Promoting the Chinese Dream by Comprehensive Poverty Alleviation? Review of Chinese Communist Party's Centenary in 2021

Chin-fu Hung

《Taiwan Strategists》 10期 (2021/06) Pp. 1-17

摘要

July 2021 marks the centenary of the Chinese Communist Party, which was founded in Shanghai in 1921 with the ideal and ultimate goal to realize communism. When Xi Jinping took office in November 2012, he proposed the ＂Chinese Dream＂ to pursue the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation once again under his term of office. To set the people's wish for a better life is constantly considered and widely propagated as Xi's top priority to achieve the Chinese Dream. Effectively, the ＂Two Centenary Goals＂ are arguably the concrete embodiment of the Chinese Dream, in which the Goals are delicately set to respond to the people's wish for a better life. While the first centenary goal, which is due in 2021, specifies completely building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, the other goal aims to fully build a modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious and beautiful by 2049, the year that marks the People's Republic of China's centenary. Consequently, this article critically discusses the allegedly successful story of China's poverty relief that is politically touted as the ＂great glory of the Chinese people, the Communist Party of China, and the Chinese nation.＂ It aims to review the contemporary socioeconomic situation under the banner of the Chinese Dream and draw implications for China and international implications in the 21^(st) Century.

關鍵字

100^(th) Anniversary of CCP's Founding ； Poverty Alleviation ； Xi Jinping ； Socioeconomic Situations ； Chinse Dream