Four Comprehensives


The Four Comprehensives, or the Four-pronged Comprehensive Strategy is a list of political goals for China, put forward by Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China in 2014. They are:
  1. Comprehensively build a moderately prosperous society
  2. Comprehensively deepen reform
  3. Comprehensively govern the nation :wikidata:Q11143392|according to law
  4. Comprehensively strictly govern the Party.
Some scholars argue that there are the same or very similar statements of the "four comprehensives" in Deng Xiaoping Theory.
Comprehensively build a moderately prosperous society
The term "moderately prosperous society" dated back to 1979, when Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping said to visiting Japanese Prime Minister Masayoshi Ōhira that "Xiaokang society was the goal of Chinese modernization".
In 1997, the term "building a moderately prosperous society" was officially adopted in General Secretary Jiang Zemin's report to the 15th CPC National Congress.
In 2002, the term was changed to "comprehensively building a moderately prosperous society" in the report to the 16th CPC National Congress.
In 2012, "Completing the Building of a Moderately Prosperous Society in All Respects" was first introduced in Hu Jintao's report to the 18th CPC National Congress.

Timeline

The Four Comprehensives have been developed incrementally during the early years of Xi's tenure: