邓小平:中国可持续发展思想的伟大奠基者

邓小平关于“现在的世界是开放的世界，中国的发展离不开世界”的论断，深刻揭示了中国可持续发展的本质特征；邓小平关于“三步走”的阶段发展理论，为我国制定和实施可持续发展战略提供了重要理论支撑；邓小平的发展生产力和有序的分层次的系统改革，为实现中国的可持续发展寻找到了一条根本的途径；邓小平强调“两个文明”协调发展，为中国社会实现可持续发展的良性运行奠定了基石；邓小平强调“尊重知识，尊重人才”，“经济发展得快一点，必须依靠科技和教育”，牢牢抓住了我国可持续发展的关键。邓小平的一系列科学论述，为我国制定和实施可持续发展战略，莫定了坚实的理论基础。可以毫不夸张地说，邓小平是中国可持续发展思想的伟大奠基者。

Deng Xiaoping:The Founding Father of China's Sustainable Development Strategy

In his series of expositions, Deng Xiaoping provided a solid theoretical foundation for the formulation and the implementation of the sustainable development strategy in China. His thesis of "The world is indispensable to China's development" exposed the nature of the sustainable development strategy. His Three-Steps Plan of economic development supplied the theoretical basis for the formulation and the implementation of the strategy. In his proposition of developing productive force and carrying out systematic reforms of different levels in order, he pointed out the fundamental way to implement the strategy. In his stress on the coordinated development of material civilization and spiritual civilization, he laid the cornerstone for the sound operation of the strategy in its implementation. In his emphasis on respecting knowledge and talents, he showed a good hold of the key to attaining the strategic goal in the country. As a result, it can be said without exaggeration that for the great thinking of sustainable development in China, Deng Xiaoping is the great founding father.