A Research On The Problem Of Interests-coordination In The Process Of The Building Of Socialist Harmonious Society

Modern society is not only a commonwealth of interests, but also an embodiment of the era of interests-gaming. The socialist harmonious society we are building now is by no means a society without conflicts and contradictions of interests, but a society capable of resolving all these problems, and thus achieve a state of balance between the relations of interests. Since the adoption of reform and opening up policy, the most profound changes took place in Chinese society are the changes of the relations of social interests, and the reform is actually a re-adjustment process of them. Many negative things comes out of this gaming process, the most prominent of which is the ever widening gap of between the rich and the poor, the social injustice, and a lot of other things, resulting in the intensification of various social contradictions and conflicts of interests which bring the building of a harmonious society tremendous impact and challenges.Guided by the Marxist theories about contradictions and interests, and based on the conflicts of interests in the building up of socialist harmonious society in China, this dissertation exploits the existing relevant research results from at home and abroad and commits a wide range social investigation, in order to make a in-depth exploration about the trajectory of the theories of harmonious society and interests coordination and the relationship between them. This work makes full use of political science, economics, sociology, law and other related disciplines background information, which is done within the framework of the theories of fairness and justice. It analyses the status and reason of the differentiation of interests of in contemporary Chinese society, as well as the challenges such differentiation brings to the building of a harmonious society. At the same time, it makes a historical exploration about the party's practice of interests–coordination since the founding of People's Republic of China, and sums up the lessons which could be learned critically by making a comparative analysis about modes of interests-coordination in western countries. Upon the basis of previous work, it explores actively the specific mechanisms and ways of interests-coordination in the process of the building up of Chinese harmonious society, so as to make them realistic, prospective, open in theory and operational in practice. Without which the problem can not be resolved, and the goal of a socialist society of fairness and justice can not be reached.The first chapter consists of the brief summing up of the theories of harmonious society and interests. It first defines the concepts of harmony and interests and other relevant concepts, which prepares the in-depth exploration of the trajectory of the theories of harmonious society and interests-coordination and the relationship between them.Chapter two is about the status of the differentiation of interests and the challenge it makes to the building of harmonious society. Since reform and opening up, profound adjustments have been made to the ownership structure and distribution methods of our country, this gradually broke the equalitarianism-characteristic balance of social interests and intensifies their differentiation. The current differentiation of interests in our country is characteristic of diversification of interests subjects, multiplication of interests need, complication of interests relations, widening of interests gap, as well as publication of interests contradictions and conflicts. As a result, the reason of the differentiation of interests is analyzed from the perspective of social division of labor, the mode of ownership, the method of distribution, and the mechanism and economy. It is also from these perspectives the impact and challenges brought by the interests differentiation-related huge increase of disadvantaged people and unemployed workers, the widening gap between the rich and the poor, the three issues concerning agriculture as well as the intensification of the contradictions and conflicts of interests among all the social groups to the building of harmonious society are discussed.Chapter three concerns with the historical exploration of the mechanism of interests-coordination and its instructions since the founding of P.R.C. Up until now, the Communist Party of China has been experimenting arduously with the practice of interests-coordination. It has accumulated much experience and paid heavy price as well. The specific points of this chapter are as follows: the adjustment of the relations of social interests during the period of the recovery of national economy; socialist transformation is a complete transformation of the interests pattern of old China; the searching for ways of interests-coordination during the period of planned economy; the transformation of ways of interests-coordination in the period of socialist market economy. The enlightenments we draw from such historical exploration about these stages lies in: the socialist ideas and institution must advance with times; the criteria of"three favorable"is crucial in the grasping of historical opportunities; single public ownership and planned economy do not fit with the status of backward economy and unbalanced development of China;"Seeking truth from facts"is crucial for the success of reform and opening-up; socialist market economy still need plan- adjustments to repress the shortcomings and fill up the deficiencies of market; socialist market economy should stress the summarizing and absorbing of the lessons of planned economy.Chapter four consists of a comparative analysis of the practice mode for interests-coordination in western countries. It summarizes the experiences we can borrow through the comparison of the practical modes of interests-coordination in The U.S, Japan and Germany. Firstly, it is the state intervention through the overall adjustment and control of economy by government, as it is done through"short-term lever adjustment"in the U.S, the"overall adjustment"in Germany, the"government-dominated adjustment"in Japan. Secondly, it is to establish complete system of law to guarantee market order. Thirdly, it is to establish complete social security system.Chapter concerns with the principles and mechanisms of interests-coordination in the process of the building of harmonious society. The former include the principle of the parallel stress of efficiency and fairness, the principle of taking all factors into account, the principle of fairness and justice, as well as the principle of interests-sharing. The later include the mechanism of hindrance-free interests- expressing, the mechanism of reasonable interests-distributing, the mechanism of sound interests-balancing, as well as the mechanism of the adjustment of interests-psychology.Chapter six elaborates on main methods of interests-coordination in the process of the building of harmonious society. These methods lie in the rational adjustment of the pattern of national income in order to remove the overwhelmingly huge income gap, the protection of the interests of disadvantaged people in order to safeguard social equity and justice, the interests relations which should be adjusted above all for the sake of"the three agriculture-related problems", the increasing of the rate of middle income groups to balance the interests relations among all social classes, as well as the improving of the mechanism of interests-expression to establish a platform for the expressing the interests demands of all the social groups.