(Economic Observation) How can China gather "power to gather firewood" to achieve common prosperity?
China News Service, Beijing, December 21 (Reporter Wang Enbo) Realizing common prosperity has become one of the main goals of China’s economic and social development. "?
On the 21st, many experts pointed out the key point in the "State is the Forum: Building and Sharing Together to Promote Common Prosperity" hosted by China News Agency on the 21st.
Wei Jianguo, vice chairman of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges and former vice minister of the Ministry of Commerce of China, believes that the realization of common prosperity requires a "big cake", "big middle class" and "big participation".
He mentioned that China's promotion of common prosperity will not only expand the original “cake”, but also expand the “cake” of resources such as capital, talents, technology, information, and land on a global scale.
Wei Jianguo also pointed out that the middle class is an important force in promoting social and economic development. To further study how to expand the middle-income group, the policy should focus on this.
At the same time, more private enterprises and foreign-invested enterprises should be attracted to participate in the development of China's national grand strategy. China should also further integrate into the wave of globalization and further participate in the formulation of global trade rules.
When talking about how to make the "cake" bigger and better, Fan Jianping, the former chief economist of the National Information Center, said that this means that in the future, we must rely on diligence and innovation to get rich, so that economic development can be improved in quality and reasonable in quantity. The misunderstanding that the "welfare pie" of common prosperity will fall.
Fan Jianping emphasized that China is still a country in the primary stage of socialism. In 2019, China's per capita GDP will reach a level of 10,000 U.S. dollars. By the end of the "14th Five-Year Plan", China's per capita GDP may reach 12,000 U.S. dollars.
"Doing things well, and everyone contributes, this is the most solid foundation for us to achieve common prosperity."
It is worth mentioning that common prosperity is not only abundance of material wealth, but also has more diversified connotations behind it.
Mao Qun'an, deputy director of the Office of the Healthy China Action Promotion Committee, said that in the process of achieving common prosperity, the health of the whole people also assumes a very important responsibility.
Mao Qun'an said that in the context of the Healthy China Initiative, one is to focus on the health of the entire population and the entire life cycle, and to provide socially satisfactory and needed medical health and health services at all stages of life; The treatment of disease is centered to the center of people's health, and the change from relying on the health system to the overall linkage of the society.
Experts at the conference also mentioned that realizing common prosperity requires not only the active action of the government and the cohesion of social organizations, but also the active responsibility of enterprises as the main body of the micro market.
Song Weiqun, Vice President of China Association for Foreign Investment, Senior Vice President of Johnson & Johnson Global and Chairman of China Region Song Weiqun, said that in the current new development pattern, foreign-funded enterprises that have been deeply involved in the Chinese market see new development opportunities to contribute to the Chinese economy and the goal of common prosperity.
For Johnson & Johnson, this opportunity is mainly due to the continuous efforts of China's policy-side reforms, the increasingly diverse and sinking needs of the people, and the supply-side innovation cooperation.
Song Weiqun said that in China, the second largest economy in the world, high-quality development will promote common prosperity, which will radiate all aspects of ordinary people’s daily life such as consumption, education, medical care, and pensions. This is not only for China, but also for global economic and social development. It has a far-reaching impact, and it is believed that foreign-funded enterprises can play a very active role in this grand goal.
In recent years, Chinese Internet platform companies have developed rapidly, and their role in achieving common prosperity has also attracted much attention.
Huang Yiping, deputy dean of the National Development Research Institute of Peking University, said that the platform economy and digital technology have a strong inclusive significance and contribute to common prosperity; but at the same time, some platforms have also become "anti-competitive" after they have grown larger. The practice leads to excessive concentration of wealth, which is not conducive to common prosperity.
Huang Yiping believes that the purpose of the current development of China's regulated platform enterprises is to further develop their contribution to common prosperity.
Specifically, there are three aspects worthy of attention: one is to strengthen supervision, oppose "anti-competitive" behaviors, and reduce monopolistic behavior; the second is to improve taxation issues in emerging industries; the third is to advocate large platforms and large companies to be responsible platform companies.
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