"Common prosperity is the prosperity of the entire people, the prosperity of the masses of the people in both the material and spiritual lives, not the prosperity of a few people, nor the uniform egalitarianism. The tenth meeting of the Central Financial and Economic Commission held recently clearly put forward the direction of progress in comprehensively building a modern socialist country and solidly promoting the common prosperity of all the people.
The way to govern the country begins with enriching the people. Common prosperity is the essential requirement of socialism, an important feature of Chinese-style modernization, and the common expectation of the masses of the people. At present, we are moving toward the second centenary goal, standing at a new historical starting point in the new stage of development, we must adhere to the people-centered development thinking, take the initiative to adapt to the changes in the main contradictions in our society, and take "the common prosperity of all the people to achieve more obvious substantive progress" as a red line through the entire process of comprehensively building a modern socialist country.
The promotion of common prosperity for all people should be placed in a more important position
Realizing the all-round development of the people and the common prosperity of all the people is the essential difference between the path of socialist modernization with Chinese characteristics and the road of modernization in Western countries, and is also a strategic arrangement made by our party in the second centenary goal. As our country has comprehensively built a moderately prosperous society and embarked on a new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country, we must put the promotion of common prosperity for all the people in a more important position, be down-to-earth, make long-term achievements, and make more active and promising efforts toward this goal.
Achieving common prosperity is the consistent goal of the Communist Party of China. Common prosperity is the fundamental principle of Marxism and the essential requirement of socialism. Since its founding, the Communist Party of China has regarded the realization of common prosperity as its unswerving goal of struggle. After the founding of New China, the Chinese Communists, with Comrade Mao Zedong as the main representative, clearly proposed to take the road of socialist power and make the masses of the people "prosper together." After the reform and opening up, the Chinese Communists, with Comrade Deng Xiaoping as the main representative, profoundly summed up the positive and negative historical experiences, broke the shackles of the traditional system, and greatly liberated and developed the social productive forces by allowing some people and some regions to get rich first, and to get rich first and get rich later. Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, our party has adhered to the people's yearning for a better life as the goal of struggle, led the people to win the battle against poverty, built a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, and taken a more solid step on the road of common prosperity for all the people. General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly stressed that common prosperity is the essential requirement of socialism, an important feature of Chinese-style modernization, and the common expectation of the people. In the new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country, we must put the promotion of common prosperity of all the people in a more important position.
Building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way has created good conditions for common prosperity. General Secretary Xi Jinping's speech at the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China solemnly declared to the world that through the continuous struggle of the whole party and the people of all ethnic groups in the country, we have achieved the first centenary goal and built a well-off society in all aspects of China. Building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way has enabled China's economic strength, scientific and technological strength, and comprehensive national strength to leap to a new level, with a GDP of more than 100 trillion yuan and a per capita GDP of more than 10,000 US dollars, and the world's largest social security system has been built, with basic medical insurance covering more than 1.3 billion people and basic endowment insurance covering nearly 1 billion people. Major breakthroughs have been made in comprehensively deepening reform, opening up to the outside world has continued to expand, the results of ecological civilization construction have been unprecedented, and the people's living standards have been significantly improved. In particular, after 8 years of continuous struggle, we have won the battle against poverty as scheduled, all the rural poor have been lifted out of poverty under the current standards, absolute poverty and regional overall poverty have been eliminated, and the problem of absolute poverty that has plagued the Chinese nation for thousands of years has been historically solved. Building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, historically getting rid of absolute poverty, and laying a solid foundation through unremitting struggle have created unprecedented good conditions for solving the problem of unbalanced and inadequate development and promoting common prosperity. This is where our party's confidence and confidence in putting the promotion of common prosperity of all the people in a more important position, promoting the all-round development of the people, and achieving more obvious and substantive progress in the common prosperity of all the people lies.
Promoting common prosperity is an inevitable requirement for comprehensively building socialist modernization. The Nineteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China made a "two-step" strategic arrangement for the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country, and clearly pointed out: By 2035, when socialist modernization is basically realized, all the people will take a solid step toward common prosperity; by the middle of this century, when china is built into a prosperous, strong, democratic, civilized, harmonious and beautiful socialist modern power, the common prosperity of all the people will be basically realized. The Fifth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China explicitly regarded "more obvious substantive progress in the common prosperity of all people" as the goal of basically realizing socialist modernization by 2035. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and the beginning of a new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country. In the final analysis, to start a new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country, we must realize the goal of all-round human development and common prosperity for all the people. Therefore, after building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way and realizing the first centenary goal, to start a new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country and march toward the second centenary goal, we must put the promotion of common prosperity of all the people in a more important position, and we must take the promotion of common prosperity of all the people as the focus of efforts to seek happiness for the people, better meet the people's growing needs for a better life, and constantly consolidate the foundation for the party's long-term ruling power.
Accurately understand and grasp the connotation of promoting common prosperity for all people
Common prosperity is the prosperity of the entire people, the prosperity of the masses of the people in both the material and spiritual lives, not the prosperity of a small number of people, nor the uniform egalitarianism. This important expression provides a basis and points out the direction for us to comprehensively and accurately understand the connotation of common prosperity and promote common prosperity on a new journey.
Common prosperity is not the prosperity of a few, but the prosperity of the whole people, which covers all Chinese people. Understood in the original sense, common prosperity includes two parts: common prosperity and common prosperity. "Common" denotes the prescriptiveness of the scope or the mode of appropriation of wealth and refers to the prosperity of the whole people, not to the prosperity of a few people or a few regions; "affluence" is relative to "poverty", to the state of satisfaction shared by all people for material and spiritual purposes. It is necessary to make sustained and effective efforts in building an olive-shaped social structure and narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor, resolutely prevent the emergence of the phenomenon of "the rich accumulate tens of thousands, while the poor eat chaff and the poor"; we must not allow the gap between the rich and the poor to become wider and wider, the poor to become richer and richer, and an insurmountable gap between the rich and the poor to emerge.
Common prosperity is not only material prosperity, but comprehensive prosperity in which material and spiritual life are unified. Common prosperity is not only rich on the basis of material, it covers the sum of the people's multi-field development requirements for the economy, politics, culture, society, ecological civilization and other aspects that embody and reflect a better life, and reflects the unity of the quality and quantity of all aspects of material life and spiritual life. "The barn is honest and knows the etiquette, and the food and clothing are sufficient and the honor and disgrace are known." Without material prosperity, there can be no common prosperity. But material wealth is only an important, but not the only, measure of common prosperity. The prosperity of only material life, without the fullness of spiritual life, is obviously not the real prosperity under the conditions of socialist modernization. Therefore, only when both the material and spiritual lives are rich is the real common prosperity, and we must not overemphasize material enjoyment and fall into the trap of high welfare, resulting in the proliferation of materialism.
Common prosperity is not a wealth achieved simultaneously, but a whole process of prosperity promoted in stages. China is still in the primary stage of socialism, the problem of unbalanced and inadequate development is still prominent, and the basis and conditions for promoting development in various regions are not the same, which determines that common prosperity cannot be a speed and degree, but promotes common prosperity in stages and in the whole process. It is necessary to adhere to the combination of top-level design and grass-roots exploration, encourage all localities to explore specific paths to achieve common prosperity in accordance with local conditions, and allow some areas to try first to accumulate experience and make demonstrations for other regions. It is necessary to continue to promote common prosperity and put an end to the phenomenon that some areas and some masses get rich today and return to poverty tomorrow. It is necessary to do our best, act according to our ability, grasp the law, proceed step by step, be down-to-earth, work for a long time, and gradually solve the problem of common prosperity in the process of realizing Chinese-style modernization.
Common prosperity is not uniform equal prosperity, but common prosperity that recognizes relative differences. "Socialism is characterized not by poverty, but by wealth." Common prosperity is common prosperity on the basis of eliminating poverty and eliminating polarization, but it is definitely not uniform, there is no difference, and everyone has the same average living standard. According to the Marxist point of view, due to the limitations of the individual intellectual ability of members of society, there must be differences in the amount of personal consumption data, which is the characteristic of the common prosperity of socialist society. Only by acknowledging the difference and relativity of common prosperity can we stimulate the enthusiasm of members of society for labor and creativity, so as to prepare conditions for higher level prosperity. Therefore, it is necessary to allow some people to get rich first, to get rich first, to get rich later, and to help them get rich later, and in particular, we must encourage leaders who work hard, operate legally, and dare to start a business.
More tangible and substantial progress has been made in promoting the common prosperity of all people
In the new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country, we must take the people's yearning for a better life as the goal of struggle, promote more and more equitable achievements in reform and development to benefit all the people, and promote the common prosperity of all people to achieve more obvious substantive progress.
In promoting high-quality economic development, we will ensure the improvement of people's livelihood and promote common prosperity. The realization of social fairness and justice is determined by a variety of factors, the most important of which is the level of economic and social development. Without development and solid development results, there can be no talk of common prosperity. High-quality development is the basic condition for solving the problem of unbalanced and insufficient development and achieving common prosperity, and it is also the fundamental way to ensure and improve people's livelihood in the course of development. Therefore, it is necessary to consistently vigorously develop social productive forces and constantly enlarge the "cake" of social wealth. It is necessary to adhere to the basic economic system, base ourselves on the primary stage of socialism, adhere to the "two unwavering", adhere to the common development of the economy with public ownership as the mainstay and multiple ownership systems, improve the balance, coordination, and inclusiveness of development, accelerate the improvement of the socialist market economic system, enhance the balance of regional development, strengthen the coordination of industry development, and support the development of small and medium-sized enterprises. Consolidate and expand the results of poverty alleviation, strengthen the construction of rural infrastructure and public service systems, improve the rural living environment, and comprehensively promote rural revitalization. Allow some people to get rich first, get rich first, help get rich later, encourage hard work and innovation to get rich, and focus on encouraging leaders who work hard, operate legally, and dare to start a business. Persist in ensuring and improving people's livelihood in the course of development, create more inclusive and fair conditions for the people to improve their education level and enhance their development capabilities, smooth upward mobility channels, promote the stable employment of migrant workers in cities and the integration of cities, create opportunities for more people to get rich, and form a development environment in which everyone participates.
Promote the reform of income distribution, and form a rational distribution pattern in which everyone participates and everyone enjoys. In the early 1990s, Deng Xiaoping pointed out: "The problem of distribution is very big" and "After China has developed to a certain extent, it must consider the problem of distribution." It can be said that after making the "cake" bigger, it is impossible to achieve common prosperity without solving the problem of "cake" distribution. On the new journey, it is necessary to put the solution of distribution in a more prominent position, correctly handle the relationship between efficiency and fairness, and build a basic institutional arrangement for the coordination of primary distribution, redistribution, and tertiary distribution. Persist in doing our best to do what we can, establish a scientific public policy system, and form a rational distribution pattern for everyone. Increase the adjustment of taxation, social security, transfer payments and improve accuracy. Increase the proportion of labor remuneration in the primary distribution, improve the mechanism of reasonable wage growth, and strive to increase the income of low-income groups. Strengthen the regulation and regulation of high incomes, reasonably adjust excessive incomes, and encourage high-income people and enterprises to return more to society. We should straighten out and standardize unreasonable income, rectify the order of income distribution, protect legal income according to law, and resolutely ban illegal income. Protect property rights and intellectual property rights, protect legal enrichment, and promote the healthy development of various types of capital norms. Coordinate needs and possibilities, build the guarantee and improvement of people's livelihood on the basis of economic development and financial sustainability, continuously improve the old-age and medical security system, the bottom-up assistance system, the housing supply and security system, focus on strengthening the construction of basic, inclusive, and bottom-up people's livelihood security, increase inclusive human capital investment, and promote the equalization of basic public services. It is necessary to grasp the key and difficult issues, accurately implement policies, promote more low-income people to enter the ranks of middle income, form an olive-shaped distribution structure with large middle and small ends, promote social fairness and justice, and promote all-round human development.
Adhere to the party's centralized and unified leadership to ensure common prosperity and solid progress. Achieving common prosperity is not only an economic issue, but also a major political issue that has a bearing on the party's ruling foundation. Realizing the modernization of common prosperity in a China of more than 1.4 billion people is an unprecedented historical task, which can only be accomplished by giving full play to the advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics under the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China. It is necessary to give full play to the party's leading role in overseeing the overall situation and coordinating all parties, adhere to the national "chess game", consolidate the responsibilities of party committees and governments at all levels in promoting common prosperity, and promote the formation of a pattern of linkage between the upper and lower levels, coordination between the east and the west, and extensive participation of all social forces in promoting common prosperity. It is necessary to adhere to the people-centered development thinking, respect the initiative of the people, and fully mobilize the enthusiasm and initiative of the people. It is necessary to strictly prevent the collusion of power and capital from undermining social fairness and justice, and resolutely exclude the interference of any interest group, any power group, and any privileged class from promoting common prosperity. It is necessary to strengthen the guidance of the core socialist values and continuously meet the diverse, multi-level and multi-faceted spiritual and cultural needs of the people. It is necessary to strengthen the guidance of public opinion on promoting common prosperity, create a good public opinion environment for promoting common prosperity, strengthen theoretical research on common prosperity, and provide intellectual support for promoting common prosperity. It is necessary to educate and guide the whole party to profoundly understand the nature, purpose, ideals and beliefs of the party, profoundly understand the great significance of promoting common prosperity, take the people's yearning for a better life as the goal of struggle, promote the fruits of reform and development to benefit all the people more and more fairly, promote more obvious substantive progress in common prosperity, and provide Chinese experience and Chinese wisdom for solving the worldwide problem of common prosperity.
Author: Liu Jingbei
(The author is a professor at Pudong Cadre College, China, and a distinguished researcher at the Shanghai Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era)
Source: China Discipline Inspection and Supervision Daily