The Institute of Party History and Literature of the CPC Central Committee has edited On Poverty Reduction and Poverty Alleviation, a thematic collection of 55 important manuscripts by Comrade Xi Jinping on poverty reduction and alleviation from November 2012 to July 2026. The main articles are introduced as follows.

“The People’s Aspiration for a Better Life Is Our Goal of Struggle” is the main part of Xi Jinping’s remarks on 15 November 2012, when members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the 18th CPC Central Committee met Chinese and foreign journalists. It states that the people love life and look forward to better education, more stable jobs, more satisfactory incomes, more reliable social security, a higher level of medical and health services, more comfortable living conditions and a more beautiful environment, and hope their children can grow up, work and live better. The people’s aspiration for a better life is the goal of struggle. The Party must always be of one heart with the people, share weal and woe with them and unite in struggle with them, striving to hand a satisfactory answer to history and the people.

“Speech During an Inspection of Poverty Alleviation and Development Work in Fuping County, Hebei Province” is Xi Jinping’s speech on 29 and 30 December 2012. It states that eliminating poverty, improving people’s livelihood and achieving common prosperity are essential requirements of socialism. The most arduous and heaviest tasks in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects lie in rural areas, especially poor areas. Without a moderately prosperous countryside, and especially without moderately prosperous poor areas, there can be no moderately prosperous society in all respects. Understanding of the importance of poverty alleviation and development must be raised, and the sense of responsibility and mission strengthened. Advancing poverty alleviation requires firm confidence and the right approach: proceeding from reality, adapting measures to local conditions, clarifying thinking, improving plans and identifying breakthroughs. Officials at all levels should shift the focus of work downward, go deep into reality, the grassroots and the people, study practical problems and work creatively.

“Implement Targeted Poverty Alleviation and Targeted Poverty Elimination” is an excerpt from Xi Jinping’s speeches between November 2013 and October 2015. It states that poverty alleviation and development require both overall coordination and common requirements and measures, and a focus on extremely poor villages and households, seeking truth from facts, adapting to local conditions, giving classified guidance and carrying out targeted poverty alleviation so as to continuously improve precision, effectiveness and sustainability. Targeted poverty alleviation means refined management of those receiving assistance, precise allocation of poverty-alleviation resources and targeted support, ensuring resources are truly used on the people and areas concerned so that poor people truly benefit.

“In Building a Moderately Prosperous Society in All Respects, Not a Single Ethnic Group Can Be Left Behind” is an excerpt from Xi Jinping’s manuscripts between March 2014 and May 2020. It states that the purpose of socialism is to enable people of all ethnic groups to live happy and better lives. Without moderate prosperity and modernization in ethnic minority areas, there can be none nationwide. Work must be pursued with a sense that time will not wait, with innovative thinking, greater support, measures adapted to local conditions and targeted efforts, and a targeted poverty-alleviation mechanism that reaches the point, the root and the household, so that ethnic minorities and ethnic areas achieve moderate prosperity and modernization together with the rest of the country.

“Letting Fellow Villagers Live Better Lives Is Our Party’s Unchanging Original Aspiration and Mission” is an excerpt from Xi Jinping’s manuscripts between April 2014 and September 2021. It states that the Communist Party of China has won the support of the people because it has always stayed true to its original aspiration and mission of seeking happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation. The people are the country; the Party fights for and defends the country by defending the people’s hearts and enabling them to live better lives. Agriculture, farmers and rural areas must never be neglected. Work must continue from generation to generation, both speeding poverty elimination and prosperity and promoting all-round rural revitalization and modernization.

“Reply Letter to Villagers of Liangjiahe Village, Yanchuan County, Shaanxi Province” is Xi Jinping’s reply of 5 May 2014. It states that whether moderate prosperity is achieved depends on rural people. It has long been his wish that villagers and farmers across the country enjoy moderately prosperous lives at an early date. He hoped they would lead fellow villagers to work in a down-to-earth way so that life becomes increasingly prosperous and the village increasingly beautiful.

“Written Instructions on the First Poverty Alleviation Day” are Xi Jinping’s instructions of 10 October 2014. They state that China would set 17 October each year as Poverty Alleviation Day and, on the first such day, commend advanced collectives and individuals in social poverty alleviation and further arrange the work. This is of great significance for carrying forward the traditional virtue of helping the poor, cultivating and practicing core socialist values, mobilizing all social forces to fight poverty together and continuing the poverty-alleviation campaign. The whole Party and society should continue joint efforts to form a strong combined force.

“Speech at a Symposium on Poverty Elimination and Prosperity in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Revolutionary Old Base Areas” is Xi Jinping’s speech of 13 February 2015. It states that revolutionary old base areas are the roots of the Party and the people’s army. Accelerating their development, doing poverty alleviation well and enabling poor rural people there to escape poverty and become prosperous so that they enter a moderately prosperous society together with the whole country is an unshirkable responsibility of the Party and government. Party committees and governments at all levels must strengthen their sense of mission and responsibility and keep the development of old base areas and improvement of people’s lives in mind and in hand. The work must be done in earnest, follow the requirements of targeted poverty alleviation, set clear goals, tasks, responsibilities and measures, focus precisely, assist those who are truly poor and truly assist the poor, put money where it is most needed and truly uproot poverty.

“Speech at a Symposium of Some Provinces, Autonomous Regions and Municipalities on Poverty Alleviation and Economic and Social Development During the 13th Five-Year Plan Period” is Xi Jinping’s speech of 18 June 2015. It states that the 13th Five-Year Plan is the concluding plan for building a moderately prosperous society in all respects. The key is to make up for shortcomings, including the shortcoming of poverty alleviation and development. At the stage then reached, precision is what is valuable, what matters and what determines success or failure. Flood irrigation, superficial tours, generalization and using a hand grenade to kill a flea will not work. “Six precisions” are required: precise identification of those to be supported, precise project arrangements, precise use of funds, precise measures reaching households, precise assignment of personnel to villages (including first secretaries) and precise results in poverty elimination. Every locality should find ways, take real measures and achieve real results on these points. It stresses that upholding the Party’s leadership and giving play to the advantage of the socialist system in concentrating resources on major undertakings is the greatest political advantage. The leadership responsibility system must be strengthened, and the management system of central coordination, provincial overall responsibility and city (prefecture) and county implementation, the working mechanism of focusing on contiguous areas, work reaching villages and assistance reaching households, and the responsibility system under which the principal Party and government leaders bear overall responsibility must be truly put into effect.

“Work Together to Eliminate Poverty and Promote Common Development” is the keynote speech Xi Jinping delivered on 16 October 2015 at the 2015 Global Poverty Reduction and Development Forum in Beijing. It states that eliminating poverty remains the greatest global challenge facing the world. Consensus must be built, difficulties tackled together and the global poverty-reduction process accelerated, cooperation on poverty reduction and development strengthened, diversified, independent and sustainable development achieved and the international development environment improved, so as to strive unremittingly to build a community with a shared future for mankind free of poverty and committed to common development.

“Speech at the Central Conference on Poverty Alleviation and Development” is Xi Jinping’s speech of 27 November 2015. It states that lifting all rural poor people out of poverty is a landmark indicator for building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and achieving the first centenary goal. Poverty alleviation had reached the sprint stage of tackling the hardest problems and must be pursued with greater determination, clearer thinking, more precise measures and extraordinary intensity so that the goal is achieved through united effort. Targeted poverty alleviation and elimination must be upheld, with the emphasis on raising effectiveness. The question of “whom to support” must be solved by identifying the truly poor and applying household- and person-specific measures. The question of “who will provide support” must be solved by accelerating a working mechanism of central coordination, overall responsibility of provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and implementation by cities (prefectures) and counties, with clear division of labor, clear responsibilities, tasks assigned to people and assessment in place. The question of “how to provide support” must be solved by implementing the “five batches” project according to the specific conditions of poor areas and people. The question of “how to exit” must be solved by accelerating an exit mechanism for poor counties and households that reflects objective reality, so as to achieve targeted poverty elimination. It stresses that the charge for the battle had been sounded. Party committees and governments at all levels must have firm confidence and the courage to take responsibility, shoulder poverty-elimination duties and grasp the tasks. They must set their minds on the goal like the Foolish Old Man who moved the mountains, work hard and resolutely win the battle, ensuring that by 2020 all poor areas and poor people enter a moderately prosperous society together.

“Speech at a Symposium on East-West Poverty Alleviation Collaboration” is Xi Jinping’s speech of 20 July 2016. It states that east-west poverty alleviation collaboration and paired assistance are a major strategy for coordinated, collaborative and common regional development, a major layout for strengthening regional cooperation, optimizing industrial distribution and expanding new space for opening up internally and externally, and a major measure for the better-off to help those still lagging behind so as ultimately to achieve common prosperity; they must be upheld over the long term. Western regions, especially ethnic minority areas, border areas, revolutionary old base areas and contiguous extremely poor areas, have deep poverty, high costs and great difficulty and are the shortcoming of the campaign. Understanding must be raised and leadership strengthened, pairing improved and assistance deepened, priorities clarified and focus made precise, and assessment strengthened so that results are ensured, further raising the level of collaboration and paired assistance under the new situation. It stresses that poverty alleviation must include fostering intelligence and that treating poverty begins with treating ignorance. Becoming prosperous requires attention not only to filling pockets but also to enriching minds. To thoroughly uproot poverty, western regions must treat education as a long-term undertaking.

“Better Advance Targeted Poverty Alleviation and Elimination to Ensure the Poverty-Alleviation Goals Are Achieved on Schedule” is Xi Jinping’s speech on 21 February 2017 while presiding over the 39th group study session of the Political Bureau of the 18th CPC Central Committee. It states that lifting the rural poor out of poverty on schedule, removing the poverty designation from all poor counties and solving regional overall poverty are the baseline task for building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and a solemn commitment. The later the stage, the greater the difficulty; those remaining are mostly areas and people with poorer conditions, weaker foundations and deeper poverty. The arduousness of winning the battle must be fully recognized, targeted poverty alleviation and elimination upheld, grassroots and foundational work strengthened and the correct direction grasped, so that by 2020 poor people and poor areas build a moderately prosperous society in all respects together with the whole country.

“Give Play to the Guiding Role of Assessment to Ensure the Quality of Poverty Alleviation” is an excerpt from Xi Jinping’s speech on 23 March 2017 at a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the 18th CPC Central Committee that reviewed a report on the 2016 assessment of poverty alleviation and development work by provincial Party committees and governments. It states that assessing the effectiveness of provincial Party committees and governments is an important means of pressing localities to ensure implementation. The guiding role of assessment must be brought into play; through serious and rigorous assessment, orientation is set, rules stated and responsibility pressed so that quality is ensured. Assessment work should be continuously improved and results put to use so that assessment is more scientific, effective and realistic, thereby strongly urging and guiding all regions to carry out targeted poverty alleviation and elimination and continuously raise effectiveness.

“Speech at a Symposium on Poverty Alleviation in Deeply Impoverished Areas” is Xi Jinping’s speech of 23 June 2017. It states that since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the Party Central Committee has taken lifting the poor out of poverty as the baseline task and a landmark indicator for building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and has launched the battle nationwide. The intensity, scale and impact are unprecedented. Poverty alleviation is a hard battle, and the battle in deeply impoverished areas is the hardest part of it. Accelerating that work requires following the Central Committee’s unified arrangements, upholding the basic strategy of targeted poverty alleviation and elimination, the management system of central coordination, provincial overall responsibility and city and county implementation, the responsibility system under which principal Party and government leaders bear overall responsibility, and the “three-in-one” pattern in which specialized, sectoral and social poverty alleviation and multiple measures are organically combined and mutually supporting. With solving prominent constraints as the focus, major projects and village- and household-level measures as the means, and making up shortcomings as the breakthrough, support systems should be strengthened and policy preferences increased so that deeply impoverished areas and poor people enter a moderately prosperous society together with the people of the whole country.

“Resolutely Win the Battle Against Poverty” is part of the report Xi Jinping delivered on 18 October 2017 to the 19th National Congress of the CPC. It states that the forces of the whole Party, the whole country and the whole society must be mobilized, targeted poverty alleviation and elimination upheld, and it ensured that by 2020 the rural poor under the current standards are lifted out of poverty, all poor counties have their poverty designation removed and regional overall poverty is solved, so that those lifted out are truly poor and the exit from poverty is genuine.

“Fight the Battle of Targeted Poverty Alleviation Well and Follow a Path of Poverty Reduction with Chinese Characteristics” is part of Xi Jinping’s speech on 28 December 2017 at the Central Rural Work Conference. It states that targeted poverty elimination is the battle among the three critical battles set out in the report to the 19th National Congress that is of the most decisive significance for building a moderately prosperous society in all respects. Fighting it well requires a correct understanding, a correct view of political performance, combining poverty alleviation with fostering confidence and intelligence, putting higher quality first, and taking the stimulation of the internal drive of poor people and the strengthening of their development capacity as the fundamental measure. It stresses that the battle must seek truth from facts, must not add layers of extra targets and must not do things beyond the stage of development. Formalism must be guarded against, the burden on the grassroots reduced and their main energy placed on doing practical things for poor people.

“Speech at a Symposium on Fighting the Battle of Targeted Poverty Alleviation Well” is Xi Jinping’s speech of 12 February 2018. It states that the arduousness of the tasks and the prominence of problems in practice, together with the urgency of solving them, must be clearly recognized, and there must be no relaxation, pause or slackening, with preparations made to cope with and overcome difficulties and challenges. Raising the quality of poverty elimination must be put first, with a focus on deeply impoverished areas, stronger organizational leadership, adherence to goals and standards, stronger systems and mechanisms, a firm grasp of precision, improved fund management, stronger conduct, rotation training of officials and attention to stimulating internal drive, so as to fight the battle in an all-round way.

“The Battle Against Poverty Is a Hard Battle That Must Be Won and Fought Well” is part of Xi Jinping’s speech on 7 March 2019 while attending the deliberation of the Gansu delegation at the second session of the 13th National People’s Congress. It states that only two years then remained before the 2020 target, the most demanding period, and work must be done unremittingly, with no withdrawal short of complete victory. Confidence must remain unshaken, the goal held firmly, problems addressed without softness, responsibility implemented without relaxation and conduct transformed without slack, so that the tasks are completed on schedule.

“Speech at a Symposium on Solving Prominent Problems Concerning the ‘Two Assurances and Three Guarantees’” is Xi Jinping’s speech of 16 April 2019. It states that stably achieving, by 2020, that the rural poor do not worry about food or clothing and have access to compulsory education, basic medical care and safe housing is the basic requirement and core indicator for lifting the poor out of poverty and bears directly on the quality of the battle. Finding out the true situation is the foundation for solving prominent problems in the “two assurances and three guarantees.” Work must be intensified, prominent problems focused on, and gaps checked and shortcomings made up village by village, household by household and item by item. It stresses that the battle had entered the decisive stage and the most important thing was to prevent slackening and backsliding. Responsibility must be strengthened, the hardest of the hard problems overcome, problems earnestly rectified, quality raised, policies kept stable and conduct improved, with no withdrawal short of complete victory.

“On Making Up for Shortcomings in Building a Moderately Prosperous Society in All Respects” is part of Xi Jinping’s speech on 22 April 2019 at the fourth meeting of the Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission. It states that decisive progress had been made in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, but some shortcomings remained and must be made up more quickly. Shortcomings and weak links must be focused on and targeted assaults carried out. In the work, the relationship between overall and individual goals, between absolute and relative standards, and between quantitative analysis and qualitative judgment must be properly grasped. Superior forces should be concentrated to fight battles of annihilation, the poverty-alleviation tasks fully completed, prominent environmental pollution in key areas solved, progress in areas concerning people’s livelihood accelerated and the social-security safety-net mechanism improved.

“Continue to Consolidate and Expand the Achievements of Poverty Alleviation and Ensure That No Large-Scale Return to or Fall into Poverty Occurs” is an excerpt from Xi Jinping’s manuscripts between August 2019 and December 2024. It states that lifting poor villagers out of poverty is the first step; what follows is ensuring that they remain stably out of poverty. The achievements must be continuously consolidated and expanded, and the bottom line of no large-scale return to or fall into poverty firmly held. Monitoring and assistance systems to prevent a return to poverty must be improved, the effective connection between comprehensive poverty elimination and rural revitalization advanced, and endogenous development drive and vitality strengthened so that development after poverty elimination is possible and sustainable.

“Speech at a Symposium on Securing a Decisive Victory in Poverty Alleviation” is Xi Jinping’s speech of 6 March 2020. It states that the battle cannot be won by a casual charge. From decisive achievements to complete victory, difficulties and challenges remain arduous. It is a hard battle; the closer to the end, the tighter the string must be kept, with no pause, carelessness or relaxation. Provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities had signed pledges at every level, and commitments must be honored. Party leadership over winning the battle must be strengthened, tasks completed by overcoming difficulties, the impact of the epidemic overcome, results consolidated through multiple measures, poverty-alleviation policies kept stable, strict assessment and a census carried out, and the effective connection between comprehensive poverty elimination and rural revitalization advanced, so as to complete the goals with high quality and win complete victory.

“The Major Victory in Poverty Alleviation Has Laid a Solid Foundation for Achieving the First Centenary Goal” is the main points of Xi Jinping’s speech on 3 December 2020 at a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the 19th CPC Central Committee that heard a report on the summary and assessment of poverty alleviation. It states that since the 18th National Congress, the Party Central Committee has placed poverty alleviation in a prominent position in governance, taken many major measures that are original and distinctive, and organized and carried out the largest and most intensive poverty-alleviation campaign in human history, completing the goals and tasks of poverty alleviation in the new era on schedule. The major victory has laid a solid foundation for achieving the first centenary goal and greatly enhanced the people’s sense of gain, happiness and security.

“Do a Good Job in Effectively Connecting the Consolidation and Expansion of Poverty-Alleviation Achievements with Rural Revitalization” is part of Xi Jinping’s speech on 28 December 2020 at the Central Rural Work Conference. It states that the mission is now to advance rural revitalization in an all-round way, a historic shift in the focus of work on agriculture, rural areas and farmers. The task of preventing a return to poverty in areas that have exited poverty remains heavy. The effective connection must be handled well, with no gap in work and no blank in policy; it must not happen that comprehensive poverty elimination is announced on one side while large-scale return to poverty appears on the other. The Party Central Committee decided that, after the goals and tasks are completed, a five-year transition period would be set for counties that have shaken off poverty, starting from the date of exit. During the transition, major assistance policies should remain generally stable. Existing policies should be optimized and adjusted item by item and by category, with the pace, intensity and time limits reasonably grasped, so as gradually to achieve a smooth transition from concentrating resources on poverty alleviation to comprehensively advancing rural revitalization.

“Speech at the National Conference to Review the Fight Against Poverty and Commend Outstanding Individuals and Groups” is Xi Jinping’s speech of 25 February 2021. The speech solemnly declared that China had won a complete victory in the battle against poverty, solved regional overall poverty and completed the arduous task of eliminating absolute poverty, creating another miracle that will go down in history. It states that the remarkable achievements rest on the Party’s strong leadership, the Chinese nation’s spirit of self-reliance and hard struggle, the solid material foundation accumulated since the founding of the People’s Republic of China and especially since reform and opening up, the perseverance of one term of office after another, and the united struggle of the whole Party and the people of all ethnic groups. Based on national conditions and the laws of poverty reduction, China has blazed a path of poverty reduction with Chinese characteristics and formed a theory of anti-poverty work with Chinese characteristics. The great struggle forged the spirit of poverty alleviation: “working with one heart from top to bottom, sending the best forces into action, being targeted and pragmatic, pioneering and innovating, tackling difficulties and living up to the people.” It stresses that removal of the poverty label is not the end but the starting point of a new life and new struggle. Work to effectively connect consolidation and expansion of the achievements with rural revitalization must be done well so that the foundation is more solid and the results more sustainable. Solving issues related to agriculture, rural areas and farmers must remain the top priority of the whole Party’s work, the path of socialist rural revitalization with Chinese characteristics followed, urban-rural and regional development gaps continuously narrowed, and low-income people and underdeveloped areas enabled to share the fruits of development. On the new journey of building a modern socialist country in all respects, promoting common prosperity for all the people must be placed in a more important position, pursued in a down-to-earth way and over the long term, so as to promote all-round human development and all-round social progress and make the people’s sense of gain, happiness and security more substantial, better guaranteed and more sustainable.

“Incorporate Regular Assistance into the Overall Implementation of the Rural Revitalization Strategy” is an excerpt from Xi Jinping’s speeches between April 2021 and July 2026. It states that support for key counties receiving assistance under the national rural revitalization strategy should be increased, and a regular assistance mechanism for low-income people and underdeveloped areas established. The achievements of poverty alleviation should be continuously consolidated and expanded, regular targeted assistance carried out in depth, and the bottom line of no large-scale return to or fall into poverty firmly held.

“Solidly Promote Common Prosperity” is part of Xi Jinping’s speech on 17 August 2021 at the 10th meeting of the Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission. It states that common prosperity is an essential requirement of socialism. Winning the battle against poverty and building a moderately prosperous society in all respects have created good conditions for promoting common prosperity, and the historical stage of solidly promoting common prosperity has been reached. The people-centered development philosophy must be upheld, common prosperity promoted in high-quality development, social fairness and justice promoted and all-round human development promoted, so that all the people make solid progress toward common prosperity.

“Advance Rural Revitalization in an All-Round Way” is part of the report Xi Jinping delivered on 16 October 2022 to the 20th National Congress of the CPC. It states that the most arduous and heaviest tasks in building a modern socialist country in all respects remain in rural areas. Priority must be given to the development of agriculture and rural areas, the building of a strong agricultural country accelerated, rural specialty industries developed, channels for farmers to increase incomes and become prosperous broadened, the achievements of poverty alleviation consolidated and expanded, and the endogenous development drive of areas and people that have exited poverty strengthened.

“Consolidating and Expanding the Achievements of Poverty Alleviation Is the Baseline Task for Comprehensively Advancing Rural Revitalization” is part of Xi Jinping’s speech on 23 December 2022 at the Central Rural Work Conference. It states that responsibility must continue to be tightened and compacted, the early-warning and response role of the monitoring and assistance mechanism for preventing a return to poverty brought into play, assistance policies and measures for people and areas that have exited poverty well connected and put in place, a smooth transition achieved and any return to poverty of entire villages or townships resolutely prevented. Specific institutional arrangements after the transition period should be planned, assistance policies for preventing a return to poverty aligned and merged with regular assistance policies for the rural low-income population, and a regular assistance mechanism for underdeveloped areas studied and established.

“Common Prosperity for All the People Is an Essential Feature of Chinese Modernization” is part of Xi Jinping’s speech on 7 February 2023 at a study session for new members and alternate members of the Central Committee and principal leading officials at the provincial and ministerial level on studying and implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the CPC. It states that modernization featuring common prosperity for all the people is an essential feature of Chinese modernization and a prominent marker distinguishing it from Western modernization. Chinese modernization upholds development for the people, by the people and with the fruits shared by the people, and has made important progress in promoting common prosperity for all, especially by winning the battle against poverty since the 18th National Congress and lifting nearly 100 million rural poor people out of poverty. A complete set of ideas, institutional arrangements and policy measures for promoting common prosperity for all the people has taken shape. While promoting high-quality development and making the “cake” bigger and better, the “cake” must be further divided well so that the fruits of modernization benefit all the people more and more fairly, and polarization must be resolutely prevented. Achieving common prosperity is a long-term task that must be pursued over time, with the goal held firmly and new progress continuously made.

“Build a Just World of Common Development and Turn the Beautiful Vision into Reality” is the main part of Xi Jinping’s remarks on 18 November 2024 on the topic of “Fighting Hunger and Poverty” at the first session of the 19th G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It states that China’s development is an important part of common global development. China’s course of poverty elimination shows that, with the resilience, perseverance and fighting spirit of dripping water wearing through stone and drawing a blueprint to the end, the poverty problems of developing countries can be solved, and a weak bird can fly first and fly high. China can succeed, and other developing countries can likewise succeed. This is the world significance of China’s success in winning the battle against poverty. China has always been a member of the Global South, a reliable long-term partner of developing countries, and a doer and man of action in supporting global development. China is willing to act together with all parties to build a just world of common development, make poverty a thing of the past and turn the beautiful vision into reality.

“Making Solid Strides Toward Common Prosperity for All the People Is an Overall Requirement Guiding Economic and Social Development During the 15th Five-Year Plan Period” is part of the explanation Xi Jinping gave on 20 October 2025 at the fourth plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee concerning the Recommendations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development. It states that Chinese modernization is modernization featuring common prosperity for all the people. Since the 18th National Congress, the Party has remained true to its original aspiration, considered issues from the people’s standpoint, promoted coordinated regional development, taken effective measures to ensure and improve people’s livelihood, won the battle against poverty and built a moderately prosperous society in all respects, creating good conditions for promoting common prosperity. The draft recommendations highlight in the guiding ideology that solid strides should be made toward common prosperity for all the people; this is an overall requirement guiding economic and social development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period.

Original article: The Paper