Why did Scientific Outlook on Development promote social and economic reform from the perspective of fighting SARS in 2003 and COVID-19 in 19?

The victory against SARS fully demonstrated the great superiority of China's socialist system. At the same time, the occurrence and spread of SARS also exposed new contradictions and problems such as uncoordinated development, lagging development of public health undertakings, and imperfect emergency mechanism, which further triggered the CPC Central Committee's in-depth thinking on the development of China under the new situation. "What kind of development and how to achieve it" is an important theoretical and practical issue, and history has been placed in front of the producers in China. Therefore, Scientific Outlook on Development came into being.

Scientific Outlook on Development's first priority is development. The fundamental purpose of adhering to Scientific Outlook on Development is to achieve faster and better development. Whether it is comprehensive, coordinated or sustainable, it will ultimately fall on the word "development". It is called the concept of development, and the first essence is development. To study, master and implement Scientific Outlook on Development, we must firmly grasp this first essence. Development is the last word, and the key to solving all the problems in China lies in development. This is an important conclusion drawn from the long-term historical experience of our party and country, and it is also a strategic thought that our party has always adhered to since the reform and opening up.

The core of Scientific Outlook on Development is people-oriented. We must always take the realization, maintenance and development of the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people as the starting point and the end result of all the work of the party and the state, so that development is for the people, development depends on the people, and development results are shared by the people.