党的十六届四中全会提出了构建社会主义和谐社会,使我国社会主义现代化建设的总体布局,由发展社会主义市场经济、社会主义民主政治和社会主义先进文化拓展为包括社会主义和谐社会的内容,并把“社会主义更加和谐”作为全面建设小康社会的目标之一,把“提高构建社会主义和谐社会的能力”作为党的执政能力,充分体现了党的宗旨和执政理念。这在我党的历史上还是第一次,是对马克思主义理论的丰富和发展,是重大的理论创新。构建社会主义和谐社会,是我国处在体制转轨、社会转型这一特殊历史时期经济发展 The Fourth Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee proposed that the overall layout of building a socialist harmonious society and the socialist modernization drive in our country should be expanded from developing the socialist market economy, socialist democratic politics and the advanced socialist culture to including the socialist harmonious society As one of the goals of building a moderately prosperous society in all its aspects, “enhancing the ability to build a harmonious socialist society” as the governing capability of the party fully embodies the party’s purpose and governing philosophy . This is the first time in the history of our party that it is an enrichment and development of the Marxist theory and a major theoretical innovation. To build a harmonious socialist society is our country’s economic development in the special historical period of institutional transition and social transformation