Xi Jinping's speech at the Forum on the work of philosophy and Social Sciences

Today, we held a forum on the work of philosophy and Social Sciences, in most of the experts and scholars of China's philosophy and social science, of which the old experts have achieved fruitful results of noble character and high prestige, academic leaders, there are budding socialist Marx including the bright younger generation, theoretical research and construction of the Advisory Committee of experts, the state or the chief there are in the high-end think-tank, graduate students, undergraduates, and the relevant departments responsible comrades. First of all, I would like to extend my sincere greetings to all of you!
Of the party since eighteen, to strengthen and improve the propaganda and ideological work and theoretical work, the CPC Central Committee has held a meeting of national publicity and ideological work, the work of the forum, news media forum, network security and information technology work of the Forum meeting, I made a speech at the meeting. These meetings, the purpose is to listen to the views of all sides, together with the analysis of the situation, communication ideas, consensus, planning for the future.
The philosophy of social science is an important tool for people to know and transform the world, is an important force to promote the development of society and history, its development level reflects a nation's ability of thinking and spiritual character, the quality of civilization, reflects a country's comprehensive national strength and international competitiveness. The development level of a country depends not only on the level of development of natural science, but also on the level of development of philosophy and social science. It is impossible for a country that has not developed natural science to be in the forefront of the world, and it is impossible for a country without a philosophical and social science to prosper. To uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics, it is necessary to carry out exploration in practice and theory, and use the theory of development to guide the development of practice. In this process, the philosophy and social science has an irreplaceable important position.
Just a few comrades speak very well, many high perspicacity, listened very enlightening words from the bottom of the heart. Here, I would like to talk about a few questions, with the exchange of discussion.
The first problem is that we must attach great importance to the philosophy and Social Sciences in upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics
Engels said: “ a nation to stand at the highest point of science, it can not be a moment without theoretical thinking. ” our party has always attached great importance to Philosophy and social sciences. During the revolutionary war, comrade Mao Zedong said that &ldquo must be used; social science should be used to understand the society, to transform society and to carry out social revolution ”. Comrade Mao Zedong is a great thinker, philosopher, social scientist, he wrote the "contradiction", "on practice" and other famous philosophy still has important guiding significance, many of his research has made the analysis of the famous demolish with penetrating criticism of our society, is the social science classic. Enter the new period of reform and opening up, comrade Deng Xiaoping pointed out: “ science, of course, including social sciences. ” “ political science, law, sociology and the study of world politics, for many years we have neglected, now also need to hurry up. Comrade Jiang Zemin pointed out: ” “ in the process of understanding and rebuilding the world, philosophy and Social Sciences and natural sciences are equally important; training the high level of philosophy and social scientists, as important as the cultivation of high level natural scientists; improve the quality of the whole nation philosophy and Social Sciences, and equally important to enhance the whole nation's natural science quality; appointing good talents of philosophy and Social Sciences and give full play to their role, and appointing good science talents and play their role as important. Comrade Hu Jintao said: ” “ comprehensive national strength to cope with international competition, while increasing the economic strength of our country's cultural creativity, enhance the cohesion of Chinese nation, enhance the influence of Chinese civilization, the urgent need to discipline and academic thought with Chinese characteristics of the development of philosophy and social sciences. &rdquo, the party's Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has continued to formulate policies and take measures to promote the development of philosophy and social sciences since the eighteen party.
To observe the contemporary Chinese philosophy and social science, it is necessary to have a broad perspective, which needs to be seen in the history of the development of the world and our country. Every great leap of human society, human civilization every major development, all cannot do without the knowledge of philosophy and Social Sciences and change ideas. From the perspective of Western history, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, Cicero, Socrates, Platon, and so on, such as the theory of thought, such as the theory of thought, such as the theory of the ancient times, the ancient times of. During the Renaissance, the Dante, Bio, Finch, Rafael, · Copernicus, Bruno, Shakespeare, Galileo, Thomas · Campanella Moore, a number of cultural and ideological people. Many of them are masters of literature and art, but their works profoundly reflect their understanding of social construction. After the British bourgeois revolution, the bourgeois revolution in France, the American War of independence, the Hobbes, Rock, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Diderot, Pan En, Jefferson, Hamilton Helvetius, a large number of bourgeois thinkers, forming a reflection of the emerging bourgeoisie political thoughts and ideas. The birth of the Marx doctrine is a great event in the history of human thought, and the Marx doctrine critically absorbed the philosophy of Kant and Hagel, Feuerbach, et al., utopian socialist ideas of Saint Simon, Fu Liye, Erwin et alAdam Smith, David, · · classical political economics thought of Ricardo et al. It can be said that without the development of the philosophy and Social Sciences in 18 and nineteenth Century, there would be no formation and development of Marx doctrine. Since twentieth Century, the intensification of social contradictions, repair system for alleviating the social contradictions, and a variety of western theories in prescription, including the Keynes doctrine, Neo liberalism, Neo conservatism, democratic socialism, pragmatism, existentialism, meaning, structure of main post modernism, these are the western society to a certain stage of development product, but also a profound impact on Western society.