A Study of the Scientific Outlook on Development Theory and Practice

A Study of the Scientific Outlook on Development: Theory and Practice presents a comprehensive, well-researched, and in-depth study of the scientific outlook on development proposed during the Hu Jintao administration (2002-2012). The book comprises four sections. Section I is a general introduction of the major features of this theory. Section II focuses on the theory’s historical background and position, arguing that China’s social conditions of being at the primary stage of socialism serve as the theory’s basis while the experiences and theories of other countries in this regard provide important inspiration for its formulation. Section III delineates the actual content and essentials of the theory. Apart from analyzing why the theory takes development as its essence, people-centered approach as its core, comprehensive, balanced, and sustainable development as its basic requirement, and overall consideration as its fundamental approach, this section also discusses questions such as how scientific, harmonious, and peaceful development can be achieved, and how the major relations exhibited in the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics can be coordinated and balanced. The last section outlines the fundamental requirements and principles that must be met and followed in implementing the theory.