马克思主义哲学最突出的特点之一就是强调实践的重要性。这种对实践的强调，既体现为一种实践唯物主义哲学的世界观，也体现为一种对世界万物开展理论研究的视野和方法。在马克思那里，“实践”的抽象与具体是辩证统一的。实践既是理论之源，也是理论研究的自然归宿。让哲学回到“人间”，关注人类现实生活实践，关注国家民族的现实实践，关注我们每一个人的现实生产生活实践，并对其进行追求极致的理性反思，既是当代哲学工作者继承马克思主义哲学精神的重要体现，也是当代马克思主义哲学理论的重要创新方式。

当代中国最为重要的实践之一是全面深化改革。改革开放与发展是1978年以来中国社会的重要主题。40年前，以“实践是检验真理的唯一标准”大讨论为起点，引发了中国的思想解放，也引发了中国经济政治社会文化的巨大进步和历史性变革。过去的40年，是世界格局发生极为重要变化的40年，更是中国社会发生历史性巨变的40年。这种变化最突出的特点之一，就是不仅中国经济总体量已经跃升到世界第二位，而且在全方位向历史与世界学习的过程中，中国社会内部要素与结构的多样性获得了极大发展，整个世界的“多元性”在中国社会体现得更加突出。“多元”本是自然界多样性存在的自然体现，但从未有哪个时代像今天这样将这种“多元性”在中国体现得如此深刻而“丰富多彩”。正是当今中国现实实践的“丰富多彩”，使我们每个人对自己、对国家、对社会等认识对象的认识变得更具复杂性。如何认识、处理不同社会成员有关社会变革的个体认识与集体认识的张力问题，尤其是如何就全面深化改革更好达成共识，已经成为当代中国国家治理中的重要课题。

赵泽林博士自来到华中科技大学哲学系，以我作为博士后合作导师开展博士后研究。他一方面积极投入国家治理研究院的绿色GDP绩效评估研究，先后获得两个国家博士后科学基金的资助，与我合作或者单独发表十余篇学术论文和咨政论文、三部研究报告，对湖北和全国绿色GDP绩效评估报告的研究和撰写发挥了不可替代的重要作用，其成果已经获得多个奖项。另一方面赵泽林博士仍在继续深化和拓展已有的人工智能哲学、马克思主义认识论、绿色发展等方面的学理性研究，尤其是对改革共识等当代认识论问题进行积极的探讨，形成了博士后出站报告《改革共识论：中国的历史与反思》。

粗览此著，作者独具匠心，选取“改革”作为切入点，聚焦中国社会主义改革的分歧与共识，通过对中国社会主义改革开放40年中不同时期关于“改革”的重大思想争论的历史追述，揭示中国社会主义改革意见分歧、改革共识产生与发展的历史与逻辑，并对其进行历史反思和理论提升，提出中国在新时代凝聚社会主义改革共识的基本思考，可谓小处着笔，展示的却是中国社会主义改革波澜壮阔的宏伟画卷。

细品全文，作者在种种历史事件的叙述与理论阐述中，让读者既能感受到中国在过去40年间复杂而深刻的社会变迁，更能触摸到过去40年间中国社会主义改革历史脉搏的不同温度；既能感受到不同社会成员在不同社会境遇下对中国社会主义改革的历史体认，也能够多少感悟到国家决策者面对复杂社会局面艰难而惊心动魄的重大历史决策；既能感受到中国社会主义改革历经艰难探索之后的辉煌成就，也能感受到中国社会主义改革历经40年仍将任重而道远这一理性认知。

40年的中国改革开放实践告诉我们一个真理，只有社会主义才能救中国，只有改革开放才能发展中国、发展社会主义、发展马克思主义。当代中国特色社会主义进入了新时代，形成了经济建设、政治建设、文化建设、社会建设和生态文明建设五位一体的总体布局，形成了全面建成小康社会、全面深化改革、全面依法治国、全面从严治党的战略布局。同时我们也必须清醒地认识到，在加速中华民族伟大复兴、建设富强民主文明和谐美丽的社会主义现代化强国的进程中，我们还会始终面临不断出现不同程度的意见分歧，又不断凝聚社会主义改革共识的问题。这种现象不是“中国专利”，更不是“社会主义的专利”，而是从整个人类社会由传统社会转入现代多元社会后，“多元性”的积极体现，是人类社会历史不断进步的重要表现。面对新时代，引导人民群众理性表达改革意见，积极面对不同社会成员的正面诉求，是中国人民在新时代凝聚社会主义改革共识，形成改革合力的重要路径，也是中国人民在新时代推进国家治理体系和治理能力现代化应有的重要内容。

今年正值马克思诞辰200周年，《共产党宣言》发表170周年，是中国社会主义改革开放40周年，也是中国社会迈入新时代的重要启程之年。中国已经展开的社会主义改革，以及正在展开和即将展开的社会主义改革创新，正在让中国经历着最为广泛、深刻而独特的社会变革和实践创新。这种实践以及由此而带来的社会变革与创新，也正在为理论工作者提供更加丰富的实践资料和理论创新空间。本书作为作者对中国社会主义改革共识的初步探索，具有开端意义，但远未穷尽。如何更加深入地反思中国社会主义改革的历史逻辑，如何从中国社会主义改革的历史实践中提炼出更具普遍规律性的理论认识，仍是包括作者在内的当代理论工作者值得深入思考的重大理论与现实问题，当然也是当代马克思主义哲学工作者的重要历史使命，同时也是马克思主义哲学理论创新的重要生长点。

赵泽林的博士后出站报告经过王雨辰教授、叶泽雄教授、董尚文教授、雷瑞鹏教授、王晓升教授、吴畏教授、万小龙教授、陈刚教授和我的评阅，同时也得到了多位著名党史专家的大力支持，顺利通过博士后出站答辩，即将公开出版，邀我为之作序。作为他的博士后合作导师，略谈以上体会，既是交流探讨，也是期盼、祝愿，相信他能够在理论与实践的结合上取得更加丰硕的成果，做出更大的贡献。

华中科技大学国家治理研究院院长 欧阳康

2018年9月8日

One of the most prominent features of Marxist philosophy is its emphasis on the importance of practice. This emphasis on practice is embodied not only in a world view of practical materialist philosophy, but also in a vision and method of theoretical research on all things in the world. For Marx, the abstraction and concreteness of "practice" are dialectically unified. Practice is not only the source of theory, but also the natural destination of theoretical research. Returning philosophy to the "human world", paying attention to the real life practice of human beings, the actual practice of the country and the nation, the actual production and life practice of each of us, and the pursuit of the ultimate rational reflection on it is not only an important embodiment of the inheritance of the spirit of Marxist philosophy by contemporary philosophers, but also an important innovative way of contemporary Marxist philosophical theory. One of the most important practices in contemporary China is to comprehensively deepen reform. Reform, opening up and development have been important themes in Chinese society since 1978. Forty years ago, the discussion that "practice is the only criterion for testing truth" as the starting point triggered China's ideological emancipation and also triggered great progress and historic changes in China's economy, politics, society and culture. The past 40 years have been 40 years of extremely important changes in the world pattern, and 40 years of historic and tremendous changes in Chinese society. One of the most prominent features of this change is that not only has China's overall economy jumped to the second place in the world, but also in the process of learning from history and the world in an all-round way, the diversity of internal factors and structures of Chinese society has been greatly developed, and the "diversity" of the whole world is more prominent in Chinese society. "Diversity" is a natural embodiment of the existence of diversity in nature, but there has never been an era in which this "diversity" has been so deeply and "colorful" in China as it is today. It is precisely the "richness" of China's actual practice that makes each of our understanding of ourselves, the country, and society more complex. How to understand and deal with the tension between the individual and collective understanding of different members of society on social change, especially how to reach a better consensus on comprehensively deepening reform, has become an important issue in contemporary China's national governance. Dr. Zelin Zhao came to the Department of Philosophy of Huazhong University of Science and Technology and used me as a postdoctoral co-supervisor to carry out postdoctoral research. On the one hand, he actively participated in the green GDP performance evaluation research of the National Governance Research Institute, and successively obtained funding from two national postdoctoral science funds, cooperated with me or published more than ten academic papers and consulting papers and three research reports, which played an irreplaceable role in the research and writing of Hubei and national green GDP performance evaluation reports, and his achievements have won many awards. On the other hand, Dr. Zelin Zhao continues to deepen and expand the existing academic and rational research in artificial intelligence philosophy, Marxist epistemology, green development, etc., especially actively discussing contemporary epistemological issues such as reform consensus, and formed a postdoctoral outbound report "Reform Consensus Theory: China's History and Reflection". Through the historical recounting of the major ideological debates on "reform" in different periods in the 40 years of China's socialist reform and opening up, the author has unique ingenuity, selected "reform" as the starting point, focused on the differences of opinion and consensus on socialist reform in China, the history and logic of the emergence and development of reform consensus, and put forward China's basic thinking on condensing the consensus on socialist reform in the new era. What is displayed is a magnificent picture of the magnificent waves of China's socialist reform. In the narration and theoretical exposition of various historical events, the author can not only feel the complex and profound social changes in China in the past 40 years, but also touch the different temperatures of the historical pulse of China's socialist reform in the past 40 years; It can not only feel the historical understanding of China's socialist reform by different members of society under different social circumstances, but also feel more or less the difficult and thrilling major historical decisions made by national decision-makers in the face of complex social situations. We can not only feel the brilliant achievements of China's socialist reform after difficult exploration, but also feel the rational understanding that China's socialist reform will still have a long way to go after 40 years. The practice of China's reform and opening up over the past 40 years has taught us a truth: Only socialism can save China, and only reform and opening up can develop China, socialism and Marxism. Socialism with contemporary Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, forming a five-in-one overall layout of economic construction, political construction, cultural construction, social construction and ecological civilization construction, and forming a strategic layout of comprehensively building a moderately prosperous society, comprehensively deepening reform, comprehensively governing the country according to law, and comprehensively administering the party strictly. At the same time, we must also be soberly aware that in the process of accelerating the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and building a prosperous, strong, democratic, civilized, harmonious and beautiful modern socialist country, we will always face the problem of constantly diverging opinions to varying degrees and constantly condensing consensus on socialist reform. This phenomenon is not a "Chinese patent", let alone a "socialist patent", but a positive embodiment of "pluralism" after the transformation of the entire human society from a traditional society to a modern pluralistic society, and is an important manifestation of the continuous progress of human social history. In the face of the new era, guiding the people to rationally express their opinions on reform and actively face the positive demands of different members of society is an important path for the Chinese people to condense the consensus on socialist reform in the new era and form a joint force for reform, and it is also an important content for the Chinese people to promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity in the new era. This year marks the 200th anniversary of Marx's birth and the 170th anniversary of the publication of the Communist Manifesto, the 40th anniversary of China's socialist reform and opening up, and also an important beginning year for Chinese society to enter a new era. The socialist reforms that have been carried out in China, as well as the socialist reforms and innovations that are being carried out and about to be carried out, are allowing China to experience the most extensive, profound and unique social changes and practical innovations. This practice, and the social change and innovation brought about by it, are also providing more abundant practical materials and theoretical innovation space for theorists. As the author's preliminary exploration of the consensus on socialist reform in China, this book has the beginning significance, but it is far from exhaustive. How to reflect more deeply on the historical logic of China's socialist reform and how to extract a more universal theoretical understanding from the historical practice of China's socialist reform is still a major theoretical and practical issue worthy of in-depth consideration by contemporary theoretical workers, including the author, and of course, it is also an important historical mission of contemporary Marxist philosophers, and it is also an important growth point for innovation in Marxist philosophical theory. Zhao Zelin's postdoctoral outbound report was reviewed by Professor Wang Yuchen, Professor Ye Zexiong, Professor Dong Shangwen, Professor Lei Ruipeng, Professor Wang Xiaosheng, Professor Wu Wei, Professor Wan Xiaolong, Professor Chen Gang and me, and also received strong support from many famous experts in party history. As his postdoctoral co-supervisor, talking about the above experience is not only an exchange and discussion, but also an expectation and wish, and I believe that he can achieve more fruitful results and make greater contributions in the combination of theory and practice. Dean of the National Governance Research Institute of Huazhong University of Science and Technology Ouyang Kang, September 8, 2018（AI翻译）