Ideas are the guide of action, and certain development practices are all led by certain development ideas. At the Fifth Plenary Session the 18th CPC Central Committee, General Secretary Xi Jinping, with his profound insight, keen judgment and theoretical creativity as a Marxist politician, thinker and strateg, creatively put forward the new development philosophy of innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing. During the 2025 NPC and CPPCC sessions, General Secretary Jinping emphasized the need to fully implement the new development philosophy, coordinate domestic and international affairs, and focus on urban-rural integration and regional linkage, optimize the distribution of forces, and strive to promote high-quality development. As the most important and main content of Xi Jinping's economic thought, the new development philosophy is formed on the of profound summary of domestic and foreign development experience and lessons, and profound analysis of the trend of domestic and foreign development, and is also put forward on the basis of scientific summary of practice experience of economic development of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, and has strong originality and identifiability.

Engels pointed out: "Every new view forward by a science contains a revolution of the terms of that science." The new development philosophy profoundly reflects the "terminology revolution" of the original and identifying concepts in Xi Jin's economic thought, and marks that our Party's understanding of the law of socialist construction has reached a new height. It is of great significance to fully understand the theoretical contribution practical value of the new development philosophy in order to promote the realization of higher quality, more efficient, fairer, more sustainable and safer development

The new development philosophy is the most important and main content of Xi Jinping's economic thought.
Lenin pointed out: "To truly understand things, we must grasp and study clearly all aspects, all connections and 'intermediaries' of it." To learn the Partys innovative theory, we must be familiar with all aspects, all connections and the key points in it, so as to truly be comprehensive, systematic, accurate and in-depth, integrate it, and then use it to guide our work and solve problems.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, in the face of and complex international environment and arduous and heavy domestic reform, development and stability tasks, the Party Central Committee, with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, has insisted on the general trend, planning the overall situation and doing practical work, comprehensively strengthened the Party's strategic planning and unified leadership over economic work, continuously deepened its understanding of the of economic work, put forward a series of new concepts, new ideas and new strategies, led China's economic development to achieve historic achievements, and formed Xi Jinping's thought. Xi Jinping's economic thought is systematic, rich in content and profound, and it is constantly developing in practice. Among them, the new development concept is the most and main content.
The attributes of the new development philosophy and its important role in practice determine its important position in Xi Jinping's economic thought. Development is the foundation key to solving all problems in our country, and the development concept has strong strategic, programmatic and leading characteristics, which fundamentally determines the effectiveness and even success or failure of development As early as 2015, General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out that, facing the new trends, new opportunities, new contradictions and new challenges of economic and development, "we must establish a new development concept and use the new development concept to lead development actions". In 2016, General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly explained important role of the new development concept when presiding over the 30th collective study of the Political Bureau of the 18th CPC Central Committee, pointing out thatthe new development concept is the baton and traffic light". "Baton", that is, to clarify the direction of China's economic and social development in the future scientifically allocate social resources, and guide the coordinated development of various fields; "Traffic light", that is, to clearly define what can and cannot be done in economic and social, to protect the high-quality development, and to ensure that the development process is fast and steady, and the direction is not deviated. The Central Economic Work Conference in 017 proposed: "In the past five years, we have insisted on viewing the general trend, planning the overall situation and doing practical work, successfully controlled the overall situation of's economic development, and formed Xi Jinping's socialist economic thought with Chinese characteristics in the new era, which mainly includes the new development concept", which further clarified important position of the new development concept in Xi Jinping's economic thought. In 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly pointed out at the special study class provincial and ministerial-level main leaders to study and implement the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Committee of the Party: "Since the Eighteenth Congress of the Party, we have put forward many major theories and concepts on economic and social development, among which the new development concept is the most important and main one.