21世纪迈着轻快的脚步在人们的彻夜狂欢中如约来临。新世纪里中国第一个传统的新春佳节亦将接踵而至。新旧更替之际，刚刚完成“九五”计划的中国人民，开始进入一个全面建设小康社会的新的历史时期。在过去的 51年，尤其是改革开放的 20余年里，我国人民的生活水平和生活质量已有了飞跃性的提高，与过去相比可谓有天壤之别，这正是中国人民面对新世纪时充满自信的根源所在。但在这辞旧迎新之际，我们也应看到，虽然随着“九五”目标的全面完成，我国已经基本解决了人民的温饱问题，但人民生活还远不能称为富足，与发达国家相比还有较大差距，这正是新世纪我们必须重视解决的根本性问题。正如中央领导同志再三强调指出的，目前城乡居民收入水平还不高，一部分群众的生活还比较困难，各级领导干部必须从政治的高度和稳定的大局出发，始终把解决好人民生活问题作为党和政府的根本任务。 继 2000年 11月份本刊编辑部组织记者深入贵州、山西、青海三省贫困地区贫困农民家庭进行调查采访后（相关报道刊于本刊 2000年第 51期）， 12月 21日，本刊再次组织记者分两路赴湖北武汉市和黑龙江鹤岗市，追踪采访了两个城市特困家庭的生活状况，并对我国以往在解决城市贫困人口生活问题方面所取得的成绩进行了比较全面 The brisk pace of the 21st century is upon everyone’s night-time spree. In the new century, the first traditional Chinese New Year will follow. As the old and the new have changed, the Chinese people just completing the Ninth Five-Year Plan have begun to enter a new historical period of building an overall well-to-do society. In the past 51 years, especially in the more than 20 years since the reform and opening up, the living standards and quality of life of our people have dramatically increased, which is far different from the past. This is exactly what the Chinese people are facing in the new century At the root of full confidence. However, as we read the latest news, we should also see that although with the goal of “the Ninth Five-Year Plan” being fully completed, our country has basically solved the problem of food and clothing for the people, but the people’s livelihood can not be called a prosperous country yet. This is still a fundamental issue that we must attach importance to solving in the new century. As the central leading comrades repeatedly emphasize, at present, the income level of urban and rural residents is still not high, and the lives of some people are still rather difficult. Leading cadres at all levels must proceed from the overall political level and stability and always regard the solution of the people’s livelihood as the party And the fundamental task of the government. Following the November 2000 issue of the editorial department of this magazine, we organized an in-depth interview with families of poor peasants in impoverished areas in Guizhou, Shanxi and Qinghai provinces (related reports are published in Issue 51, Issue 2000). On December 21, The reporter went to Wuhan in Hubei Province and Hegang City in Heilongjiang Province on two separate routes and followed up and interviewed the living conditions of the destitute families in the two urban areas and conducted a fairly comprehensive survey of the achievements made by China in solving the living problems of urban poor in the past