在“中国市场经济论坛研讨会”上,有关经济学专家提出,社会主义市场经济的本质是“民本经济”。他们认为“民本经济”中所谓的民,是指劳动人民的个人或集体;所谓本,是指广大劳动民众是社会主义经济发展和管理的基本主体、基本动力; At the seminar on China Market Economy Forum, the experts on economics put forward that the essence of the socialist market economy is “people-oriented economy ”. They consider that the so-called “people-oriented economy” refers to the individual or collective of working people; the so-called "this refers to the broad masses of working people as the basic subject and the basic motive force for the development and management of the socialist economy;