江泽民同志在党的十六大政治报告中进一步强调了哲学社会科学的地位和作用 ,是对全国哲学社会科学工作者的殷切期盼和巨大鼓舞。在新世纪 ,世界和中国的发展都发生了深刻的变化 ,为中国社会科学的发展提供了大好机遇 ,我们要抓住机遇 ,顺应时代的要求 ,迎接新世纪哲学社会科学繁荣发展的春天。中国哲学社会科学的发展过程中面临着多种矛盾和复杂关系 ,我们要正确处理好这些关系和矛盾。“三个代表”重要思想是继毛泽东思想、邓小平理论之后 ,马克思主义在当代中国发展又一座里程碑。它一方面体现着全党和中华民族对于人类文明进化和中国经济、政治、文化运行前沿的最新认识 ,另一方面又作为具有浓烈时代精神的科学世界观和方法论 ,构成推动中国社会历史全面进步的精神动力和科学指南 ,同时也对当代中国哲学社会科学的发展起着政治保障和正确导航的作用。自觉学习、坚决贯彻“三个代表”重要思想 ,乃是当代中国社会科学的内在要求 ,也是每一个哲学社会科学工作者得以坚持理论创新 ,永葆青春活力的现实途径和必由之路。 Comrade Jiang Zemin further emphasized the position and role of philosophy and social science in the party’s 16th National Congress of the Communist Party’s political report and is the earnest hope and great encouragement of the country’s philosophy and social science workers. In the new century, profound changes have taken place in the development of both the world and China, which provide great opportunities for the development of China’s social sciences. We must seize the opportunity and meet the requirements of the times to meet the prosperity and development of the philosophy and social sciences in the new century. China’s philosophy and social sciences are facing many kinds of contradictions and complex relations in their development. We must correctly handle these relations and contradictions. The important thinking of the ’Three Represents’ is another milestone for the development of Marxism in contemporary China after Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory. On the one hand, it embodies the new understanding of the progress made by the entire party and the Chinese nation in the evolution of human civilization and the frontier of China’s economy, politics and culture. On the other hand, it serves as a scientific world outlook and methodology with a strong spirit of the times and constitutes an overall progress in promoting social history in China Spiritual motivation and scientific guidance, but also plays a political guarantee and a correct navigation for the development of contemporary Chinese philosophy and social sciences. Conscientiously studying and resolutely implementing the important thinking of the ’Three Represents’ is an inherent requirement of the contemporary Chinese social science and a realistic and necessary way for every philosophical and social scientist to adhere to theoretical innovation and to maintain its vitality forever.