On Mencius' thought of sustainable development from the perspective of modern society

Mencius' "Caring for People and Things" and the Sustainable Development of Social Economy Abstract: There are interdependent and restrictive relationships among human beings, environment and resources. As early as more than 2,000 years ago, Mencius proposed to be kind to the people, cherish everything, make rational use of resources, and enhance the sense of hardship. To ensure the long-term stability of the country and the happiness of the people. In today's increasingly prominent environmental problems, it is still of great significance to review Mencius' proposition of caring about people and things for correctly handling the relationship between economic development and environment and promoting the sustainable development of social economy. Key words: Mencius loves people and things, economic development, China picture classification number: G02, document identification number: A, article number:1674-098x (2014) 04 (b)-0237-01,Mencius is a great thinker in ancient times. In his famous thought of benevolent governance, he deduced benevolence from kissing. He said: "a gentleman is to things, and love is benevolent; Be kind to the people and be kind. Be kind to the people, be kind to the people and love things. " ("Dedicated") A gentleman cherishes everything and does not treat it with benevolence; Be kind to the people, but don't love them. A gentleman loves his relatives, so he loves the people and cherishes everything. From the viewpoint of caring for people and caring for things, Mencius put forward the viewpoint of rational utilization of resources and sustainable development. He said: "If you don't go against the farming season, the whole grain can't win the grain." Fish and turtles can't win food if they can't count in the pool; Axe, pound into the mountain in time, wood, firewood can't be used. "("King Hui Liang ") timely cultivation and harvesting will make food inexhaustible; Fishing in a big pond does not need a fine net, and fish and turtles will be inexhaustible; Cut down trees according to a certain time, and the wood will be inexhaustible. Mencius warned people to have a sense of hardship. He said: "if you enter, you will be governed by five legalists. If you leave, you will be invincible in foreign diseases and the country will die." Then I know that I was born in sorrow and died in happiness. "("Gao Zi Xia ") If a country does not have a minister who has laws and regulations at home and an adequate assistant, and is not afraid of neighbors and foreign invasion abroad, it will often perish. So we can know that fear and pain are enough to kill people. Mencius also said: "People with virtue and wisdom will always suffer from phlegm disease. As an orphan, his worries are also dangerous, and his worries are also deep, so he achieved it. "It means that the reason why a person is moral, intelligent, skilled and knowledgeable is often because he has disasters. Only an orphan minister, a son of common evil, is always vigilant and deeply considers the harm, can we understand things. Mencius quoted the Book of Songs and said: "The Book of Songs says:' If it doesn't rain, the soil will be cleared, and if it is prepared, the home will be prepared. Dare you insult the people today? "Today's country, leisure, timely, as happy as laziness, is asking for it. There are people who want both good and bad. " (The Ugliness of the Sun) The Book of Songs says that while it is still cloudy and there is no rain, peel off some mulberry roots and repair the doors and windows. The people below, who dares to bully me. Now the country has no domestic troubles and foreign invasion, so pursuing pleasure and being lazy to have fun is equivalent to asking for it. There is nothing evil or happiness that you didn't discover yourself. The advice given by Mencius more than two thousand years ago has now been verified. Overfishing and fishing make fish in rivers, lakes and oceans endangered; Deforestation, reclamation and grazing make forest vegetation less and less, which not only can not provide available wood and pasture, but also causes serious soil erosion, land desertification, floods and sandstorms. There is also the discharge of industrial wastewater, which makes the water resources that people depend on become dirty and harmful; What's more, the smog that lasted for several months and spread to most of China, a disaster caused by industrial waste gas such as coal burning, excessive exhaust gas from urban motor vehicles and dust generated by large-scale industrialization and urbanization, seriously endangered the health of the general public, and exposed the increasingly prominent contradiction between economic growth and environmental protection in an extremely intuitive way. Living a modern and beautiful life has condensed the dreams of several generations. Especially in the past 30 years of reform and opening up, hundreds of millions of people in China have written a growth miracle that attracts worldwide attention. More and more people have higher incomes, more spacious houses and more convenient modes of travel. However, behind all this is a heavy resource and environmental cost. The root of environmental deterioration lies in the mode of development. Although Scientific Outlook on Development has put forward this idea for many years, we regret to see that the idea that economic development must sacrifice the natural environment is still deeply rooted in some people's minds. It is still a true portrayal of the economic development in some places to emphasize investment attraction instead of environmental protection, fiscal revenue and pollution control, economic aggregate and air quality. It is urgent for the economy to continue to develop steadily and improve the environment. How to solve this "dilemma" problem, the viewpoint of harmony between man and nature in Mencius' thought, has important reference significance for us to establish and implement a people-oriented, comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable Scientific Outlook on Development and coordinate the harmonious development between man and nature. Practice has long proved that the road of scientific development is the universal way to solve all development problems. Along this road, we must correctly handle the relationship between economic construction, population growth, resource utilization and ecological environment protection, and accelerate the construction of a resource-saving society and an environment-friendly society. Always adhere to the unity of economic and social development with environmental protection and ecological construction, and pay equal attention to economic benefits and social and ecological benefits; Adhere to the simultaneous development and protection of resources, overall planning, rational planning, development in protection, protection in development; Vigorously develop circular economy, make full use of resources in economic construction, improve the efficiency of resource utilization, minimize the damage to the ecological environment, and promote the harmonious development between man and nature. Zoucheng, the hometown of Mencius, is rich in coal resources, with a total geological reserve of 465.438 billion tons. It is the headquarters of Yankuang Group and the seat of Zouxian Power Plant. The annual output and annual power generation of raw coal in China account for more than 10% of Shandong Province, and it is known as "the capital of coal and electricity". As a coal-fired power industrial city developed from a large agricultural county, its economic growth is highly dependent on resources. It is also facing the test of environmental pollution. In view of these development bottlenecks, in recent years, Zoucheng has always firmly established the scientific concept of sustainable development, and has made great efforts to adjust the industrial structure, always become the tertiary industry, develop circular economy and accelerate the transformation of resource-based cities around the strategic positioning of building a "national historical and cultural city, an eco-city with landscape gardens and a strong city with circular economy". Actively cooperate with large enterprises in Zou, such as Yankuang Group and Zouxian Power Plant, strive to mobilize the enthusiasm of local private enterprises, and develop derivative industrial chains such as coal gangue power generation, coal-fired electricity aluminum and coal chemical industry around the coal artery. Around the nearly100000 mu of subsidence land formed by coal mining, we increased investment, implemented a series of comprehensive control projects, reclaimed cultivated land, intensively cultivated fish ponds, and built large-scale chicken, duck and sheep breeding and processing plants, turning the subsidence land into an efficient and high-quality agricultural ecological park integrating agriculture, fishing, animal husbandry and sightseeing. The scientific and sustainable development mode has realized the transformation of economic growth mode from extensive to intensive and efficient, from traditional resource-consuming industrial city to modern eco-industrial city, and all economic and social undertakings have developed in a comprehensive, coordinated and strong way. In the comprehensive development index of county economy, social economy and basic competitiveness evaluation of China, it ranks among the top 100 in a row, and also won the title of national historical and cultural city and excellent tourist city of China. In order to further develop scientifically and build a livable city, Zoucheng is making every effort to create a national civilized city, a national garden city, a national sanitary city and a forest city in Shandong Province. In order to promote the economic and social transformation and leap forward, and better realize the harmonious development between man and nature. The 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China made a series of arrangements for beautiful China, which further enriched the understanding of win-win development and environment. As long as all localities enhance their sense of urgency, implement the plan of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in every aspect of development, overcome difficulties and make a difference, then a win-win situation between development and the environment and the harmonious coexistence between man and nature can be expected. Source: Guide to Science and Technology Innovation