The Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu Yue says: "The people are rich and the country is strong, and the people are peaceful and peaceful." Before "the people are rich" and "the country is strong", the ancients put forward the idea of "people-oriented" as early as a thousand years ago. The reform that began more than 3 years ago has brought China's economy into the forefront of the world, and also made "development first" the primary goal that has remained unchanged for more than 3 years. However, the rapid growth of GDP has not brought about the simultaneous prosperity of the people, and the excessive income gap has become a problem after development, and the goal of scientific development has gradually drifted away. At the Fifth Plenary Session of the Seventeenth Central Committee held in October, "the income of urban and rural residents generally increases rapidly" was set as one of the main development goals in the next five years. To create a "happy China" and return wealth to the people, it is necessary to truly change from the material standard to the people standard, and the wealth of the people is the source of national strength and a topic that needs our continuous attention-

There is almost no disagreement about what problems exist in China today. What should be done has also been put forward: for example, expanding domestic demand, adjusting structure, rational distribution, paying attention to people's livelihood, social security and sustainable development, which have been recognized by the authorities and written into reports and documents, but most of them have not been effectively implemented. A few years ago, we discussed the transformation of government functions from leading economy to public services. At that time, I said, "Is a service-oriented government good or not? Right? Yes! But can you do it? Can't do it! Will it work? It won't work! " Why? Development first is China's national policy, leading the economy is the responsibility of the government, and GDP is the assessment target. How can officials become service-oriented by this promotion?

"scientific development" can't resist the development goal of "development first" and "Eleventh Five-Year Plan", and the required scientific development goal will basically fail. The 11th Five-Year Plan calls for an average GDP growth of 7.5% and an average GDP growth of 1.1% in the four years from 26 to 29. If this year's growth is maintained at last year's level of 8.7%, the average annual growth in five years will reach 9.4%. Achieving development goals is a foregone conclusion. However, on the contrary, the scientific development required by the Eleventh Five-Year Plan has not been achieved, and even deteriorated, reaching a critical point.

For example, the Eleventh Five-Year Plan requires that the relationship between investment and consumption be adjusted. As a result, China has the highest investment rate and the lowest consumption rate in the world. The 11th Five-Year Plan calls for accelerating the transformation of economic growth mode. As a result, China's economic dependence on foreign countries and energy consumption level of output value are the highest in the world. The Eleventh Five-Year Plan requires that all people enjoy the fruits of reform and development. As a result, China's fiscal revenue accounts for the highest proportion of GDP in the world, while its fiscal expenditure on people's livelihood is the lowest in the world, while its administrative expenditure is the highest in the world. The 11th Five-Year Plan requires maintaining social stability, and as a result, mass incidents have continued, from 6, in 1995 to 6, in 27 and 23, in 29.

As a banner of this session of the Central Committee, "scientific development" can't resist "development first".

"development first" means that economic development is the most important, and everything else is secondary. In other words, it doesn't matter how to make the cake bigger, whether the growth mode is reasonable, how to distribute it and whether the distribution mode is fair or not. Therefore, if we talk about "scientific development", we can't "develop first"; "Development first" is not "scientific development". However, "development first" is Deng Xiaoping's national policy, so the interpretation of "scientific development" must be consistent with "development first". Explaining what Scientific Outlook on Development is, the report of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China said: "Scientific Outlook on Development, the first priority is development, and the core is people-oriented." "Development first" is the value of material standard, which puts the growth of material in the first place and ignores the growth mode and the distribution of material results. "People-oriented" is a people-oriented value, not to abandon things, but to conform to the concept of people-oriented development mode and distribution of results of things. People-oriented is scientific development. Here, "development first" and "people-oriented" are compared, allowing governments at all levels to choose. GDP assessment is hard and "people-oriented" is empty. The result is that the goal of development is realized and the goal of scientific development is frustrated.