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A Theoretical Investigation of the Concept of an All-round Well-off Society Chen Youhua * 不同时期人们对小康社会的理解是不完全一样的，今天我们建设的全面小康社会与古代的小康 社会已经有很大的不同。小康社会在中国的历史上曾出现多次，但现代化至今还没有实现，“小 康”的时间跨度要远远大于现代化的时间跨度。高流动性是现代社会的一个显著特点，随着人口的 迁移与流动，包括贫困问题在内的几乎所有社会问题也将从一个地区转移到另一个地区；而民主政 治制度也具有整体性特点，牵涉到制度层面的内容时，地方的可为空间极小。因此，全面小康社会 具有整体性的特点。没有国家整体意义上的全面小康，一个地区是难以彻底实现全面小康的。 I . Being Well-off and Modernization off society is reversible, i.e. a non-well-off society can develop into a well-off one, and A well-off society has frequently ap- vice versa, but a modernized society is p eared in the course of China’s history . irreversible . Third, a well-off society is not However, at different historical p eriods necessarily a modernized one, as exempli- people have held slightly different views of fied by the fact that “the Enlightened Admin- what a well-off society is . Theoretically, a istration of Emperor Wen (reigned 180 – 157 well-off society may be as feasible in a tra- B.C.) and Emperor Jing (reigned 157 – 14 1 ditional society as in a modern one . By B.C.)” emerged in China’s traditional agrar- contrast , modernization, as a particular de- ian society. Similarly, being a modernized so- velopmental stage in human history, takes ciety does not necessarily imply being mod- place only within a specific historical period erately prosperous in an all-round way. For when a traditional agrarian society is being example, the United States may not be cat- transformed into a modern industrialized one. egorized as “being well-offin an all-roundway” In terms of time, the concept of “being well- if measured by the criteria set at the 16th Na- off” (or moderate prosperity) has a much tional Congress of the Communist Party of longer history than that of modern