President Xi Jinping’s 2017 New Year Message

President Xi Jinpig spoke of many things in his 2017 new year address. He said the 13th Five Year plan is coming along nicely. In 2016 they worked towards building a moderately prosperous society, being forefront runners of the world, making strides in their structural reform, making military breakthroughs, enhancing rule of law and judicial/social fairness, implementing a strict discipline of communist party of China, reforming citizenship process to make it easier, and increasing school conditions in poor neighborhoods.. Although they celebrated a lot of other successes  in 2016 these are the ones that stood out to me because he said that in 2017 they must work to continue to improve all of those same things. Xi’s deepest concern is getting those that still live in poor circumstances in better living arrangements. He believes that the answer to this problem is finding the people in these families employment, increasing the education for the children, and creating better housing situations. I know that I know very little about Politics in China and the China government, but his desire to try and solve  the poverty and social gap goes against what I thought about the class and hierarchical situation. I thought that it was similar to U.S. mentality and that there is not such an emphasis placed on the social and poverty gap line.