The Value Orientation Of A Harmonious Socialist Society, As The Domain Of Public Policy

Realizing a harmonious society and constructing a glorious society are what human beings are pursuing assiduously. Meanwhile, they are also the unswerving goal strived for by Marxism parties and the original meaning implied by socialism construction. During transitional period, there exist various developmental gap, main social contradictions and conflicts among multiple interests in market economy, which requires the construction of social harmony. It is very necessary to orientate the values during the course of making public policies, which means a lot to the allocation of communal resources and the coordination of interests among principal parts in a society.According to the theory of social existence and the interaction of social consciousness, a survey over public policies in China is conducted: in the small-scale peasant-economic formation, public policy emphasizes'people-oriented', which is opposite to'Monarch'and'Official'. In essence,'people-oriented is only a means, taking into basic consideration the interests of the minority who own production resources. During semi-colonial and semi-feudal period, the orientation of public policy touches upon the national bourgeoisie and foreign capital owners, but the essence of considering the interest of the minority has not changed. After the establishment of People's Republic of China, the production resources belong to all the people through the socialist reform campaign. Thus, value orientation of public policy is changed into being all the people-centered. However, during the early founding of the traditional planned economy, people own production resources in the name of collective, the corresponding values of the public policy orientate'collective'. After reform and opening-up, with the development of socialist market economy, a variety of ownership structures and a variety of modes of distribution coexist. Furthermore, the society has begun to multi-polarize. In order to stimulate the initiative and creativity of independent market parts, emancipate and develop productive forces, in order to solve the principal contradiction between the people's growing material and cultural needs of the backward social productive forces, the value of public policy orientates economic development; ignores the interests of vulnerable people in the competition of the market economy, which results in contradictions among different social parts, and this is the essence of the current conflict in terms of public policy in our country. Solving the conflicts and constructing a harmonious society should establish a scientific value orientation to meet the requirements of each individual's free and all-round development. Moreover, the dramatic development of productive forces during the past thirties years lays a solid material foundation for carrying out such a value orientation.As for the mechanism in practice,'people-oriented'public policy will regard fairness and justice as its core content, democratic participation as a choice, the rule of law as a protection mechanism.