A Conversation by Writing on the Theme of “Common Prosperity”
Li Shi1, Chen Zongsheng2, Shi Jinchuan3, Liu Tongfang4, He Wenjiong1
1.School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China 2.China Institute of Wealth and Economics, Nankai University, Tianjin 310071, China 3.School of Economics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China 4.School of Marxism, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Abstract Common prosperity is an essential requirement of socialism, and an important characteristic of Chinese modernization. Since the 18th National Party Congress, the Party has placed more emphasis on gradually realizing common prosperity for everyone. It has adopted effective measures to improve the people’s wellbeing, fight against poverty and build up a moderately prosperous society in all aspects. This creates good conditions for promoting common prosperity. This journal organizes five articles to discuss the theory of common prosperity from different perspectives. Li Shi believes that the key to steadily promoting common prosperity is to “raise the low levels”, which means raising the levels of income, property, social security and public services of the bottom groups, among which the most important is to constantly improve their income level. Chen Zongsheng holds that, as the basic system of keeping public economy in a dominant position requires distribution on the basis of labor, the main road to achieving common prosperity is working hard. At the same time, the coexistence of public economy and various non-public economies is a distinctive advantage of socialism with Chinese characteristics and an important force to promote common prosperity. It is believed by Shi Jinchuan that in order to realize common prosperity the relationship between efficiency and fairness should be dealt with properly through enlarging the pie and distributing it fairly. To promote common prosperity with redistribution, the government should focus on the redistribution of the income flow and the augmentation of people’s disposable income. Liu Tongfang, from the perspective of historical materialism, believes that common prosperity is to correct injustice in the development of the productive forces and the relationship of diverse forms of ownership, and to lay a solid material foundation for the welfare of the people by vigorously unleashing and developing the productive forces. He Wenjiong, based on the three changes of social security rights and interests, i.e. from labor rights and interests to citizen rights and interests, from employers’ rights and interests to all workers’ rights and interests, from the household registered population’s rights and interest to the resident population’s rights and interests, proposes that improving the social security system is a realistic way to promote common prosperity. We hope to make an explanation on common prosperity from different perspectives through this conversation by writing in order to clarify some ambiguous understanding and to promote academic contention and progress.
Li Shi,Chen Zongsheng,Shi Jinchuan等. A Conversation by Writing on the Theme of “Common Prosperity”[J]. JOURNAL OF ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY, 2022, 52(1): 6-21.
2022, Vol. 52 
