Moderately prosperous society

Moderately prosperous society or Xiaokang society, is a Chinese term, originally of Confucianism, used to describe a society composed of a functional middle-class. In December 1979, Deng Xiaoping, then paramount leader of China, first proposed the idea of “Xiaokang” based on the “Four Modernizations”. Jiang Zemin, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party between 1989 and 2002, expanded the concept to include more goals, and coined the term “comprehensively building a moderately prosperous society”, which would be completed by 2020. CCP General Secretary Hu Jintao referred to economic policies intended to realize a more equal distribution of wealth. In the usages (Tifa) of current General Secretary Xi Jinping, the term Chinese Dream has gained somewhat greater prominence. In 2015, Xi unveiled a set of political slogans called the Four Comprehensives, which include “Comprehensively build a moderately prosperous society.” At the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party on 1 July 2021, Xi Jinping declared that China achieved its goal of building a moderately prosperous society.