| Improving the quality of life is not only the highlighting on the "people-oriented" value when human civilization has developed rapidly, but also a necessary requirement to build a socialist harmonious society from the national level. In this paper, it starts from the understanding and defining the item of quality of life, and addresses the following three questions:Firstly, why should we emphasize the improving of the quality of life during building a harmonious society? Secondly, what are the abuses and problems existing in the harmonious society construction through the view of the assessment of quality of life? Thirdly, how to improve the quality of life?The first question is about the important significance of the quality of life during building a harmonious society, which is the theoretical orientation and practical demands of quality of life in the building of a harmonious society. In this part, it focuses on what is the theoretical connection between the improvement of quality of life and building a harmonious society, and what is the actual demand of building harmonious society to enhancing the quality of life.Theoretically, the ultimate goal of human society development is people’s free all-round development; both quality of life improvement and building a harmonious society are highly corresponded to the value of people’s free all-round development. The periodical goal of social development is to meet people’s growing material and cultural needs, which is also the goal of harmonious society, and quality of life is the best measure of the goal. This is the theoretical direction of the quality of life in the construction of a harmonious society.In practice, there is consistence in practice between quality of life improvement and harmonious society construction, quality of life reflects six aspects of the harmonious degree of harmonious society, and quality of life is the foundation and goal of harmonious society at the present stage, not only promotes human development and human welfare, but also promotes social harmony. Both the improvement of quality of life and building a harmonious society are response to social development reality problems.The improvement of quality of life is the reasonable problems solution, whether from the point of that the GDP is not the only standards, or the advantage of quality of life as a social development evaluation scale.The second question is the evaluation of quality of life.Take Shandong province for example,from the year2002to2008, the research results of the subjective and objective quality of life show that:1. Despite the fact that the objective quality of life ascended acceleratingly, the fluctuations of the economic quality of life was frequent obviously; Living environment quality, cultural quality of life, and social quality of life droped in a given year; the improvement Objective quality of life was slow; the annual objective quality of life differences were obvious. The main reason was that the widening gap between rich and poor, the existing inflation pressure, the unreasonable consumption structure, the rising momentum of unemployment rate and unbalanced industrial development; the weaknesses in urban environmental infrastructure construction, the backward of education level in overall ascension, the low level of rural social security input; the utility that policy promoting the objective quality of life was weak; and the annual characteritics that other objective quality of life displayed.2. Annual differences existed in subjective well-being; the index of targeting value, mental balance and growth progress fell to the lowest in2003; the index level of interpersonal adaptation, mental health and social confidence were lower. The main reason was that subjective well-being showed the annual characteristics, namely the level of subjective well-being was lowest in2003, and reached the highest level in2006, and slightly dropped in2007, and rebounded slightly in2008. The reasons that several important specific indexes performancing poor mainly are:traditional and modern conflict, and the poorer interpersonal adaptability caused by social injustice; the negative effects of social changes, and the low level of mental health caused by social injustice; power loss and the decrease of credibility of the local government, and social confidence caused by social injustice, etc.3. The developing momentum difference between subjective well-being and objective quality of life was huge. The improvement of objective quality of life had not carried the improvement of subjective well-being simultaneously. The subjective quality of life represented by subjective well-being in a longitudinal study of seven years maintained a smooth level,no significant increase or decrease,and the gap of development trend was larger and larger. It was interpreted from the economic, political, social,psychological and cultural point respectively.The third question is how to promote the quality of life in the process of building a harmonious society. Social justice and development are the main basement of harmonious society. The problems reflected by the quality of life evaluation are closely related to social justice and development. The problem of justice is deeply hidden behind these specific problems, which inflects every aspects of social harmony. Compared with various inequalities in the developed states, our advantage of improving quality of life in the perspective of justice is the construction of harmonious society. Harmonious society is guided and featured by justice. Harmonious social relationships make it possible for justice which means that improving quality of life in the perspective of justice is an inevitable choice.Besides, development is essential to solving all the problems of quality of life.Seeking the answers of the problems of quality of life in the development actually is to improve quality of life and constructing harmonious society. Development in the guidance of quality of life is the return to the value of man’s free and comprehensive development. Justice and development are the fundamental problems.The solution of these fundamental problems makes it possible to improve the quality of life and build the harmonious society. In a word, improving quality of life in the perspective of justice is an inevitable choice.The main research methods used in this research are secondary analysis, case analysis and normative analysis method.We used secondary analysis method to reanalyze the existing raw data of quality of life.We investigated the quality of life in the example of Shandong province from the year2002to2008.We studied the relationship between improving the quality of life and building a harmonious society, and explored improving quality of life from the justice and development perspective.The academic value of this study is mainly reflected in the following issues. First of all,the existing studies are mainly on the theory of harmonious society which mostly concentrating in the reasons, features and pathway of building of a harmonious society, but there are few research on the influential and restricting factors in the process of building a harmonious society. What is worse, there are fewer researches on this topic in the perspective of quality of life.In this research, based on an analysis of the quality of life, we explore the problems in the historical process of building harmonious society in order to provide a new thought of rational analysis in harmonious society construction.Secondly, based on an analysis of the quality of life, we used the empirical research methods,especially quantitative research technology, followed the scientific research process, explored and explained some evident problems faced by our country during the construction of harmonious society. And then we studied the possible relationships between the variables, gave an accurate description on the basic features of the problems by data analysis, explained the numerical relationships between social phenomenon related to harmonious society. By this way we can provide empirical materials for the theoretical innovation and empirical evidence for the public policy decision.Furthermore,we can make up for the lack of quantitative research in the study of harmonious society.Academic circle has focused on quality of life for a long time.But there has not a large-scale discussion on how to improve the quality of life, studies on improving the quality of life in the perspective of justice and development has not attracted enough attention deserved.In the process of study how to promote the quality of life, this study demonstrated the theoretical feasibility and practical operability of improving quality of life in the perspective of justice and development, which is an organic attempt on the relationship of the two areas.Development and justice are meaningful exploration of how to improve the quality of life.The topic of "quality of life problems research in the process of harmonious society construction" also has important practical significance.Quality of life is not only the comprehensive description on the general living standard in a society, but also an important indicator of whole development stage and level of a society. The quality of life is not only an important evaluation on the function of the social development, but also an item about happiness. In the accelerating pace of China’s construction of a happy society and the process of building a harmonious socialist society, the material quality of social members is improving gradually, but it is more and more difficult for them to be happy. This study suggests that we should promote the quality of life in the perspective of justice and development. People will feel happier if the society developed and became more equal.So this study has an important practical value.This paper tried to make innovations in the following areas.First, most of the researches on the "harmonious society" have put the focus on such topics:"what is a harmonious society","why should we build a harmonious society", and "how to build a harmonious society".This study looked in the new historical conditions, and tried to find out the influential and restricting factors in the historical process of building a harmonious society. We explored the existing problems in the perspective of quality of life,which is a perspective breakthrough of the theory on "building a harmonious society"Second, we put the problem of "quality of life" in the process of human’s social development and view the improvement of quality of life in the perspective of ultimate goal of Marxism social development and progress goal of socialism. Furthermore, we explored the important meaning of quality of life in the process of building a harmonious society, which gives an identification of quality of life, which is a breakthrough in the field of life quality theory.Third, in this study, we attribute the problems exposed by the quality of life field to justice and development problems, and put forward a new perspective of improving the quality of life in the perspective of justice and development. By comparing with foreign countries, we found our advantage of improving the quality of life is the perspective of justice and development, and treated development of our country as the key to solve all the quality of life problems. The view of improving quality of life in the perspective of social justice and development is a pioneering one. |
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