Yang Chengming
China

The modern countries are doing everything they can to realize development. However, they often have to face two issues in development – imbalance and disharmony while pursuing the development speed. That is, people differ as to whether to pursue harmonious development and how to make this happen. From the perspective of the essence, standard, purpose and methodology of the harmonious development, this paper aims to discuss the relations between harmonious development and the modern human right principles, the definition of human rights, the standard of right to development and the practical requirements of the international human rights, and also to reveal the substantial relations between development and human rights.

I. Harmonious Development: A Necessary Requirement of Modern Human Rights Principle

Harmonious development is an indispensable part of the modern democratic politics and the modern constitutionalism. The modern constitutionalism being built by various countries usually contain three principles, that is, rule of law, democracy and human rights. As far as the relations among democracy, rule of law and human rights are concerned, the exterior of democracy is rule of law while the interior of democracy is human rights. Rule of law at an ideal state is to realize the harmony between public power and civil right. Civil right is respected, protected and aided by the public power, and human right is the origin, boundary and purpose of the public power. If the law achieves this state, rule of law will exist. Rule of law is a series of procedures that are well arranged, human right is the subject to be realized by the rule-of-law procedures, while democracy represents the institutionalization after fusing both.  Therefore, the principle of human right constitutes the prerequisite, foundation and destination of the constitution and constitutionalism, and represents the fundamental standard that measures the implementation of constitutionalism. " Just as Robespierre, the thinker in the French Revolution Period, noted, "to maintain the human rights, natural and unalienable, and to develop every aspect of humans are the purpose of all the political groups."

From the perspective of political construction, development should be carried through under the framework of the modern constitutionalism. Moreover, only adhering to the principle of human right, can harmonious development be made happen. Human is the purpose of development, while the essence and core of the harmonious development must focus on human, which, as the orientation of development, must be adhered to in development. Human orientation means making human the standard for the value and society, and orients the human survival and development as the supreme value objective. In the form of practice, human orientation means making the interests of people the starting point and anchor of development, orients the comprehensive development of human, and seeks and promotes the development for the sake of the fundamental interests of the people.