Abstract: The microtrend of contemporary Western development economics is misleading. Development economics was born to be macroeconomic. Its main research methods are longrun, dynamic and evolutional; its research approaches are structural and comprehensive. Western development economics is not suitable for explaining economic development in China. Constructing development economics with Chinese characteristics is the historical call and contemporary expectancy. The construction of development economics with Chinese Characteristics should be guided by historical materialism and theoretical system of socialism with Chinese characteristics and regards new development ideas as its theoretical framework.

Key words: the essence of development economics, development economics with Chinese characteristics, contemporary background, theoretical framework, new development ideas
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摘要： 当代西方发展经济学微观化把发展经济学研究引入歧途。发展经济学本质上属于宏观经济研究领域，主要研究方法是长期动态演变方法，主要研究思路是结构性和综合性分析。西方发展经济学无法解释当代中国经济发展问题，构建具有中国特色的发展经济学是历史的呼唤，时代的期盼。构建中国特色发展经济学应以历史唯物主义为指导，以中国特色社会主义理论体系为指南，以新发展理念为理论框架。

关键词: 发展经济学的本质特征, 中国特色发展经济学, 时代背景, 理论框架, 新发展理念