Constantly meeting people’s ever-growing needs for a better life with people-oriented philosophy is fundamental for China's efforts to ensure, improve and develop people's livelihood. This book analyzes the connotation of ensuring people's livelihood in China in the new era, discusses people’s material and cultural needs for a better life, and puts forward five core essentials of ensuring people's livelihood in China in the new era. It also introduces the key areas and practical paths and demonstrates the great achievements in the development of people's livelihood in China from six aspects, including winning the battle against poverty, running education that people are satisfied with, achieving fuller employment and better quality jobs, building the world’s largest social security system,ensuring housing for all the people, and building a healthy and beautiful China.
With the all-round acceleration of its modernization process, China has fully solved the problem of food and clothing for over one billion people in the 20th century and built a moderately prosperous society in all respects in the first two decades of the 21st century. Now, the Chinese people are striding toward a new era of common prosperity.
Zheng Gongcheng
Well-known expert on social security, distinguished professor and doctoral supervisor of Renmin University of China, director of China Social Security Research Center of Renmin University of China, vice chairman of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League, member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, president of the China Association of Social Security, editor-in-chief of Social Security Review, is mainly engaged in the research on theories and policies of social security, charity and labor employment, etc. Professor Zheng Gongcheng has long been committed to the reform and exploration in the field of people's livelihood in China and published dozens of works extensively in the above fields, which include Social Security: Idea, System, Practice and Speculation, Reform and Development Strategy of Social Security in China, Attention to People's Livelihood: Interview with Professor Zheng Gongcheng, as well as hundreds of academic articles, many of which have been published in Japan, the United States, Germany and other countries.
CONTENTS
Chapter 1The Connotation of Ensuring Peoples Livelihood in China in the New Era
11Review on the Categories of Peoples Livelihood
12The Connotation of Ensuring Peoples Livelihood in China in the New Era
Chapter 2Material and Cultural Needs and Needs for a Better life
21Hierarchy of Human Needs
22Material and Cultural Needs
23Needs for a Better Life
Chapter 3The Core Essence of Chinas System for Ensuring Peoples Livelihood in the New Era
31Commitment to the Peopleoriented Philosophy and
Development Path of Common Prosperity
32Meeting Peoples Needs for a Better Life and Constantly Promoting WellRounded Human Development
33Improving Living Standards Through Development to
Ensure Peoples Livelihood and WellBeing
34Committing to the Coconstruction and Sharing,Obtaining
Happiness through Hard Work
35Resolving the Pressing and Urgent Issues Concerning
the People the Most
Chapter 4Winning the Battle against Poverty
41Poverty Is the Sorrow of People,and Socialism Must
Eliminate Poverty
42Guided by the Concept of Targeted Poverty
Alleviation
43A Decisive Victory in the Battle against Poverty
Chapter 5Running Education that People are Satisfied with
51Education Serving as Foundation of Peoples Livelihood and
People Expecting Better Education
52Reform of the Educational System and Practice Path
53New Progress Made in the Reform and Development of
Education
Chapter 6Achieving Fuller Employment and Better Quality Jobs
61Employment is the Foundation of Peoples Livelihood and the Biggest Livelihood Project
62The Employment Priority Strategy and the More Active Employment Policy
63New Progress in the Development of Employment
Chapter 7Building the Worlds Largest Social Security System
71Social Security Concerns Security of Peoples Livelihood
and People Look Forward to More Reliable Social
Security
72Reform and Practice Path of Social Security System
73New Progress in the Development of Social Security
Reform
Chapter 8Ensuring Housing for All the People
81Housing Is Essential to Peoples Livelihood and People
Expect More Comfortable Living Conditions
82Practice Approaches for Ensuring the Housing Security of
All the People
83New Progress in Housing Security
Chapter 9Building a Healthy and Beautiful China
91Implementing the Strategy of Building a Healthy and
Beautiful China in Response to Peoples Concerns
92The Practice Path and New Progress of Building a
Healthy China
93The Practice Path and New Progress of Building a Beautiful China
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