A Research Of Deng Xiaoping’s People’s Livelihood Thought

The Communist Party of China, since governing, has put much emphasis onpeople’s livelihood, and take the solution of people’s livelihood as an important resortto make profit for people. The problem of people’s livelihood is not only a problem ofpolitics, which related to the stability of the Ruling Party’s position. It is also aproblem of society which related to the social stability and harmony. The thought ofpeople’s livelihood of Deng Xiaoping is a part of CPC. It is the inheritance anddevelopment to the thought of people’s livelihood of Marxism, and an importantcomponent of his theory. This theory points out the direction for realization of China’smodern construction, lays the ideological foundation for the Party’s lines, principleand policies, provides effective protection for the implementation of variouseconomic, political, cultural and social reform and practical guidelines for thecontemporary construction of a harmonious society. This theory is precious spiritualwealth of building socialism with Chinese characteristics, which is of theoreticalsignificance for guiding China’s socialist practice. There for, the research of DengXiaoping’s people’s livelihood thought, not only has high academic value, but also hasan extremely important theoretical value and practical significance.With the purpose of exactly and systematically comprehension of the thought ofpeople’s livelihood of Deng Xiaoping and reveal its important enlightenment，thisarticle is started from the reveal of its background，encircled its theoretical origin, theprogressive development, the basic character, the fundamental contents of the thoughtof people’s livelihood，and so on．It is divided into four sections：First section: The historical background and theoretical significance of thethought of People’s livelihood of Deng Xiaoping．First, discuss the international anddomestic background when the thought of people’s livelihood of Deng Xiaoping wasoriginally emerging, including Deng Xiaoping’s touch which was arisen by thedeep poverty during the period of China’s democratic revolution, the correct judgmentof China’s domestic development environment after the founding of New China; Theeastern Europe upheaval in the international background and the development failureof the Soviet model made Deng Xiaoping pay more attention to the livelihood of thepeople in his theory, as well as the influence of the western advanced thought of the people’s livelihood, these are the breakthrough points of the research. Secondly, DengXiaoping’s thought of the people’s livelihood theory origin. Its theoretical originsinclude the people’s livelihood thought in Chinese traditional culture, the thought ofpeople’s livelihood of Marxism，of the advanced western thinkers, of Sun Zhongshan,Mao Zedong and Carl Max.Second section; the development and basic characteristics of Deng Xiaoping’sthought of the people’s livelihood. This part discussed the development track of DengXiaoping’s thoughts on the livelihood of the people from three stages, the period ofdemocratic revolution, the socialist construction exploration period and the reformand opening-up policy In the study of Deng Xiaoping’s thought of the people’slivelihood, it reveals the thoughts of the people’s livelihood has the striking featuresof pragmatic, practical and creativity. This part is the logical reasoning of thearticle..Third section; the basic contents of Deng Xiaoping’s thought of the people’slivelihood. There are three aspects in this part. First of all, take the development ofproductive forces as the material premise of improving people’s livelihood, reflect theinevitable requirement of the socialist system superiority and maintenance of theChinese communist party’s ruling status of the first guarantee, this is the fundamentalpolitical guarantee to promote the development of the people’s livelihood. Secondly,from the "three steps" strategy, the respect knowledge, the respect to talent, promotionof the employment actively, increasing the income of residents, to achieve commonprosperity and maintaining social stability and embodies aspects to introduce how toapply the people’s livelihood thought of Deng Xiaoping to practice, The second partmainly treated its specific requirements of the solution to the problem of people’slivelihood，include the main missions of the improvement to people’s livelihood，thestrategic arrangement of the improvement to people’s livelihood，the subjects of theimprovement to people’s livelihood，and the main approaches of the improvement topeople’s livelihood to promote the improvement of the people’s livelihood problemsand resolution. Finally, we will reveal the specific requirements in the missions of theimprovement to people’s livelihood from the three aspects: main missions of theimprovement to people’s livelihood，the strategic arrangement of the improvement to people’s livelihood，the subjects of the improvement to people’s livelihood. Thissection is significant to our research in this article.Fourth section: Take the theoretical value and practical significance as thefoothold of Deng Xiaoping’s thought about the livelihood of the people to summarizethe practical value of the thought. First, the contents of the theoretical value of DengXiaoping’s thought about the livelihood of the people: the development of Marxism;Providing theoretical sources for the concept of scientific development; Enrich theconnotation of theories of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Second, DengXiaoping’s thoughts of the people’s livelihood also has important practical guidingsignificance: it helps to improve the level of the party’s ruling ability; Providingguiding concept for the development of China in21st century; The construction of aharmonious society can only be achieved when the livelihood of the people isconsidered significant.