2002年11月,在中国共产党第十六次全国代表大会上,江泽民同志为21世纪头20年中国的发展规划了一个美好的蓝图,那就是:全面建设小康社会。 作为中国社会发展进程的一个指标,“小康”提出三千年来,从来没有像20世纪最后20年那样被人们频繁地提到,也从来没有人如此认真地为它作过那么多界说和量化。在政治家的语言里,它是一个与现代化有关的概念,某种意义上 In November 2002, at the 16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Comrade Jiang Zemin planned a beautiful blueprint for China’s development in the first two decades of the 21st century. That is: Building an All-round Well-off Society. As an indicator of the progress of social development in China, “a well-off society” has never been mentioned frequently by people for three thousand years as it has done during the last 20 years of the 20th century. No one has ever so much said and quantified it so seriously. In the politician’s language, it is a modern concept, in some sense