On Inheritance From And Innovation Of Chinese Traditional Culture In Scientific Outlook On Development

All the countries, both developing and developed, are facing serious issues on development in the new century. The Scientific Outlook on Development gives further answers to the three important questions of "What is development, Why to Develop and How to Develop?", and endows new times connotations and practice requirements to development theories. Chinese traditional culture, the crystallization of the Chinese people's wisdom for thousands of years, is the precious spiritual wealth of China. The Scientific Outlook on Development inherits and expands the excellent thoughts of human civilization, especially the outstanding fruits of Chinese traditional culture. This essay explores the issues on inheritance from and innovation of Chinese traditional culture in Scientific Outlook on Development from three parts.Part One mainly focuses on the historical inevitability of Scientific Outlook on Development in inheriting from and innovating Chinese traditional culture. Firstly, critically inheriting from traditional culture, associating with local culture, and actualizing the nationalization of Marxism are the inherent nature and demand of Marxism. As the newest theoretical fruit, the Scientific Outlook on Development will inevitably hold the theoretical nature of Marxism and take the nationalization road of associating the basic principles of Marxism with the fact. Secondly, deriving the elite of Chinese traditional culture is the crucial way of adapting Marxism to Chinese situation. The process of adapting Marxism to Chinese situation is one that Marxism introjects with Chinese traditional culture. From Mao Zedong Thought to Deng Xiaoping Theories, then Three Represents to Scientific Outlook on Development, Chinese Party members have associated Marxism with Chinese situation and formed a series of great theoretical fruits on adapting Marxism to China. Finally, the inheritance from and innovation of Chinese traditional culture in Scientific Outlook on Development conforms to the objective requirement of the practice of socialist construction. The Scientific Outlook on Development, drawing the practice experience from Chinese socialist construction, esp. the reform and opening up and modernization construction, is created on the basis of inheriting from traditional culture, and it is Chinese Party members' scientific answer to the import question of development.Part Two analyses the specific expression of Scientific Outlook on Development inheriting from and innovating Chinese traditional culture from both the perspectives of people-center thought and harmonious culture. Firstly, the people-oriented thought in Scientific Outlook on Development derives the elite of the resourceful people-center thought in Chinese traditional culture, instead of simple inheritance, but associating with the present Chinese society. The Scientific Outlook on Development has been then endowed with bran-new meaning and achieved theoretical sublimation and leap. Secondly, harmonious culture is one of the core thoughts in Chinese traditional value system. The Scientific Outlook on Development, based on the changes of historical condition, having inherited, reconstructed and advanced harmonious culture and been merged into scientific spirit to display times connotation, actualizes the innovation of harmonious culture in political, economic, cultural, ecological areas and foreign relations in contemporary China.Part Three further discusses how to critically inherit Chinese traditional culture and more effectively carry out the Scientific Outlook on Development, mainly from the aspects of the importance, guiding ideology, substantial effect, specific methods and ill trend to avoid of critically inheriting traditional culture. It chiefly emphasizes that the crucial value of the excellent fruits of traditional culture in the process of further implementing the Scientific Outlook on Development; all-around, systemic and in-depth study and understanding of Chinese traditional culture; analysis on traditional culture with scientific attitude and methods while adhering to the Marxist ideological line. Besides, it also stresses keeping up with the times to scientifically realize the modernization of traditional culture; actively creating advantage to better inherit traditional culture fruits critically; overcoming the ill trend towards traditional culture.