National value goal is the soul and spiritual support of national development, which directly determines the value orientation of society and directly affects the value behavior of individual citizens. Only when the country has the correct value goal can the society follow it correctly and the people have hope. The value goal at the national level is at the highest level among the socialist core values and plays a leading role in other levels of values. The first of the "three propositions", that is, prosperity, democracy, civilization and harmony, is the value goal at the national level, the basic value criterion for the construction of national economic, political, cultural, social and ecological civilization, the fundamental value connotation for promoting the modernization of national governance system and governance capacity, and the development goal for building a socialist modern country. We can understand the socialist value goal at the national level from three dimensions: history, connotation and relationship.

(1) Exploration and establishment of the socialist value goal of prosperity, democracy, civilization and harmony.

As early as the eve of the founding of New China, the same program formulated by the first plenary session of the China People's Political Consultative Conference pointed out that "strive for China's independence, democracy, peace, unity and prosperity." Prosperity and democracy have become the core concepts of the country; After the founding of New China, it was made clear that the goal of socialist construction was to "build a socialist country with modern industry, modern agriculture and modern science and culture", and then "national defense modernization" was added to form the goal of "four modernizations"; Since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, the basic line of building Socialism with Chinese characteristics has been put forward, and "a prosperous, strong, democratic and civilized socialist modern country" has been the goal of the party and the country; Since the 16th National Congress, the goal of socialist modernization has been further expanded from "prosperity, democracy and civilization" to "prosperity, democracy, civilization and harmony". The 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly regards "prosperity, democracy, civilization and harmony" as the important content of socialist core values and establishes it as the value goal of socialism.

(2) Interpret the basic content of the socialist value goal of prosperity, democracy, civilization and harmony.

1, prosperity is the basic value goal of socialist modernization, the long-cherished wish of the Chinese nation, and the material basis for the prosperity of the country and the happiness and well-being of the people. Poverty is not socialism, nor is polarization socialism. Our pursuit of prosperity is based on comprehensive national strength, characterized by the common prosperity of all the people, and guided by sustained and healthy development. Among them, we need to deal with two pairs of dialectical relations:

The relationship between national wealth and people's wealth. "Prosperity" contains the value demands of two subjects, one is that the people are rich, and the other is that the country is strong. "Rich" first lies in enriching the people, that is, the people are rich. Without the prosperity of the people, there is no country's strength. Since ancient times, the Chinese nation has said that "every country must enrich the people first." Marxism also believes that the fundamental purpose of developing social productive forces and creating national wealth is to enrich people's material life and spiritual life, thus promoting people's free and all-round development. Secondly, "prosperity" also lies in the country's strength, that is, the country is strong, which is reflected in the country's strong comprehensive national strength and its strong influence on national order and international affairs. In socialist countries, people's prosperity and national prosperity are basically the same. The prosperity of the country is an important prerequisite for benefiting the people, and the prosperity of the people is the fundamental purpose of the country's prosperity.