How to understand the contradiction between the people's growing need for a better life and the unbalanced development?

The people's growing material and cultural needs have been transformed into the people's growing needs for a better life. In the past five years, the living standards of our people have been continuously improved. The income growth rate of urban and rural residents exceeded the economic growth rate, and the middle-income group continued to expand. A social security system covering urban and rural residents has been basically established, people's health and medical and health standards have been greatly improved, and the construction of affordable housing has been steadily advanced.

Decisive progress has been made in the struggle against poverty. More than 60 million poor people have been lifted out of poverty steadily, and the incidence of poverty has dropped from 10.2% to below 4%. China's per capita GDP exceeds 8,000 US dollars, which has reached the level of middle-income countries. People's food and clothing have been solved, their basic survival needs are no longer a problem, their material and cultural needs have been met, and they are turning to the new expectation of pursuing a better life.

As Xi Jinping pointed out in his report, "China has solved the problem of food and clothing for more than one billion people, achieved a well-off society as a whole, and will soon build a well-off society in an all-round way". This is the premise and foundation of the main contradiction change.

2. There is still "insufficient imbalance" in economic and social development. Imbalance mainly means that there are still many shortcomings in the field of people's livelihood, the task of getting rid of poverty is arduous, and the gap between urban and rural regional development and income distribution is still large. For example, the income of residents is unbalanced, especially the income gap between urban and rural areas, and the income level of rural and underdeveloped areas cannot keep up with the development level;

There is also imbalance between regions. The income of developed areas and megacities in the east is higher, while the income of underdeveloped areas and rural areas in the central and western regions is lower. Insufficient means that the quality and efficiency of development are not high, the innovation ability is not strong enough, the level of real economy needs to be improved, and ecological environment protection has a long way to go; The masses face many difficulties in employment, education, medical care, housing and old-age care.

The degree of social civilization needs to be improved; Social contradictions and problems are intertwined, and the task of comprehensively governing the country according to law is still arduous, and the national governance system and governance capacity need to be strengthened. At present, the cake is getting bigger, but it has not reached the level of "color, fragrance and taste", especially the cake is not well divided.

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The Party unites and leads the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country to make unremitting efforts to push China's economic strength, scientific and technological strength, national defense strength and comprehensive national strength to the forefront of the world and push China's international status to an unprecedented height. The face of the party, the face of the country, the face of the people, the face of the army and the face of the Chinese nation have undergone unprecedented changes.

China's economy has maintained a medium and high-speed growth, ranking among the top in the world. The gross domestic product has reached 80 trillion yuan, ranking second in the world and contributing more than 30% to world economic growth. Urbanization continued, and the urbanization rate reached 57.35%. The strategy of innovation-driven development was vigorously implemented, and the construction of an innovative country achieved fruitful results. Major scientific and technological achievements, such as Tiangong, Jiaolong, Tian Yan, Wukong, Mozi, and Big Aircraft, have come out one after another.

The new open economy system has been gradually improved, and foreign trade, foreign investment and foreign exchange reserves rank among the top in the world. With the continuous progress of science and technology and the improvement of equipment production, China is now the largest industrial country, the largest service industry country and the largest trading country in the world. Now the problem of China's economy is overcapacity, not shortage. Such a national situation, "backward social production" is no longer in line with reality.

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