(Economic Observation) Interpretation of the Central Economic Work Conference: How to achieve common prosperity for a long time?
China News Service, Beijing, December 10 (Liu Liang and Zhu Li Dezi) Prosperity together is an extremely important long-term task for China.
How to promote the realization of this ambitious goal?
The Central Economic Work Conference, which just closed in Beijing, requires that we must correctly understand and grasp the strategic goals and ways to achieve common prosperity.
Since the beginning of this year, "common prosperity" has frequently appeared on the official policy agenda.
According to Jia Ruoxiang, director of the Comprehensive Research Office of the Institute of Land Development and Regional Economics of the National Development and Reform Commission, as China embarks on a new journey of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way, the proposal to promote common prosperity is far-reaching.
He analyzed and pointed out that common prosperity is an important landmark goal of China's modernization drive. The government also mentioned that common prosperity is an important feature of Chinese-style modernization.
This means that common prosperity should be promoted as an important goal in realizing China's modernization drive.
"At present, from the central to the local level, the promotion of common prosperity is a very important central issue. The purpose is to make a good start and take a good step in the new journey of modernization, and make solid progress toward this goal." Jia Ruoxiang said.
How to plan the way to achieve common prosperity?
The Central Economic Work Conference emphasized that we must pay attention to two important starting points: not only to make the "cake" bigger and well done, but also to cut the "cake" well through reasonable institutional arrangements.
Jia Ruoxiang pointed out that in the process of "big cake", we should focus on the promotion of "two highs and three balances", that is, high-quality development and high-quality life, and focus on regional, urban and rural, and income balance.
Specifically, it is necessary to further promote the regional coordinated development strategy, promote the high-quality sharing of basic common services between urban and rural areas, and promote the integrated development of urban and rural areas.
We must continue to grow middle-income groups and create an "olive-shaped" social structure.
Jia Ruoxiang believes that the "part of the cake" should emphasize fairness and the equalization of basic government public services should be the main focus.
He emphasized that the "increase the adjustment of taxation, social security, transfer payments, etc." mentioned in the Central Economic Conference aims to promote the outstanding shortcomings and weaknesses in common prosperity, and to improve the accuracy of policy support through the system.
For example, for backward areas and low-income groups, the state can use social security and transfer payments to improve the employment skills of low-income groups, so that different groups and regions can share the fruits of social development more equitably.
In the view of Li Shi, Dean of Zhejiang University's Institute of Sharing and Development, promoting common prosperity also requires mobilizing social forces to participate.
The Central Economic Work Conference also pointed out that it supports willing and capable companies and social groups to actively participate in charity.
Li Shi pointed out that this advocacy is mainly to play the positive role of the three-time distribution.
For high-income groups and high-income companies, they can participate in the three-time distribution process through charity and social assistance.
This will help optimize the pattern of social income distribution, and is a very useful supplement to the initial distribution and redistribution.
The Central Economic Work Conference pointed out that advancing common prosperity is a long historical process.
In Li Shi's view, although China's current economic development has laid a good foundation for it, this ambitious goal is still difficult to achieve in the short term, and it will take a long time.
In this process, we must persist in doing our best and doing what we can, and always maintain a scientific and rational attitude, and we must not rush to achieve results and advance blindly. We must advance step by step and stage by stage.
Regarding the specific areas of common prosperity for the promotion of people's livelihood, the Central Economic Work Conference pointed out that it is necessary to improve the public service policy system and accurately provide basic public services in areas where the people are most concerned about education, medical care, pensions, and housing.
Jia Ruoxiang believes that advancing common prosperity is to enhance the people's sense of happiness, sense of gain, and security, and at the same time enhance the people's recognition of common prosperity.
Education, medical care, elderly care, housing and other fields are closely related to people's livelihood. Promoting the development of these fields can make common prosperity go to people's lives and make common prosperity truly visible and tangible.
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