在党的十六大上,江泽民同志作了重要报告,该报告在总结以往经验的基础上,给党和全国人民提出了新的历史性任务以及完成任务的方法和途径。其中,有关小康社会的论述是对理论和实践的重大突破,这标志着作为社会主义社会的发展阶段之一的小康社会,更深层次地与我国的民主建设和法治进程具体地结合在 At the 16th CPC National Congress, Comrade Jiang Zemin made an important report. On the basis of summing up past experience, this report has put forward new historic tasks for the party and the people throughout the country as well as ways and means for accomplishing the task. Among them, the discussion on the well-to-do society is a major breakthrough in theory and practice, which indicates that a well-to-do society, one of the stages of the development of the socialist society, is more deeply integrated with the process of China’s democratization and the rule of law