Theoretical And Practice Of China’s Market Economy System Transformation

Since the reform and opening up to the outside world, Chinese communists have explored deeply the theory of socialistic market economy and established socialistic market economic system according to the basic Marxist principles and basic conditions of China at her primary stage of socialism. This is no doubt a great breakthrough and innovation to the Marxist political economics and scientific socialism. The establishment of the socialistic market economic system greatly liberated China’s producing force that has been bound up for long by the planned economic system. The construction of the socialistic material civilization has burst force infinite vitality. China’s economy has been maintaining a steady growing pace for more than30years, and the standard of people’s living had also been elevated greatly, so has the nation’s comprehensive force. The system advantage of socialistic public ownership and the high efficiency of resource allocation of market economy together greatly boosted the working enthusiasm and creativity of socialistic workers. The superiority of the socialistic system has been actualized and the socialistic productivity increased rapidly. The influence of socialistic market economy for China has been permeating and the market system is actively operating in every aspect of the economic and social development. The economic development facts since the reform and opening-up to the outside world have provided the practice foundation for the further thinking about the compatibility of socialism and market economy. Meanwhile, in the process of constant perfection of socialistic market economy system, socialistic market economy theory and system innovation are becoming important components of the socialistic theory system with Chinese characteristics. The study of the great historic course of the constant developments and changes of China’s socialistic market economic system has great significance both in theory and practice.On the foundation of relevant research achievements, this doctoral dissertation tries to look deeply into the leaping process of Chinese Communist Party’s understanding of socialistic market economy, pay attention to the social practice of the past leading parties since the reform and opening-up, carefully master the theoretical foundations, epoch background, forming and developing process, the basic connotation and features, historical lessons and value of the concrete system innovations of Chinese communist leading parties concerning the transformations of socialistic market economy system. Also the dissertation reviews the thinking process of Chinese Communist Party when understanding the development laws of socialistic market economy. Through the analysis of the rich connotation of the historic breakthrough on market economy theory of Chinese Communist Party, the dissertation tries to explore the historical lessons and value of the socialistic market economy system innovation, and understand the dialectic relationship between socialistic market economy system reform that Chinese Communist leading party has advocated and the Marxism development history. With the combination of Chinese Communist Party’s historic breakthrough and innovation for the traditional Marxist political economics, this thesis analyzes its historic contribution in Marxist development history by its market economy theory and system innovation.The main body of the dissertation falls into five parts.The first chapter, introduction, mainly introduces the background of topic selection and value of research, the research status quo both home and abroad of Chinese Communist leading party’s reform for socialistic market economy system. The research method and main innovations of the dissertation are also introduced in this chapter.The second chapter expounds on the profound theoretical basis and practice foundation of the socialistic market economy system reform that Chinese Communist Party is conducting. Marxist classic writers’thought on planning and market is the theoretical base for market economy system transformation. The world market is the logic starting point of market economy system transformation. Market economy is the necessary pathway to realize the comprehensive development of human beings. The socialistic economic system reform of both the Soviet Union and China are the groundwork of practice for socialistic economic system reform.The third chapter expatiates on the main course of socialistic market economy system transformation, including theoretical innovations and practical innovations. Through the theoretical innovation of the economic system transformation, the successive leading groups of Chinese Communist Party have been leading the system innovation through the phases of budding, forming, overcoming the difficulties and perfecting, and have been exploring, establishing, developing and perfecting the socialistic market economy systemFrom the fourth chapter to the ninth chapter, the dissertation fully expatiates on the connotation of the concrete system transformations of market economy from the six aspects of the rural economic system, management system of state-owned enterprises, monetary and taxation system, financial system, foreign trade system and social security system. The tenth chapter generalized the epoch value of China’s market economy system transformation systematically. According to Chinese Communist Party’s historic breakthrough on the socialistic market economy theory, the dissertation researches on the epoch value for economics, deepens the regularity understanding for China’s economic system transformation, and probes into the historical inspiration of China’s socialistic market economic system transformation and innovation for China’s economic development, the economic exploration of socialist countries and global economic development mode.Concerning the summarization and expatiation on socialistic market economy system transformation of Chinese Communist Party’s leading groups, the innovations of the dissertation are as following:First, the newness of the topic selection of "Theoretical and practice analysis of China’s market economy system transformation" lies in that the author focuses his research on socialistic market economy system transformation throughout Chinese Communist Party leading groups’ whole exploration process after the founding of the PRC, instead of simply relating the socialistic market economic system transformation thought and socialistic theory system with Chinese characteristics, therefore provides the thought foundation for persevering and perfecting socialistic market economy theory.Second, the past researches on socialistic market economy theory often focus on the analysis and generalization of a particular leader, for example, Deng Xiaoping’s thought on socialistic market economy, or focus on a particular leading group’s thought of socialistic market economy, with the publication rich both in quantity and kinds. While the researches on Chinese Communist Party’s successive leading groups’theories and practices of socialistic market economy system transformation are much fewer. This dissertation tries to take Marxist historical materialism as its guidelines, and seek the common essence in the theoretical system and thinking mode between Marxist classic writers and Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin and the newest leading group with Hu Jintao as the general secretary. Meanwhile, the author tries to deepen his regularity understanding for China’s economic system reform, and explore the historical inspiration of China’s socialistic market economic system’s reform and innovation for China’s economic development and socialistic national economic system reform exploration.Third, seen from the scholastic production on the socialistic market economy thought of the leading groups of Chinese Communist Party that the author has collected, most researches focus on the ownership, distribution system, economic operation system to study the reports, speeches of the core members of the leading groups, while the author of the dissertation focuses on the rural economic system, the management system of the state-owned enterprises, the monetary and taxation system, the financial system, the foreign trade management system and social security system, and fully expatiates the hardships and epoch value of the leading groups of Chinese Communist Party when exploring socialistic market economy system. The author fully affirms the important position that Chinese Communist Party’s socialistic market economy theory occupies in the theory and practice of scientific socialism.Fourth, about the research methods, the author not only comprehensively employs historical analysis and logical analysis, the combination of economic history and economic thought history and the combination of economic thought and policy thought, but pays more attention to empirical analysis and criterion analysis.