Livelihood as a Distinctive Feature of Chinese Modernization

During the two national sessions in 2025, China highlighted livelihood as the pillar of modernization, highlighted grassroots democratic practices, and transformed popular suggestions into concrete policies to ensure inclusive and sustainable growth. During the two national sessions in 2025, an 82-year-old man from Hunan Province in central China named Chen Junqing attracted attention. He wrote his suggestion on the laminated paper of a cigarett…