Deeply grasp the basic spirit and practical requirements of promoting common prosperity

Common prosperity is the essential requirement of socialism with Chinese characteristics, which embodies the fundamental purpose of our party to serve the people wholeheartedly. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "The common prosperity we are talking about is the common prosperity of all people. It means that the people's material and spiritual lives are rich. It is not the prosperity of a few people, nor is it uniform egalitarianism." General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition on common prosperity is an important part of Xi Jinping's economic thought, which points out the way forward and provides a fundamental basis for promoting common prosperity in the new stage.
To promote common prosperity, we must first make a big "cake" and then cut and divide the "cake"
Common prosperity is an important category of Xi Jinping's economic thought, which is composed of two key words: "common" and "rich. The premise of "affluence" is development, which requires making the "cake" bigger and better. "Common" embodies fairness and requires that the "cake" be cut and divided well. Making the "cake" bigger and making the "cake" and cutting the "cake" well reflect the dialectical relationship between growth and distribution, efficiency and fairness. Common prosperity can only be achieved by persisting in development. Without the basis of development or prosperity, there is no common prosperity.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Adhere to the people-centered development thinking, promote common prosperity in high-quality development, and correctly handle the relationship between efficiency and fairness". As far as the actual national conditions are concerned, our country is still and will be in the primary stage of socialism for a long time. Our country is still the largest developing country in the world, and development is still the top priority for our party to govern and rejuvenate the country. Only by promoting sustained and healthy economic development can we build a solid material foundation for promoting common prosperity. Therefore, it is still our important task to develop the economy and make the "cake" bigger and better. Only by firmly grasping the center of economic construction, making the "cake" bigger and better through the joint efforts of the people of the whole country, and then cutting and dividing the "cake" through reasonable institutional arrangements, can we build the foundation of common prosperity and finally achieve common prosperity.
To promote common prosperity is not to engage in egalitarianism, but to encourage hard work and innovation to become rich.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "China wants to achieve common prosperity, but not egalitarianism." "We must encourage hard work and innovation to become rich, and insist on ensuring and improving people's livelihood in development". Common prosperity is not egalitarianism. Although egalitarianism can level the income gap in a short period of time and seems to achieve equality in distribution results, it can not reflect the difference in labor contribution, lack of fair opportunity and fair process, which will have negative incentives for people's labor enthusiasm, initiative and creativity, resulting in people with innovative ability no longer innovating, hard-working people no longer working, and economic development has stagnated or even regressed. The practice of egalitarianism will not only fail to achieve common prosperity, but will also lead to common poverty. In this regard, we have learned a profound lesson.
Promoting common prosperity not only does not involve egalitarianism, but also encourages hard work and innovation to become rich. Happy life is a struggle, common prosperity depends on hard work and wisdom to create. Only with everyone's participation and everyone's efforts can everyone truly enjoy it. Workers should be encouraged to move towards a happy life through hard work, legal management, innovation and entrepreneurship. It should be recognized that fairness includes not only fairness of results, but also fairness of opportunity and fairness of process. We should not only pay attention to the fairness of results and narrow the income gap, but also pay attention to the fairness of opportunities and processes, and create a policy system and institutional environment that respects labor, knowledge, talents and creation. to create conditions for people to increase their income and become rich through hard work, honest work, legal operation, innovation and entrepreneurship, and provide a channel for people to change their destiny through struggle. Only by encouraging hard work and innovation while ensuring fairness can we form a correct concept of fairness and gradually realize common prosperity.
Promoting common prosperity must be rooted in the soil of the socialist market economy and adhere to the basic socialist economic system.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Engaging in a socialist market economy is a great creation of our party." "The reform goal of establishing a socialist market economic system is proposed. This is a major theoretical and practical innovation of our party in the process of building socialism with Chinese characteristics. It has solved a major problem that other socialist countries in the world have not solved for a long time". To adhere to the direction of socialist market economic reform, the core issue is to properly handle the relationship between the government and the market, make the market play a decisive role in the allocation of resources, give better play to the role of the government, and promote a better combination of effective market and promising government. This shows that whether it is to increase the adjustment of taxation, social security, transfer payments, etc., or to improve the public service policy system, to accurately provide basic public services in the areas of most concern to the people, such as education, medical care, pensions, and housing, or Support willing and capable enterprises and individuals to actively participate in public welfare and charity must be organically integrated with the development of the socialist market economy, we will advance on the premise of adhering to the basic socialist economic system.
Rooted in the soil of the socialist market economy to promote common prosperity, it is necessary to give full play to the role of high-income groups and entrepreneurs, and encourage them to return more to society, rather than "robbing the rich and helping the poor"; it is necessary to use charitable donations and other methods to play the third time The supplementary role of distribution in improving the distribution structure, adhere to the principle of voluntary rather than compulsory, and oppose any form of "forced donation"; it is necessary to give better play to the role of the government in income distribution and the supply of public services, and at the same time pay attention not to raise too high goals and excessive guarantees, and resolutely prevent falling into the trap of "welfarism" to raise lazy people.
To promote common prosperity, it is necessary to achieve the unity and promotion of efficiency and fairness by adhering to and improving the basic socialist economic system. "Adhere to the two unshakable", adhere to the public ownership as the main body and the common development of multiple ownership economies, vigorously play the important role of the public ownership economy in promoting common prosperity, and at the same time promote the healthy development of the non-public economy and the healthy growth of the non-public economy. We should adhere to the principle of distribution according to work as the main body and the coexistence of various distribution methods. We should not only adhere to the principle of "more work and more income", focus on protecting labor income, increase the proportion of labor remuneration in the initial distribution, but also improve the redistribution adjustment mechanism with taxation, social security and transfer payment as the main means. We should also improve the third distribution mechanism and develop charity and other social public welfare undertakings. We should build a high-level socialist market economic system, adhere to the market-oriented allocation of factors, strive to realize that the price of factors is determined by the market, the flow is independent and orderly, and the allocation is efficient and fair, and some people are allowed to get rich first. At the same time, we should emphasize that the rich first lead the rich and help the rich, and focus on encouraging the rich leaders who work hard, operate legally and dare to start a business.
Promoting common prosperity is not only an economic issue, but also affects all aspects of social reproduction and all areas of national governance.
Promoting common prosperity affects all aspects of social reproduction and all areas of national governance, which is a matter of overall development. It is not only a distribution problem, but also involves production, exchange and consumption. It is not only an economic problem, but also closely related to political construction, cultural construction, social construction and ecological civilization construction. Whether it is simply talking about common prosperity in terms of the distribution dimension, hoping to improve the pattern of income and wealth distribution through a single distribution system adjustment, or limited to the economic perspective of common prosperity, hoping to narrow the income and wealth distribution gap through a single economic system reform, it is not comprehensive.
To promote common prosperity, we must proceed from the overall planning and consideration of all aspects of economic and social development requirements, 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, continuously create and accumulate social wealth, but also to prevent polarization and class solidification, and achieve social harmony and stability. We should not only improve efficiency and efficiency through high-quality development, but also strive to promote social equity and justice through institutional arrangements, so that the fruits of development can benefit all the people more equitably. We should not only pay attention to the low-income groups, gradually improve the minimum living security level in urban and rural areas, firmly grasp the basic living bottom line, and solve the poverty problem, but also encourage the exploration of ways to get rich, and protect legitimate income and legal wealth by protecting property rights and intellectual property rights. We should not only pay attention to the "rich pocket", constantly increase the income of urban and rural residents, but also pay attention to the "rich head", develop public cultural undertakings, improve the public cultural service system, constantly meet the diversified, multi-level and multi-faceted spiritual and cultural needs of the people, and enhance the spiritual strength of the people.
Only by promoting common prosperity through the interconnection and interdependence of production, distribution, exchange, consumption, economic construction, political construction, cultural construction, social construction, and ecological civilization construction, can we coordinate all aspects of social reproduction, coordinate all fields of national governance, and promote The all-round development of people and the overall progress of society will realize the prosperity of the people's material and spiritual lives.
The realization of common prosperity is a long-term historical process, and it is necessary to promote common prosperity in stages.
Achieving the goal of common prosperity is a long-term historical process. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "We must thoroughly study the goals of different stages and promote common prosperity in stages: By the end of the'14th Five-Year Plan, all people will take solid steps towards common prosperity, and the gap between residents' income and actual consumption levels will gradually narrow. By 2035, more obvious and substantial progress will be made in the common prosperity of all people, and basic public services will be equalized. By the middle of this century, the common prosperity of all the people will be basically realized, and the gap between residents' income and actual consumption level will be narrowed to a reasonable range." From the "14th Five-Year Plan" to the middle of this century, from the solid progress of the common prosperity of all people to the basic realization of the common prosperity of all people, it is neither necessary nor urgent to promote common prosperity. It is a long-term process that requires patience and hard work to do things well.
At present, the problem of unbalanced and inadequate development in our country is still prominent. Under the existing productivity conditions, it is normal for there to be a moderate gap between regions, between urban and rural areas and between individuals. The basis and conditions for promoting common prosperity vary from region to region and cannot go hand in hand. We should not only consciously and actively solve the problems of regional gap, urban-rural gap and income gap, and promote the equalization of basic public services, but also clearly realize that not all people are rich at the same time, nor do all regions reach a level of prosperity at the same time. Different groups of people not only achieve high and low levels of wealth, but also have time before, There will be some differences in the degree of wealth in different regions. Common prosperity is a process of dynamic development. In the process of promoting common prosperity, we should do our best and do what we can. It is necessary to coordinate needs and possibilities, proceed step by step in accordance with the laws of economic and social development, be down-to-earth and work for a long time, explore effective ways in accordance with local conditions, and build the protection and improvement of people's livelihood and the promotion of common prosperity on the basis of economic development and sustainable financial resources, and continue to promote and continue to achieve Achieve results and steadily move towards the goal of common prosperity.
(the author is vice president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Secretary of the Party committee of the University of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

Source: Party and Government Theory Network