“全面建设小康社会”,党的十六大报告提出的这个经济发展战略的新目标,令人振奋,立即成了全国上下广为关注津津乐道的一个热门词汇。“小康”,尽管这个词国人已经谈了二十多年,它一直是我们经济发展战略的目标,但是,“全面建设小康社会”却有新的内涵。此间经济学界的专家学者对“小康”新境界的解读,有助于我们对新的奋斗目标有一个全新的理解 “Building an overall well-to-do society,” the new goal set forth in the report of the party’s 16th National Congress for this economic development strategy is exhilarating and immediately became a hot word for widespread concern and relish in the entire country. Although “well-off” people have talked about this term for more than 20 years, it has always been the goal of our economic development strategy. However, “building an overall well-to-do society” has new connotations. Here, experts and scholars in the field of economics interpret the new concept of “well-off society” and help us to have a totally new understanding of the new goal