Development is the theme of the times, and how to take the road of high-quality development is the key issue to create a new form of human civilization and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization. The establishment of Chinese development studies must adhere to the guidance of the innovation theory of the Communist Party of China. Particularly, the latest achievements, methods, principles and experiences of the party’s theoretical innovation in the new era will run through the whole process of establishing Chinese development studies. The summary of the history, content, path and effectiveness of China’s development is the inevitable result of the Sinicization of Marxism, the inevitable result of the forward development of the theory of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and the inevitable result of the multi-dimensional development of modern disciplines. Chinese development studies has a clear structure, clear hierarchy and rigorous logical theoretical framework system, which is the organic unity of history, goal, structure and guarantee, and its theoretical framework is “1+1+5+1”, that is, “China’s development history”, “Chinese’s development”, “China’s economic development, political development, cultural development, social development and ecological development” and “the construction of the Communist Party of China”.