Xi Jinping Philosophy: The way to Comprehensively Deepen Reform in the New Era — from the Perspectives of Marxist Ontology, Marxist Epistemology and Marxist methodology

Wu Haijiang

School of Marxism, Fudan University, Shanghai

[Abstract] With the historical development of China’s modernization practice, the study of China’s reform has also acquired the significance of real academic history. We have the conditions to reflect and summarize China’s reform more deeply at the level of Marxist ontology, epistemology and methodology.

As the ontological basis of comprehensively deepening reform, historical materialism, with its inherent principle of basic social contradictions, shows the urgency and importance of comprehensively deepening reform. In particular, material production constitutes the “decisive factor of social development”, which is the cornerstone for accurately grasping the major relationship of comprehensively deepening reform; the principle of people as the subject of historical practice determines that upholding the supremacy of the people is the logical starting point and value foundation of comprehensively deepening reform. Dialectical materialist epistemology provides a scientific epistemological basis for comprehensively deepening reform in the new era.

The methodology of reform based on materialist dialectics needs to be studied and refined from different levels. In guiding the reform concept, we must adhere to the people-centered approach, adhere to the principle of keeping the right path and making innovations, and adhere to the concept of systems; in guiding the reform thinking, we must adhere to dialectical thinking and correctly handle the relationship between overall advancement and key breakthroughs, top-level design and crossing the river by feeling the stones, boldness and steady steps, and reform, development and stability.

[Keywords] Comprehensively deepening reform, ontology, epistemology, methodology

Since the Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee sounded the clarion call for reform and opening up, China’s reform and opening up has gone through 46 years and entered the “forty-year” year. More than 40 years of successful practice have proved the correctness of the path of reform and opening up. Since the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, reform has achieved a historic transformation from local breakthroughs to overall comprehensive deepening, promoting historic achievements in various undertakings of the Party and the country, successfully opening up the road of Chinese-style modernization, and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has entered an irreversible historical process. With the historical development of Chinese-style modernization practice driven by reform and opening up to comprehensive deepening of reform, the study of China’s reform has also acquired real academic historical significance. We have accumulated a wealth of historical materials, cases and documents, and have the conditions to reflect, summarize and look forward to China’s reform more deeply at the level of Marxist ontology, epistemology and methodology

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