Fairness or Efficiency?——Value Choices for Solving the Major Social Contradictions in the New Era

Abstract

Value is the precursor of practice, and changes with the development of practice. As the main social contradiction is the concentration of the real problems in a specific period, how to solve it is the most important practice of the times, which cannot be separated from the correct value guidance. In different stages of China’s socialist construction, different social major contradictions are faced and different value choices are made. Whether it is the value orientation of fairness in the period of socialist construction or the value orientation of efficiency in the period of reform and opening up, they are the choices of the times and play a positive guiding role in solving the major social contradictions at that time. In the new era, in the face of the new major social contradictions, it is important to appreciate the changes in value choices behind the contradictions and choose the correct values to guide the resolution of the major social contradictions.