国计民生
guó jì mín shēng
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 國計民生
How the country's finances are run and how ordinary people make a living: the matters on which a nation's prosperity and its people's daily lives depend. A formal phrase from news, policy papers and speeches.
Kinh tế của đất nước và đời sống của nhân dân: những việc hệ trọng đối với sự giàu mạnh của quốc gia và cuộc sống người dân. Là cách nói trang trọng trong tin tức, văn kiện và diễn văn.
Register: formal
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 062 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 计/計 = kế · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “quốc kế dân sinh” (quoc-ke-dan-sinh). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “国计民生” mean?
How the country's finances are run and how ordinary people make a living: the matters on which a nation's prosperity and its people's daily lives depend. A formal phrase from news, policy papers and speeches. Literally: the state's accounts, the people's living
Is “国计民生” formal or informal?
国计民生 is generally formal.