livelihood, promotes educational equity, promotes high-quality and full employment, improves the distribution system, improves the social security system, promotes the construction of a healthy China, strengthens and innovates social governance, and strives to protect and improve people's livelihood, so as to make people's sense of gain, happiness and security more fulfilling, more secure and more sustainable.

Realize the harmonious coexistence of man and nature. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Chinese modernization is the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature. "Man and nature are a community of life. The environment is the people's livelihood, the green mountains are beautiful, the blue sky is also happiness, and the lucid waters and green mountains are the gold and silver mountains. To protect the environment is to protect the productive forces, and to improve the environment is to develop the productive forces. In the Chinese-style modernization, we should establish and practice the concept that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets, adhere to the basic national policy of conserving resources and protecting the environment, protect nature and the ecological environment like protecting eyes, coordinate the management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands and sands, form a green development mode and lifestyle, unswervingly follow the civilized development path of production development, affluent life and good ecology, build a beautiful China, and let the people share the beauty of nature, life and life in lucid waters and lush mountains.

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"Chinese-style modernization, people's livelihood is the greatest" is not only a value orientation, but also a practical requirement. In the new era and new journey, we must adhere to the people-centered development philosophy, insist on ensuring and improving people's livelihood in the process of development, and work in a down-to-earth and long-term manner to realize, safeguard and develop the fundamental interests of the broadest masses of the people.

Continuously realize the people's yearning for a better life. In response to the people's demands and multi-level needs, we must fully implement the new development concept, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, build a modern economic system, promote high-quality economic development, and lay a solid foundation for the people's material prosperity. Actively implement the strategy of coordinated development of regions and urban and rural areas, and promote common prosperity in the people's material life while solving unbalanced and inadequate development. Enrich the forms of people's spiritual and cultural life, stimulate the people's pursuit of high-quality spiritual life, increase people's spiritual and cultural participation, and strive to meet the people's multifaceted and multi-level spiritual and cultural life needs. At a higher level, we should realize that the young are educated, the learning is taught, the labor is earned, the sick are treated, the elderly are supported, the housing is sheltered, and the weak are supported, so that all the people can share the fruits of modern development. Efforts should be made to solve the problems of the people's urgency, hardship and longing, improve the basic public service system, improve the level of public services, and enhance balance and accessibility. Strengthen and innovate social governance, maintain social harmony and stability, and ensure that the people live and work in peace and contentment. Adhere to the principle of giving priority to conservation, protection and natural restoration, and form a spatial pattern, industrial structure, production mode and way of life that pays equal attention to economic development, resource conservation and environmental protection, and attaches equal importance to coordination. Accelerate the green transformation of development modes and lifestyles, promote green and low-carbon economic and social development, and make the land of China bluer, greener, cleaner and more beautiful.

Firmly grasp the most immediate and realistic interests of the people. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed: "It is necessary to implement the people-centered development philosophy, improve the distribution system, improve the social security system, strengthen basic public services, strengthen the bottom line of people's livelihood, solve the problems of the people's urgency, hardship and longing, so that the fruits of modernization can benefit all the people more and more fairly, and continue to make more obvious and substantive progress in promoting common prosperity for all people." To this end, it is necessary to closely follow the practical needs arising from the changes in the principal contradictions in mainland society, firmly grasp the interests and issues of urgency, hardship and longing that the masses of the people are most concerned about, exert efforts from the most specific livelihood of the people, and make breakthroughs from the most prominent problems. Priority should be given to the development of education, earnestly promote the integrated development of urban and rural compulsory education, promote educational equity, improve the quality of education, and build an education system that serves the whole people for lifelong learning. Efforts should be made to improve the quality of employment, put high-quality employment and full employment in an equally important position, improve the policy guarantee system for giving priority to employment, equality in employment, and promoting employment through entrepreneurship, improve labor laws and regulations, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of workers, and promote full employment and peace and contentment for the people. We should build a coordinated system of primary distribution, redistribution, and tertiary distribution, encourage hard work to get rich, and strive to raise the people's income level. Improve the multi-level social security system that covers the whole people, coordinates urban and rural areas, is fair and unified, safe and standardized, and sustainable, improves the national overall system of basic old-age insurance, improves the social insurance system for migrant workers, flexible employees, and employees in new forms of business, and improves the comprehensive social assistance system, so as to strengthen the bottom line of people's livelihood. Promote the construction of a healthy China, promote the expansion of high-quality medical resources and the balanced distribution of regions, and realize the benign interaction and common development between medical insurance, medical treatment and medicine.

Keep the bottom line, highlight the key points, improve the system, and guide expectations. "Guarding the bottom line" means adhering to the basic principle of "social policies should support the bottom", weaving a dense and solid network of people's livelihood security nets, and forming a social fairness security system that focuses on ensuring basic livelihoods. "Highlighting key points" means that the construction of people's livelihood should focus on key groups, key areas, and key areas, implement precise policies, and have a specific target, so that no one one can be left behind, no one region, and no nation can be left behind. "Improving the system" means further improving the systems of education, employment, income, medical care, housing, social security and other aspects of people's livelihood, especially the income distribution system, medical insurance system and social security system, promoting the equalization of basic public services, and improving a more inclusive, fair and sustainable system of people's livelihood. "Guiding expectations" means creating a public opinion environment in society in which "hard work makes you rich" and "getting rich is glorious" and forming a reasonable understanding that the level of security is commensurate with the level of development.

Insist on doing your best and doing what you can. The construction of people's livelihood should proceed from China's national conditions, and we should not only do our best to do a good job and meet the needs of the masses to the greatest extent, but also follow objective laws and actual capabilities, and avoid being too ambitious and deceitful. The construction of people's livelihood should not only be carried out in an orderly manner according to the priorities, but also be unremittingly and persistently carried out for a long time, one thing after another, year after year, so that everything has been settled and everything has an echo, so that the masses can get more and more lasting benefits. In the construction of people's livelihood, we should not only adhere to the party's unified leadership, fully mobilize the enthusiasm, initiative and creativity of the people, so that everyone can participate in the construction of people's livelihood, but also firmly adhere to the development concept of joint construction and sharing, so that everyone can enjoy the fruits of people's livelihood in modernization. Accelerate the integration of urban and rural areas, pay more attention to equity, tilt people's livelihood resources towards rural areas, western regions and vulnerable groups, and continuously narrow the gap between urban and rural areas, between regions and between groups.

(The author is a tenured professor at the School of Marxism at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a researcher at the Shanghai Xi Jinping Research Center for Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era; Source: Kunlun Ce Network [Authorized], recompiled from "Red Flag Manuscript")