General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "we must meet the expectations of the people for a better life, adhere to the position of the people as the main body, closely combine high-quality population development with high-quality people's lives, and closely combine 'investing in things' with' investing in people '. The 2025 government work report clearly proposes to promote more financial resources to "invest in people" and serve people's livelihoods, support the expansion of employment, promote residents' income increase and burden reduction, strengthen consumption incentives, and form a virtuous cycle of economic development and improvement of people's livelihoods. A profound understanding and comprehensive grasp of the rich connotations and practical requirements of "investing in people" is of great significance for achieving high-quality development and comprehensively building a socialist modernized country. The concept of "investing in people" is a representation of historical development. To examine the concept of "investing in people", it is necessary to deeply grasp its distinct characteristics and practical direction in the context of social development and historical processes, and reveal the realistic background and historical inevitability of its formation and proposal. Investing in people is an inevitable requirement for achieving their free and comprehensive development. Marx and Engels attached great importance to human beings and their development, emphasizing that improving and developing human abilities is an inherent requirement for promoting human and social development. They pointed out that "the responsibility, mission, and task of any person is to comprehensively develop all their abilities". Human beings are the most active, dynamic, and positive factor in productivity, deeply rooted in social networks and historical dynamic processes, and serving as the starting point and foothold of development. Investing in people "no longer regards people as mere" tools "for achieving development, but emphasizes that the realization of human value and the improvement of well-being are the goals of development itself. By enhancing people's abilities and qualities, safeguarding their basic rights and interests, and meeting their diverse needs, it ultimately achieves comprehensive human development and social progress. This goes beyond the limitations of traditional material capital investment, placing human development at the core of modernization construction and demonstrating the value proposition of meeting the people's expectations for a better life. Investing in people is an urgent need to move towards high-quality development. Our country's economy has shifted from a stage of high-speed growth to a stage of high-quality development. The traditional development model, which is mainly driven by resource input and factors, is unsustainable and must be transformed into a high-quality development model led by innovation. The key to innovation lies in talent. Only by having a high-quality and innovative talent team can we promote technological innovation, industrial upgrading, and the transformation of economic development mode. Investing in people, especially in the cultivation of technology talents, high skilled talents, and innovative talents, will directly enhance total factor productivity, promote changes in the quality, efficiency, and driving force of economic development. In the context of the deepening development of technological revolution and industrial transformation, only by prioritizing human resource development and continuously investing in people can we solve development problems, enhance development momentum, cultivate development advantages, promote the fundamental transformation of economic development mode from scale and speed to quality and efficiency, and ultimately achieve higher quality, more equitable, and more sustainable development. Investing in people is the key support for gaining a global competitive advantage. Against the backdrop of accelerated restructuring of the global innovation landscape and deep adjustments in industrial and supply chains, competition between countries has shifted from traditional resource endowment competition to competition in innovation capability and talent quality. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "the competition of comprehensive national strength is ultimately a competition for talents. Talents are an important indicator of a country's comprehensive national strength." Investing in human capital will directly enhance a country's voice in the global value chain. In the global competition for talent, only by cultivating and attracting more outstanding talents, building a large-scale, structurally reasonable, and high-quality talent team, can we establish a strategic foundation for the long-term development of the country and take the initiative in future development. The concept of "investing in people" is a strategic response to how China seizes opportunities and responds to challenges in this era. It is an inevitable choice to achieve high-level technological self-reliance, enhance national core competitiveness, and seize the high ground of international competition. 2. The scientific connotation of the concept of "investing in people". "Investing in people" is an organic unity of revolutionary reconstruction of value cognition, systematic optimization of investment structure, and strategic coordination of development goals. By transforming human resources into sustainable value-added strategic capital, a dual wheel driven investment system of "hard technology enhancement" and "soft welfare improvement" is constructed, achieving a symbiotic win-win situation between individual development potential release and social value enhancement, and ultimately achieving high-quality development that puts people first. The value cognition revolution from "cost" to "capital". 'Investing in people' refers to promoting more financial resources to serve people's livelihoods, supporting the expansion of employment, increasing residents' income and reducing their burden, strengthening consumption incentives, and forming a virtuous cycle of economic development and improvement of people's livelihoods. The essence of 'investing in people' is to transform human resources into sustainable and value-added human capital by enhancing people's knowledge, skills, health levels, and social adaptability. Its core lies in transforming human resources from "passive consumption costs" to "active value-added capital", reflecting the focus and optimization of macro policy orientation from "material first" to "person collaboration", marking a fundamental shift in the value orientation of development. By prioritizing the allocation of financial resources towards areas related to comprehensive human development, increasing investment in areas such as education, healthcare, and elderly care, and elevating human development from a "tool cost" to a "purposeful capital," we aim to achieve development that benefits the people and benefits the people through development. It should be noted that "investing in people" is not the opposite of "investing in things", but rather to promote a more balanced development of livelihood and productive investment, create new economic growth points while continuously ensuring and improving people's livelihoods, and ultimately form a substantial leap in people's well-being and overall social progress in the process of promoting common prosperity. Systematic investment covering both 'hard skills' and' soft well-being '. The scientific connotation of "investing in people" is essentially a transcendence of the traditional "cost-benefit" analysis framework, aiming to achieve the mutual embedding, symbiosis, and coordinated improvement of "hard skills" and "soft well-being" of human capital through systematic institutional design. In the dimension of "hard skills", this concept emphasizes the construction of a capability development network covering from basic education to lifelong learning through paths such as optimizing the education system, improving vocational skills, and cultivating digital literacy, so that individuals have the core competitiveness to adapt to technological changes and industrial upgrading. Soft welfare "focuses on the subjective needs of people, and through measures such as improving the social security network, optimizing the allocation of medical resources, and improving fertility support policies, forms a comprehensive livelihood security system and service system covering the entire chain and life cycle. The accumulation of "hard skills" relies on the basic conditions provided by "soft welfare", and the improvement of "soft welfare" requires the material wealth created by "hard skills" as support. This collaboration not only ensures the efficiency of people as "producers", but also guarantees the dignity of people as "living beings", ultimately achieving the unity of human capital in terms of tool value and subject value, and providing sustainable endogenous power for social development. Pursuing a strategic win-win situation that promotes both individual development and social value. Investing in people "goes beyond the narrow perspective of viewing human resources as a traditional factor of production, placing the development of human capital in a dynamic balance between individual value realization and social value appreciation, achieving the organic unity of" comprehensive human development "and" high-quality economic and social development ". Among them, individual development is the source of social value creation, and the realization of social value provides material basis and institutional guarantee for higher-level individual development. The two complement and promote each other, forming a people-oriented inclusive growth model. The inherent logic of this concept is to directly empower people's health level, cognitive ability, creative potential, and comprehensive literacy through systematic investment, achieving comprehensive development and intrinsic value appreciation of individuals; As the active subject of economic activities, the developed individuals' enhanced labor productivity, innovation ability, and sense of civic responsibility will produce significant positive externalities, which converge into powerful driving forces for economic growth, technological innovation, cultural prosperity, and social harmony, thereby achieving the overall value enhancement of society. The practice of the concept of "investing in people" requires that "investing in people" is a strategic measure launched based on the new development stage, implementing the new development concept, constructing a new development pattern, and promoting high-quality development. Only by adhering to the current, long-term, systematic planning and overall promotion, continuously increasing human capital investment, optimizing the structure of human capital, and improving the quality of human capital, can we build the most solid and lasting human resources support for comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese path to modernization. Starting from the changes in the main social contradictions, focus on improving people's livelihood and well-being. Against the backdrop of changes in the main contradiction in Chinese society, "investing in people" has become a key path to solving the problem of unbalanced and insufficient development and continuously improving people's well-being. 'Investing in people' refers to improving people's livelihoods, and favorable policies and incremental funds should be prioritized towards the livelihood sector, focusing on solving the needs of people's livelihoods through thinking, planning, and handling affairs. We need to go beyond the short-term development model of seeing things but not people, and carry out long-term planning and sustained investment. We need to further increase investment in areas such as education, healthcare, employment, elderly care, housing, and security related to people's livelihoods. Through the organic coordination of economic and social policies, we aim to ensure that the fruits of development benefit all people more and fairly, continuously improve and develop people's livelihoods, and effectively enhance their sense of gain, happiness, and security. Strengthen systematic investment and build a comprehensive support system. The strategic practice of "investing in people" requires following the principles of systems theory and building a multi-level, full cycle supportive ecosystem. It emphasizes the coordination of resource allocation and avoids fragmented investment through cross departmental policy linkage; Emphasize the complementarity of support measures to generate synergies among various investments; Emphasize the continuity of the development path and ensure effective connection of investments at each stage. On the vertical dimension, establish a continuous investment mechanism covering the entire life cycle of individuals: from scientific intervention in early education, to quality improvement of basic and higher education, to continuous empowerment of vocational training and lifelong learning, forming a complete chain of human capital accumulation, avoiding overall efficiency decline due to the lack or weakness of investment in specific stages, and ensuring the coherence and sustainability of human capital accumulation. On a horizontal level, building a diverse and collaborative support network, coordinating government, market, and social resources through policy linkage, including macro level institutional supply and policy guarantees, meso level organizational innovation and platform construction, and micro level personalized services and capacity development, to provide three-dimensional supply for individual development. Innovate investment methods and enhance investment efficiency. Practicing the concept of "investing in people" requires a shift from "scale oriented expansion" to "quality oriented optimization", and the construction of a modern investment system characterized by dynamic adaptability, technological empowerment, and industrial synergy. Firstly, optimizing the investment structure is the foundation for quality improvement. It is necessary to adjust the investment focus based on the trend of economic and social development and the direction of industrial transformation, strengthen investment in strategic emerging industries and key core technology areas, achieve a structural tilt of resources towards high potential areas, and enhance the foresight and scientificity of investment layout. Secondly, innovative investment models are about efficiency