经过全党和全国人民的共同努力,到2000年我国已经胜利实现了现代化建设“三步走”战略的第一步、第二步战略目标,人民生活总体上达到小康水平。十六大报告又提出了在本世纪头20年全面建没小康社会的新目标。那么,“总体小康”与“全面小康”的区别何在?———总体上的小康是— Through the joint efforts of the entire party and the people throughout the country, by the year 2000, our country has victoriously achieved the first and second strategic goals of the “three-step” strategy of modernization and people’s life as a whole has reached a well-to-do level. The 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China also proposed a new goal of building an overall well-to-do society in the first two decades of this century. So what is the difference between “overall well-to-do” and “well-to-do society”? On the whole,