究竟如何认识今日中国,这是一个令人困惑的智力和道德难题。一方面,从孙志刚事件,腐败和下岗职工增加等现象来看,可以说社会矛盾已十分突出;另一方面,从国际比较来看.中国改革还是取得了许多成绩。我到俄罗斯开会,在一些大城市里要找一家中档餐馆很难,看到的要么是马路上卖饼干等零食的手推车,要么就是豪华的五星级宾馆。这似乎说明:虽然中国改革中的收入有不平等、地区差异大,但总的来说,中国改革的受益者比俄罗斯多。对中国很难下一个完整的判断,很多人从不同角度的观察都有一定道理。黑格尔说真理是全体,而我们的观察往往是局部的。如何在各种、但又不无道理的观察中理出头绪?这就需要一个统筹全局的新概念框架,对具体的局部观察进行重新整理。照我的个人解读,“小康社会”的提出,就是对这 How to understand China today is a puzzling intellectual and moral dilemma. On the one hand, judging from the events of Sun Zhigang, corruption and the increase in laid-off workers, social contradictions have become very prominent. On the other hand, China has made many achievements in international reform. I met in Russia, in some big cities to find a mid-range restaurant is difficult to see either the streets selling biscuits snack barrow, or is a luxury five-star hotel. This seems to indicate that while there are inequalities in incomes in China’s reform and large regional differences, the overall beneficiaries of China’s reform are more than those of Russia. It is very hard for China to make a complete judgment. Many people make some observations from different perspectives. Hegel says truth is all, and our observations are often partial. How to make sense of the various, but not unreasonable, observations? This requires a new conceptual framework of overall co-ordination to rearrange specific local observations. According to my personal interpretation, “well-off society ” is proposed, is this