Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader has made a series of important expositions on Chinese modernization, with lofty ideas, rich connotations and profound thoughts, and initially established a theoretical system of Chinese modernization, making Chinese modernization clearer, more scientific and more feasible, which is of great significance for the new era and new journey to comprehensively promote the construction of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation with Chinese modernization.
Philosophical basis
Report to the 20th CPC National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward that "Chinese-style modernization is a socialist modernization led by the Communist Party of China (CPC), which has both the common characteristics of modernization in all countries and the characteristics of China based on its own national conditions". The words "common characteristics" and "China characteristics" fully embody the principle of universality and particularity of contradictions in materialist dialectics and reveal the philosophical basis of the theoretical system of Chinese modernization.
On the one hand, the particularity of contradiction is inseparable from universality. Modernization is the historical process of the transformation of human society from traditional civilization to modern civilization. Chinese modernization is not a product divorced from the general trend of human development and historical trend, but an important part of the world modernization trend. Chinese-style modernization has the common characteristics of modernization in all countries and follows the universal laws of modernization development such as industrialization, urbanization, agricultural modernization and informatization.
On the other hand, the universality of contradiction exists in particularity, and there is no universality without particularity. When a country moves towards modernization, it should not only follow the general law of modernization, but also conform to its own reality and have its own characteristics. Report to the 20th CPC National Congress of the Communist Party of China emphasized the China characteristics in five aspects of Chinese modernization and profoundly revealed the scientific connotation of Chinese modernization. Promoting Chinese-style modernization is a creative process that closely combines the basic principles of Marxism with the great practice of China’s socialist modernization, constantly studying new situations, solving new problems and summing up new experiences. At the same time, Chinese-style modernization is deeply rooted in China’s excellent traditional culture, which is a modernization that continues the ancient civilization and grows out of China. It contains unique world outlook, values, historical outlook, civilization outlook, democracy outlook and ecological outlook. Chinese-style modernization endows Chinese civilization with modern strength, and Chinese civilization endows Chinese-style modernization with profound foundation.
Core essence
The Chinese modernization theory is rich in connotation, and its core essence can be understood from the aspects of practical basis, leadership, China characteristics, essential requirements and major principles.
As far as practical basis is concerned, Chinese-style modernization is a great achievement that our party has made through long-term exploration and practice and paid a great price. The Communist Party of China (CPC) led hundreds of millions of people to create great achievements in the new-democratic revolution and created fundamental social conditions for modernization. Created great achievements in socialist revolution and construction, and laid a fundamental political premise, valuable experience, theoretical preparation and material foundation for modernization; It has created great achievements in reform, opening up and socialist modernization, and provided a new and energetic institutional guarantee and material conditions for rapid development for Chinese modernization; It has created the great achievements of Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era and provided a more perfect system guarantee, a more solid material foundation and a more active spiritual strength for Chinese modernization.
As far as leadership is concerned, the leadership of the party determines the fundamental nature of Chinese modernization. Report to the 20th CPC National Congress of the Party clearly pointed out that Chinese modernization is the socialist modernization led by the Communist Party of China (CPC). This is a qualitative statement of Chinese modernization, and it is fundamental to manage the overall situation. The party’s nature and purpose, initial mission, beliefs and policy propositions determine that Chinese-style modernization is socialist modernization, not any other modernization.
As far as the characteristics of China are concerned, modernization is the only way for the development of all countries in the world, but the modernization paths of all countries are different. There is no one-size-fits-all modernization model and no one-size-fits-all modernization standard in the world. Chinese-style modernization is a modernization with a huge population, the common prosperity of all people, the coordination of material civilization and spiritual civilization, the harmonious coexistence of man and nature, and the modernization of peaceful development. These five aspects of China’s characteristics are not only theoretical generalizations, but also practical requirements, which point out a broad road for building a socialist modernization power in an all-round way and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
As far as essential requirements are concerned, the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward the essential requirements of Chinese modernization, starting with "adhering to the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s leadership" and taking "adhering to Socialism with Chinese characteristics" as the orientation, and focusing on "creating a new form of human civilization" and other important aspects of modernization, such as "realizing high-quality development, developing people’s democracy in the whole process, enriching people’s spiritual world, realizing common prosperity for all people, promoting harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and promoting the building of a community of human destiny". The unique world outlook, values, historical outlook, civilization outlook, democracy outlook, ecological outlook and its great practice contained in Chinese modernization are great innovations in the theory and practice of world modernization.
As far as major principles are concerned, building a socialist modern country in an all-round way is a great and arduous undertaking with a bright future and a long way to go. On the way forward, we must uphold and strengthen the overall leadership of the Party, adhere to the Socialism with Chinese characteristics Road, adhere to the people-centered development thought, persist in deepening reform and opening up, and persist in carrying forward the spirit of struggle. These five major principles are like "fixing the sea", which determine the direction, value position and dynamic vitality of Chinese modernization.
To promote Chinese modernization, we still need to deal with several major relations. Promoting Chinese modernization is a systematic project, which requires overall consideration, systematic planning and overall promotion, and correctly handles a series of major relationships such as top-level design and practical exploration, strategy and tactics, integrity and innovation, efficiency and fairness, vitality and order, self-reliance and self-improvement and opening up. This is the "bridge or ship" leading to the victory of Chinese modernization, and it is the "golden key" for us to understand, analyze and solve problems.
Value contribution
Chinese-style modernization theory enriches and develops Marxist modernization theory, further deepens our Party’s understanding of what and how to build a powerful socialist modernization country, and adds new content to the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era. Chinese-style modernization theory has realized the dialectical unity between the theoretical logic of scientific socialism and the historical logic of China’s social development. It is the latest major achievement of scientific socialism, showing the world the value of scientific socialism in the times, and making scientific socialism glow with new vitality in China in the 21st century.
Chinese-style modernization has broken the myth of "modernization equals westernization", expanded the path choice of developing countries towards modernization, and provided a Chinese plan for mankind to explore a better social system. Chinese-style modernization shows a new picture different from the western modernization model, is a brand-new form of human civilization, and sets a model for the vast number of developing countries to move towards modernization independently.
(This article Source: Zhao Fuke, the author of Economic Daily, is a special researcher at the Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought Research Center of Beijing’s Supreme Leader in the New Era and a professor at the School of Marxism of the Central University of Finance and Economics)
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