邓小平社会主义市场经济理论是紧紧围绕如何发展社会主义生产力这一问题形成和发展的。围绕这一问题，邓小平提出了许多精辟的思想，对我国生产力的发展起了积极作用。当着我国社会主义现代化的实践需要市场经济之时，却受到传统观念的束缚，在克服传统观念的过程中，邓小平社会主义市场经济理论得以形成和发展。 Deng Xiaoping’s socialist market economy theory has been formed and developed around the issue of how to develop socialist productive forces. Around this issue, Deng Xiaoping put forward many brilliant ideas and played an active role in the development of our productive forces. At the time when the practice of socialist modernization in our country required a market economy, it was constrained by traditional concepts. During the process of overcoming traditional concepts, Deng Xiaoping’s theory of socialist market economy was formed and developed.