Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 9th. Title: Set a demonstration in promoting common prosperity for all people - a series of comments on the fourth chapter of the economic province. Xinhua News Agency reporters Gao Jing and Huang Yao

Common prosperity is an essential requirement of socialism and an important feature of Chinese modernization.

At the moment when General Secretary Xi Jinping attended the deliberation of the Jiangsu delegation at the Third Session of the 14th National People's Congress, he clarified one of the key points of economic provinces: "Set an example in promoting common prosperity for all people."

To solidly promote common prosperity, we need to be rich first and then lead the rich later and help the rich later. Economic provinces are developing faster, and they should actively explore experience and play a demonstration and leading role in promoting common prosperity for all people.

In 2021, the "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Supporting Zhejiang's High-Quality Development and Building a Demonstration Zone for Common Prosperity" was released, and Zhejiang Province was selected to take the lead in trying out the way to explore a demonstration for the country to promote common prosperity. In 2024, the income difference between urban and rural residents in Zhejiang Province narrowed to 1.83, and significant progress has been made in promoting high-quality development to build a demonstration zone for common prosperity.

Some economic provinces such as Guangdong and Jiangsu are also promoting common prosperity to narrow the urban-rural gap, regional gap and income gap as the main focus, making useful explorations and achieving new results.

In accordance with the deployment of the Party Central Committee, by the end of the 14th Five-Year Plan, all people will take solid steps toward common prosperity. In the year when the 14th Five-Year Plan was concluded, General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions put forward higher requirements for economic provinces to take the lead in promoting common prosperity for all people, and clarified the focus of work.

Economic provinces should continue to work hard in promoting the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas and the integrated development of urban and rural areas, consolidating and expanding the results of poverty alleviation.

Xinchuan Village, Meishan Town, Changxing County, Zhejiang Province, guide villages and enterprises to integrate into the new energy industry chain, encourage villagers to develop industries such as leisure agriculture, tourism, and characteristic homestays. The people's lives are getting better and better.

National People's Congress representative and Party Secretary of Xinchuan Village Zhang Tianren said: "Everyone is truly rich. We have been paired up with Taipan Village, Taijiang County, Guizhou and other villages, and are sharing our experience of sharing prosperity."

At present, some economic provinces, including Zhejiang, are striving to promote equal exchange and two-way flow of urban and rural factors, promote common prosperity and development in urban and rural areas, and continue to explore and accumulate experience in further improving the system and mechanism of urban-rural integrated development.

This year is the last year for the five-year transition period for consolidating and expanding the results of poverty alleviation and effectively connecting with rural revitalization. Cai Jiming, a member of the National People's Congress and director of the Center for Political Economy Research at Tsinghua University, believes that while economic provinces develop themselves, they should continue to provide targeted assistance and consumer assistance, and pay more attention to using good experiences and practices to help the people in relatively backward areas get richer.

Economic provinces should do more practical things to strengthen basic, universal and basic livelihood construction and solve the urgent, difficult and worrying problems of the people -

As the aging of the population deepens, elderly care services, especially the care of disabled elderly people, are the concerns of many people. In the "list" of practical things for the people in 2025 announced by many economic provinces, caring for disabled elderly people has become an important arrangement.

Luan Xin, member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and member of the Standing Committee of the Central Democratic Progressive Party, said that many economic provinces have a high degree of aging, and have conditions and advantages in developing the silver economy and optimizing the supply of basic elderly care services, which can provide useful reference for local governments to actively respond to population aging.

From solving the problems of elderly care to meeting the needs of childcare, from obtaining better medical care to living in better houses, economic provinces should take the lead in trying to solve the most direct and realistic interests of the people, and do more practical things for people's livelihood.

Major economic provinces should further improve their social security system and enhance the balanced accessibility of basic public services.

Jingning County is located in the mountainous area of ​​southwest Zhejiang. Once upon a time, the incomplete basic public services were a long-standing problem here.

"The integrated reform of basic public services has made the people more smiling." Lan Jingfen, a member of the National People's Congress and county magistrate of Jingning County, introduced that through the optimization and adjustment of small-scale schools, 98% of primary and secondary school students in the county are studying in the county; exploring the construction of a "fixed + mobile" mountain medical service system, and sending medical treatment to people in remote mountainous areas through the on-site diagnosis and treatment system.

Promoting basic public services to be more sound, balanced and accessible is not only a realistic need, but also more related to the long-term, and is closely related to the people's sense of gain, happiness and security. Representatives and deputies said that major economic provinces should actively gradually expand the fields, enrich content, and improve their levels in public services, effectively ensure the basic needs of the people, and set a benchmark and set an example for the country.

Chinese-style modernization is a modernization that coordinates material civilization and spiritual civilization.

A major economic province is also a major cultural province. We must deepen the construction of urban and rural spiritual civilization, optimize the supply of cultural products and services, and empower economic and social development with culture.

Go ahead and strive for the first place.

Looking the road of common prosperity, economic provinces will take the lead in trying out and building and sharing together, and will surely play a leading and exemplary role and make new and greater contributions to promoting common prosperity for all people.