The height of civilization on the new road of Chinese-style modernization

Source: People's Daily - Theory Channel Original draft

We have adhered to and developed socialism with Chinese characteristics, promoted the coordinated development of material, political, spiritual, social and ecological civilizations, created a new path of Chinese-style modernization, and created a new form of human civilization. Modernization is a process of profound change from a traditional agricultural society to a modern industrial society, and is the common pursuit of modern nation-states. As a late-developing modern country, after more than a hundred years of catching up and through the continuous struggle of the whole party and the people of all ethnic groups in the country, China has achieved the first centenary goal of struggle, comprehensively built a moderately prosperous society on the land of China, and ushered in a great leap from standing up and getting rich to becoming strong. Examining China's road to modernization, it has jumped out of the development model of "blood and fire" to embark on modernization, always taking civilization as the background, embarking on a new path of modernization developed in a civilized way, and contributing Chinese wisdom to those countries and nations in the world that hope to embark on the road of modernization in a civilized way.

The coordinates of civilization pursued by the common prosperity of all people

Communists "have no interests different from those of the proletariat as a whole." Since its birth, the Communist Party of China has taken communism as its lofty ideal, the common prosperity of all the people as its pursuit, and the people's stand as its fundamental political stand. The people are the greatest strength of our party's ruling power, the solid foundation of our republic, and the fundamental place for us to strengthen the party and rejuvenate the country. Our party comes from the people, is born for the people, and prospers because of the people, and must always share the hearts of the people, share weal and woe with the people, and unite and struggle with the people. It can be said that the course of the CPC leading the Chinese people to catch up with modernization is the glorious course of the CPC always seeking happiness for the people. Adhering to the people-centered approach has never been a slogan or a slogan; it is a concrete action to realize and develop the interests of the masses, and it is a great practice of uniting and leading the Chinese people to achieve common prosperity.

Only socialism can save China, and only socialism with Chinese characteristics can develop China. The essence of socialism is to liberate the productive forces, develop the productive forces, eliminate exploitation, eliminate polarization, and ultimately achieve common prosperity. As we move toward the second centenary goal of building a socialist modern power in an all-round way, we have focused on solving the problem of unbalanced and inadequate development and the problem of the people's urgent difficulties and expectations, and promoted the all-round development of the people and the common prosperity of all the people to achieve more obvious substantive progress. Common prosperity is the essential requirement of socialism and an important feature of the new path of Chinese-style modernization, which is rooted in the people, originates from the people, and centers on the all-round development of people. The coordinates of civilization pursued by the common prosperity of all the people indicate that the new path of Chinese-style modernization is not a modernization road of prosperity for a few people, not a modernization road based on capital, and not a modernization road realized by relying on a small number of people, but a new road of modernization that is oriented to the general prosperity of all the people, common prosperity centered on the all-round development of people, and common prosperity marked by joint construction and sharing.

The cornerstone of civilization with the theme of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation

Over the past one hundred years, the Communist Party of China has united and led the Chinese people to carry out all the struggles, all the sacrifices, all the creations, which boil down to one theme: to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The Chinese nation has a long history of civilization of more than 5,000 years, but since the Opium War in 1840, the country has been humiliated, the people have suffered hardships, and civilization has been dusted. In the face of modern China, which was backward and beaten, countless benevolent people fought bravely and unremittingly, various plans for national salvation were introduced in turn, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, the Penghu Reform Law, and the Boxer Rebellion eventually failed. Under the guidance of advanced thinking, under the great awakening of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation, a groundbreaking event has taken place in China. The Communist Party of China has led the people to realize national independence and people's liberation, established and consolidated the basic socialist system, continuously explored the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics through reform and opening up, and created a miracle of rapid economic development and long-term social stability that is rare in the world by constantly satisfying the people's new expectations for a better life, and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has entered an irreversible historical process. The new path of Chinese-style modernization has always taken the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation as the main theme, taken charge of great struggles, great projects, great undertakings, and great dreams, broken the inherent paradigm of "globalization = Westernization, Westernization = modernization, modernization = marketization", and provided Chinese experience for those countries and nations in the world that encounter the same problems as China and have the same needs.

A civilization structure with the coordinated development of the five major civilizations as the pattern

Civilization is the product of the development of human history to an advanced stage. Marx once pointed out that human civilization "shows endless variations and color differences in phenomena." The new path of Chinese-style modernization not only inherits the long-standing civilization of the Chinese nation for more than 5,000 years, but also builds a solid foundation based on the exploration of the Chinese-style modernization road, and contains the concepts of overall coordination, diversity and tolerance. From the perspective of civilization structure analysis, the new path of Chinese-style modernization inherently stipulates the coordinated development of material, political, spiritual, social and ecological civilizations. Material civilization points to the realization of the sharing of material fruits by all the people on the basis of "greatly increasing the total amount of productive forces" in the relationship between people and things; political civilization points to upholding the organic unity of the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the people being the masters of their own affairs, and governing the country according to law in the relations between the party and the people, and "representing the fundamental interests of the broadest masses of the people."; spiritual civilization points to the relationship between people and the self, and pursues the patriotic feeling of "the rise and fall of the world, and everyone has the responsibility", the principle of good faith that "words must be believed, and deeds must be fruitful", and "what one does not want." Do not do to others" and "people are kind, "harmony and difference" spirit of tolerance and other value requirements; social civilization points to the relationship between people, pay attention to harmonious coexistence, ensure and improve people's livelihood, promote social fairness and justice; ecological civilization points to the relationship between man and nature, adhere to and improve the ecological civilization system, and achieve harmonious coexistence between man and nature. In short, the new path of Chinese-style modernization is not a modernization path promoted by a one-dimensional civilization, but a new path promoted by a holistic civilization, which provides a Chinese solution for those countries and nations in the world that wish to seek a better social system.

Civilization that takes the promotion of world peace and development as its own responsibility

The new path of Chinese-style modernization jumps out of the concept of "national strength must hegemony" and "clash of civilizations", actively advocates the common values of peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy and freedom for all mankind, and demonstrates the civilization responsibility of promoting world peace and development. Supporting peace, opposing war, supporting democracy, opposing power, supporting multilateralism, opposing unilateralism, and firmly safeguarding world peace are the concepts and norms that China has always upheld. In the face of the unprecedented changes in the world in a hundred years and the instability and uncertainty of the world it has brought, the new path of Chinese-style modernization follows the regularity of development, respects the diversity of civilizations, transcends the gap between civilizations with exchanges among civilizations, transcends the conflict of civilizations through mutual learning among civilizations, and transcends the superiority of civilizations through the coexistence of civilizations, promotes the democratization of international relations, and is committed to solving the three major problems of insufficient economic growth momentum, unbalanced development, and lagging governance in the world today. In the answer of "what is wrong with the world, what should we do", the new path of Chinese-style modernization contains "human nature" and is committed to promoting the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind. The new path of Chinese-style modernization has provided a new choice for those countries and nations in the world that want to accelerate development and maintain their independence, promote the symbiosis and coexistence of human society, and make Chinese contributions to world peace and development.

The new path of Chinese-style modernization and the new form of human civilization are interconnected and interact with each other. From the perspective of human civilization, the new path of Chinese-style modernization has created a new form of human civilization with the common prosperity of all the people as the pursuit of civilization coordinates, the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation as the cornerstone of civilization, the coordinated development of the five major civilizations as the pattern, and the civilization responsibility of promoting world peace and development as its own responsibility, which respects the development trend, conforms to the trend of the times, and is the "bright pearl" in the development of human civilization.

(Author Affilications:Guangdong Xi Jinping Research Center for Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era, Southern Medical University Base, School of Marxism, Southern Medical University)