The scientific outlook on development and changes in the mode of human existence

The scientific outlook on development, a major strategic line of thought put forward in the report at the CPC Seventeenth National Congress, is a social development strategy based on serious reflection on modern historical development models and views. It exhibits a profound historical consciousness and rational awareness of contemporary human existence in abandoning nihilistic denial of human development, modern developmentalism based on "objective dependence" and the path of alienated development with "objects" as its criterion. This strategy puts people first and promotes man's free and all-round development, with a view to exploring and establishing a new pattern of civilization and realizing a great change in the form of human existence. The far-reaching significance of the scientific outlook on development is to make people clear about how China should develop in modern times and what the path of future development will be. But that is not all; its historical value is yet more deeply embedded in its theoretical exploration of what form of existence human beings should choose.