| Ensuring and improving people’s livelihood through development and realizing people’s aspiration for a better life is the fundamental goal of all the work of the Party and the state.Standing at the new historical starting point for building a comprehensive socialist modern country,we need to continue to meet the shortcomings of people’s livelihood in the development and continuously improve the well-being of the people.Systematic research on Deng Xiaoping’s thought of livelihood in the period of reform and opening up is not only helpful to expand and deepen the research on Deng Xiaoping theory,but also to provide guidance and enlightenment for the effective solution of many people’s livelihood problems at present.During the period of reform and opening up,Deng Xiaoping’s thought of people’s livelihood inherited marxist thought of people’s livelihood,criticized and inherited Chinese traditional people-oriented thought,absorbed the beneficial elements of sun yat-sen’s ideology of people’s livelihood,and reasonably borrowed relevant thoughts on social welfare in western countries.The formation and development of this thought also has a profound practical foundation,including Deng Xiaoping’s exploration of people’s livelihood before reform and opening up,the construction of people’s livelihood in new China before reform and opening up and the construction of socialist people’s livelihood during the reform and opening up period.The contents of Deng Xiaoping’s thought on people’s livelihood during the reform and opening up period can be summarized as follows:ensuring people’s basic living needs is the primary task of ensuring and improving people’s livelihood;Open doors wide and do everything possible to solve the employment problem;Adhere to the principle of distribution according to work,oppose egalitarianism,prevent polarization;Vigorously set up educational undertakings,solve educational problems;We will reform the housing system to ease the housing shortage.We will establish a social security system and promote social equity.Its unique characteristics are as follows:to improve people’s livelihood to the high level of socialist essence and superiority,take the primary stage of socialism as the foothold,with the exploration of the socialist market economy system,the goal of improving people’s livelihood is integrated into the "three steps" strategy,and balance the material and spiritual aspects of people’s livelihood,and have an international perspective on the world.Deng Xiaoping’s thought on people’s livelihood in the reform and opening up period has important theoretical and practical significance.We need to draw historical wisdom from it and insist on the party’s leadership and people-centered construction of people’s livelihood in the new era.We will ensure the relationship between economic development and improving people’s livelihood and the improvement of people’s livelihood and the formation of a virtuous circle of economic and social development.We should do our best and act according to our capabilities.We should not only take on our mission and do our best,but also act according to our national conditions.We will make solid efforts to promote the whole people,achieve comprehensive common prosperity and achieve the people’s aspirations;Emancipate the mind and keep pace with The Times to deal with people’s livelihood issues;Facing the world,we will learn from the beneficial experience of other countries in improving people’s livelihood,safeguard world peace,uphold the concept of a community of Shared future for mankind,and contribute China’s strength to the prosperity and progress of mankind. |