Ensure that the Fruits of Development Shared by All People More and Fairer

One of the basic requirements that must be firmly grasped in the report of the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012 is to “win new victories of socialism with Chinese characteristics under new historical conditions”. The report of the 18th CPC National Congress pointed out, “We must stick to the path of common prosperity. Common prosperity is the fundamental principle of socialism with Chinese characteristics. We must adhere to the socialist basic economic system and income distribution system, adjust the national income distribution pattern, promote redistribution adjustments, and strive to solve the problem of large income distribution gaps, so that more development fruits can benefit all people more equitably, and we can make steady progress towards common prosperity.” This embodies the inherent requirements of the essence of socialism. Xi Jinping has been re-emphasizing this principled goal of the Communist Party of China since the 18th National Congress of the Party. When it came to the spirit of the 18th CPC National Congress, he emphasized that common prosperity is the fundamental principle of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Therefore, we must make development more fruits benefit all people more equitably, and go ahead steadily towards the direction of common prosperity. When expounding “the Chinese Dream”, he advocated that the Chinese Dream is the dream of the Chinese nation and also the dream of every Chinese. Our direction is to let everyone have the opportunity to develop themselves and contribute to the society, to share the opportunity to shine in life, and to share the opportunity for dreams to come true. We need to ensure people’s equal rights of participation and development, safeguard social fairness and justice, and let more development fruits benefit all people more equitably, and move steadily towards common prosperity. When talking about improving people’s livelihood, he pointed out that we must listen to people’s voices and respond to people’s expectations at any time, ensure people’s equal rights of participation and development, safeguard social fairness and justice. Continue to make new progress in ensuring education, employment, housing, health care, and old-age support for all. It is our responsibility to always serve, defend and uphold the best interests of the people, so that more development will benefit all the people more equitably. Move steadily towards common prosperity on the basis of continuous economic and social development.

As to adhering to the Party’s mass line, he emphasized that facing the new expectations of the people for a better life, we must not have the slightest complacency and slackness. We must make persistent efforts to make the development fruits more and more equitable to benefit all people and move towards the common goal of steady progress in the direction of prosperity. To make the development benefit more people more equitably, we must implement the “Five-sphere Integrated Plan” when building socialism with Chinese characteristics, conform to the new expectations of the people and show the bright vision of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics. The people look forward to better education, more stable jobs, more satisfactory income, more reliable social security, higher level of medical and health services, more comfortable living conditions, and a more beautiful environment. This is the people's yearning for a better life and also the goal of our Party. In the past 40 years of continued Reform and Opening-up, our country has developed rapidly, and our people’s living standards have improved rapidly. However, the unbalanced, uncoordinated, and unsustainable problems in economic and social development are still prominent, especially the tightening of resource and environmental constraints, and the task of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects on schedule is very difficult.

The purpose of Reform and Opening-up and building socialism with Chinese characteristics is to make more development fruits come true and benefit all people more equitably. Today, when people’s livelihood and social construction issues are prominent, we must focus on better guaranteeing and improving people’s livelihood, promoting social equity and justice, deepening social system reform, reforming the income distribution system, promoting common prosperity, promoting institutional innovation in the social field, advancing the equalization of basic public services, accelerating the formation of a scientific and effective social governance system to ensure that the society is both vibrant, harmonious and orderly, promoting social fairness and justice and enhancing people’s well-being, so that we can create more development fruits and benefit all people more equitably.