党的十六届四中全会从全面建设小康社会、开创中国特色社会主义事业新局面的全局出发,向全党和全国人民提出在我国构建社会主义和谐社会的重大历史任务。在刚刚结束的全国人大十届三次会议上,温家宝所作的政府工作报告中,又把构建社会主义和谐社会列为当前和今后相当长一个时期 Starting from the overall situation of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and opening up a new situation in the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee has proposed to the entire Party and the people throughout the country a major historical task of building a harmonious socialist society in our country. At the just-concluded third plenary meeting of the NPC, in his government work report, Wen Jiabao again listed the building of a harmonious socialist society as a current and quite long period in the future