这三个问题，都是涉及到国计民生的基础性问题，直接关系到每一位国民的生活甚至是生存，其重要性怎么说都不过分。在过去计划经济条件下，在城市里虽系人人有份，却是低质量的。现在随着改革开放以来的经济发展，质量的改善的条件和可能已与过去不可同日而语，因此，理应进一步造福全民。然而如果在认识上发生偏颇，却可能使其步入误区，造成新的社会不公平。这个偏颇与误区，就是可以把它们完全地抛入市场。
These three basic matters are all directly related to the life, or even, the survival of every fellow countryman. Their importance cannot, therefore, be overestimated. Although in the past, during the era of the planned economy, every urban resident had a share of social welfare, it was welfare of low quality. Nowadays, with the economic development that has occurred since the beginning of reform and opening-up, the possibility of improvement in these areas has become greater than ever before, which should bring further benefit to the people. Yet, if our understanding regarding these matters becomes distorted, we may form mistaken ideas and, through them, create new social injustice. One such biased understanding is the mistaken idea that all these matters can be solved through the market alone.
