党的十六届四中全会提出了构建社会主义和谐社会的重大命题,这是一个具有突破意义的新提法。所谓和谐社会,应该是一个各方面全面、协调发展的社会,而不是偏重某一方面、忽视另一方面的崎形社会。因此,人文社会科学与自然科学应受到同样的重视,相互协调发展应该是构建社会主义和谐社会的题中之义。 The Fourth Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee put forward the major proposition for building a harmonious socialist society. This is a new formulation of breakthrough significance. The so-called harmonious society should be a society of all-round and coordinated development instead of focusing on one aspect and ignoring the other on the other. Therefore, the humanities and social sciences and natural sciences should receive the same attention, and the coordinated development among them should be the meaning of the issue of building a harmonious socialist society.