Right on Schedule

For Wang Xiuying, an 84-year-old retired railway worker in Changchun, Jilin Province, a xiaokang life means practicing morning tai chi in a park near her neighborhood and shopping around in the three supermarkets near her apartment. Her cozy life is guaranteed by a regularly increasing pension, which is a source of security and happiness. “For me, all these things constitute a xiaokang life, which was unimaginable when I was young, when the country was recovering and focusing on production and construction,” Wang told Beijing Review.

On July 1, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, announced that China had realized its first centenary goal—building a moderately prosperous society