The Fifth Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee is an important meeting held in the critical period of China's development. An important message conveyed by this meeting is to use Scientific Outlook on Development to guide the overall situation of economic and social development, further change the development concept, clarify the development ideas, innovate the development model, improve the quality of development, and effectively turn economic and social development into a people-oriented, comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable track.
Scientific Outlook on Development is our guiding ideology at a new starting point of development. Undoubtedly, Scientific Outlook on Development is a political idea, a political theory and a political line at first, and its political meaning can be understood as a social idea, a social theory and a social development line when it is put into practice in social development and social construction.
As a social concept, Scientific Outlook on Development has two meanings. First of all, scientific development emphasizes social development and needs to solve the problem of "long economic legs and short social legs" in the process of development. Secondly, Scientific Outlook on Development emphasized people-oriented. The core and essence of this concept of development is to benefit the development of all people and improve people's quality of life, and the ultimate goal is the development of society and people, thus more prominently showing the significance of Scientific Outlook on Development as a social concept.
As a social theory, Scientific Outlook on Development mainly explores the social process, social conditions and social consequences of development in the new historical period.
According to the viewpoint of sociology, the development of any society is not a simple economic behavior, it always includes two social processes that are interrelated, influenced and restricted: economic development and social change. If we emphasize one point and ignore the other, we will not achieve real scientific development.
Here, the social process of development mainly emphasizes coordination and integration. The coordination mentioned here mainly refers to a dynamic coordination. Absolute coordination leads to egalitarianism that lacks motivation and vitality. China's reform and opening-up, first of all, is to break the "big pot" by introducing market mechanism, so that some people can get rich first, and then gradually adjust after the original social structure and function are out of balance, so as to achieve new coordination and breakthrough and transcendence in development. It is not scientific development not to emphasize coordination and ignore the negative impact of long-term imbalance on the development process.
Second, the social process of development needs to emphasize integration. The process of development is the process of continuous differentiation of interests and interest groups. Without the division of interests and interest groups, without preventing some people from getting rich first, without breaking egalitarianism and without increasing the incentive mechanism, China would not have developed today. However, widening the gap between the rich and the poor and intensifying the differentiation of interests will cause social tension and conflict in a wider range, which is also detrimental to the development of China. Only by gradually realizing the integration of interests in the process of interest differentiation, making * * * and prosperity the main theme of a new development starting point, and making the reform achievements benefit all the people, can scientific development be finally realized.
As a social theory, Scientific Outlook on Development carefully analyzed the social conditions for the development of China, that is, the first is a stable social environment. Without stability and order, it is impossible for us to "seek development wholeheartedly"; Secondly, we should make overall plans and realize the "five overall plans"; Third, emphasize fairness and justice, and integrate human behavior with the principles of fairness and justice; Fourth, we must have a strong government, make full use of our government's strong ability to mobilize and allocate resources, and concentrate on doing great things.
Scientific Outlook on Development, as a social theory, deeply discussed the social consequences of China's development, that is, in the current special period where "golden development period" and "risk prominent period" coexist. As long as we can consciously use Scientific Outlook on Development to guide our development practice, we can avoid and solve the problems such as excessive gap between the rich and the poor, social instability, structural tension and behavioral anomie in the development process, so as to make China's development peaceful, healthy, coordinated and orderly, and steadily realize the social goal of building a harmonious society and the all-round development of people.
As a social theory, Scientific Outlook on Development not only explained what Scientific Outlook on Development is, why Scientific Outlook on Development should be and how to Scientific Outlook on Development from the combination of theory and practice according to the logic of social science theoretical thinking, but also put forward many problems that need further study and discussion to our theoretical workers. As an open scientific theory, it points out the direction for our research.
As a route of social development, Scientific Outlook on Development has repeatedly emphasized that the fruits of development should benefit all the people and build a harmonious socialist society. This social development line requires us to narrow the gap between the rich and the poor and the gap between urban and rural areas in the process of development, coordinate the relationship between economy and society, and coordinate the relationship between different interest groups, so that development will continue to benefit all people and social fairness and justice will be effectively maintained and realized. Here, economic development is not the ultimate goal, but the all-round progress of society and the all-round development of people is the ultimate goal of this scientific development. Of course, the key to realizing this line is to require us to always adhere to economic construction as the center. Social problems arising in the process of development ultimately need to be solved by us through development. Without economic strength and foundation, it is impossible to comprehensively improve people's quality of life and build a harmonious socialist society.
Besides, while emphasizing the social significance of Scientific Outlook on Development, we need to pay attention to two aspects.
First of all, we should emphasize giving full play to our social advantages. For example, at the macro level, relying on the people's long-term trust in our party, our government has a strong ability to mobilize and allocate resources, which provides a strong guarantee for us to ban and implement Scientific Outlook on Development. For another example, "the branch is built in the company" is our unique institutional culture. In the process of decades of revolution and construction, this institutional arrangement has played an extremely important role in upholding the leadership of our party and realizing effective social control. In fact, in the process of institutional innovation and change, giving full play to the role of party member and grass-roots party organizations will greatly reduce the risk of social crisis and turbulence brought about by the reform, greatly reduce the social cost of institutional innovation and change, and help alleviate the contradictions among different interest groups. Therefore, at today's new starting point of development, we should especially cherish such social and political advantages. Only in this way can we always adhere to the party's leadership, realize effective social control and adjustment, and improve the quality and level of development in the process of rapid social development.
Secondly, we should emphasize the social significance of Scientific Outlook on Development and attach importance to the role of ideology. People always have faith. When people can believe that a new development mode is more reasonable and fair through the role of ideology, and when people can believe that this new development mode will bring more benefits and benefits to themselves and others, they can't help but work hard for it, so the enthusiasm and benefits will be enormous. In this sense, ideology is a special productive force, which can inspire people to create and reduce the cost of institutional innovation.
In a word, we should try our best to understand Scientific Outlook on Development from all aspects and angles, consciously turn this development view into our own behavior orientation, do our own knowledge and work well.