科学发展观运用马克思主义的世界观和方法论,立足社会主义初级阶段基本国情,深入总结我国发展实践,深入总结人类社会发展经验,深刻反思世界社会主义运动的成败得失,继承中华民族优秀传统文化,不仅回答了在当代中国什么是发展、为什么发展、靠谁发展和怎样发展等重大问题,也对新世纪人类社会的发展具有重要的意义。 The Scientific Outlook on Development Utilizing the Marxist world outlook and methodology, basing itself on the basic national conditions of the initial stage of socialism, conducting an in-depth summary of China’s development practice, thoroughly summing up the experience of human society development, deeply reflecting on the successes and failures of the world socialist movement and inheriting the fine traditional Chinese culture, not only Answering important questions about what is development, why development, who depends on who and what kind of development in contemporary China, it is also of great significance to the development of human society in the new century.