The Three Front Construction Posed By Mao Zedong And The Philosophical Enlightenment Of The Three Front Construction

By the mid-20 th century, China was in a dilemma situation, The situation was very grim whether in domestic or foreign. Under this background, the party central leadership group with Mao Zedong as the core proposed a third front construction strategy.This paper firstly analyze the background of the third front construction posed by the Party Central Committee with Mao Zedong as the core : the complex international forces surrounding China, insufficient domestic preparedness; This decision had been made under the change of the guiding ideology of the third five-year plan of national economy and the third front construction decision making process. Secondly, this paper clarifies the main content and characteristics of the third front construction. The contents of the third front construction: focus on the mainland, the comprehensive development of the region; coordination of military construction and economic development; focusing on the current construction, take the long-term development into account; the characteristics of the third front construction is: take national security as the main goal; built the foundation of economy system, With the comprehensive balanced development of national economy as the guide. Moreover,investigate the philosophical basis of the third front construction of from the strategic thinking, contradictory thinking, systematic thinking and so on. Strategic thinking includes the overall thinking and predictive thinking; contradictory thinking includes internal and external causes; the unity of two points and the key points; systematic thinking is composed of integrated thinking and open thinking. Finally, the paper investigate the positive significance and limitations of the third front construction,discussed the philosophical enlightenment of the third front construction. The positive significance of the third front construction: firstly, safeguard the security and unification of the country, economic development has made considerable progress, the coordinated development of national unity. The limitations of the third front construction: first is the one-sided development of military industry leads to the unreasonable economic structure, emphasize preparing for war lead to the imbalance of economic development, Too much emphasis on the development of the mainland at the expense of the efficiency of the overall economic development, the strong political color brings negative effect to the development of economy.Philosophy enlightenment of the third front construction: from China's national conditions of formulating regional economic development strategy, adhere to the regional economy coordinated and sustainable development, regional economic development should adhere to the principles of overall consideration.