Community offers a glimpse into future of common prosperity

Public service facilities, including a senior care center, have been built for all people to enjoy equally.

At the canteen of the care center, senior citizens from the six villages enjoy an abundant meal that costs no more than 5 yuan ($0.7). Patrons over 90 pay nothing at all.

The canteen is partly funded by regular donations from local enterprises as well as charitable villagers.

Anren community offers a vivid example of what China is aiming for after eradicating absolute poverty.

Li said that over the past decades since the reform and opening-up, China has realized rapid economic growth by giving better play to the role of market economy and encouraging entrepreneurship.

While sticking to these successful practices, China is exploring how to share the benefits of economic growth in a fairer manner, Li said.

He said China should invest more in basic public services in rural areas so as to bring them on a par with their urban counterparts.

Meanwhile, low-income groups should be educated and trained to have better opportunities of development, Li said.

Nicholas Hope, former director of the World Bank's China program, also emphasized the role of education in achieving common prosperity.

"Education, particularly that of the rural poor, is an essential part of ensuring against relapse," he said.

Hope is optimistic about the prospect of China's common prosperity pursuit.

"In just two generations you can make a country that's by any definition desperately poor into a country that's moderately prosperous. That should give everybody confidence you can move in the era of common prosperity," Hope said.