On Chen Yun 'Economic Thought After The Liberation

With the deepening of reform and opening up and the development of modernization, China’s socialist construction with Chinese characteristics has both made remarkable achievements and faced lots of challenges. It is proved that constructing the system and road of socialism with Chinese characteristics must rely on the correct theoretical guidance. Chen Yun is one of pioneers and founders of China’s socialist economic construction. His economic thought, as the great theoretical achievement from the combinaation of Marxism universal truth and Chinese revolution practices, can provide important guidance for China’s socialist economic construction. The historical experience and lessons for the60years after the founding of the PRC have proved the correctness, forward-looking and Chinese characteristics of Chen Yun’s economic thought from positive and negative perspectives.This paper will be divided into three chapters, which respectively are the historical background, the main contents, significance and value of Chen Yun’s economic thought for China’s economic development.The first chapter of this paper will discuss the forming background and development process of Chen’s economic thought. Firstly, this part will expound the forming and theoretical background of Chen’s economic thought. Following this, it will comb the development process of Chen’s economic thought, which respectively are embryonic satge in revolutionary times, the forming satge in recovery period of China’s national economy and three great socialism reconstructions, the developing satge in all-round socialist construction period, the mature satge in the period of reform and opening up.The second chapter of this paper will discuss the theoretical system of Chen’s economic thought from four aspects. The first one is the the fundamental goal of economic development is to improve people’s living standard, and the interests of the people should be protected while productivity is developed. The second one is the socialist economic construction should adapt to the national power, which should be considered as the base point when developing national economy. The third one is Chen’s theory of comprehensive balance should be paid great attention when developing national economy in that it is the product of the combination of Marxist theory of reproduction and China’s national conditions. The last one is agriculture is the foundation of the national economy, and farmer is the key to solve agricultural problems.The third chapter of this paper will analyze the contemporary value of Chen’s economic thought from four perspectives, which respectively are:Chen’s economic thought provides theoretical foundation for socialist macro-control, Chen’s economic thought provides reference significance for implementing Scientific outlook on development, Chen’s economic thought provides guiding significance for the comprehensive construction, and Chen’s economic thought is the important supporting point for "Chinese dream".Through researching the froming and developing processes and the contents of Chen’s economic thought, this paper will try to comprehend the combination of theory and reality, understand Chen Yun’s economic thought adapting Marxism to Chinese conditions with Chinese characteristics, discover and evaluate the helpful and valuable contents of Chen’s economic thought for guiding the socialist economic construction. The author hope this paper can provide some valuable material for today’ s economic researchers.