I am pretty sure Xi has explicitly tackled the topic off welfarism, look it up. It’s a controversial topic for many western leftists that confuse socialism with free stuff, China stance is to develop a common prosperity through the development of quality productive forces through education and infrastructure, from the historical experience off the USSR, other perished states and some ongoing ones, like Spain, they see welfarism as a dangerous path that could breed lazyness and conformism, wrong or not i think China is doing pretty well so far. In other words, they’re investing in better safety nets than free services.
Still afaik medicine is dirt cheap so it’s not like it is a huge problem.
To realize common prosperity, we should adhere to the following principles:
Encouraging hard work and innovation. Happiness is achieved through hard work.
Meanwhile, common prosperity depends on hard work and wisdom. We should safeguard
and improve people’s livelihood while pursuing development, give top priority to high-
quality development, create more favorable and equitable conditions for the people to
receive better education and improve their development capabilities, enhance human
capital and professional skills throughout society and improve people’s abilities to get
employed and start a business and their competence to prosper. We should prevent the
ossification of social class, shape a development environment that provides chances for
more people to become wealthy and avoid “involution” and “lying flat.”
Adhering to the basic economic system. As China is still in the primary stage of
socialism, we must work unswervingly to both consolidate and develop the public sector
and encourage, support and guide the development of the nonpublic sector. We must
uphold the dominant role of the public sector and common development of economic
entities under diverse forms of ownership, exert the important role of the public sector in
promoting common prosperity and promote healthy growth of the nonpublic sector of the
economy and workers in the sector. We should allow a portion of people to become rich
first, encourage them to help those still lagging behind and focus on encouraging
entrepreneurial individuals who work hard, engage in lawful operations and have the
courage to start their own businesses. We do not advocate becoming rich through side
doors, and we will deal with violations in accordance with the law.
Doing everything within our capacity. A scientific public policy system should be
established to make the “cake” bigger and form a pattern of equitable distribution for all.
Efforts should be intensified, and more practical measures should be taken to enable the
masses to have a greater sense of gain. Meanwhile, we must recognize that the
development level of our country still lags far behind that of developed countries. We plan
by considering both needs and possibilities and improve people’s well-being based on
economic development and financial sustainability. We should not aim too high and make
promises that cannot be fulfilled. Instead of taking on everything, the government should
focus on carrying out programs that are general, inclusive and guarantee basic needs. Even
if we become more developed and financially stronger in the future, we should not set
excessively high goals and provide excessive guarantees, in order not to fall into the trap of
“welfarism” that encourages laziness.
Should look up the complete speech, you could google it by using some lines from this extract.
In typical marxist fashion it’s very reiterative but it gets the point across, China is in a primary stage of socialism and is not in a position to make grandiose promises, could you imagine free healthcare in a 1.4 billion population nation?, because it might not be able to fulfill them.
It’s difficult to imagine what it’s like to manage so many people, but I can see why CPC has such high approval rating compared to our governments. I can also see the consequences of our style of leadership that’s been reflected in our societies and it’s very disturbing, to say the least.
I am pretty sure Xi has explicitly tackled the topic off welfarism, look it up. It’s a controversial topic for many western leftists that confuse socialism with free stuff, China stance is to develop a common prosperity through the development of quality productive forces through education and infrastructure, from the historical experience off the USSR, other perished states and some ongoing ones, like Spain, they see welfarism as a dangerous path that could breed lazyness and conformism, wrong or not i think China is doing pretty well so far. In other words, they’re investing in better safety nets than free services.
Still afaik medicine is dirt cheap so it’s not like it is a huge problem.
Do you have a source where Xi says that having free healthcare or welfare makes people lazy?
Thanks for sharing, this was an insightful read.
Should look up the complete speech, you could google it by using some lines from this extract.
In typical marxist fashion it’s very reiterative but it gets the point across, China is in a primary stage of socialism and is not in a position to make grandiose promises, could you imagine free healthcare in a 1.4 billion population nation?, because it might not be able to fulfill them.
I have finished reading the whole speech!
It’s difficult to imagine what it’s like to manage so many people, but I can see why CPC has such high approval rating compared to our governments. I can also see the consequences of our style of leadership that’s been reflected in our societies and it’s very disturbing, to say the least.