공동부유론을 어떻게 볼 것인가

Abstract

What is the most talked about among the recent issues from China is the ‘Common Prosperity Theory’ the Xi Jinping Administration has raised. Even though the world is currently understanding this simply as an ideological tool for extending the power of the Xi Jinping regime, this study thinks that it should be handled in more fundamental level. In order to discuss this, this thesis approached it in the perspectives of ‘system mechanism’ and ‘policy frame’. First, in the perspective of ‘system mechanism’, the ‘Common Prosperity Theory’ has the status of the ‘new development frame’ of the ‘new development stage’ called the ‘new era of the socialist market economy system’. This is the content of new paradigm which is separated from the ’30-year reform and opening-up system’ and the ‘Deng Xiaoping system’. Meanwhile, in the perspective of ‘policy frame’, the ‘Common Prosperity Theory’ is related to the issue of upgrading of the industrial structure according to the movement of global industrial value chain and adjustment of polarized distribution structure which is the product of the ‘30-year reform and opening-up system’. Like this, it is absolutely clear to see the limitations of the view of the ‘Common Prosperity Theory’ as an ideological means for extending the power of the Xi Jinping regime. Putting together the discussions above, this thesis concludes that there would be no possibility to cancel or withdraw this agenda itself regardless of how the form of Xi Jinping’s 3rd Administration is decided in the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China that would be held in the autumn of 2022 while the progress speed and schedule of the agenda could be temporarily adjusted though.