党的十五届五中全会提出：从新世纪开始，我国将进入全面建设小康社会，加快推进社会主义现代化的新阶段。要实现社会主义现代化，全面建设小康社会，关键是农村，难点也在农村。只有占中国人口７０％左右的农村人口全面实现了小康，广大农村实现社会主义现代化，中国才算真正 At the Fifth Plenary Session of the 15th CPC Central Committee, China proposed that starting from the new century, our country will enter a new phase of building a well-off society in an all-round way and accelerating the socialist modernization. In order to realize socialist modernization and build a well-off society in an all-round way, the key lies in the rural areas and the difficulties are also in the rural areas. Only when the rural population, which accounts for about 70% of China’s population, has fully realized the well-to-do life and the vast rural areas realize the socialist modernization, will China be considered genuine