How Chinese-Style Modernization Successfully Avoids and Overcomes"Livelihood Traps"
Public welfare is a key aspect of modernization,and"livelihood traps"represent significant challenges and contradictions in this process.Successfully avoiding and overcoming these traps,which can have profound negative effects,is crucial for advancing modernization smoothly and achieving it in full.Chinese-style modernization,with its commitment to a people-centered approach and the goal of shared prosperity for all,has largely succeeded in avoiding major livelihood traps.These include traps such as insufficient welfare,excessive welfare,extreme inequality,and poor-quality democracy.This ability to navigate and overcome such traps is a key reason for the success and remarkable achieve-ments of Chinese-style modernization.As China embarks on a new journey in the new era,the contin-ued avoidance and overcoming of these potential livelihood traps will be vital for advancing Chinese-style modernization and ultimately achieving the strategic goal of building a strong modern socialist country.