Political Harmony: Challenges And Strategies

As an important component of a harmonious society, political harmony is that in the existence process of human political society, the political subjects by easing and resolving conflicts keep the elements of the political system and its relationship with other subsystems, which are based on interest, in the state and process of stable and orderly, relative coordinate,and better interact, through multi-identity of concept harmony,effective regulation of harmonious system,construction of a harmonious value system. Only by finding out what is the political harmony and how to achieve and maintain political harmony from theory can we provide scientific theory and thoughts guidance to achieve real political harmony and promote the building of a harmonious society; deeply studying the challenge to political harmony under new historical conditions, and seeking the solution to achieve political harmony are important tasks and basic requirements to build a harmonious socialist society. The theoretical meaning and value of studying on political harmony from the perspective of interest is that by basic theory and method of political science, it will expand the research field of political science, forming the paradigm, theories and methods of political harmony, and enriching wealth and treasure for theoretical house of political theory, providing more and more better theoretical support and service for building harmonious socialist society.The paper describes the origins of the research first, and demonstrates the meaning and value of this study from both practical meaning and academic value. Then, the paper reviews the status quo and existing problems of political harmony and interest studies at home and abroad. Finally, the paper proposes the logic structure, analytical framework and research methods, and explains innovations, difficulties and shortage. By classificating, combing and overviewing the concept of political harmony and analysis of their advantages and disadvantages, Chapter I attempts to define the concept of political harmony and clarifies its legitimacy. On the basis of that, the chapter discriminates political harmony and other related concepts, such as social harmony, political stability, political development, inter-party harmony and so on, which further clarifies the meaning of political harmony. As the focus of this chapter, it discusses the factors affecting the political harmony, including political, economic, cultural and social factors, and takes interests as the fundamental factors influencing political harmony. Through the classification, sorting out and reviewed the concept of interest, chapter II adopts many scientific definitions of interest and definites the meaning of interest. Then, respectively from both the influence of coordination of interests for political harmony and impact of division and conflict of interests on the political harmony, the chapter demonstrates the deep-rooted relationship between interests and political harmony.In chapter III, according to current status analysis of China's political harmony, current interests'differentiation and conflicts mainly are interest differentiation among the class divisions, interest differentiation among regions, interest differentiation between rich and poor, interest differentiation between urban and rural divide, as well as mass events. This chapter will specifically describe these, and deeply analyze their impact and challenges on political harmony. From the Marxist point of view and objective analysis and evaluation, chapter IV takes developed western countries and developing countries'practices of maintaining political harmony as examples, absorbing the essence and discarding the dross, summarizes and extracts the enlightenment for China to achieve political harmony. In chapter V, to realize China's political harmony is the final destination and fundamental end-result of this study. By combining theoretical analysis and practice inspection of these chapters, the author believes that it should be achieved in several aspects: promoting better and rapid economic development to protect political harmony; strengthening political system building to realize political harmony; and perfecting interest related mechanism system to maintain political harmony.These recommendations will be the fundamental path for realization of China's political harmony.Approaches to the paper include methods of dialectical materialism and historical materialism, literature analysis, comparative study, specification and empirical research methods and so on.The innovations of the paper are as follow. First, based on the concepts of political harmony, the paper gives a clear and reasonable definition of political harmony, emphasizing the political subject is the core elements of political harmony, clearing subsisting time and scope of political harmony, highlighting political relations are the main contents of political harmony, clarifying the political harmony is the process of easing and resolving conflicts, indicating the political harmony is unity of relative static and absolute dynamic, straightening out the concept discirmination of political harmony and the social harmony, political stability, political development and inter-party harmony.Second, taking benefit as the starting point and analysis perspective, and from both sides of the meaning and value of coordination of interests to political harmony and the impact of differentiation and conflict of interests on the political harmony, the paper deeply discussed the relationship between political harmony and interest, which constructs the basic framework for the problem of political harmony from the perspective of interest. Third, examining and analyzing the political harmony in the context of the new century and new stage, the paper searches for the basic causes of the influence on political harmony from practical perspective of the market, globalization and differentiation and integration of interest, and explores measures and recommendations to realize and maintain political harmony from a wider field of vision, which is bold enough to learn experience and lessons to achieve political harmony.