Common prosperity is not only an important feature of the future society envisaged by Marx and Engels, but also the core of the new road of Chinese modernization. Having completed the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects and resolved the issue of absolute poverty in a historic manner, our Party has timely called for greater substantive progress in promoting all-round human development and common prosperity for all on our new journey. Taking common prosperity as an important goal in China's modernization drive is not only an inherent requirement of the nature of socialism, but also an urgent need to properly handle the relationship between efficiency and equity and better solve the problem of "unbalanced and inadequate development" in the new stage of development in the face of profound changes unseen in the world in a century.
Realizing common prosperity highlights historical consciousness
Realizing common prosperity is the inevitable trend of China's social development. In modern times, a prominent problem in China's social development is that the country is weak and the people are poor, and the gap between the rich and the poor is serious. Faced with such a prominent problem, it became the most urgent historical requirement to strengthen the country and enrich the people and realize modernization. However, China, a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, lacked the environment for development and modernization, let alone the ability to change the backward status quo of poverty and weakness. The founding of new China ushered in a new era in Chinese history, and the Chinese people stood up. "Standing up" fulfilled the premise of China's modernization drive and created conditions for accelerating national development, eliminating poverty and realizing common prosperity. Comrade MAO Zedong once made it clear: "With such a system and such a plan, we can become even richer and stronger year by year. And this rich, is common rich, this strong, is common strong." The early exploration of modernization laid a solid foundation for achieving common prosperity. In the new era of reform and opening up, Comrade Deng Xiaoping led the whole Party in responding to the call of The Times and the expectations of the people, blazing a trail of socialism with Chinese characteristics and breaking a historic new frontier in China's modernization drive, thus providing a strong guarantee for achieving common prosperity.
To achieve common prosperity is the party's centennial goal. Since its founding, the Communist Party of China has been committed to achieving common prosperity. In 1921, Li Dazhao put forward the socialist idea that "everyone can enjoy the average supply and get the greatest happiness" when lecturing at Peking University. The elimination of class differences and the abolition of capitalist private ownership are the embodiment of the thought of common prosperity. During the New Democratic Revolution, the Party led the people in helping the poor people to liberation through a series of land policies and measures at different stages, such as "attacking local tyrants and dividing their land", "reducing rent and interest" and "confiscating the land of landlords", in order to rid the people of poverty and lead a better life. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, especially since the launch of reform and opening up, the COMMUNIST Party of China has explicitly proposed common prosperity in its socialist modernization drive. It has explored the path of common prosperity by seeking prosperity first and then later, deepened its understanding of common prosperity while emphasizing fairness, and further promoted common prosperity while accelerating modernization. At the fifth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that "more obvious and substantive progress should be made in achieving common prosperity for all the people." This is a new solemn commitment made by the Party to the people, and profoundly demonstrates the Party's firm determination and courage to achieve the goal of common prosperity.
Realizing common prosperity is an important guarantee for realizing national rejuvenation. To make China strong and prosperous and rejuvenate the nation, the people's rights must be protected, their interests realized and their happiness satisfied. The theme of Chinese-style modernization is to realize national rejuvenation. Common prosperity is an important guarantee for realizing national rejuvenation. In China after the Opium War, the decadent feudal rule and the imperialist invasion brought disgrace to the country, misery to the people and dust to the civilization. "Since then, realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has become the greatest dream of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation," Xi said. To realize the great dream of national rejuvenation, the COMMUNIST Party of China united and led the Chinese people in writing the most magnificent epic in the thousands of years of Chinese history. The new path of Chinese-style modernization is a brilliant chapter in this epic.
2. Achieving common prosperity enhances theoretical confidence
Whether we can adhere to common prosperity on the new journey of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way is not only an economic problem, but also a major political problem that relates to the ruling basis of the Party. Taking a new path of modernization to achieve common prosperity for all people and exploring a new path of human civilization to achieve modernization will greatly enhance confidence in the theory of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
The realization of common prosperity is the centralized display of the essential requirements of socialism. Socialism is the inevitable trend of the development of human society and the only way out for China. Realizing common prosperity is an essential difference between socialism and capitalism. In the course of socialism in the century since the October Revolution, all socialist countries have been trying to find a solution to the problem of how to uphold and develop socialism on the basis of relatively backward economy and culture. In China, the most urgent task is to realize modernization. Socialism determines the nature and direction of the new road of Chinese modernization. Under the socialist system, the laborer is not only the creator of social wealth, but also the one who enjoys it. Engels once made it clear: "Our aim is to establish a socialist system which will provide healthy and useful work for all, ample material life and leisure time for all, and true and sufficient freedom for all." Therefore, socialism itself contains the goal of achieving common prosperity, and the pursuit of socialist modernization is the common prosperity of all the people. Poverty is not socialism. Along the historical track of standing up, getting rich and getting strong, China's new path of modernization will forge ahead in the direction of common prosperity.
The realization of common prosperity is the inheritance and development of the thought of common prosperity in Chinese traditional culture. Common prosperity has been the ideal pursuit of the Chinese people since ancient times, which is deeply rooted in the fine traditional Culture of China. The core of common prosperity is deeply embedded in the fine traditional Chinese culture, from the concept of justice, "not suffering from scarcity but suffering from inequality" to the social ideal of "the world is for the common good". As an expression of Chinese culture, common prosperity profoundly reflects the internal relationship between social development and wealth sharing. Pursuit of Chinese modernization is, in short, all the people through hard work, liberation and development of the productive forces, productive forces to create more and better material wealth and spiritual wealth, and then according to the principles of socialist justice to share social development achievements, onto the road of good happiness together, common abundance prosperous life. "The best way to run a country is to enrich its people." Guided by Marxism and based on the fine traditional Chinese culture, the new Path of Chinese-style modernization provides rich cultural support and ideological inspiration for accelerating the socialist modernization drive and realizing common prosperity.
Realizing common prosperity is the critical transcendence of western modernization theory. Modernization is an inevitable process in the evolution of world history and represents the trend of The Times for the development and progress of human society. For a long time, because capitalism was the first to start and realize modernization, the western modernization road was regarded as the only way to modernization, and the western modernization theory was regarded as the only truth guiding modernization. The successful practice of China's new path of modernization has broken through the path of western countries leading and interfering in the development of the vast majority of developing countries, proving that there is no universal model or fixed model for realizing modernization. And achievements of a few people enjoy modern western developed countries, Chinese modernization new road in order to realize all the people common prosperity as the goal, to eliminate the capitalist antagonism and inherent contradictions, from the social internal ironed out the conflict between capital and labor, and reflect on the class relations of class antagonisms and class oppression, At the same time, it also overcame the bloodshed and sacrifice of colonial countries in resources, wealth, environment and manpower caused by colonial plunder and expansion in the process of capitalist modernization. Under the leadership of the COMMUNIST Party of China (CPC), the new Path of Chinese-style modernization has integrated the basic tenets of Marxism with China's actual conditions and with China's fine traditional culture, and gone beyond criticizing western theories of modernization.
To achieve common prosperity and practice
Different from the Western path of modernization, China's new path of modernization is one built by, governed by and shared by all the people. Adhering to a new path of modernization featuring common prosperity for all will maximize the great strength of socialist modernization.
Realizing common prosperity is the inherent requirement of promoting efficient governance. Efficient governance is the basic goal of realizing the modernization of China's governance system and governance capacity, highlighting China's wisdom, plans and experience in the modernization of national governance. To achieve common prosperity, we need to better translate institutional strengths into effective governance, improve the social environment through efficient governance, stimulate internal driving forces, strengthen the material foundation, and narrow the "three major gaps" between urban and rural areas, between regions, and between incomes. Looking back at the road of China's modernization development, the economic and social development of rural areas has always been the weak point of China's development, and the poverty of farmers has always been the difficulty in promoting common prosperity and realizing modernization. Comrade Deng Xiaoping once pointed out: "If the peasants are not lifted out of poverty, China is not lifted out of poverty." In order to solve this difficult problem, the Party and the state have focused on agriculture, rural areas and farmers, intensified poverty alleviation efforts and carried out large-scale poverty alleviation and development. In particular, the formulation and implementation of "targeted poverty alleviation" and "targeted poverty alleviation" have demonstrated China's wisdom in poverty reduction to the world. Since completing the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects, China is forging ahead towards its second centenary goal. Therefore, we need to consolidate and expand our achievements in poverty alleviation, continue comprehensive rural revitalization, and gradually achieve common prosperity for all through efficient governance and more effective measures.
Achieving common prosperity is the practical carrier of high-quality development. Development is the foundation and the key to solving all problems in China. Standing at a new historical starting point, China's new path of modernization focuses on the quality and efficiency of development and strives to promote high-quality development. High-quality development emphasizes not only economic development, but also the coordinated development of economy, politics, culture, society and ecology. By achieving common prosperity, we have focused on addressing imbalances in development and social equity and justice, highlighting the core importance of promoting high-quality development and implementing the new vision of development. At present, with unilateralism, trade protectionism and anti-globalization surging and escalating actions, as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic performance of countries around the world continues to be sluggish. In the face of this situation, the CPC has resolutely made major strategic plans to accelerate the building of a new pattern of development in which the major domestic cycles play the main role and the double cycles at home and abroad reinforce each other. China is a big global market with a population of more than 1.4 billion. To achieve common prosperity, we will continue to steadily increase the income of urban and rural residents, tap the potential of consumer demand, and address the problems of weak links in people's lives. We will surely achieve common prosperity through high-quality development.
Realizing common prosperity is a solid support for the people to lead a high-quality life. The people are the subjects of society and the undertakers and promoters of social development. Chinese modernization is ultimately the modernization of people, and meeting people's needs for a better life is the purport of Chinese modernization. To achieve common prosperity, we have taken the people's position, paid more attention to their needs for a high-quality life, and expressed the people's aspirations for a better society in the future. To achieve common prosperity, we must take people's wellbeing as the root and ensure employment for all. To the people rich, all have income; To the wisdom of the people first, every family has skills; We should put people's interests first and treat them with dignity. This highlights our commitment to people-centered development philosophy, arouses the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of the broad masses of the people, and gives full play to the boundless strength of the concerted endeavor of the sons and daughters of the Chinese nation. At the same time, the only place to promote all the people common prosperity in the position of the more important, always do development to the people, rely on the people, development achievements Shared by the people, the people can enjoy more equitable development and development opportunities, in order to constantly meet their diversified, multi-level and various spiritual and cultural needs, Only in this way can self-development and social progress be promoted.
