(Two Sessions Express) Liu Shijin: The final outcome of "killing the rich to help the poor" can only be common poverty
China News Agency, Beijing, March 9 (Reporter Liu Liang) Talking about the topic of common prosperity, Liu Shijin, deputy director of the Economic Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, emphasized in an interview with a reporter from China News Agency recently that killing the rich does not necessarily help the poor. lead to shared poverty.
Liu Shijin pointed out that during the more than 40 years of China's reform and opening up, some people got rich first, but in the process of getting rich, they did indeed drive economic growth.
Although the income gap between groups has widened in the process, this widening is also conducive to the improvement of productivity to a certain extent, and "makes the cake bigger".
He emphasized that to solve the problem of common prosperity, there are two keys: one is to pay attention to the importance of elements, especially human capital; the other is to increase the proportion of middle- and low-income groups and double the number of middle-income groups.
How to achieve this goal?
He pointed out that the most important thing is to help those low-income groups, that is, groups currently below the standard of the middle-income group, to improve their human capital and enhance their ability to make a bigger cake.
At the same time, it is also necessary to emphasize equal opportunities and create conditions for them to make a bigger cake.
"As the ability of these people improves, they can increase their employment opportunities as much as possible and let them make big cakes. At the same time, their ability to make cakes has increased, and when they finally divide the cake, they will naturally share more." Liu Shijin said.
He also said that to promote common prosperity, the distribution system also needs to be reformed.
In addition to the primary distribution and redistribution, there are also three distributions, namely social charity and public welfare power.
However, he emphasized that the three-time distribution must adhere to the principle of voluntary, and cannot "kill the rich to help the poor."
On the one hand, "killing the rich" will discourage the enthusiasm of some people who have become rich through their own business; on the other hand, "killing the rich", for the low-income class, it is impossible to get rich in the long run, and the final outcome can only be common poverty.
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