On Deng Xiao-ping's Viewpoints About The People's Livelihood

During the construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics, Deng Xiao-ping was the core leader of the Party's second-generation leadership. His viewpoints about people's livelihood not only directly originated from but also deeply affected the great practice of reform and opening. With the development socialism with Chinese characteristics, Deng's viewpoints about people's livelihood are more and more significant in this age. In honor of the thirtieth anniversary of reform and opening, it is appropriate to recall, study and sort out Deng's viewpoints about people's livelihood. On the one hand, we should memorize Deng and his great contributions brought about by reform and opening he advocated. On the other hand, according to the requirement of the 17th National Congress of CPC it is urgent to boost the socialist construction which centres on improving people's livelihood.Deng's viewpoints about people's livelihood was directly generated on the basis of absorbing and discarding Chinese traditional people-centred thoughts, of inheriting Maxist typical authors'related thoughts about developing productivity and the overall development of society and humanbeings. The realistic background of Deng's viewpoints about people's livelihood was: the ignorance of people's livelihood in the traditional socialist mode had encountered a bottleneck and improving people's livelihood had become a breakthrough, which inevitably resulted in China's reform and opening.Based on the practicality of the primary stage of Chinese socialism, Deng's viewpoints about people's livelihood has permeated every item of the reform and opening policies. Resumptively Deng's viewpoints about people's livelihood are as the following: we should have the basic situation of our country as our basis, do things according to people's wishes, put emphasis on development, begin with solving people's basic problems in food and clothes, continuely satisfy people's increasing need in material and culture, ensure people's various benefits, and finally achieve common prosperity.The main contents of Deng's viewpoints about people's livelihood are: development of productivity is the basic means of improving people's livelihood;"Three Steps"strategy is the basic path to improving people's livelihood; achievement of common prosperity is the utmost goal of improving people's livelihood; reform is the direct drive of improving people's livelihood; cultural construction is the important content of improving people's livelihood and boosting humanbeings'overall development;"Three benefits"criterion is the practical rule of improving people's livelihood. These contents, profound and logically well-organized, constitute Deng's basic viewpoints about people's livelihood.Deng's viewpoints about people's livelihood have bright features and important realistic value. Firstly, Deng interprets people's livelihood from the aspect of the esence of socialism and considers people's livelihood from the global horizon, providing us with an improtant methodological guidance for promoting the construction of people's livelihood. Secondly, Deng's viewpoints about people's livelihood are a new summary of people's livelihood problems in the primary stage of socialism. Thirdly, Deng's viewpoints about people's livelihood are a new understanding about the administrative principles of the Communist Party. Fourthly, Deng's viewpoints about people's livelihood is a new exploration into the development of the economic society. Finally and more importantly, Deng's viewpoints about people's livelihood offer a theoretical guidance for the construction of people's livelihood in the new age. On the basis of Deng's viewpoints about people's livelihood, under the historical conditions of international challenges such as Eastern Soviet upheaval and a succession of domestic tests, Jiang Ze-min follows Deng's constructive stratagem in people's livelihood and advances the improtant thoughts of"Three represents". The core idea of Jiang's viewpoints about people's livelihood is that the CPC should represent the basic benefits of most masses all the time. Combining the thoughts of Deng and Jiang with the features of the present time, Hu Jin-tao explicitly advances in the 17th National Congress of CPC that improving people's livelihood should be emphasized in fast promoting the social construction and that such a social construction is an important part of the basic guidance for the primary socialism. Hu's speech gives prominence to the strategic significance of settling and improving people's livelihood in the construction of socialist modernization. The viewpoints about socialist people's livelihood with Chinese characteristics have taken form from the above series of thoughts.In conclusion, Deng's viewpoints about people's livelihood have rich, far-reaching and profound contents, and thus open a new path to studying socialist people's livelihood with Chinese characteristics from a broader horizon. For the Party, they play an important guiding role in mastering the administrative principles, improving the administrative abilities, strengthening the administrative status, and constructing the harmonious socialist society.