Effectively Explaining the People-Centered Value Orientation

Upholding the supremacy of the people is a red thread that runs through Xi Jinping

坚持人民至上，是始终贯穿习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想的一条红线。党的二十届三中全会将“坚持以人民为中心”作为进一步全面深化改革的重大原则之一，揭示了改革的价值取向。运用思政课系统讲好坚持以人民为中心的价值取向，有助于激励广大青年学生把个人的小我融入祖国的大我、人民的大我之中，积极主动投身中国式现代化的伟大进程，立报国强国大志向、做挺膺担当奋斗者。

The people’s character is the essential attribute and distinctive quality of Marxism. To study Marxism is to study and practice Marxist thought on upholding the people’s standpoint. Further deepening reform comprehensively while adhering to a people-centered approach embodies the basic principles of historical materialism, manifests the consistency between respecting the laws of social development and respecting the people’s principal position in history, and runs through the basic historical materialist viewpoint that the people are the fundamental force driving history. Through teaching in ideological and political courses, and by drawing on the valuable experience of reform and opening up, especially the comprehensive deepening of reform in the New Era, we guide young students to accurately grasp the role of the people in comprehensively deepening reform from the major achievements made in economic construction, political construction, cultural construction, social construction, ecological civilization construction, national security construction, national defense and military construction, and Party building. This enables them to deeply understand the scientific implications that the people are the creators of social material wealth, the creators of social spiritual wealth, and the decisive force in social transformation. Furthermore, it helps them better comprehend that the people-centered value orientation adhered to in comprehensively deepening reform is a vivid manifestation of the basic Marxist stance of the people’s character, an innovative development of the basic Marxist view that the people create history, and a dynamic practice of basic Marxist methods such as the epistemology and the mass line.

人民性是马克思主义的本质属性和鲜明品格。学习马克思主义，就要学习和实践马克思主义关于坚守人民立场的思想。进一步全面深化改革坚持以人民为中心，体现了历史唯物主义基本原理，彰显了尊重社会发展规律和尊重人民历史主体地位的一致性，贯穿了人民是创造历史根本动力的历史唯物主义基本观点。通过思政课的讲授，结合改革开放以来特别是新时代全面深化改革的宝贵经验，引导广大青年学生从全面深化改革在经济建设、政治建设、文化建设、社会建设、生态文明建设、国家安全建设、国防和军队建设、党的建设等领域所取得的重大成就中，准确把握人民群众在全面深化改革中的作用，深刻理解人民群众是社会物质财富的创造者、社会精神财富的创造者、社会变革的决定力量的科学意蕴，进而更好地领会全面深化改革坚持以人民为中心的价值取向，是对马克思主义人民性基本立场的鲜明体现，是对马克思主义关于人民群众创造历史的基本观点的创新发展，是对马克思主义认识论、群众路线等基本方法的生动践行。

The necessity of adhering to a people-centered approach in further comprehensively deepening reform is a scientific summary and application of the valuable experience of reform and opening up, especially the comprehensive deepening of reform in the New Era. Over 40 years of reform and opening up have created the two miracles of rapid economic development and long-term social stability. The practice of over 40 years of reform and opening up shows that the people are the fundamental driving force of reform and development. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has firmly embedded the people-centered principle throughout all areas, aspects, and links of reform, enabling reform to better meet the people’s expectations, aspirations, and livelihood needs, and better interpreting the original aspiration and founding mission of the Chinese Communists. Through teaching in ideological and political courses, we should guide young students to understand from the historical depth of the CPC’s century-long struggle: that our Party’s revolution, construction, and reform have all taken the people’s interests as the fundamental consideration, all aimed at enabling the people to live a good life; to understand from the great transformations of over 40 years of reform and opening up: that every breakthrough and deepening in the understanding and practice of reform and opening up, the emergence and development of every new thing, and the creation and accumulation of experience in every field and link, all originate from the wisdom and practice of hundreds of millions of people; especially to understand from the historic great achievements of comprehensively deepening reform since the New Era: that in Chinese-path modernization, people’s livelihood is paramount. Reform carried out for the people has meaning; reform carried out relying on the people has momentum. The key reason our Party has been able to achieve historic transformations, systemic restructuring, and holistic reconstruction in many fields lies precisely in always upholding the people’s standpoint to advance reform and opening up, and always closely relying on the people to advance the great cause of national rejuvenation.

进一步全面深化改革必须坚持以人民为中心，是对改革开放以来特别是新时代全面深化改革宝贵经验的科学总结和运用。40多年的改革开放，创造了经济快速发展和社会长期稳定的两大奇迹。改革开放40多年的实践表明，人民是改革发展的根本动力。党的十八大以来，以习近平同志为核心的党中央把以人民为中心牢牢贯穿于改革各领域、各方面、各环节，使改革更好满足人民所盼、民心所向、民生所需，更好诠释了中国共产党人的初心和使命。通过思政课的讲授，要引导广大青年学生从中国共产党百年奋斗的历史纵深中体会：我们党干革命、搞建设、抓改革，都是以人民利益为根本考量，都是为了让人民过上好日子；从改革开放四十多年来的伟大变革中体会：改革开放在认识和实践上的每一次突破和深化，每一个新生事物的产生和发展，每一个领域和环节经验的创造和积累，无不来自于亿万人民的智慧和实践；特别要从新时代以来全面深化改革取得的历史性伟大成就中体会：中国式现代化，民生为大。为了人民而改革，改革才有意义；依靠人民而改革，改革才有动力。我们党之所以能够在许多领域实现历史性变革、系统性重塑、整体性重构，关键就在于始终坚守人民立场推进改革开放，始终紧紧依靠人民推进民族复兴伟业。

The necessity of adhering to a people-centered approach in further comprehensively deepening reform is an inevitable requirement for answering the “people’s questions” during the critical period of comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-path modernization. The CPC has always taken the people’s aspiration for a better life as its goal of struggle. With the continuous development of the times and practice, the people continuously have new needs, expectations, and demands in the process of pursuing a better life, which presents our Party with a large number of theoretical and practical issues that urgently need to be answered. The process of scientifically answering and effectively resolving the “people’s questions” of the New Era is the best interpretation of “where the people call, reform responds.” Through teaching in ideological and political courses, using successful cases of great transformations in the New Era, we enable young students to truly feel how the Party, adhering to a people-centered approach in advancing reform in the New Era, has achieved comprehensive improvements in people’s lives in terms of “ensuring childcare, education, employment, medical services, elderly care, housing, and support for the vulnerable.” At the same time, we guide students to clearly recognize that as we enter the new stage of development, the people not only have higher requirements for material and cultural life but also have growing demands in areas such as democracy, rule of law, fairness, justice, security, and the environment. These issues must be gradually resolved in the process of advancing modernization. Furthermore, we enable students to deeply understand that the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the CPC, precisely “in response to the new expectations of the people,” proposed “focusing on improving the quality of life of the people” and made “adhering to a people-centered approach” one of the major principles that must be implemented in further comprehensively deepening reform, achieving reform for the people, reform relying on the people, and reform results shared by the people.

进一步全面深化改革必须坚持以人民为中心，是在以中国式现代化全面推进强国建设、民族复兴伟业的关键时期回答好“人民之问”的必然要求。中国共产党始终把人民对美好生活的向往作为奋斗目标。随着时代和实践的不断发展，人民在追求美好生活的过程中不断有新需要新期待新要求，这给我们党提出了大量亟待回答的理论课题和实践课题。科学回答、有效解答新时代“人民之问”的过程是对“人民有所呼、改革有所应”最好的诠释。通过思政课的讲授，运用新时代伟大变革成功案例，让广大青年学生切实感受新时代党坚持以人民为中心推进改革，在“幼有所育、学有所教、劳有所得、病有所医、老有所养、住有所居、弱有所扶”上实现的人民生活全方位的改善；同时引导学生清醒认识到进入新发展阶段，人民不仅对物质文化生活提出了更高要求，而且在民主、法治、公平、正义、安全、环境等方面的要求日益增长，必须在推进现代化进程中逐步地解决好这些问题；进而让学生深刻理解党的二十届三中全会正是“面对人民群众新期待”，提出了“聚焦提高人民生活品质”，把“坚持以人民为中心”作为进一步全面深化改革必须贯彻的重大原则之一，做到改革为了人民、改革依靠人民、改革成果由人民共享。

How we effectively articulate the people-centered value orientation requires not only a precise theoretical explanation of the nature and connotation of being people-centered but also adept use of the “grand ideological and political courses” to cultivate new talents, guiding young students to pay attention to social issues and people’s livelihood needs through vivid practice. We must base ourselves on the long-term plan of cultivating new generations capable of shouldering the great task of national rejuvenation, fully unleash the educational effectiveness of the whole society’s participation in the social classroom. By inviting renowned experts and industry role models in, having school teachers and students go out, integrating vivid practices in, revitalizing history and culture, and making historical sites and museums vibrant, we can deliver excellent cultural “grand ideological and political courses,” science and technology “grand ideological and political courses,” and ecological “grand ideological and political courses.” We must focus on using successful cases of great transformations in the New Era to foster virtue and nurture people. By combining small ideological and political classrooms with the big social classroom, we guide young students to measure the motherland with their steps, listen to the people’s voices with their ears, and feel the pulse of the times with their hearts, truly feeling that adhering to a people-centered approach is a fundamental value stance that is visible, tangible, and real, not an abstract or abstruse concept that remains only in words or stops at the level of thought. Rather, it is embodied in all aspects of economic and social development, in the practice of better meeting the people’s needs for a better life, and in the modernization journey striving to achieve material prosperity, clean governance, spiritual abundance, social stability, and a pleasant ecological environment. This guides young students to dedicate themselves to the motherland and the people in the vast arena of the New Era, striving to write a youthful chapter of taking on the responsibility for Chinese-path modernization.

我们如何讲好坚持以人民为中心的价值取向，不仅要在理论上精准阐释以人民为中心的性质和内涵，更要善用“大思政课”育新人，引导青年学生通过生动实践，关注社会问题和民生需求。要立足于培养堪当民族复兴大任的时代新人的长远大计，充分释放社会大课堂社会全域参与的育人效能，通过把名家大师、行业榜样请进来，学校师生走出去、生动实践融进来，历史文化活起来、遗迹场馆火起来等，上好文化“大思政课”、科技“大思政课”、生态“大思政课”等。要注重运用新时代伟大变革成功案例立德树人，通过思政小课堂与社会大课堂相结合，引导青年学生用脚步丈量祖国大地，用耳朵倾听人民呼声，用内心感应时代脉搏，真真切切感受到坚持以人民为中心是根本价值立场，是看得见、摸得着、真实可感的，不是一个抽象的、玄奥的概念，不能只停留在口头上、止步于思想环节，而是体现在经济社会发展各个环节，体现在更好满足人民美好生活需要的实践当中，体现在努力实现物质富裕、政治清明、精神富足、社会安定、生态宜人的现代化征程中，进而引导青年学生在新时代的广阔天地中奉献祖国、奉献人民，奋力书写为中国式现代化挺膺担当的青春篇章。

[The author is Secretary of the Party Committee of the School of Marxism at Beijing Union University; this article is a phased research result of the Beijing Municipal Education Commission General Scientific Research Project “Research on the Historical Origins and Contemporary Value of the People-Centered Thought”]

【作者系北京联合大学马克思主义学院党委书记；本文系北京市教委科研计划一般项目“以人民为中心思想的历史渊源与当代价值研究”的阶段性研究成果】

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