The second plenary meeting of the Fifth Session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference was held at 9:00 am on March 7 in the Great Hall of the People, and members made speeches at the meeting.
Gao Peiyong, Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, member of the Party Group, Secretary of the Party Committee of the University of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: The topic of my speech is: Promoting common prosperity requires the unity of efficiency and fairness
In the historical process of promoting common prosperity for all people, it is very important and crucial to correctly handle the relationship between efficiency and fairness to accurately grasp the strategic goals and practical ways to achieve common prosperity.
First, to promote common prosperity, we must divide the cake on the basis of making it bigger.
Common Wealth consists of two keywords, "common" and "rich".
"Wealth" needs to make the cake bigger, while "common" needs to divide the cake well. The two are a dialectical relationship.
my country is still a developing country, and development is still the foundation and key to solving all our problems.
Common prosperity can only be achieved by insisting on development. Without development or the foundation of prosperity, there can be no common prosperity.
Only by insisting on promoting common prosperity through high-quality development, "dividing the cake" on the basis of continuous "making the cake bigger", and laying a solid foundation for common prosperity, can we finally achieve common prosperity.
Second, promoting common prosperity depends on the joint efforts of all the people.
Common prosperity is to expand the middle-income group on the basis of acknowledging differences, and form an income distribution structure with "big in the middle and small at the other end".
The socialist market economy pursues the unity of efficiency and fairness.
Focusing only on efficiency and not fairness leads to polarization and stratification. It does not conform to the principle of common prosperity, and it also deviates from the original intention of socialism.
In the same way, only seeking fairness and not efficiency and pursuing egalitarianism will seriously affect economic development, and may even lead to common poverty.
Historically, we have suffered losses in this regard.
To promote common prosperity, we should pay more attention to the fairness of opportunities and the fairness of the process, and create a policy system and institutional environment that respects labor, creativity, knowledge, and talents, and creates wealth for the majority of people through hard work, honest labor, legal management, and innovation and entrepreneurship. conditions, and provide a channel for ordinary people to change their destiny through struggle.
We cannot engage in "absolute equality" and "eat a big pot of rice", nor can we "raise lazy people" or engage in "welfareism".
In recent years, my country's implementation of poverty alleviation has basically eliminated absolute poverty, which is a practical step and result of pursuing common prosperity.
Third, the promotion of common prosperity must be carried out under the premise of the basic socialist economic system.
Whether it is increasing the adjustment of taxation, social security, transfer payments, etc., or accurately providing basic public services in areas that the people are most concerned about, such as education, medical care, elderly care, and housing, or supporting willing and able enterprises and social groups Actively participating in public welfare and charitable undertakings must be organically integrated with the market economy, carried out and promoted under the premise of adhering to the basic socialist economic system and adhering to the "two unswerving".
It is necessary to give full play to the role of high-income groups and entrepreneurs, and fully mobilize the enthusiasm of entrepreneurs, but not "rob the rich to help the poor."
The three allocations should play a complementary role in improving the distribution structure, but mainly through voluntary charitable donations, and oppose any form of "forced donations" and "induced donations."
Fourth, to promote common prosperity requires multi-dimensional and all-round joint efforts.
Promoting common prosperity involves all aspects of social reproduction and various fields of national governance activities. It cannot only consider one dimension of distribution, nor can it be limited to an economic perspective.
It is necessary to start from the overall consideration of the development requirements of all aspects of the economy and society, adhere to the equal emphasis on economic development, social progress and the improvement of people's lives, and implement comprehensive policies.
It is necessary to continuously liberate and develop social productive forces, create and accumulate social wealth, and prevent polarization.
It is not only necessary to improve efficiency and efficiency through high-quality development, but also to promote fairness and justice in institutional arrangements.
It is necessary to pay attention not only to "rich pockets" to increase the income of urban and rural residents, but also to "rich heads" to meet people's cultural needs, enhance people's spiritual strength, and promote all-round human development and social progress.
The government should study and implement public policies that are conducive to both efficiency and fairness, such as further popularizing and improving education, supporting small and medium-sized enterprises to provide more and better jobs, and developing high-quality infrastructure.
Fifth, the promotion of common prosperity should be done step by step and over a long period of time.
Facing the basic national conditions that my country is still the largest developing country in the world, common prosperity is a goal that requires patience and needs to be achieved in stages. It cannot require all regions and all people to be prosperous at the same time, nor can it be required that different regions and different groups of people achieve the same goals. Nationally consistent income and living standards.
In the process of promoting common prosperity, we must not only do our best, but also do what we can according to our own circumstances.
Not only should we coordinate needs and possibilities, be down-to-earth and work for a long time, but also set development goals according to the situation and local conditions. On the basis of economic development and financial sustainability.
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