Study On Liu Shaoqi’s Economic Thought In The Early Stage Of PRC

Comrade Liu Shaoqi was one of the founders of the People’s Republic of China, he played an important role to the entire socialist economic construction. The early days in establishment of the new China, Liu Shaoqi served as vice chairman of the Central People’s Government, national People’s Congress Standing Committee chairman, president of the People’s Republic of China, etc. Liu Shaoqi took the commission chaired by the central for long-term national economic construction and made a great contribution to economic recovery and development of the early days. He formed an economic thought that is good for people and nation in particular of economic practice. Today these ideas are still important to guide China’s economic construction and development.Liu Shaoqi economic thought is an important combination product of the basic theory of Marxism and the socialist revolution and construction of the new China, it constitutes the theoretical origins of socialism with Chinese characteristics theory. The early days, New China is facing complex domestic and international background from internal and external, suffered by imperialism and political isolation and economic blockade and domestic feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism, long-term economic deprivation. Liu Shaoqi, as one of the main leaders of the party and state, was always adhering to the basic principles of Marxism. After he studied Marx and Engels’ s “redemption” thought, Lenin’s “new economic policy” thought, Mao Zedong Thought and New Democracy premise of economic theory, he did a deep practical exploration in favor of the law of New China’s economic construction. He proposed taking economic construction as the central task, vigorously develop the productive forces; adhere to the “agriculture, light industry, heavy industry” balanced development; Using capitalism to build socialism; development of the socialist commodity economy; respect for economic law, according to the economic way of economic thinking business economy. The paper abstracts its main features which are realistic pragmatic, respect the laws of science, consultations with civil democratic and open up the courage to explore four aspects in detail from the working style, working principles, working methods and working spirit. At the same time, with the current situation of China’s economic development from four aspects to explore the early days of the transition period of economic thought Liu Shaoqi’s contemporary value of China’s economic construction. It mainly shows carrying out economic construction should adhere to the development of the social productive forces as the primary task, respecting for the laws of economic development and utilization, focusing on fieldwork methods, protecting the people’s fundamental interests as the ultimate goal.