Respect Work, Knowledge, Talent, and Creativity

A major policy put forward by the 16th CPC National Congress in 2002, also known as the “Four Respects”. The focus is on adhering to the mass line, mobilizing all positive factors in the broadest and fullest range, and continuously advancing the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Labor, knowledge, talents, and creation are a unified whole with internal connections, in which labor is the core and foundation; knowledge is an important resource for creating wealth, but it can only create actual wealth through labor and means of labor; talent is the carrier of knowledge resources, and the essence of talent lies in creativity. Talents can only reflect their own value by creating huge material and spiritual wealth for the society through labor; creation itself is a kind of labor, and the process of creation is the process by which laborers maximize their intelligence. In the “Four Respects”, the core is respect for labor. The “Four Respects” is a positive response made by the Party on the basis of a deep understanding and grasp of the essential characteristics and influence of contemporary economic development, which fully reflects the spirit of the times and is of great practical significance. This is a concrete manifestation that the Communist Party of China represents the development of China's advanced productive forces.

The development of productive forces is a dynamic process in which advanced productive forces continuously replace backward productive forces. Labor, knowledge, talents, and creation are the four basic elements that promote the development of advanced productive forces in contemporary China. Grasping these basic elements represents grasping the key to the development of advanced productive forces. To implement the policy of “Four Respects”, it is necessary to form an ideological concept and entrepreneurial mechanism compatible with the basic economic system in the primary stage of socialism in the whole society, create a social atmosphere that encourages and supports people to pursue careers, and let all the sources of creating social wealth flow fully to benefit the people. The whole society earnestly implements the policy of “Four Respects”, which is conducive to enhancing the creative vitality of the whole society and forming a lively situation in which all people work together to create great achievements.