Theoretical innovation means that human beings make new theoretical analysis and theoretical answers to emerging new situations and problems in pioneering social practice activities.
Make a new revelation and prediction of the nature, law and development trend of the cognitive object or the practical object, and make a new rational sublimation of the research object. Theoretical innovation generally has the following types:
First, the innovation of the principles, methods and vision of the interpretation of new situations and new problems, that is, the innovation at the level of methods, has a certain decisive role in the formation of new theoretical viewpoints, theoretical principles and theoretical systems;
Second, on the basis of profoundly grasping the development law of things and the law of human thinking and effectively exploring new fields of social practice, it puts forward unprecedented new viewpoints and new categories, especially forming new principles and new scientific systems;
Thirdly, starting from the developing social practice, taking this as the test standard, we should supplement it on the basis of fully affirming and inheriting the basic principles founded by predecessors, carry out new argumentation and play, correct the wrong elements and discard the old ones;
Fourthly, according to the needs of practice, we should rearrange the scientific thinking materials and theoretical viewpoints of our predecessors, get rid of incorrect or random supplements mixed in by later generations because of misunderstanding, review or highlight some theoretical principles and viewpoints put forward by our predecessors that can reflect the spirit of the present era, and give them new significance.