"People-oriented" is the core of Scientific Outlook on Development, and its philosophical theoretical basis is to affirm that people are the main body and the fundamental purpose of social development. The basic principle of "people-oriented" runs through all aspects of Scientific Outlook on Development, and its connotation is to make it clear that people are the core goal of economic and social development.
Marxism holds that man does not produce for the sake of production. In the final analysis, economic and social development is to meet people's needs, interests, wishes and requirements. As far as human needs are concerned, it is multi-faceted and multi-level. People have not only natural needs, but also social needs. There are not only individual needs, but also group and overall needs. Each individual not only has his own needs, but also has interactive needs. Not only material needs, but also spiritual needs, political needs and so on.
We should also see that the original demand has been met and new demand has emerged. With the progress of society, people's needs are from low to high, from meeting the needs of survival to meeting the needs of development to meeting the needs of enjoyment. For example, since the reform and opening up, as far as the whole country is concerned, the first thing is to meet the needs of eating well, wearing warm clothes and having a house to live in, and then to eat well, wear well and live well, and live a well-off life. Now it is all-round for everyone. We must also have a rich and colorful cultural life, democracy and freedom, and realize our political rights, that is, we must have modern spiritual and political civilization, green homeland, ecological civilization, and so on.
Obviously, just developing the economy can't meet people's needs. We should also develop social undertakings such as culture and politics to meet the needs of people's all-round development with all-round social development. Meeting people's all-round development needs runs through the whole historical process and can only be realized step by step. In different countries and at different stages, there are different target models. In a word, production development and economic growth are not the fundamental purpose in themselves, but constantly meet people's needs in all aspects.
Therefore, the establishment of Scientific Outlook on Development requires the Party and the government to pay attention to comprehensiveness and systematicness when formulating national and local development plans to meet people's needs in all aspects. If economic development is the foundation, then the all-round progress of society to meet people's needs is the essence and core of development. People are social people, living in a certain social form and social relations, and people's needs are often manifested in interest relations. From economic interests to political interests to spiritual interests and so on. Therefore, constantly satisfying people's needs is closely related to gradually satisfying their reasonable interests, which is the fundamental driving force to promote social progress. As for people's wishes and demands, they are only expressions of their needs and interests.
Second, man is the value orientation and measure of social development.
The basic principle of "people-oriented" also requires that in the process of economic and social development, people's value should be taken as the guide and measure to improve people's quality and ability, so that everyone's potential and personality can be brought into full play. Economic and social development should create conditions for its own development and improvement, and improve its physical quality, psychological quality and cultural quality.
Marxism also believes that the "people-oriented" concept of social development highlights the new values and values of economic and social development. In other words, in the process of economic and social development, we should fully respect, care for, love and care for people. "Of all things in the world, people are the most precious." (Mao Zedong) We should gradually realize people's own value and constantly improve people's own value. This is ... It is also a yardstick for evaluating the quality and level of development. For example, after the realization of the basic right to subsistence, we must do everything possible to ensure the realization of the people's right to education and other development rights. While safeguarding various economic rights, we must fully protect the people's political rights and the rights of freedom, democracy and equality. The constitutional amendment adopted at the Second Session of the Tenth National People's Congress confirmed human rights and the protection of legitimate private property rights, which highlighted the people-oriented principle.
It should be emphasized that man is the product of natural and social development. However, with people, not only does society belong to people, but it also naturally evolves into human nature. It can be seen that man is the master and center of human society and human nature. Through social practice, man constantly interacts with society, nature and man himself, constantly promoting the all-round progress of society and the all-round development of man, promoting the harmonious development of man and nature and realizing ecological balance. To realize the harmony of various human elements and levels, human beings are characterized by pursuing ideals (higher values) rather than being satisfied with the status quo. In the words of philosophers, they always move from "what is" to "what should be" and pursue "setting" from "what is"
In a word, we should seek the ideal values such as truth, goodness, beauty and freedom. It is this real need, real interests and values that constitute the driving force for social progress and human self-improvement. It can be said that the principle of "people-oriented" is the concrete embodiment of the basic principle of Marxism communism "everyone's all-round free development".