The Research On The Social Functions Of The Contemporary Chinese Intellectuals

As part of the working class of China, contemporary Chinese intellectuals are socialist constructers inour country, who are playing the vital social functions in the construction of the cause of socialism withChinese characteristics. China's socialist modernization which achieves glorious achievements has attractedworldwide attention since the reform and opening up over the30years. It's no doubt that the intellectualsmake tremendous contributions to our country in the process of modernization, which can be said that wecan't achieve the goal without the intellectuals.Contemporary Chinese intellectuals shoulder the important social responsibilities and historicmissions due to their own characteristics and advantages. As the mainstay of China's development ofcultural undertakings, they play the function of integrating, managing, communicating and innovating theprofessional knowledge of the categories, of inheriting and developing the Chinese national culturaltradition, of identifying with the social mainstream culture ideas and leading them, of advocating deepeningthe reform of the cultural system and promoting it, of developing the culture industry and promoting thescientific and technological achievements and transforming them into productive forces and the like; as themain forces of the social economic construction, they play the function of guiding the economic theory andthe idea innovation, of building the economic system and the system design, of guiding the construction ofentrepreneurs team and so on; as the promoter of the development of political civilization, they play thefunction of leading the political thought and political consciousness, of building the political system andpolitical system, of participation and demonstration of the political life, of evaluating and supervising thepolitical behavior, etc; as the facilitator of the construction of harmonious society, they play the socialfunction of calling on social equity and justice positively, of advocating the social security system, ofpaying close attention to the natural ecological balance and worrying and remedying the deteriorativehuman environment and so on. Contemporary Chinese intellectuals play the indispensable and irreplaceablesocial function in the cause of building socialism with Chinese characteristics, they have made positivecontributions to the development of China's economics, politics, culture and society and the like.Through the comprehensive systematical deep investigation on the social functions of the contemporary Chinese intellectuals, we can easily see the features of the contemporary Chineseintellectuals' social function, which take on a pattern of diversity, the trend of the socialization and the wayof the informatization and so on, it is revealed to us: the intellectuals must have a correct understanding ofthemselves; the party and the government should believe in and rely on intellectuals; the intellectualsshould further strengthen the attention of the social realistic problems and so on. And the ways of furtheroptimizing the social functions of the contemporary Chinese intellectuals are: Firstly, to constantly expandthe degrees of realization of the intellectuals' social functions by full policy resources, it requires that ourparty must deepen the understanding of the social functions of the intellectuals continuously, adjust therelevant policies of the intellectuals in time, continue to implement the policies of relying on theintellectuals; Secondly, the intellectuals constantly improving their own qualities is the important premiseof realizing their social functions, which requires that the intellectuals must do as follows: continuouslystrengthen the social responsibility consciousness, enhance the team cooperation spirits, cultivate theabilities of independent innovation and improve the self-discipline culture consciousness and so on.