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Title:: The CPC's Concept of “People-Centered” Development: Its Historical Evolution, Generation Logic, and Value Implications

Keywords:: Chinese people; development view; Communist Party of China; generation logic

Abstract:: Development is the core narrative of modernization. The development view held by the ruling party influences the track of a country's modernization, and the factors affecting the development need to be investigated in the terms of embeddedness. Social development is the result of the operation of social contradiction and the choice of development mode is closely related to the change of social contradiction and people's needs. From adhering to the mass line model of development during the revolutionary period to the late-developing and exogenous model of modernization in the early years of the People's Republic of China, and from reform-driven development to people-oriented and scientific development, the CPC has always stuck to representing the fundamental interests of the people and to the unity between the subject of value and the subject of practice in pursuing development. In its development practice of leading the people to carry out revolution, construction, and reform, the Party combines Marxist theory with China's national realities and absorbs the essence of both the traditional Chinese people-oriented thought and western humanism. In the process of deepening the exploration of the law of development, we should explore and innovate the theory and practice of development, actively solve the major social contradictions in the new era, and form a “people centered” development concept to guide the development in the new era.