From April 22 to 24, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, inspected Chongqing. This is the afternoon of the 22nd, when Xi Jinping inspected the Minzhu Village community in Xiejiawan Subdistrict, Jiulongpo District, and had a cordial exchange with the people dining in the community canteen. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xie Huanchi

On the afternoon of the 22nd, General Secretary Xi Jinping, who was inspecting Chongqing, walked into the Minzhu Village community in Xiejiawan Subdistrict, Jiulongpo District.

Here, the General Secretary said that in Chinese modernization, people's livelihood is of paramount importance. All the work of the Party and the government is aimed at enabling the people to live a happier life.

Great truths are simple. "People's livelihood is of paramount importance"—just four characters, yet they carry great weight and profound meaning.

The community is a small unit in the urban governance system, yet here the General Secretary articulated the grand logic of Chinese modernization.

From April 22 to 24, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, inspected Chongqing. This is the afternoon of the 22nd, when Xi Jinping inspected the Minzhu Village community in Xiejiawan Subdistrict, Jiulongpo District, and had a cordial exchange with community residents. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ju Peng

More than 1.4 billion Chinese people are advancing toward modernization as a whole, bringing to the landscape of world modernization the hallmarks of common prosperity, coordination between material and spiritual civilization, harmonious coexistence between humanity and nature, and peaceful development, and creating a new form of human civilization. This is unprecedented and incomparably great in human history.

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out profoundly: "Our goal is both grand and simple; in the final analysis, it is to enable the people to live better lives." "The myriad of tasks, in the final analysis, are the affairs of millions of households."

Every time he conducts local research, no matter how busy he is, the General Secretary always arranges time to walk into the fields and visit factories and communities to learn about the major and minor matters of millions of households. He inspects the affordable housing where new urban residents, young people, and frontline workers live, and visits communities that have restored their living environment after floods... "What we do well is to handle well the big and small matters of the people."

Only when major matters are set correctly can small matters be done well; only when small matters are done solidly can major matters be more assured.

Chinese modernization is essentially the modernization of people. The Communist Party of China leads the people of the whole country toward the grand goal of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and in the final analysis, this is to enable the people to live better lives, with better education, more stable jobs, more satisfactory incomes, more reliable social security, higher-level medical and health services, more comfortable living conditions, and a more beautiful environment.

Modernization for the people is meaningful. Modernization relying on the people is dynamic.

Focusing on the urgent, difficult, anxious, and eagerly awaited problems that the people care about, implementing them one by one and working year after year, so that the achievements of modernization benefit the people more and more fairly, and everyone has the opportunity to shine in life and realize their dreams—Chinese modernization will surely advance steadily and far with the mighty force coalesced by more than 1.4 billion Chinese people.