Concept of development: the world outlook and methodology are embodied in the development issue, which is the concept of development. The concept of development is an overall and fundamental view about the essence, purpose, connotation and requirements of development, which determines the overall strategy and basic model of economic and social development and has a fundamental and overall impact on the practice of economic and social development.
Scientific Outlook on Development adhered to the basic principles of dialectical materialism and historical materialism, deepened his understanding of the law of socialist development with a series of new ideas, new viewpoints and new theories, and pointed out the scientific way to achieve sound and rapid economic and social development, which is a concentrated expression of Marxist world outlook and methodology on development.
Scientific Outlook on Development is the inheritance and development of the important thoughts of the party's three generations of central leading collective on development, the concentrated embodiment of Marxist world outlook and methodology on development, the scientific theory that keeps pace with the times in the same strain as Marxism–Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory and Theory of Three Represents, the important guiding principle of China's economic and social development, and the important strategic thought that Socialism with Chinese characteristics must adhere to and implement.