Recently, the Communist Party of China (CPC) announced that China has achieved the political goal of eradicating poverty and attaining full prosperity. Xi Jinping boasts that this comprehensive poverty eradication is a “great achievement of the millennium”. Is this really true?
Let’s not talk about the millennium, but more than 40 years after the CCP’s reform and opening up, the terms “poverty eradication” and “moderately prosperous” have different standards but the same meaning at different stages and under different historical conditions.
As early as 1978, Zhao Ziyang and Wan Li, who were the top leaders of Sichuan and Anhui provinces respectively, tried the “rural joint production responsibility system” in these two provinces, which loosened the hands and feet of the peasants in these two provinces and revitalized their enthusiasm, so that the peasants in these two provinces quickly got enough Food to eat. The experience of Sichuan and Anhui was then extended to other provinces. The experience of Sichuan and Anhui was then extended to the whole country, and in only two years, by 1980, the problem of feeding the peasants was basically solved, from hunger to sustenance. In the historical context of the Time, that was the first time that poverty was lifted after Mao’s starvation era, and it could also be called the total lifting of poverty at that time.
On this basis, China’s GDP later quadrupled, another stage of poverty eradication; and in the Hu-Wen era, the GDP even went up to five ten trillion steps and the agricultural tax was abolished for the first time, which is even more described as comprehensive poverty eradication under the conditions at that time. Xi Jinping, who took office immediately after Hu Wen, was so greedy for the credit of the sky that he took all the credit for poverty eradication and well-off, claiming that he had achieved “comprehensive poverty eradication and well-off” only during his term of office, while obliterating all his predecessors before him.
And then there are the millennia. In the thousands of years or thousands of years of dynastic cycle of Chinese history, almost every dynasty has its great rule, rise, the heyday of the era, known as the heyday. The basic characteristics of these periods are that the people are well fed and the country is peaceful and healthy. Familiar ones include the “Reign of Chengkang” of the Zhou Dynasty, the “Reign of Wen and Jing” of the Han Dynasty, the “Reign of Zhenguan” and “Reign of Kaiyuan” of the Tang Dynasty, and the “Reign of Qing” of the Qing Dynasty. The “Reign of Chengkang” of the Zhou Dynasty, the “Reign of Wen and Jing” of the Han Dynasty, the “Reign of Zhenguan” and “Reign of Kaiyuan” of the Tang Dynasty, and the “Reign of Kang and Qian” of the Qing Dynasty. To put it in a small way, they were all well-off societies; to put it in a larger way, they were rich and strong.
From weakness to strength, from prosperity to decline, this is the law of the rise and fall of Chinese dynasties throughout history. The new autocratic dynasty that inherited the mantle of successive dynasties, the Communist Red Dynasty, is just a cycle of dynasties repeating the law of rise, fall and defeat. The Red Dynasty may be in its “prime” today, but because its authoritarian political nature has not changed, its fate of decline from prime is bound to come.
As a result, the “comprehensive poverty eradication and moderate prosperity” announced by Xi Jinping’s administration is not only self-referential, but also not a “millennium-level achievement”.
Moreover, to say that it is a “millennium-level achievement” must stand the test of a thousand years. For example, the Dujiangyan in the Chengdu Plain was built during the Warring States period in 256-251 B.C. It was used for irrigation, flood control, water supply, and transportation, and has survived for 2,300 years, benefiting the world to this day, which can be called a “thousand-year achievement. Its outstanding merit and historical positioning, not by the then main construction of this water conservancy project Li Bing father and son definition, but by the nearly two thousand three hundred years of future generations of word of mouth cast.
What is Xi Jinping’s virtue and ability? He defines himself and boasts that the poverty eradication work he has promoted during his tenure is a “millennium-level achievement”. Not to mention whether the international community agrees with him, China does not necessarily agree. And in China, not to mention whether the people are convinced or not, it is likely that the party is not convinced. The political pressure to take a position, but also only the mouth is not convinced.
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