Luo Yongkuan, Yang Jiao
Social Sciences in Guangdong. 2025, 0(3): 5-18.
Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, General Secretary Xi Jinping has published a series of important discourses on the private economy, realising the major theoretical innovation of Xi Jinping thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era in the field of economic governance. This series of important expositions based on the new era to promote the healthy development of the private economy, high-quality development of the reality of the requirements, from four dimensions to build a rich connotation, logical, scientific structure of the theoretical system. The epistemology clarifies the status and role of the private economy in the new era, and profoundly reveals its value and contribution; the subject theory explains the practice and leadership of the private economy, and emphasises that the private economy is an important subject in the construction of a modernised economic system; the mission theory further elucidates the new mission of China's private economy in the new era, and points out that the private economy is a vital force in the advancement of Chinese-style modernisation, an important basis for high-quality development, and an important force in the promotion of the theory of development points out the way of development of the private economy, and provides a practical approach and focus point for the high-quality development of the private economy. The theory of development has pointed out the rationale for the development of the private economy and provided a practical approach and focus point for the quality development of the private economy. The epistemology, main body theory, mission theory and development theory of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition on the private economy are intertwined and mutually reinforcing, profoundly reflecting the laws and characteristics of the development of the private economy in the new era, highlighting the high degree of integration of understanding and practice, ideological and working methods, and theoretical guidance and current practice, and significantly demonstrating its rigorous scientific qualities, which is the latest theoretical outcome of the development of Marxist political economy in contemporary China, and is a valuable contribution to the new era. It is the latest theoretical achievement of Marxist political economy in contemporary China, and has great significance in guiding the development of private economy in the new era.