加快民族地区的发展 实现全面建设小康社会的宏伟目标

Advancing the Development of National Regions and Achieving the Grand Goal of Fully Building Well - off Society

十六大确定的全面建设小康社会的宏伟目标,是逐步实现全国各族人民共同富裕的目标。少数民族和民族地区的经济社会发展,是中国特色社会主义事业的有机组成部分,民族地区的小康水平的实现程度,直接关系到全面建设小康社会奋斗目标能否如期实现,关系到我国社会主义现代化建设的整体进程。因此,必须紧紧抓住本世纪头20年全面建设小康社会这一重要战略机遇期,加快民族地区的经济文化发展,增强我国社会主义现代化建设的物质基础,推进全面建设小康社会的宏伟目标的实现。

The grand goal of fully building the well--off society established in the 16th National Peo- ple's Congress is a goal to achieve the common prosperity of every Chinese nationality. The economic and social development of national regions is the organic part of socialism with Chinese characteristics. The real- ization of comfortable life in national regions is directly related to the achievement of the goal of building well- off society as scheduled and the whole process of modernization. Therefore, we must grasp the strategic opportunity period in the first twenty years of this century, accelerate the economic and cultural development of national regions, strengthen the physical base of modernization, and promote the achieve ment of the goal of building well--off society.