龚自珍是我国由中世纪向近代社会转折时期一位承前启后、继往开来的杰出思想家。作为封建末世清醒的大思想家,龚自珍意识到中国社会正处于“日之将夕,悲风骤至”的危机前夜。他目睹这危机前夜整个社会所呈现出的政治腐败、经济衰退、内外交困、思想沉寂的局面,心急如焚,满怀忧国忧民之情,以治国平天下为己任,针砭时弊,提出了一系列治国安邦的社会改革思想。具体说来,其社会改革思想主要有:改变选人方法,注重经世致用;反对论资排辈,用人不拘一格;主张以礼待臣,尊重大臣人格;陆防海防并重,抵御一切外侮。 Gong Zizhen is an outstanding thinker who inherited the past and passed from the Middle Ages to the modern society. As a sober-minded great thinker in the late feudal era, Gong Zizhen realized that Chinese society is now on the eve of the crisis, “the ebb and sorrow of the wind”. He witnessed the political crisis, the economic recession, the internal and external difficulties as well as the silence of thoughts presented by the entire society on the eve of the crisis. He was full of anxiety and concern for the country. He took the responsibility of governing the country and the world and pointed out a series of measures State’s Social Reform Thought. To be concrete, the ideas of social reform mainly include: changing the method of selecting people, paying attention to using it for the sake of the world; opposing disputing people with seniority and employing others in an eclectic manner; advocating courtesy and courteous service and respecting the minister’s personality;