Author: Chen Jinlong (Dean of the School of Marxism, South China Normal University)
The “Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the major achievements and historical experience of the party’s centenary struggle” adopted by the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China pointed out: “The general task of upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics is to realize socialist modernization and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.” “Promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization”. Chinese-style modernization has opened up a path of modernization in line with my country’s national conditions, laid a solid foundation for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and demonstrated a bright future for the development of human civilization.
Chinese-style modernization is the right way to build a powerful modern socialist country
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “China has a vast territory and a large population. If we want to develop and revitalize, the most important thing is to base ourselves on the national conditions and follow our own path.” Chinese-style modernization is in line with our country’s reality, and follows the rules of the Communist Party’s governance, socialist construction, and human society. The law of development, leading the development trend of the times, is the correct way to build a powerful modern socialist country.
Achieving modernization is the goal that all countries in the world have been striving for since modern times. There is neither a one-size-fits-all modernization model nor a one-size-fits-all modernization standard in the world. Based on the reality of our country, our party unites and leads the people to forge a path of Chinese-style modernization, strives to build socialist modernization, and continuously advances toward the grand goal of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Not long after the founding of New China, our party put forward the goal of building a modern socialist country. Comrade Mao Zedong pointed out that our task “is to settle down so that we can build our country’s modern industry, modern agriculture, modern science and culture, and modern national defense”. After the reform and opening up, Comrade Deng Xiaoping emphasized: “From the first year of the 1980s, we have to work on the four modernization drives with all our hearts and minds without delay.” Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping He pointed out: “We adhere to and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics, promote the coordinated development of material civilization, political civilization, spiritual civilization, social civilization, and ecological civilization, create a new path of Chinese-style modernization, and create a new form of human civilization.”
With the deepening of our understanding of the laws of socialist modernization, our party has gradually expanded the connotation of modernization to include economy, politics, culture, society, and ecological civilization. The characteristics and advantages of Chinese-style modernization are becoming more and more prominent. Chinese-style modernization is a modernization with a huge population. The modernization of more than 1.4 billion people means that more Chinese people than the total population of all developed countries will enter the ranks of modernization, which will completely rewrite the modernized world map; It is a modernization in which all the people are prosperous, and promotes the development of more and more fair benefits to all the people, and continuously improves the people’s sense of gain, happiness, and security. The all-round development of human beings not only improves the people’s material living standards, but also enriches the people’s spiritual and cultural life; it is the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, which not only creates more material wealth and spiritual wealth, but also meets the people’s growing beautiful life. It is necessary to provide more high-quality ecological products to meet the growing needs of the people for a beautiful ecological environment; it is a modernization that takes the road of peaceful development, which not only develops itself but also benefits the world, and insists on putting the development of the country and the nation on the basis of its own strength. It also continuously absorbs and draws on all the outstanding achievements of human civilization, promotes the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind, and continuously injects strong positive energy into world peace and development.
No nation or nation in human history can become strong and rejuvenated by relying on external forces, copying foreign models, and following others step by step. To achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, we must adhere to the principle of independence, rely on our own strength, and unswervingly follow our own path. The Chinese people have firm confidence in the road because the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics is suitable for China’s national conditions, in line with Chinese characteristics, and in line with the development requirements of the times.
The realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation by Chinese-style modernization has entered an irreversible historical process
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “Whether a country’s path is feasible or not depends on whether it conforms to its own national conditions, whether it conforms to the development trend of the times, whether it can bring economic development, social progress, improvement of people’s livelihood, social stability, and whether it can obtain the support and support of the people. Support, can we contribute to the cause of human progress.” Our party united and led the Chinese people to create a Chinese-style modernization path, and created two miracles of rapid economic development and long-term social stability. The system for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation ensures continuous improvement and material foundation. It has become more solid and its spiritual strength has continued to increase, and the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has entered an irreversible historical process.
The system guarantees continuous improvement. In the course of a century of struggle, our party has united and led the people in the arduous pursuit of modernization, and the institutional guarantees for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation have been continuously improved, the institutional foundation has been continuously consolidated, and the institutional advantages have been fully demonstrated. Our party unites and leads the people to build the People’s Republic of China where the people are the masters of the country, creating fundamental social conditions for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Carrying out the socialist revolution, eliminating the feudal system of exploitation and oppression that has lasted for thousands of years in China, and establishing the basic socialist system have laid the fundamental political premise and institutional foundation for the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Establishing the party’s basic line in the primary stage of socialism, unswervingly advancing reform and opening up, and creating, upholding, defending, and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics have provided an institutional guarantee full of new vitality for the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Entering the new era, our party has placed institutional construction in a more prominent position, and strived to build a system that is complete, scientifically regulated, and operated effectively, so that all aspects of the system will become more mature and finalized, and the fundamental system that supports the socialist system with Chinese characteristics will continue to be built. The basic system has been strengthened, the basic system has been improved, the important system has been continuously innovated, the basic institutional framework in various fields has been basically established, and the institutional system with complete system, scientific norms and effective operation has been gradually formed, providing a more complete institutional guarantee for the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
The material foundation is more solid. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “The realization of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is to realize the prosperity of the country, the rejuvenation of the nation, and the happiness of the people.” Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, especially since the reform and opening up, my country’s economy has continued to develop rapidly, and the total amount currently ranks second in the world. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of my country, our party has focused on the transformation of the main contradictions in our society, adhered to the people-centered development philosophy, accurately grasped the new development stage, implemented the new development concept in a complete, accurate and comprehensive manner, accelerated the construction of a new development pattern, and further promoted supply. Focus on structural reforms, firmly implement major strategies such as the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education, the strategy of innovation-driven development, and the strategy of coordinated regional development. The scientific and technological strength, national defense strength and comprehensive national strength have been significantly enhanced, the international status and international image have been greatly improved, the first centenary goal has been achieved, a moderately prosperous society has been built in an all-round way on the land of China, the problem of absolute poverty has been historically solved, and in order to achieve The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has provided a more solid material foundation.
Mental strength continued to increase. The rejuvenation of a nation requires both strong material strength and strong spiritual strength. Chinese-style modernization takes improving people’s well-being and realizing people’s all-round development as the starting point and end point, and continuously enhances the self-confidence in the path, theory, system and culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics, which effectively boosts the spirit of the Chinese people. Entering the new era, the Chinese Communists, mainly represented by Comrade Xi Jinping, insisted on observing the times, grasping the times, and leading the times with Marxist standpoints, viewpoints, and methods, and created Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, which is contemporary Chinese Marxism. , Marxism in the 21st century, provides us with a powerful ideological weapon to understand and transform the world. Our party vigorously promotes the national spirit with patriotism as the core and the spirit of the times with reform and innovation as the core, clearly puts forward the spiritual pedigree of the Chinese Communists with the great spirit of party building as the source, actively cultivates and practices the core socialist values, and is persistent and consistent. Do a good job in the construction of socialist spiritual civilization, promote the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese excellent traditional culture, forge a sense of community of the Chinese nation, and provide a more active spiritual force for the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Chinese-style modernization profoundly affects the process of world modernization
The Communist Party of China not only seeks happiness for the Chinese people, seeks rejuvenation for the Chinese nation, but also seeks progress for mankind and the world. It has profoundly changed the trend and pattern of world development with its unremitting struggle for self-improvement. Our party insists on promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization, fundamentally reversing the historical destiny of the Chinese nation, and profoundly affecting the process of world modernization, providing a new choice for developing countries to modernize, demonstrating the development of world socialism, Bright prospects for the development of human civilization.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: “The new path of Chinese-style modernization will become wider and wider, which will better develop itself and benefit the world.” In the process of advancing Chinese-style modernization and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, my country has won the battle against poverty as scheduled, built a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way as scheduled, and achieved the first centenary goal, which has significantly improved the overall development level of human society. Since the reform and opening up, according to the current poverty standards, 770 million rural poor people in my country have been lifted out of poverty. According to the World Bank’s international poverty standards, China’s poverty reduction population accounted for more than 70% of the world‘s poverty reduction population during the same period, achieving the poverty reduction goal of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 10 years ahead of schedule. According to statistics from the International Monetary Fund, in 2019, a total of 70 countries and regions had a per capita GDP of more than 10,000 US dollars, including a population of 1.4 billion in China, with a total of about 2.8 billion people. It is China’s unremitting efforts that have nearly doubled the number of people in the world with a per capita GDP exceeding $10,000. The continuous advancement of Chinese-style modernization has made scientific socialism glow with great vitality in China in the 21st century, and the historical evolution and competition of two ideologies and two social systems in the world have brought about a situation that is conducive to Marxism, social profound shift in ism. Promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization will further demonstrate the superiority of socialism with Chinese characteristics and show the bright future of world socialism.
The steady advancement of Chinese-style modernization has provided new choices for those countries and nations in the world who wish to speed up development and maintain their independence, and have made great contributions to mankind’s exploration of the path of modernization. The Communist Party of China has led the people to successfully walk out of the Chinese-style modernization path. It has been proved by indisputable facts that modernization is not the patent of the West, nor can it be monopolized by the capitalist system. Each country can completely independently embark on a modernization path that suits its own national conditions. Promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization can greatly enrich modernization theory, expand modernization practice, and contribute more Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to the modernization of developing countries and the advancement of world modernization.
Forge ahead in the new journey of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way, we must coordinate the overall strategy of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the great changes in the world unseen in a century, insist on promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization, and strive to create new and greater miracles for mankind. new greater contribution.
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