Social construction, as an important part of the overall layout of the "Four in One" Socialism with Chinese characteristics cause, is closely related to the happiness and well-being of every citizen. The CPC Central Committee with Comrade Hu Jintao as the general secretary attaches great importance to China's social construction, and creatively explores social construction in the great practice of building Socialism with Chinese characteristics, forming a unique theory of social construction. At present, in the in-depth study and practice of Scientific Outlook on Development,
We should seriously study the theory of social construction and accelerate the social construction project focusing on improving people's livelihood.
Maintaining social stability is the fundamental premise of social construction.
Social stability is the premise of social benign operation. A harmonious society should first be a stable and orderly society. Comrade Hu Jintao clearly pointed out in the report of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China: "Social stability is the common aspiration of the people and an important prerequisite for reform and development." At present, with the gradual improvement of China's socialist market economic system, the comprehensive national strength has been continuously enhanced, people's lives have been significantly improved, and the overall social situation has been stable. However, as China enters the critical period of reform and development, unprecedented social changes have also accumulated some factors that affect social stability and harmony, which require us to take countermeasures and properly solve them. Comrade Hu Jintao emphasized in the report of the Third Plenary Session of the Seventeenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China: "We must grasp the overall situation of rural stability, improve rural social management, promote social fairness and justice, ensure farmers to live and work in peace and contentment, and lay a solid foundation for the long-term stability of the country." It can be seen that to vigorously strengthen social construction, we must take maintaining social stability as the primary task; Only by solving the unstable factors in society one by one can we create a harmonious atmosphere and consolidate the foundation of social construction.
Realizing social fairness and justice is the basic value concept of social construction.
A harmonious society must be a fair and just society. As early as February 2005, General Secretary Hu Jintao pointed out at the symposium on improving the ability of leading cadres at the provincial and ministerial levels to build a harmonious socialist society: "Maintaining and realizing social fairness and justice involves the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people, which is the inevitable requirement of our party to build the party for the public and govern for the people, and also the essential requirement of the socialist system"; Only by earnestly safeguarding and realizing social fairness and justice can people feel comfortable, all aspects of social relations be coordinated, and people's enthusiasm, initiative and creativity can be fully exerted. On June 5438+ 10, 2007, Comrade Hu Jintao further emphasized in the report of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China: "Realizing fairness and justice is the consistent proposition of Chinese producers and a major task for the development of Socialism with Chinese characteristics"; On the basis of economic development, "we should pay more attention to social construction, focus on safeguarding and improving people's livelihood, promote social system reform, expand public services, improve social management, promote social fairness and justice, and strive to make all people learn to teach, get paid for their work, get medical care for their illness, provide for their old age and live in a place to promote the construction of a harmonious society." These important expositions of Comrade Hu Jintao have pointed out the direction for China's current social construction. It tells us that social development should be based on economic construction focusing on improving people's livelihood, with the system construction focusing on social fairness and justice as the core, and promoting social fairness and justice as the key factor to improve our party's ruling ability. Social fairness and justice is not only the ultimate goal of social construction, but also the basic value concept of social construction. Leading cadres at all levels should firmly establish the value concept of fairness and justice in practical work and ruling practice. Specifically, at this stage, we should effectively protect the interests of the broad masses of people in income distribution, education, employment, social security, medical and health care, housing and other aspects, create a fair and just social environment, and form a fair and just social atmosphere. Improving people's livelihood is the top priority of social construction.
"People's livelihood" cannot be separated from "national economy". People's livelihood concerns the fundamental interests of the broad masses of the people and directly affects the overall situation of reform and development. Comrade Hu Jintao pointed out in the report of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China that since the reform and opening up, "China's economy has developed from the brink of collapse to the fourth in the world, and its total import and export volume ranks third in the world. People's life has developed from insufficient food and clothing to a well-off society as a whole, and the number of poor people in rural areas has decreased from more than 250 million to more than 20 million. " However, "the trend of widening income distribution gap has not been fundamentally reversed, and there are still quite a few poor people and low-income people in urban and rural areas." At present, the voices of "difficult to go to school", "difficult to find a job", "difficult to provide for the aged", "difficult to see a doctor" and "difficult to buy a house" are endless. This shows that after 30 years of reform and opening up, our party and government have made great achievements in solving people's livelihood, but there are still many problems to be solved and the tasks to be completed are still arduous. Focusing on improving people's livelihood means focusing on solving the most concerned, direct and realistic interests of the people.
Promote social system reform and strive to achieve the goal of "five haves"
"Social system" is the composition and operation state of social subsystems such as government social functions, social policies, social governance, social security, social services, non-governmental organizations and non-profit organizations. In essence, the social system reflects the realistic relationship between the state and society. "Social system reform" is to adjust the structure and function of all social subsystems to keep them in a reasonable state in structure and in an orderly state in the process of operation. Social system reform is the key link of social construction. As early as June 5438+ 10, 2006, Comrade Hu Jintao pointed out at the Sixth Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee that "more attention should be paid to solving the problem of unbalanced development, developing social undertakings and promoting coordinated economic and social development". From June 5438 to October 2007 10, in the report of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, he once again stressed that the goal of social construction is to strive to achieve "five possessions": First, to achieve "learning and teaching" by promoting the reform of the education system. Educational equity is an important foundation of social equity. To realize "learning and teaching" for all members of society, we must speed up the reform of the education system. Second, it is necessary to promote the reform of labor employment and income distribution system, and realize "labor income" employment is the foundation of people's livelihood. Income distribution is not only closely related to the "labor income" of all social members, but also directly related to social fairness and justice. Third, promote the reform of the old-age security system and realize "a sense of security for the old". Social security is an important guarantee for social stability. At present, China has entered an aging society. Promoting the reform of basic old-age insurance system in enterprises and institutions and exploring the establishment of rural old-age insurance system are the proper meanings to realize social fairness and justice. Fourth, we must promote the reform of the basic medical and health system and achieve "medical care for the sick." Health is the foundation of people's all-round development, which is related to the happiness of thousands of families. The basic medical and health system is an important aspect of the social system. We will build a public health service system, a medical service system, a medical security system and a drug supply security system covering urban and rural residents to provide safe, effective, convenient and inexpensive medical and health services for the masses. These are all necessary to promote social fairness and justice. Fifth, by promoting the reform of the housing system, we can achieve "living and living". Housing is related to the life stability of thousands of families. We should improve the low-rent housing system in accordance with the requirements of the central government and speed up the solution to the housing difficulties of urban low-income families. In a word, to fundamentally improve people's livelihood issues such as the "five difficulties", we must fundamentally promote social system reform; At the same time, only by taking social system reform as the key link of social construction can the goal of "five haves" be truly realized.