Chinese-style modernization solves the eight major problems of human development!

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◆ The historical stains in the process of modernization of the western pioneer countries and their continuation in today's world have specific historical causes, but they are fundamentally inevitable products under the logic of capital dominance

◆ The simple pursuit of economic, political, and other one-dimensional, non-balanced modernization is ultimately difficult to sustain

◆ Whether it is the leading countries in the West or the late-developing regions such as Asia, Africa and Latin America, when their political situation shows a stable state, they have ushered in a climax period of modernization, on the contrary, the modernization construction has a bad fate

◆ The modernization of Western developed countries is a process of time and space expansion and natural evolution, and the process of developing countries achieving successful catch-up is bound to be a process of time and space compression and strategic design

　　

　　Modernization is a world trend since the 18th century, which is the behavior and process of different countries catching up, reaching and maintaining the world's cutting-edge level. Over the past nearly 300 years, countries around the world have consciously or unconsciously experienced some kind of modernization process. How to realize modernization is not only a major historical and practical problem, but also an important theoretical and practical problem.

　　Looking back at the historical process of world modernization, we can see that since the industrial revolution, the frontier of world modernization represented by developed countries has successively experienced the first modernization with industrialization, urbanization, democratization, rationalization, and welfare as the main characteristics, as well as the second modernization with knowledge, informatization, greening, intelligence, and personalization as the main characteristics.

　　Since the 1960s, developed countries have completed the first modernization and built a developed industrial society, and then launched the second modernization and began to move towards a knowledge society. At the same time, developing countries, which have not yet completed their first modernization, are faced with the serious challenge of advancing both modernizations at the same time.

　　For a long time, the first countries of the West have flaunted themselves as a model for the latecomer countries to learn from, representing the way forward for human development. Many developing countries also hope to achieve modernization by copying the modernization development path of developed countries, but due to objective restrictions such as historical conditions, basic national conditions, and external environment, they have encountered various difficulties and traps, and have not succeeded in entering the ranks of modern countries. In particular, in the more than 20 years since the beginning of the 21 st century, global economic growth, including developed countries, has been weak, the internal social problems of various countries have become prominent, the international situation has been turbulent, the world chaos has increased unabated, human development has encountered unprecedented difficulties, and the modernization process of many countries is facing severe challenges.

　　In contrast, China's modernization process is thriving. The total economic volume has risen to the second largest in the world, which has historically eliminated absolute poverty, built a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, and begun to march toward the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country.

　　The achievements of China's modernization have attracted worldwide attention and have become a hot topic in today's global academic and political circles: Chinese-style modernization is striving to solve various problems in human development and provide new choices for the path of human development.

Peaceful Development: Cracking the "Law of the Jungle" and "Bullying"

　　At present, the first problem facing the development of human society is that throughout the nearly 300 years of world modernization, the modernization of western pioneer countries is based on "blood and fire". Whether it is the primitive accumulation of capital, or the expansion of raw material production areas and commodity markets, internal exploitation and oppression, external aggression and colonization constitute an important foundation and means of realizing the modernization of their countries. This phenomenon is still reflected in the relations between some developed and less developed countries.

　　The second difficulty facing the development of human society is that today, although the combination of national modernization and violence has become very hidden due to the constraints of international treaties, the developed countries in the West still rely on their traditional dominant position and hegemony to control the international order, and control and use other countries and regions in the world through economic manipulation, political intervention and even proxy wars, so as to achieve the purpose of maintaining their leading position. Today, "bullying" and "unilateralism" have become synonymous with some developed countries.

　　The black history of the modernization process of the Western pioneer countries and its continuation in today's world have specific historical causes, but they are fundamentally the inevitable products of the logic of capital dominance. This kind of "law of the jungle" of bullying and preying on the weak has boosted the modernization process of the western pioneer countries to a certain extent, but it has become a huge obstacle for other countries to achieve modernization.

　　Chinese-style modernization adheres to peaceful development as the fundamental guideline for realizing modernization, which has both historical origins and practical needs, and conforms to the overall trend and objective law of human social development.

　　In the more than 100 years before the founding of New China, the Chinese nation was always in the struggle for national independence, the liberation of the people, and the struggle to save the people from extinction, and its modernization efforts were difficult. This made Chinese realize that modernization could not be achieved without a peaceful environment for development.

　　After the founding of New China, China entered a new historical stage of modernization, creatively put forward the "Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence", and used this as the theoretical core and practical guide for China's exchanges with the world. Since the beginning of reform and opening up, China has scientifically grasped the theme of the times of "peace and development", steadily promoted the country's modernization drive and made great achievements. Today, in the face of increasingly prominent instability and uncertainty in the world and many challenges for all mankind, China adheres to the global governance concept of consultation, co-construction and sharing, and puts forward the initiative of building a community with a shared future for mankind.

　　The objective law that China recognizes is that peace is a prerequisite for development and that development is an important guarantee for peace. We develop ourselves through an international environment of peace, and we use our own development to maintain and promote world peace. In the face of the great changes in the world today that have not occurred in a hundred years, The Chinese-style modernization based on the understanding of the community with a shared future for mankind has provided new enlightenment for the development of human society.

Open cooperation: Dismantling barriers with "active globalization"

　　The third difficulty facing the development of human society is that it is currently encountering the challenge of anti-globalization characterized by protectionism and barriers to the flow of resource elements.

　　To solve this problem, China's measure is to actively promote a new round of globalization process, including the comprehensive opening up strategy and the "Belt and Road" initiative, the "Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement" (RCEP), the "Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific" (FTAAP), etc., and strive to build a new environment for open, inclusive, inclusive, balanced and win-win economic development.

　　There are profound historical reasons for China-style modernization's adherence to opening up and cooperation as an important condition for realizing modernization. One of the most profound lessons of China's modern history is that the closed parliament missed opportunities. Reform and opening up has become a key measure to determine the fate of contemporary China. Over the past 40 years of reform and opening up, China has firmly seized the opportunity of global development, and has achieved great improvements in economic strength, scientific and technological strength, comprehensive national strength and people's well-being, while providing great impetus and opportunities for the common development of the world. China recognizes that without reform and opening up, there will be no formation and development of the path of Chinese-style modernization.

　　It can be said that China's modernization course in the past two hundred years has been two hundred years from passively involved in the wave of world modernization to actively catching up with the forefront of world modernization, and from passive opening up to actively promoting globalization. In the past, China's reform and opening up has withstood the test of history. In the future, Chinese-style modernization will embrace the world with a more proactive and open mind. This is a historical choice made by the Chinese people, and it is also a value proposition that conforms to the development trend of human society.

　　Openness and cooperation should be based on mutual respect and mutual trust. Mutual respect is a prerequisite for exchanges and cooperation, and it is also the basis for building mutual trust. In recent years, with the rise of unilateralism, populism and anti-globalization, international trade frictions have intensified, geopolitical games have intensified, and mutual trust and cooperation among the international community have been seriously eroded, which has become the fourth problem facing human development.

　　As early as the 1950s, China creatively put forward the five principles of mutual respect for territorial sovereignty, mutual non-aggression, mutual non-interference in each other's internal affairs, equality and reciprocity, and peaceful coexistence, which have been adhered to to this day. The "Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence" transcend the differences in ideology, social system, history and culture, and have been widely recognized by the international community for their inclusiveness and openness, effectively enhancing the trust between countries and making important contributions to the development of international relations.

　　Today, China still places mutual respect and mutual trust in the first place in international exchanges, holds high the banner of building a community with a shared future for mankind, strives to uphold multilateralism, actively promotes changes in global governance, and contributes Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to building a new type of international relations featuring mutual respect, fairness and justice, and win-win cooperation.

Innovation coordination: get rid of the "follow-up" and "non-equilibrium" models

　　The fifth difficulty facing the development of human society is that developing countries adopt a simple imitation of the "follow-up" model, and see the back of modern countries, and the process of modernization is subject to people.

　　The history of world modernization shows that it is innovation that promotes the process of world modernization and also provides strategic opportunities for national modernization; only those countries that seize the opportunity of innovation can maintain the world's advanced level or catch up later. Modernization is to catch up, reach and maintain the world's cutting-edge level of behavior and process, only innovation to lead, it is possible to achieve from "follow" to "run" and "lead" leap, and then sprint to the forefront of the world.

　　Chinese-style modernization adheres to the principle of innovation and coordination as the fundamental path to achieve modernization, and first of all, it is necessary to adhere to the core position of innovation in the overall situation of modernization.

　　In the more than 70 years since the founding of New China, especially the more than 40 years of reform and opening up, China has only spent a few decades to complete the modernization process that Western countries have taken more than 200 years to complete in the economic, social, political, cultural, environmental and other fields.

　　Chinese-style modernization links theoretical innovation, institutional innovation, scientific and technological innovation, cultural innovation and other innovations, builds a comprehensive national innovation system, and strives to build an innovative country. Innovation, a powerful driving force, has successfully promoted China's modernization to achieve a historic leap forward, and has also provided new wisdom for human development.

　　The sixth problem facing the development of human society is that the simple pursuit of economic, political and other single-dimensional, non-balanced modernization is ultimately difficult to sustain; even countries that have achieved modernization will also lead to national decline because they ignore the uneven development of a certain aspect.

　　The history of world modernization, especially the history of modernization in Latin America and some developing countries in the Middle East, shows that the process of catching up with the forefront of world modernization through "leapfrog" development will inevitably lead to drastic changes in the entire society, which requires the overall coordination and key promotion of all aspects involved in national modernization.

　　Looking back at China's modern history, since 1840, China's modernization has successively experienced a series of modernization changes represented by the Western Affairs Movement, the Penghu Reform Law, the Xinhai Revolution, and the New Culture Movement, but only in the single dimension of modernization and improvement of utensils, systems or ideas cannot change the tragic fate of old China's internal and external troubles, poverty and weakness.

　　Since the founding of New China, the CPC has led the Chinese people to continuously explore the road of modernization, gradually transitioning from the "four modernizations" of industry, agriculture, national defense, and science and technology at the material level as the strategic focus to grasping the "two civilizations" of material and spirituality, further expanding to the construction of the "three civilizations" of material, political, and spiritual, and then rising to the four-in-one layout of economic, political, cultural, and social construction, and then upgrading to today's "five-in-one" overall layout of economic, political, cultural, social, and ecological civilization. Chinese-style modernization not only takes into account the coordinated development of all aspects horizontally, but also comprehensively balances the development gap in all aspects vertically, such as focusing on narrowing the gap between urban and rural areas, the regional gap and the gap between the rich and the poor, and striving to achieve all-round balanced, coordinated, healthy and sustainable development.

　　The connotation and strategic framework of Chinese-style modernization are constantly expanding and deepening in the specific practice of construction and reform; the process of China's modernization is gradually advancing in the course of overall planning and coordination. Overall planning, coordination, and key advancement are China's strategic measures to achieve leapfrog development, scientifically avoid risks, and effectively resolve various contradictions; they are valuable experiences gained by continuous exploration on the basis of fully summing up and drawing lessons and lessons from world modernization and in light of China's actual national conditions; they are the key to China-style modernization and a valuable asset of world modernization.

Stability and unity: Resolve political turmoil and ethnic contradictions

　　The seventh difficulty facing the development of human society is that political turmoil and various crises often greatly undermine the modernization process of countries and regions.

　　From a worldwide perspective, whether it is the leading countries in the West or the late-developing regions such as Asia, Africa and Latin America, when their political situation shows a stable state, they have ushered in a climax period in the modernization drive, and on the contrary, the modernization drive has a bad fate.

　　Stability and unity are a blessing, and turbulence and division are a curse; this is an objective fact that has been repeatedly proved by human history and a profound enlightenment drawn from the modernization process of all countries in the world. Stability is not only the basic guarantee for realizing modernization, but also one of the main goals of modernization.

　　The stable development environment involves political stability, economic stability, social stability and many other aspects, of which political stability occupies the primary position.

　　Historically, the delay and delay in China's modernization process is the result of centuries-long social unrest. The historic achievements in modernization after reform and opening up have benefited from the stable political and social environment over the past 40 years. Over the past 40 years, in the face of the ever-changing development situation, China has firmly safeguarded the overall situation of stability, prudently handled the relationship between reform, development and stability, actively responded to new problems and challenges, and smoothly promoted China's modernization drive. Adhering to the development strategy of stability overriding is China's historical experience in contributing to the world.

　　The eighth difficulty facing the development of human society is that due to historical, cultural, religious and other reasons, contradictions and conflicts between various ethnic groups are extremely easy to arise, which will directly threaten national stability and seriously affect the process of national modernization.

　　In today's world, ethnic contradictions, ethnic hatred, and religious strife in some countries are still continuing, resulting in social unrest, economic recession, and even frequent wars and the displacement of people.

　　Looking at history and reality, it is not difficult to find that the national issue is a prominent problem that needs to be solved in the process of modernization of a multi-ethnic country.

　　China has been a multi-ethnic country since ancient times, and in the course of long-term exchanges, exchanges and blending, various nationalities have gradually formed ethnic theories and ethnic policies that are diverse and integrated in the Chinese nation. In the more than 70 years since the founding of New China, the Communist Party of China has always regarded ethnic equality as one of the fundamental principles of the founding of the country, unswervingly consolidated and developed national unity, constantly improved the system of regional ethnic autonomy, focused on building equality, unity, mutual assistance, and harmonious ethnic relations, and embarked on a correct path for resolving ethnic issues with Chinese characteristics, and also provided Chinese solutions for other countries to solve ethnic problems.

　　In the new era, the Communist Party of China has taken "forging a solid sense of the Chinese national community" as the main line of national work, led and united the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country to jointly promote the construction of a modern power, and contributed the wisdom and strength of all ethnic groups to the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, which also provided a golden key for all mankind to solve the problems of development.

The answer to Chinese-style modernization

　　Combing through the history and reality of China's modernization, in a targeted light of the development process of world modernization, and analyzing the many difficult problems facing the world today, we can clearly see the distinctive characteristics of Chinese-style modernization: Chinese-style modernization adheres to peaceful development as the fundamental guideline for realizing modernization, adheres to opening up and cooperation as an important condition for realizing modernization, persists in taking innovation and coordination as the fundamental path to realizing modernization, and persists in taking stability and unity as the basic guarantee for realizing modernization.

　　If the modernization of Western developed countries is a process of time and space expansion and natural evolution, then the process of developing countries achieving successful catch-up is bound to be a process of time and space compression and strategic design. The history of world modernization has proved that it is impossible for developing countries to catch up with developed countries by simply copying and mechanically cloning the traditional paths and models of Western modernization. The modernization of developing countries must not only follow the objective laws of modernization, but also give full consideration to their own basic national conditions, and catch up with the forefront of world modernization and realize the modernization of the country through innovative development models, optimization of development paths, and scientific and rational design of strategic goals.

　　Chinese-style modernization has expanded the way for developing countries to modernize and provided the most vivid reference for the vast number of developing countries to get rid of poverty and backwardness and move toward prosperity and strength. In the past nearly 200 years, Chinese people have been immersed in the wave of world modernization, constantly thinking about and exploring the path of Chinese-style modernization, and ushering in a great leap from standing up and getting rich to becoming strong. In the past 70 years, especially in the more than 40 years of reform and opening up, China's modernization has made historic achievements and attracted the attention of the world. Chinese-style modernization is a major contribution made by the Chinese nation to human development. In the new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics, we will scientifically grasp the development trend of today's world and contemporary China, fully learn from and absorb all the outstanding achievements of human civilization, continue to deepen and expand the path of Chinese-style modernization, and contribute more Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to solving human development problems.

Source: Lookout Newsweek

Author: Liu Lei

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