Meeting People’s Aspirations to Live a Better Life with a Mature and Established System in China

Abstract

ABSTRACT As socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, the principal contradiction facing Chinese society has evolved to take the form of a contradiction between unbalanced and inadequate development and the people’s ever-growing need for a better life. In order to meet this need through institutional construction, it is necessary (1) to promote high-quality development, building a modernized economy so as to meet the increased material and cultural needs of the people; (2) to achieve a sense of gain, happiness and security among the people through scientific institutional construction; (3) to satisfy people’s new needs for democracy, the rule of law, fairness, justice, security, and environmental protection through efficient institutional construction; (4) to establish and steadily improve a national system of basic public services to ensure universal access to childcare, education, employment, medical services, care of elderly people, housing, and social welfare assistance, and to continue to advance towards common prosperity for all of Chinese society; (5) to provide better education, more stable jobs, higher incomes, more reliable social security, more advanced heath care, more comfortable living conditions, and a more beautiful environment, and to allow the younger generation to grow, work and live in better conditions through comprehensive, fully-fledged institutions and an enhanced governance system.