The development policy of“taking agriculture as the basis, industry as the leading factor, and arranging the national economy according to the order of agricultural importance”is an important part of Mao Ze-dong’s economic thought. The general policy has long guided China’s socialist economic practice and promoted the establishment of an independent industrial system and a relatively complete national economic system. Over the past 40 years since the reform and opening up, China’s industrial system and national economic system have become increasingly complete and China’s economic rise has attracted worldwide attention,which benefits from the foundation laid by the national economic construction under the guidance of Mao Ze-dong’s general policy of developing national economy. The thought of Mao’s policy is an innovative development of Marxist political economics, while its economic practice and fruits under the guidance of the general policy lay the foundation for the national economy modernization. In the new era of promoting the socialist construction with Chinese characteristics, Mao Ze-dong’s general policy of developing national economy still plays a guiding role in the modernization of the national economy.

Editor: Zhong Yao

Studies On Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping Theories.2020.No.1.