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As a result, the rapid development of private businesses had greatly boosted the local economy. They have also served as major contributors to China's GDP (gross domestic product). The country has more than 6.8 million private businesses, according to the State Administration For Industry and Commerce.
Hu Jintao said in a report to the 17th CPC National Congress in October 2007, that the Party "will create conditions to enable more citizens to have property income, and the Party will protect lawful incomes, regulate excessively high incomes and ban illegal gains."
Analysts say it shows the Party's updated policy on "affluence," with signals suggesting offering more support to the country's 700 million farmers who were not well-off compared with their urban counterparts, measures including taxation exemption, expanding coverage of medical service and social security.
These policies have been the highlights of China's reform measures, either implemented or immediately being enforced.
Chen said promoting common prosperity was an "unprecedented task" for China.
"Although the country has achieved rapid economic development, only if it realized common prosperity could China establish its own development mode, and only then could we say the reform has reaped the ultimate success," he said.
Luckily for farmer Tong from Heilongjiang Province, most of his problems have been redressed by his village officials in a national drive that called for local officials to "thoroughly investigate and deal with problems raised by the public."
But problems of his kind are still widespread in China. And that is what the CPC is going to deal with as the 1.3 billion population are on the road to affluence, bumping but never so sure.
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