[Explanation] At present, common prosperity has been "put on the agenda" in the "14th Five-Year Plan", but there are still some vague understandings of common prosperity in the society.
What exactly is common prosperity?
How to achieve common prosperity?
How to balance fairness and efficiency?
In this regard, Bai Chong'en, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and dean of the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University, explained it.
[Commentary] Bai Chongen said that common prosperity is a goal that needs to be persisted for a long time, and any civilized society should strive to pursue it.
[Concurrent] Bai Chong'en, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Dean of the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University
Common prosperity These are four words, one is "common" and the other is "rich".
That is, on the one hand, we must consider the rationality of distribution, and on the other hand, we must also consider development. Without development, there will be no prosperity. Therefore, how to achieve high-quality and fair development is the proper meaning of common prosperity.
[Explanation] How to achieve common prosperity?
Bai Chongen introduced the concept of "zero allocation".
He pointed out that when discussing common prosperity, three distributions are usually mentioned: the initial distribution mainly reflects efficiency, the redistribution balances fairness and efficiency, and the third distribution is based on voluntary principles.
Bai Chongen believes that before the initial allocation, there is actually a "zero allocation".
"Zero distribution" can be understood as paying more attention to the fairness of distribution.
[Concurrent] Bai Chong'en, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Dean of the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University
For the initial allocation, we emphasize that the allocation is based on the contribution of the elements, and the market determines which element contributes much, so the efficiency will be higher, but here are the elements, and who has what elements will affect the distribution, so in Before the initial allocation, there is actually one allocation, and I call it "zero allocation".
[Explanation] Bai Chong'en said that, for example, before entering production, differences in education level and identity will lead to differences in human capital among market entities.
[Concurrent] Bai Chong'en, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Dean of the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University
If education is fair, then the opportunity to earn income in the future will be fairer, and education depends on public policies. How can we make educational resources more popular and more equitably distributed to different groups of people? This is one of our labor resources. .
[Explanation] Ecological elements are also worthy of attention.
Bai Chong'en said that one measure to achieve the "dual carbon" goal is to trade carbon emission rights. If emission rights are regarded as an ecological element, emission rights can also participate in "zero-time distribution".
[Concurrent] Bai Chong'en, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Dean of the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University
In the past, we did it for convenience. In order to reduce the impact on enterprises, your power company will get so many emission rights, free of charge, for you. If we do this, we will distribute emission rights to users, especially residents. Residents have Certain emission rights, I reduce my usage, I can sell the remaining emission rights, I can get income, and if for low-income residents, their electricity consumption is relatively less, if We give him the same emission rights as everyone else, and he has another source of income.
[Explanation] Bai Chong'en said that if the goal of common prosperity and the major issues facing China are considered together, you will find that there are many opportunities. The concept of "zero-time distribution" reflects a certain convenience, taking into account efficiency and fair.
Reporter Shi Rui Liu Chao reports from Beijing
Responsible editor: [Li Ji]