People's congress system propels common development

The year 2020 saw China make the greatest development achievement in human history by eradicating extreme poverty from the country — and realizing one of the most important goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 10 years before schedule. And it is marching toward the goal of building China into a great modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious, and beautiful from 2035 through the middle of this century. To what does China owe this great and inspirational achievement?

A story from People's Daily provides insight into a heartwarming incident. At the beginning of 2023, the first secretary of Baigou village in Henan province, made multiple visits to a villager's family who had tragically lost their only son to illness. The family's plight was discussed by the village committee and representatives: they had lost their sole source of income, the elderly couple was grappling with hypertension and diabetes, and the granddaughter still needed support for her education.

Following a process of democratic evaluation and discussion, the assembled representatives unanimously agreed to include this family in dynamic monitoring and management. They facilitated the elderly couple in obtaining chronic disease cards and assisted the granddaughter in securing financial aid for impoverished students. Thanks to these interventions, the rural family managed to avoid falling back into poverty and gradually returned to a semblance of normalcy.