Two Centenaries
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The Two Centenaries is a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) term that refers to two 100-year anniversaries and a stated set of economic and political goals advanced by CCP general secretary Xi Jinping following the CCP's 18th National Congress held in 2012. The Chinese government describes the Two Centenaries as the basic foundation for achieving the "Chinese Dream".
The Two Centenaries is a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) term that refers to two 100-year anniversaries and a stated set of economic and political goals advanced by CCP general secretary Xi Jinping following the CCP's 18th National Congress held in 2012. The Chinese government describes the Two Centenaries as the basic foundation for achieving the "Chinese Dream". ==Background== The "centenaries" refer to two 100-year anniversaries: The centenary of the founding of the CCP in 1921. According to official CCP discourse, a Xiaokang society will have been achieved at the conclusion of this centenary. While "Xiaokang" – roughly meaning "moderately well-off" – is an abstract theory rooted in Confucianism and socialist ideology, the party has outlined it in terms of doubling of the 2010 per capita income figures. The centenary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 2049, at which point, China will have become a "strong, democratic, civilized, harmonious, and modern socialist country" according to the People's Daily. ==History of the slogan== The concept was first articulated at the 15th Party Congress held in 1997 during the term of then General Secretary Jiang Zemin. Apart from occasional pronouncements in party publications, this concept was not widely discussed again until Xi assumed the party leadership in 2012. Since then, it has become a major part of party slogans, recited in news reports, at conferences, and training sessions for party officials. According to academic Ding Lu, the "so-called Two Centenary Goals underwrite all China’s long-term economic planning programs and contemporary macroeconomic policy agendas." China met the first of the two goals, becoming an upper-middle income country and eliminating absolute poverty according to the World Bank criteria. ==Celebratory events== ==References==
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