March is the month for Two Sessions. On March 3, 2019, the second session of the 13th CPPCC National Committee opened in Beijing. On March 5, the second session of the 13th 

National People's Congress was also held in Beijing. The year of 2019 is the seventieth year of the founding of New China, and also the key year to win the victory of building a well-off society in an all-round way. The two sessions have attracted close attention from all sides. School of Business Administration will keep up with the trend and collect the opinions in the two sessions. From now on, School of Business Administration will invite academics to join us and we will together focus on people's livelihood and the Two Sessions.

Resolving the Principal Contradictions of Society and Creating a Better Life for the People

Qian Xuefeng

2019.03.06

Whether it is the policy to ensure all the people enjoy their rights to education, employment, medical and old-age care, and housing in one’s whole life or the bonus including reducing tax, pursuing the Cut Certification, enabling cell phone subscribers to keep their numbers while switching carriers,  speeding up broadband and lower internet rates, continuing preferential policies on the purchase of new-energy vehicles, making overdue payments to enterprises, guaranteeing water supply, it is written in the government work report delivered by Premier Li Keqiang on March, 5th. It shows the firm determination and of the Party and the country in the new era to resolve the principal Contradictions of Society and create a better life for the people.

In 2018, China's GDP exceeded 90 trillion yuan for the first time, and its total economic output ranked second in the world. At the same time, China continued to maintain its position as the world's largest manufacturing country and trading country, and its national competitiveness was growing. Optimistically speaking, if China's economy maintains a steady growth rate of about 6%, it is expected to cross the middle-income trap and enter the ranks of developed countries around 2022. However, while the macro-economy continues to improve, there are still a large number of imbalances and inadequate factors in the economic and social development, which hinder the people's pursuit of a better life. If these insufficient factors cannot eliminate, it is hard for people to have sense of happiness and belonging, which is not the purpose for the achievement in the development of national economic.

Therefore, Premier Li Keqiang's government work report is not limited to the macro-policy and the top-level design of reform and opening-up, but also focuses on the implementation of the concerns of living standards, which embodies the ruling concept and fundamental purpose of our party and country, which is people-centered and wholeheartedly serving the people. The people's yearning for and pursuit of a better life must be realized together with the prosperity and prosperity of the country.

Profile

• Qian Xuefeng, Dean of School of Business Administration of ZUEL; Wenlan Professor of ZUEL; doctoral supervisor;

• Deputy Secretary General of Youth Forum of International Trade Discipline Coordination Team of Chinese Higher-education Institutions

• Member of Council of China Society of World Economics

• Member of Council of American Economic Association of Hubei

• Academic Committee Member of Shanghai National Opening and Development Strategy Academy

• Executive Editor of Finance & Trade Economics

• Editor of International Business Research and Journal of Beijing Technology and Business University

• Supporting Plan for Excellent Talents in the New Century (Ministry of Education)

• High-level Talent Project of Hubei Province in the New Century (Excellent Young Backbone Talents)

• Winner of the Wusi Youth Medal of Hubei Province

• One of the Young and Middle-aged Experts with Outstanding Contributions of Hubei Province

• His researches are mainly in international economics and spatial economics. He has published more than 60 articles in journals like World Development, China & World Economy, Social Sciences in China, Economic Research Journal, China Economic Quarterly, Management World, The Journal of World Economy. He has two monographs. One is the Contemporary Economics Series by Shanghai Triple Bookstore and the other is a series books on promoting the construction of a Learning Party in Hubei Province. His representational works were selected in China Economics 2009 and China Economics Yearbook 2015-2016. He has won many awards such as An Zijie International Trade Research Award, Ministry of Commerce Development Research Award, Hubei Humanities and Social Science Research Award, etc. He presided over one major project of the National Social Science Foundation, four projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, and youth projects of the Humanities and Social Sciences Foundation of the Ministry of Education, etc. Huo Yingdong Foundation's Basic Research Project for Young Teachers in Colleges and Universities, Hubei Social Science Foundation and Hubei Education Department's Humanities and Social Sciences Foundation each have one project. He serves as an anonymous reviewer of authoritative journals such as China & World Economy, Chinese Social Sciences, Economic Research, Economics (Quarterly), Managing the World, World Economy, etc., and a special editorial of the National Natural Science Foundation's Newsletter Review. Jia, Pushan Award Communication Evaluation Expert of China World Economic Society, Communication Evaluation Expert of Humanities and Social Sciences Fund of Ministry of Education, and Communication Evaluation Expert of China Post-doctoral Fund.