Historical Materialism Review Of China's Reform And Opening Up

The 17TH Congress of CPC summarizes the successes and great achievements made in China since the reform and opening-up as "Ten Combinations", which points out the direction for the academic circle to summarize the great practices of reform and opening up.Based on the above-mentioned thoughts and guidelines, the paper summarizes the successful experiences of reform and opening up, identifies problems and deficiencies and figures out solutions so as to promote reform and openingup to develop further forward by reviewing the whole process of reform and opening-up comprehensively with historical materialism. The paper consists of preface, five chapters and conclusion.Preface:Analyzing and summarizing reform and openingup scientifically with historical materialism-also on adhering to the concept of self-perfection socialism reform unswervingly. Historical materialism requires a correct view on reform, that is, on one hand, it should be acknowledged that reform has many merits and it is successful; on the other hand, attentions should be paid to problems and deficiences, especial attention should also be paid to the objective existence and influence of capitalist reform concept. Chapter one, historical contributions and essential characteristics of historical materialism. The chapter summarizes the basic elements of historical materialism and it is thought that the key to understand historical materialism at present is to guard against two wrong tendencies, i.e. voluntarism and economic determinism.Chapter two:Historical inevitability of reform and opening up from the perspective of historical materialism. The chapter is a thorough theoretical argumentation of the historical inevitability and legitimacy of reform and opening up. Chapter three:Theories and practices of reform and opening up in China from the historical materialism perspective. The chapter is a comprehensive review of the theory and practice of reform and opening up. Chapter four:The practices of reform develop, enrich and uphold historical materialism. It is believed that socialism primary stage theory, socialism market economy theory, socialism harmonious society theory and socialism opening up theory and so on, adhere to, enrich and develop historical materialism. Chapter five:Historical materialism-the theoretical guide to further promote reform and opening up. It is stressed in this chapter that adhering to historical materialism and further promoting reform and opening up can promote the self-improvement of socialist system. To advance reform continuously, the reform should be always in the right direction and the basic interests of people should be ensured. The chapter also provides in-depth historical materialism thinking about adhering to and perfecting socialism basic economic system, the basic distribution system, and the socialist market economic system. Conclusion:The dialectic relationship inference and thinking between theories and practices of reform and opening up and basic social contradictions. It is concluded that following historical materialism, reform and opening up will proceed smoothly and achieve great successes; ignoring it, reform and opening up will lose direction and deviating from it, reform and opening up will even suffer from tortuous turns and twists.