1979年12月6日,中国改革开放的总设计师邓小平同志,在与日本首相大平正芳谈话时,首次提出中国实现“小康”目标的概念。进而,邓小平同志又为我们设计了分“三步走”基本实现现代化的宏伟蓝图:第一步,从1981年到1990年国民生产总值翻一番,实现温饱;第二步,从1991年到本世纪末再翻一番,达到小康;第三步,到21世纪中叶再翻两番,达到中等发达国家水平。 On December 6, 1979, Comrade Deng Xiaoping, chief architect of China's reform and opening up, put forward for the first time China's concept of “getting well-off” when talking to Japanese Prime Minister Masanori Ohira. Furthermore, Comrade Deng Xiaoping also designed for us a grand blueprint of basically realizing modernization: "From the first step, from 1981 to 1990, the gross national product per capita doubled to provide adequate food and clothing. The second step, from In 1991, it will double again by the end of this century and reach a well-off society. The third step will quadruple it by the middle of the 21st century and reach the level of the moderately developed countries.