“可持续发展”是当前世界关注的一个重要的理论和实践问题。《中共中央关于制定国民经济和社会发展“九五”计划和2010年远景目标的建议》中,也把“实现经济和社会可持续发展”作为“主要奋斗目标和指导方针”之一。可见,我们党和政府也非常重视这个问题。 “可持续发展”是一种综合社会现象,它涉及到社会、经济、资源与环境等一系列问题。这一概念的提出,虽然是二十世纪七十年代以后的事,但是,“可持续发展”实际上是生产力的可持续发展。我们可以从马克思的生产力源泉理论中得到许多有益的启示。 马克思主义认为社会经济的发展归根到底是生产力的发展。而生产力的发展除了现有生产力要素的合理配置外,还要重视生产力内在源泉的开拓。只有这样,生产力才有可能持续发展。马克思认为,劳动力、 “Sustainable development” is an important theoretical and practical issue that the current world pays close attention to. “The CPC Central Committee and the Central Government Proposal on Formulating the Ninth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development and the Vision for 2010” also set “achieving economic and social sustainable development” as one of the “major goals and guidelines for its efforts.” As we can see, our party and government also attach great importance to this issue. “Sustainable development” is a comprehensive social phenomenon that involves a series of issues such as social, economic, resources and environment. Although this concept was proposed after the 1970s, “sustainable development” is actually a sustainable development of productive forces. We can get many helpful revelations from Marx’s theory of the productive forces. Marxism believes that social and economic development in the final analysis is the development of productive forces. In addition to the rational allocation of the existing productive forces, the development of the productive forces should also pay attention to the exploration of the intrinsic source of productive forces. Only in this way will productivity be sustainable. Marx believes that the labor force,