Zhang Zhanbin: Deeply grasp the biggest politics of Chinese-style modernization
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During the two sessions of the National People's Congress this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed the need to plan major measures to further deepen reform in an all-round way, and continue to inject strong impetus into promoting high-quality development and promoting Chinese-style modernization. The 2023 Central Economic Work Conference stressed that "the promotion of Chinese-style modernization must be regarded as the most important politics". At present, all walks of life are working hard to draw a thousand Chinese modernizations. The "greatest politics" thesis is a way of discourse with distinctive Chinese characteristics formed by the Communist Party of China in the course of more than 100 years of struggle, and it is an important measure to unify thinking, build consensus and gather strength. The thesis that "the promotion of Chinese-style modernization must be regarded as the greatest politics" is a direct reflection of the focus of the work of the party and the state, a scientific judgment of the main contradictions in society, and an accurate grasp of the law governing the construction of Chinese-style modernization.
Why: Emphasizing the critical importance of advancing Chinese-style modernization
Chinese modernization is a pioneering undertaking without precedent, and an expedition full of glory and dreams. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation with Chinese-style modernization is the central task of the Party and the country in the new era and new journey, and it is the biggest politics in the new era. Standing at a historical, theoretical and global level, this important scientific thesis profoundly reveals the essential connection between the Communist Party of China and Chinese-style modernization, and reveals a very rich ideological connotation, theoretical implication and historical consciousness.
A profound summary of the historical lessons and lessons of the Party and the country. Realizing modernization is the dream that the Chinese people have been striving for since modern times. Since its founding, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has been committed to promoting Chinese-style modernization, and has achieved the most profound historical change in human history on the land of China through untold hardships and sacrifices, and has pushed the Chinese nation, which has endured hardships for a long time in modern times, to stand up, become rich and strong. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "Chinese-style modernization is the result of long-term practice and exploration by the Communist Party of China and the Chinese people." It can be seen from the history of the party's unity and leadership of the Chinese people in their pursuit of Chinese-style modernization that it is precisely because we have firmly grasped this red line of history that we have created miracles on earth. At the same time, in the process of exploration, we have also taken detours, encountered twists and turns, made mistakes, and the lessons are painful. It is precisely because of the positive and negative experiences and enlightenment that our party and people have become more sober-minded, more intelligent, and more determined to take the promotion of Chinese-style modernization as the greatest political determination.
The code of action for the construction of a strong country and the rejuvenation of the nation. Fundamentally speaking, it is consistent with General Secretary Xi Jinping's point that "practice has proved that Chinese-style modernization is feasible and stable, and is the only correct path for building a strong country and rejuvenating the nation". The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) clearly put forward the mission, task and central task of the Communist Party of China in the new era and new journey From now on, the central task of the Communist Party of China is to unite and lead the people of all ethnic groups across the country to build China into a great modern socialist country in an all-round way, realize the second centenary goal, and comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization. We must regard the promotion of Chinese-style modernization as the greatest politics, forge ahead with determination, dare to do good deeds, and make greater contributions to the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation.
A key measure to achieve a high level of self-reliance and self-reliance in the course of opening up. At present, the world is undergoing major changes unseen in a century, and a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is developing in depth. The world has entered a new period of turbulence and change, with the far-reaching impact of the pandemic, the rise of anti-globalization ideology, the obvious rise of unilateralism and protectionism, the sluggish recovery of the world economy, the frequent occurrence of local conflicts and turmoil, and the intensification of global problems. In the face of the suppression and containment of external forces, we must work hard in the process of opening up, regard the promotion of Chinese-style modernization as the most important politics, neither follow the old road of closure and rigidity, nor take the evil road of changing banners, insist on putting the development of the country and the nation on the basis of our own strength, firmly grasp the destiny of China's development and progress in our own hands, and accelerate the realization of a high level of self-reliance and self-reliance.
It is an inevitable requirement to solve the main contradictions in society and meet the needs of the people for a better life. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "The party's centennial struggle tells us that whether the cause of the party and the people can advance in the right direction depends on whether we can accurately understand and grasp the main contradictions in society and determine the central tasks. "The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that the main contradiction in mainland society has been transformed into a contradiction between the people's growing needs for a better life and unbalanced and inadequate development. What can be used to solve this contradiction? Rely on Chinese-style modernization to crack it. Chinese modernization is the modernization of a huge population, common prosperity for all the people, harmony between material civilization and spiritual civilization, and harmonious coexistence between man and nature.
The call of the times for the Party to continuously carry out self-revolution and lead the people forward. As the leading and driving force of modernization, the values of political parties, their leadership level, governance ability, spiritual outlook, and will quality are directly related to the future and destiny of national modernization. The CPC's idea of self-revolution has the dual significance of jumping out of the historical cycle of the rise and fall of chaos and leading the great social revolution, and the significance of these two dimensions finally falls on the central task of comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization. Promoting Chinese-style modernization is the greatest popular will and the greatest politics. The Communist Party of China, which is constantly revolutionizing itself, should provide a fundamental direction for Chinese-style modernization and ensure that Chinese-style modernization is socialist modernization and not anything else. Closely rely on the people, respect the people's creative spirit, pool the people's wisdom and strength, and unite the majestic power of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way.
Responsibility for defending the cause of scientific socialism. Socialism as an ideology and practice has a history of 500 years, and Marx and Engels founded scientific socialism on the basis of criticizing, discarding, and absorbing the ideological achievements of their predecessors. The October Revolution led by Lenin was victorious, and socialism was transformed from theory into reality; Over the past 100 years, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has led the people to create great achievements in the new democratic revolution, socialist revolution and construction, reform and opening up, socialist modernization, and socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, which is a historic victory of Marxism. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out clearly: "The key to what kind of doctrine a country practices depends on whether it can solve the historical issues facing the country." The course of the socialist movement has been tortuous, public opinion has been heard in the international community, and various "theories of China's collapse" have never been interrupted. However, instead of collapsing, China's comprehensive national strength has increased day by day, and the people's living standards have been continuously improved.
What it is: It reveals what we need for Chinese-style modernization
It is a major theoretical innovation of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the latest major achievement of scientific socialism. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) summarized the Chinese characteristics in five aspects: huge population, common prosperity for all people, harmony between material and spiritual civilization, harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and peaceful development, and profoundly revealed the scientific connotation of Chinese-style modernization. The unique world outlook, values, historical outlook, civilization outlook, democracy outlook, ecological outlook and other views contained in Chinese modernization, as well as their great practices, are major innovations in the theory and practice of world modernization.
The party leads the people to actively pursue the great cause. The Chinese nation, which has long been at the forefront of the world, has encountered "great changes unseen in thousands of years" in modern times. After the Opium War, China began to learn from the West to find a path to modernization in terms of artifacts, institutions and culture, but all of them ended in failure. One reason for this is that these modernization pursuits are reactive processes. The founding of the Communist Party of China shows that the Chinese people have changed from passive to active spiritually, and China's pursuit of modernization has also begun to turn active. The Party has always kept in mind its original mission of seeking happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation, and has taken the promotion of Chinese-style modernization as a great cause that the Party leads the people to actively pursue. On the basis of long-term exploration and practice since the founding of the People's Republic of China, especially since the reform and opening up, and through the innovative breakthroughs in theory and practice since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, it has successfully promoted and expanded Chinese-style modernization.
Socialist modernization under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. What kind of modernization path a country chooses is determined by many factors, such as its historical traditions, social system, development conditions, and external environment. General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized that "Chinese-style modernization is socialist modernization under the leadership of the Communist Party of China" and "the party's nature, purpose, original aspiration and mission, beliefs and beliefs, and policy propositions determine that Chinese-style modernization is socialist modernization, not any other modernization". Chinese modernization is a people-centered socialist modernization, and the party's leadership ensures that the anchor goal of Chinese-style modernization is stable and far-reaching.
It has the common characteristics of the modernization of all countries. In the historical process of leading the people to promote Chinese-style modernization, the Party profoundly realized that it is necessary to improve its own ability level through continuous learning and reference from human civilization, and it is necessary to keep the world in mind and embrace all rivers, and not engage in closed-door work. We have not rejected the common characteristics of the modernization of all countries, and we have soberly realized that in order to achieve modernization, China must change from a backward agricultural country into an advanced industrial country, and it must also engage in industrialization, informationization, urbanization, internationalization, and so on. This shows that Chinese modernization is an important part of world modernization, which breaks the myth of "modernization = Westernization" and expands the path options for developing countries to modernize. China's development is inseparable from the world, and the world's prosperity also needs China, and the world's modernization "transforms" China, and Chinese modernization is also "transforming" the world, which is a process of continuous influence, continuous learning and continuous improvement by both sides.
It has its own characteristics and essential requirements based on its own national conditions. Chinese-style modernization should take the initiative to learn from all the outstanding achievements of human civilization, but it should not engage in foreign flattery, and it must not be a toddler in Handan, and it must have its own characteristics and essential requirements. This characteristic is the modernization of a huge population, the modernization of common prosperity for all the people, the modernization of the coordination of material civilization and spiritual civilization, the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and the modernization of taking the road of peaceful development. These five aspects are not only theoretical generalizations, but also practical requirements. Its essential requirements are: adhere to the leadership of the Communist Party of China, adhere to socialism with Chinese characteristics, achieve high-quality development, develop whole-process people's democracy, enrich the people's spiritual world, achieve common prosperity for all people, promote the harmonious coexistence of man and nature, promote the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind, and create a new form of human civilization. Compared with countries that have achieved modernization, the five characteristics and essential requirements reflect China's historical development and China's actual national conditions, and show the importance of "Chinese style".
It has a clear strategic arrangement and strategic objectives for development. The Communist Party of China (CPC) has always had strategic arrangements and arrangements for the development of Chinese-style modernization, and after the reform and opening up, such arrangements and arrangements have been further improved. Grasping the goal of socialist modernization, several generations of Chinese communists have worked hard one after another. In the report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, it was pointed out that by the middle of this century, the mainland should be built into a great modern socialist country in two steps. By 2035, socialist modernization will be basically realized, and by that time, the economic, scientific and technological strength, and comprehensive national strength will leap sharply, and the all-round development of the people and the common prosperity of all the people will make more obvious and substantial progress. On this basis, we will continue to strive to build the mainland into a modern socialist power leading in terms of comprehensive national strength and international influence by the middle of this century.
It has created a new form and a new picture of human civilization. The Chinese path to modernization has created a new form of human civilization and presented a new picture of modernization, which transcends the panic, passivity and dependence of China's modern old-style modernization, and is a positive, active and confident modernization. It has debunked the myth of modernization in the West, which is centered on capital, materialistic expansion, polarization, and foreign expansion and plunder, and clarified the misunderstandings that socialism can only engage in a planned economy and cannot engage in a market economy, and that modernization is Westernization. The successful practice of Chinese-style modernization shows that there is more than one path to modernization, and the formula of Western modernization may not be suitable for other countries. Chinese modernization has provided new options and opened up new ways for developing countries to modernize, and developing countries have the right and responsibility to explore their own path of modernization and development.
What to do: It indicates how we can promote and expand Chinese-style modernization
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, especially since the beginning of reform and opening up, we have completed the industrialization process that the developed countries of the West have gone through for hundreds of years in a few decades, and have created a miracle of rapid economic development and long-term social stability. At present, we are in a critical period of the beginning of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way, and we must unswervingly promote and expand Chinese-style modernization, strengthen our self-confidence and consciousness on the road of Chinese-style modernization, and constantly open up a new realm of Chinese-style modernization.
Arm the whole party with the party's innovative theories and lead Chinese-style modernization. Practice tells us that the reason why the Communist Party of China is able and why socialism with Chinese characteristics is good is, in the final analysis, the practice of Marxism and the practice of Marxism in the Chinese era. Constantly opening up a new realm of Sinicization and modernization of Marxism is the historical mission of the Chinese Communists in the new period. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, our party has had the courage to carry out theoretical exploration and innovation, combined the basic tenets of Marxism with China's specific reality and China's excellent traditional culture, deepened the understanding of the law of Chinese-style modernization with a new vision, and founded Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. In the process of promoting Chinese-style modernization, we must grasp the worldview and methodology of the party's innovation theory, we must adhere to the supremacy of the people, we must adhere to self-confidence and self-reliance, we must adhere to integrity and innovation, we must adhere to the problem orientation, we must adhere to the system concept, and we must insist on keeping the world in mind.
Firmly grasp the major principles and major relationships for promoting Chinese-style modernization. The development of Chinese-style modernization has entered a period of coexistence of strategic opportunities, risks and challenges, and an increase in uncertain and unpredictable factors, and various "black swan" and "gray rhinoceros" events may occur at any time. On the way forward, we must firmly grasp the following major principles: upholding and strengthening the party's overall leadership, adhering to the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, adhering to the people-centered development philosophy, persisting in deepening reform and opening up, and persisting in carrying forward the spirit of struggle. Promoting Chinese-style modernization is a systematic project, which requires overall planning, systematic planning, and overall advancement, and it is necessary to correctly handle 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.
Focus on the central task of economic construction and the primary task of high-quality development. Economic construction is the central task of the Party, and high-quality development is the primary task of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way. Any idea of neglecting economic construction is wrong and misleads the country and the people. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "China's economy has overcome challenges, moved forward steadily, and achieved high-quality development, which is also an inevitable requirement for promoting Chinese-style modernization. "It should be noted that development is the party's first priority in governing and rejuvenating the country, and without a solid material and technological foundation, it is impossible to build a modern socialist country in an all-round way; Development must be high-quality development, and only by adhering to high-quality development and promoting the economy to achieve effective qualitative and quantitative growth can we continue to meet the people's growing needs for a better life. On the way forward, we will be able to build a solid material and technological foundation for Chinese-style modernization and promote the path of Chinese-style modernization by focusing on the central task of economic construction and the primary task of high-quality development, continuously leading the construction of a modern industrial system with scientific and technological innovation, expanding high-level opening-up, promoting urban-rural integration and coordinated regional development, and further promoting the construction of ecological civilization and green and low-carbon development, so as to effectively protect and improve people's livelihood.
Through the Party's self-revolution, we will improve the Party's ability and level of leadership in Chinese-style modernization. In the face of a series of questions about modernization, political parties, as an important force leading and promoting the process of modernization, have the responsibility to answer them. Historical experience and international experience have made the Communist Party of China profoundly aware that modernization will not fall from the sky, but must be carried out by carrying forward the spirit of historical initiative. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, a distinctive feature of the Party Central Committee's governance of the country has been the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party. The Communist Party of China should further integrate its own construction with the modernization of the country, work hard, act bravely and resolutely, surpass itself, and ensure that it always has the confidence, will, and ability to respond to the challenges of the times, answer the propositions of the times, and respond to the expectations of the people, so as to lead the direction and gather strength for the continuous advancement of the modernization process.
Answer the test paper of the biggest politics of Chinese-style modernization with action and effectiveness. Empty talk will mislead the country, but hard work will rejuvenate the country, and there is no Marxism at all. The key to promoting Chinese-style modernization lies in doing things and implementing them. Cadres at all levels must always maintain a spirit of striving for progress, bear in mind the "great man of the country", take the initiative to take responsibility, persist in being problem-oriented, grasp implementation to the letter, grasp implementation vigorously and resolutely, grasp implementation in a realistic and pragmatic manner, dare to do good to grasp implementation, break all kinds of formalism and bureaucracy, seize all favorable opportunities, take advantage of all favorable conditions, get a good grasp of it, do more if it is possible, and put the strategic plan for Chinese-style modernization into action step by step and see the results.
We will speed up the development of new productive forces and strive to promote Chinese-style modernization. General Secretary Xi Jinping's important concept of "new quality productive forces" is actually a major theoretical and practical issue for further emancipating and developing the productive forces, and is a new development of Marxist political economy. In modern times, all the major Western countries have achieved rapid economic growth and continuous improvement of national strength through technological innovation. The new quality of productivity is a profound revelation of the importance of technological change in the process of modernization from a large historical perspective. It is born by the revolutionary breakthrough of technology, the innovative allocation of production factors, and the deep transformation and upgrading of the industry, with the basic connotation of laborers, labor materials, labor objects and their optimal combinations, and the substantial increase in total factor productivity as the core symbol, characterized by innovation, the key is high quality, and the essence is advanced productivity. Speeding up the development of new productive forces is of great strategic significance to promoting Chinese-style modernization. We must grasp the relationship between new quality productivity and high-quality development, new quality productivity and new production relationship, government top-level design and market practice exploration, traditional industries and strategic emerging industries in the future, scientific and technological innovation and institutional innovation, self-reliance and self-improvement and opening up, etc., and move towards "new", achieve far-reaching results with "quality", lay a solid material and technological foundation for Chinese-style modernization, and support the sustainable development and steady development of the mainland, a super-large economy.
[Zhang Zhanbin: Member of the Chang'an Street Reading Club, Director of the Chinese Modernization Research Center of the Central Party School (National Academy of Administration)]
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