论共同富裕的经济发展道路

The Road of Economic Development Towards Common Prosperity

经济发展通常以一定时期内总产值或人均总产值的增长作为标志,但总产值或人均总产值并不能反映收入的实际分配状况,也难以反映社会成员的物质生活和文化生活的实际改善程度.社会平均数意义上的收入水平掩盖了社会成员间的收入差距,从而也掩盖了社会成员之间在物质文化生活水平上的差距.这就是以总产值或人均总产值的绝对量和增长率作为衡量经济发展程度的指标的局限性之一.国内外研究经济发展的学者们现在都已认识到这一点.

The development of socialist economy should not deviate from the fundamentalprinciple of common prosperity, yet this can never be achieved by simply relyingupon measures of egalitarian distribution. In order to reach the goal of commonprosperity, we must carry out the policy of 'distribution according to work,'encouraging people to get rich through honest labour and lawful management. Onthe other hand, it is necessary to regulate some unusual high incomes, even thoughthey are earned through honest labour and lawful management. The incomeregulation includes the regulation in advance and the regulation afterwards, both ofwhich are indispensable. In addition to marketing and government regulation, there isa third force affecting the income distribution. That is the force of morality. Thedevelopment of socialist construction in both material and spiritual realms will enablethe moral force to play an even more important role in promoting common prosperity.