The word "people's livelihood" first appeared in Zuo Zhuan's Twelve Years of Gong Xuan. The so-called "people's livelihood is diligent, and diligence is not lacking." The people here are the people. The explanation of "people's livelihood" in Ci Hai is "people's livelihood", which is a word with humanistic thought and humanistic care, and a popular feeling is obviously permeated in the discourse context.
In modern society, people's livelihood, democracy and civil rights are interdependent, and the foundation of people's livelihood has also risen from the initial means of production and living to the overall pattern of lifestyle, cultural model and civic spirit that pay equal attention to material needs and spiritual characteristics. The so-called people's livelihood, from the perspective of human rights, is all human rights of the right to subsistence and universal development.
From the perspective of demand, people's livelihood refers to all the needs related to the realization of people's right to subsistence and the general needs related to the realization of people's right to development.