It is recorded in the Book of Songs that "people can live a well-off life when they stop working", which is the earliest origin and description of the word well-off. Therefore, common prosperity is the unremitting pursuit of China people since ancient times.

People can live a better life as long as they relax at work. Later, Confucianism called the society below the Datong society a well-off society.

Well-off society refers to a relatively comfortable life between food and clothing and affluence enjoyed by the broad masses of the people in China, and it is also a petty bourgeoisie life.