Constantly meeting people’s ever-growing needs for a better life with people-oriented philosophy is fundamental for China's efforts to ensure, improve and develop people's livelihood. This book analyzes the connotation of ensuring people's livelihood in China in the new era, discusses people’s material and cultural needs for a better life, and puts forward five core essentials of ensuring people's livelihood in China in the new era. It also introduces the key areas and practical paths and demonstrates the great achievements in the development of people's livelihood in China from six aspects, including winning the battle against poverty, running education that people are satisfied with, achieving fuller employment and better quality jobs, building the world’s largest social security system,ensuring housing for all the people, and building a healthy and beautiful China. With the all-round acceleration of its modernization process, China has fully solved the problem of food and clothing for over one billion people in the 20th century and built a moderately prosperous society in all respects in the first two decades of the 21st century. Now, the Chinese people are striding toward a new era of common prosperity.
