| Consumption is a crucial step in social reproduction, which is especially important forhuman society. It is essential no matter for the improvement of economic society or for theexistence and development of human beings. Since the proposal of building a socialistharmonious society in the fourth Plenary Session of the Sixteenth Central Committee, as animportant aspect of it, harmonious consumption is becoming increasingly significant.Currently, the material life of human society has enriched largely, and our consumptionconcept has changed accordingly. Many unharmonious consumption phenomenons emerge.As a result, it is necessary to work on harmonious consumption concept of the whole society.This essay elaborates the development and revolution of consumption concept systematically,concludes the theoretical basis of formation of it and puts forward the main ideas of it to thepoint. Finally, this work posed some concrete and effective solutions according tounharmonious consumption problems. This article argues that the socialist harmoniousconsumption will promote the harmonious development of man and nature, man and society,man and economy, also the overall progress of our society.This work includes five main parts. First are research background, literature review,methodology and creations. Second systematically dissertates the development and revolutionprocess of consumption concept, focuses on China’s traditional and Marxist consumptionconcept and interpreters the ideological foundation of socialist harmonious consumptionconcept. And the third part mainly analyzes theoretical basis of it, meanwhile, it deeplydissects its implications, main theories and basic principles. The next section majorly thepresent situation of China’s consumption concept, which illustrates the transformation ofconsumption concept in China’s planned and market economy period. This part also extractsseries of unharmonious problems existed in China’s consumption concept. The final sectiondiscusses some practical approaches of building socialist harmonious consumption concept,and poses some specific solutions aimed at present unharmonious problems. |