CCTV News:At the special news conference, Leng Rong, director of the Literature Research Office of the Central Committee, interpreted the main contradictions between the new era and our society.
Leng Rong, Director of the Central Literature Research Office
Leng Rong, director of the Central Literature Research Office, said that the "new era" has rich connotations, and the report made a brilliant summary with "five yeses". First, this is "an era of carrying forward the past and opening up the future, and continuing to win great victories in Socialism with Chinese characteristics under new historical conditions". I understand that this sentence is about what kind of flag to raise and what road to take in China in the new era. Second, this is "an era of winning the battle to build a well-off society in an all-round way and then building a socialist modern power in an all-round way." This sentence is about what kind of historical tasks and strategic arrangements should be completed in the new era. Third, this is "an era in which people of all ethnic groups in the country unite and struggle, constantly create a better life, and gradually realize the common prosperity of all people." This sentence is about what kind of development ideas should be adhered to and what kind of development goals should be achieved in the new era. Fourth, this is "an era in which all Chinese sons and daughters work together to realize the Chinese nation’s great rejuvenation of the Chinese dream." This sentence is about what kind of mental state and what kind of grand goal to achieve in the new era. Fifth, this is "an era when China is getting closer to the center of the world stage and making greater contributions to mankind". This sentence is about China’s international status in the new era and its contribution to human society.
The principal social contradictions in China were put forward at the Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 1956. After the reform and opening up, it was summarized and refined, and expressed as "the contradiction between the people’s growing material and cultural needs and backward social production." More than 60 years have passed since the Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and nearly 40 years have passed since the reform and opening up. The main social contradictions in our country have changed in both social needs and social production.
From the perspective of social needs. We will soon build a well-off society in an all-round way, and the people’s needs for a better life are increasingly extensive, showing the characteristics of diversification, multi-level and multi-faceted. Only talking about "material and cultural needs" can no longer truly reflect the changed needs of the people.
From the perspective of social production. On the whole, the level of social productive forces in China has improved significantly, and the social productive capacity has entered the forefront of the world in many aspects. It is no longer practical to talk about "backward social production".
From "material and cultural needs" to "needs for a better life", from solving the problem of "backward social production" to solving the problem of "unbalanced and insufficient development", this reflects the great progress of China’s social development, the phased requirements of development, and the key requirements of the development of the party and the state. Economic construction is still the central task, but in the new era, we should pay more attention to all-round development. At the same time, we must also realize that the changes in the main contradictions in our society have not changed our judgment that China is still in the primary stage of socialism.