生产力是人类社会发展最基本的决定力量，在马克思主义理论体系中占有极其重要的地位。“三个代表”重要思想作为党的建设的纲领性要求，明确将“党要始终代表中国先进生产力的发展要求”放在首要位置，体现了历史唯物主义的基本原理。一　　物质生活资料的生产是人类社会存 Productivity is the most basic decisive force for the development of human society and occupies an extremely important position in the theoretical system of Marxism. As the programmatic requirement of party building, the important thinking of the ’Three Represents’ clearly sets the paramount principle of ’the party must always represent the development requirements of China’s advanced productive forces’ and embodies the historical materialism. The production of a material life material is human social existence