Nation prospers as result of Party's vision

Solid foundation

That laid a solid foundation for the Party to lead the country to achieve the goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects before the CPC's 100th birthday.

In recent years, the target led to ramped-up efforts to curb rural poverty, pollution and corruption－issues that had to be addressed before China could be categorized as a moderately prosperous society in an all-around way, experts said.

Wu Haitao, a professor at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law in Wuhan, Hubei province, and an expert on poverty reduction, said the issues of poverty, pollution and corruption had been in the authorities' crosshairs since 2012 as the country moved to achieve a moderately prosperous society in all respects.

By delivering the goal as promised, the Party has demonstrated that the Chinese path, theory, political system and culture all work, he said. "In addition, the CPC has defended and promoted the development of socialism worldwide and injected new momentum into the global socialist cause and mankind's development," he noted.

Chang Jian, director of the Human Rights Research Center at Nankai University in Tianjin, said the decadeslong efforts to keep the promise has helped promote a wide range of basic human rights deemed crucial to people's survival and development, such as better access to food and drinking water, safe homes, health and social security.

He said many of the areas have been tracked by the poverty relief authorities to prevent perfunctory poverty alleviation. "Improvements on these fronts have laid the foundations for the protection of other higher-level human rights," he said.