先富幫后富
改革開放之前，人民生活水平提高緩慢，社會主義的優越性未能充分體現出來。為了充分顯示社會主義的優越性，就必須首先讓人們生活富裕。但是，一些錯誤觀念嚴重束縛著人們的思想，制約了生產力的發展。為此，鄧小平當時提出了“先富帶動共富”的政策理念，意在調動人民群眾的積極性和創造性。鄧小平指出，我們提倡一部分地區先富裕起來，是為了激勵和帶動其他地區也富裕起來，并且使先富裕起來的地區幫助落后的地區更好地發展。提倡人民中有一部分人先富裕起來，也是同樣的道理。一部分地區、一部分人可以先富起來，帶動和幫助其他地區、其他的人，逐步達到共同富裕。
脫貧攻堅戰中，東西部扶貧協作和對口支援集中體現了“先富幫后富”的思想，是推動區域協調發展、協同發展、共同發展的大戰略，是加強區域合作、優化產業布局、拓展對內對外開放新空間的大布局，是最終實現共同富裕目標的大舉措。
Those Who Become Prosperous First Helping Those Who Lag Behind
Prior to China's era of reform and opening up, the Chinese people saw only a slow improvement in their living conditions, and socialism was not fully showing its superiority. To demonstrate the strengths of socialism, China needed to achieve common prosperity. But at that time some erroneous ideas still fettered people's thinking and hampered the productive forces.
Seeing this, Deng Xiaoping proposed encouraging those who have become prosperous first to inspire others to follow their example. He said, "In encouraging some regions to become prosperous first, we intend that they should inspire others to follow their example and that all of them should help economically backward regions to develop. The same holds good for some individuals," and "some regions and some people may prosper before others do, and then they can help other regions and people to gradually do the same."
This idea is fully applied in China's battle against poverty, particularly in the cooperation and paired-up assistance between the east and the west. It helps promote regional cooperation for coordinated development, with a better industrial configuration and more space for opening to the rest of the country and the world, with the final goal of common prosperity.
