Wang Yiming: On the new road of Chinese-style modernization

Chinese-style modernization is the dream of the Chinese nation since modern times. After the Communist Party of China, which regards national rejuvenation as its own responsibility, stepped onto the stage of history, it regarded the realization of modernization as the great goal of unremitting struggle. The process of the Communist Party of China uniting and leading the people to create a new path of Modernization in the Chinese style is a process of arduous exploration and continuous innovation. The new path of Chinese-style modernization is a modernization path for the coordinated development of material, political, spiritual, social and ecological civilizations, which not only creates an important premise for China's development and prosperity, but also changes the pattern of world modernization that has long been dominated by the Western modernization model, expands the way for developing countries to modernize, and contributes Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to human development and progress.

At the meeting to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "taking our own road is the foothold of all the party's theory and practice, and it is also the historical conclusion reached by the party's century-long struggle" "We uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics, promote the coordinated development of material, political, spiritual, social and ecological civilization, create a new path of Chinese-style modernization, and create a new form of human civilization." From "taking its own road" to "socialism with Chinese characteristics", from "the new road of Chinese-style modernization" to "the new form of human civilization", it profoundly elucidates the development logic, essential characteristics and world significance of China's modernization process. The process of the Communist Party of China uniting and leading the people to create a new path of Modernization in the Chinese style is a process of arduous exploration and continuous innovation. The new path of Chinese-style modernization has created an important premise for China's development, prosperity and progress, and has also contributed Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to the diversified development of the world's modernization model.

The new path of Chinese-style modernization has been formed and developed through arduous exploration and continuous innovation

Chinese-style modernization is the dream of the Chinese nation since modern times. After the Communist Party of China, which regards national rejuvenation as its own responsibility, stepped onto the stage of history, it regarded the realization of modernization as the great goal of unremitting struggle. As early as before the founding of New China, the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly pointed out that the task of the Chinese working class was not only to struggle for the establishment of a new democratic state, but also for China's industrialization and agricultural modernization. After the founding of New China, the party united and led the people to carry out arduous exploration and practice, and opened up a new path of Chinese-style modernization.

At the beginning of the founding of New China, China's economic foundation was extremely weak, and it was destitute and wasted. The situation at that time was as Pointed Out by Comrade Mao Zedong: "What can we build now?" Tables and chairs can be made, tea bowls and teapots can be made, grain can be grown, flour can be ground into flour, and paper can be made, but a car, an airplane, a tank, a tractor cannot be built. In view of such national conditions, Comrade Mao Zedong clearly put forward the task of realizing the industrialization of the country, and the Communist Party of China shouldered the historical task of building a backward agricultural country into a socialist industrialized country.

Due to the lack of experience in socialist construction, China's industrialization began by learning from the Soviet model. After completing the task of restoring the national economy, China began to implement the first five-year plan for the development of the national economy from 1953, establishing the guidelines for giving priority to the development of heavy industry. With the implementation of the plan, the flaws of the Soviet model were also exposed. Comrade Mao Zedong proposed that we should take the lessons of the Soviet Union as a warning, independently explore the road of socialist construction suited to China's national conditions, carry out the "second integration" of Marxism with China's specific reality, and find out how to build socialism in China. In 1956, after conducting a large number of meticulous and systematic investigations and studies, Comrade Mao Zedong formed the "On the Ten Great Relations" that is of guiding significance for China's socialist construction, which marked the beginning of our party's exploration of the Chinese-style modernization road suited to China's national conditions. On the basis of the progress made in socialist construction, the first session of the Third National People's Congress put forward the goal of realizing four modernizations.

After more than 20 years of struggle after the founding of New China, China has initially established an independent and relatively complete industrial system and national economic system, transforming itself from a large agricultural country into an industrialized country that has begun to take shape. Although the exploration of the road of Chinese-style modernization at this stage has experienced twists and turns and tribulations, it has still made great achievements that are encouraging and have provided valuable experience and material foundation for advancing socialist modernization after reform and opening up. As Comrade Deng Xiaoping once pointed out, after all, we have laid a preliminary foundation in industry, agriculture, science and technology, that is, we have a position for advancing toward the four modernizations.

The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held in 1978 ushered in a new historical process of China's reform, opening up and modernization. In 1979, Comrade Deng Xiaoping proposed the concept of "moderate prosperity" when meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira. He said that the four modernizations we want to achieve are the four modernizations of the Chinese style, not the concept of modernization like yours, but the "well-off home." In his opening speech at the Twelfth National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 1982, Comrade Deng Xiaoping proposed to take our own road and build socialism with Chinese characteristics, which pointed out the direction for opening up the road of Chinese-style modernization.

With the advancement of reform and opening up, our party has become more soberly aware of the long-term and arduous nature of China's modernization drive. On the basis of scientifically analyzing the international and domestic situations and profoundly summing up historical lessons and lessons, the party has redeployed China's socialist modernization drive. On the eve of the 13th Party Congress in August 1987, Comrade Deng Xiaoping clearly expounded the "three-step" strategy: China's economic development is divided into three steps, this century takes two steps to achieve subsistence, saturation and well-off, and the next century will take another step in 30 to 50 years to reach the level of a moderately developed country. The Communist Party of China creatively uses the concept of "moderate prosperity," which fully absorbs the essence of China's excellent traditional culture, to interpret Chinese-style modernization, and puts forward a "three-step" development strategy for modernization, taking an important step on the road of creating Chinese-style modernization.

The Fourteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China made it clear that the goal of China's economic structural reform is to establish a socialist market economic system. The Fifteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China made a new strategic plan for the third-step goal, put forward the goal of doubling the gross national product in the first decade of the 21 st century compared with 2000, making the people's well-off life more comfortable, forming a relatively perfect socialist market economic system, and establishing the goal of struggle in the centenary of the founding of the party and the centenary of the founding of the people. The Sixteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China further proposed that in the first two decades of this century, we should comprehensively build a well-off society of a higher level that benefits more than one billion people, so that the economy will be more developed, democracy will be more sound, science and education will be more progressive, culture will be more prosperous, society will be more harmonious, and the people's lives will be more solid. In accordance with the development and changes in the domestic and international situation, the Seventeenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward new requirements for achieving the goal of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, and put forward higher requirements for achieving a fourfold per capita GDP by 2020 than in 2000.

From 1978 to 2012, China's GDP has surpassed Italy, France, Britain, Germany and Japan, becoming the world's second largest economy. At the same time, after joining the World Trade Organization in 2001, China accelerated its integration into the global economic system, rapidly expanded its market space, and rapidly increased foreign trade and foreign investment, providing a new impetus for economic development. China has achieved a historic breakthrough from relatively backward productive forces to second largest economic aggregate in the world, providing a vibrant institutional guarantee and a material foundation for rapid development for opening up a new path of Chinese-style modernization.

Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, and the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has conformed to the new requirements of China's economic and social development and the new expectations of the broad masses of the people, put forward the goal of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way by 2020, achieving the goal of doubling the gross domestic product and per capita income of urban and rural residents compared with 2010, and giving a higher standard and richer connotation to the overall well-off. To build a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, what we want to build is a well-off that benefits all the people, a well-off that develops together in urban and rural areas, a well-off that develops more balanced, coordinated, and sustainable, and a well-off society that is "five-in-one" and comprehensively progressive.

In order to ensure that the goal of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way is achieved as scheduled, the Party Central Committee, proceeding from upholding and developing the overall situation of socialism with Chinese characteristics, put forward the "four comprehensive" strategic layout, put the comprehensive construction of a moderately prosperous society in a leading position in the strategic layout, and regard comprehensively deepening reform, comprehensively governing the country according to law, and comprehensively and strictly administering the party as strategic measures to ensure the realization of strategic goals. The party Central Committee has proposed that we should give prominence to grasping the key points, making up for the shortcomings, and the strong and weak points, especially taking the fight against poverty as the top priority, adopting many major measures of originality and uniqueness, winning the largest and most powerful battle against poverty in human history, lifting all the rural poor people out of poverty under the current standards, and the problem of absolute poverty that has plagued the Chinese nation for thousands of years has been historically solved, laying a foundation for building a well-off society in an all-round way.

Building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way on the land of China is a brilliant milestone in the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and it is also a key step taken in China's socialist modernization construction; China's economic strength, scientific and technological strength, comprehensive national strength, and people's living standards have leapt to a new level, becoming the world's second largest economy, the largest industrial country, the largest trade in goods, and the largest foreign exchange reserve country, with a gross domestic product of more than 100 trillion yuan, a per capita gross domestic product of more than 10,000 U.S. dollars, and an urbanization rate of more than 60 percent. The middle-income group exceeds 400 million people. China's building of a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way has nearly doubled the number of people with a per capita GDP of more than $10,000 in the world, and is and will continue to profoundly change the development pattern of the world. The great victory in building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way has greatly encouraged the whole party and the people of the whole country to march with confidence toward the second centenary goal of comprehensively building a socialist modern power.

The new path of Chinese-style modernization is a modernization path for the coordinated development of the five major civilizations

Chinese-style modernization is socialist modernization, a modernization with unique characteristics that is different from capitalism. The Chinese-style modernization under the leadership of the Communist Party of China has always adhered to the socialist goals and directions and has many important characteristics. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "China's modernization is the modernization of a huge population, the modernization of the common prosperity of 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", clearly expounding the basic characteristics of Chinese-style modernization.

Chinese-style modernization is the modernization of a huge population. China is the largest developing country in the world in terms of population, and to achieve modernization in such a country with a super-large population, there is no precedent to follow in the world, there is no ready-made road to follow, and we must explore a new path of modernization. The essence of modernization is the modernization of man. Chinese-style modernization means that we should proceed from the basic national conditions of a huge population, develop human resources, release the demographic dividend, and promote national modernization in the process of continuously realizing human modernization. China's more than 1.4 billion people have entered modernization, which will completely rewrite the world map of modernization and will reshape the pattern of world modernization.

Chinese-style modernization is the modernization of the common prosperity of all the people. The essence of socialism is to achieve common prosperity. Chinese-style modernization means adhering to the people-centered development thinking, solidly promoting common prosperity, consciously taking the initiative to solve problems such as regional disparities, urban-rural disparities, and income disparities, so that the fruits of development can benefit all the people more and more equitably, meet the people's needs for a better life, and promote the all-round development of the people and the common prosperity of all the people to achieve more obvious substantive progress.

Chinese-style modernization is the modernization of material civilization and spiritual civilization. Modernization is not only the accumulation of material wealth, but also the development of spiritual civilization. Chinese-style modernization means that while developing the economy and promoting comprehensive material abundance, we must continuously strengthen the building of spiritual civilization, adhere to the socialist core value system, carry forward China's excellent traditional culture, continuously enhance the people's spiritual strength, and realize that material civilization and spiritual civilization promote each other and complement each other.

Chinese-style modernization is the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature. The modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature is a transcendence of the traditional modernization path and a modernization of sustainable development. Chinese-style modernization is to promote the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, form a green development mode and way of life, firmly follow the path of civilized development of production and development, affluent life and good ecology, build a beautiful China, create a good production and living environment for the people, and contribute to global ecological security.

Chinese-style modernization is modernization that takes the path of peaceful development. Modernization, which takes the path of peaceful development, has changed the gene of "expansion and plunder" contained in the Western modernization model, and created a new path for the progress of human civilization. Chinese-style modernization means adhering to win-win cooperation with all countries in the world, promoting the construction of a new type of international relations, promoting the formation of a more just and reasonable global governance system, promoting the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind, and providing new opportunities for the world with China's new development.

The new road of Chinese-style modernization is a new road of modernization created by the party in uniting and leading the people in exploration and innovation, which not only follows the general law of modernization construction, but also has distinct Chinese characteristics. On the new road of Chinese-style modernization, the "new" is new; politically, we should adhere to the leadership of the Communist Party of China, develop people's democracy in the whole process, and ensure that the people are the masters of their own affairs; we should adhere to the people-centered development thinking in the economy, uphold and improve the basic socialist economic system, and promote a better combination of an effective market and a promising government; we should adhere to the socialist core value system culturally, strengthen the building of socialist spiritual civilization, and continuously enhance the people's spiritual strength; we should uphold fairness and justice in social development and solidly promote common prosperity. Promote the all-round development of people and the overall progress of society; promote green development in ecological construction, build an ecological civilization system, and build a modernization in which man and nature coexist in harmony. In short, the new path of Chinese-style modernization is a modernization path for the coordinated development of material, political, spiritual, social, and ecological civilizations, and is the only way to comprehensively build a socialist modern power and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

The new path of Chinese-style modernization has profoundly changed the pattern of world modernization and development

The new path of Chinese-style modernization has not only created an important prerequisite for China's development, prosperity and progress, but also changed the world modernization pattern dominated by the Western modernization model for a long time, expanded the way for developing countries to modernize, and contributed Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to human development and progress.

First, the new path of Chinese-style modernization has broken the uniqueness of the Western modernization model.

The new road of Chinese-style modernization is a new road of modernization based on China's actual conditions and adhering to and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics. In modern times, China's benevolent people have realized that in order to make the Chinese nation stand on its own among the nations of the world and realize national rejuvenation, it is necessary to promote national modernization. But after trial and error, China's modernization has not made progress. Until the establishment of New China under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the establishment of the basic socialist system, and the exploration and creation of a new path of Chinese-style modernization, the Chinese nation ushered in a great leap from standing up and getting rich to becoming strong. The success of the new path of Chinese-style modernization has fundamentally broken the uniqueness of the Western modernization model and broken the "modernization = Westernization" mindset. China has achieved the grand goal of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, the appearance of China and the appearance of the Chinese people have undergone earth-shaking changes, and socialist China has stood tall in the east of the world with an even more majestic posture, fully demonstrating the powerful vitality and vitality of the new road of Chinese-style modernization.

Second, the new path of Chinese-style modernization has expanded the way for developing countries to modernize.

The new path of Chinese-style modernization, which is different from western modernization, is based on absorbing and drawing on the achievements of other modernization civilizations, not only following the general laws of modernization construction, but also paying attention to "taking its own road", and the core lies in conforming to China's actual conditions and having Chinese characteristics. In the final analysis, what kind of road a country or nation chooses to move toward modernization depends on whether this road conforms to its own reality and whether it can solve the conspicuous problems facing modernization. China has completed the industrialization process that developed countries have gone through for hundreds of years in a few decades, created a miracle of rapid economic development and long-term social stability that is rare in the world, and proved that the new path of Chinese-style modernization is right and feasible. The success of the new path of Chinese-style modernization has demonstrated the diversity of the world's modernization models, broadened the way for developing countries to modernize, and provided a new choice for the diversified development of the world's modernization models.

Third, the new path of Chinese-style modernization contributes Chinese wisdom to promoting the progress of human civilization.

The new path of Chinese-style modernization is modernization that takes the road of peaceful development, inheriting the tradition of peace, harmony and harmony of Chinese civilization for more than 5,000 years, but also conforming to the trend of the times, grasping the theme of the times of "peace and development", adhering to the concept of win-win cooperation, promoting the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind, transcending the "Western-centric theory", "clash of civilizations" and "national strength must be hegemonic" and "zero-sum game" way of thinking, and fully demonstrating the contribution of Chinese-style modernization to solving global problems and promoting the progress of human civilization. Based on the new path of Chinese-style modernization, the new form of human civilization is created, and all countries in the world are promoted to transcend the barriers between systems and ideologies, achieve common development through exchanges and mutual learning, and contribute Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to the progress of human civilization.

Today, we have embarked on a new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country, and we are closer, more confident and capable of achieving the goal of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation than at any time in history, and at the same time we must be prepared to make more arduous and arduous efforts. On the new journey, we must keep firmly in mind the original mission, with the spirit of unremitting slack and indomitable struggle, continue to push forward The Chinese-style modernization and make greater contributions to the progress of human civilization.

(The author is Wang Yiming, Vice Chairman of China Center for International Economic Exchanges)