On the 4th, at the Sino French People to People and Cultural Cooperation and Development Forum held in Paris, France, the national high-end think tank of Xinhua News Agency released the think tank report "The Road to Chinese Modernization". Based on President Xi Jinping's important statement on Chinese style modernization, the report comprehensively explains the development process, practical path and distinctive features of Chinese style modernization, and summarizes the value form, institutional form, development form, democratic form, cultural form and global governance form of Chinese style modernization from the height of human civilization history, Providing authoritative interpretation for audiences around the world to understand Chinese modernization is a key to understanding the development experience of contemporary China.
Chinese style modernization highlights China's global responsibility to contribute wisdom to solving human problems. For a long time, western modernization theory has been built on the basis of western experience. The development of most western developed countries is a "serial" process. Industrialization, urbanization, agricultural modernization, and informatization are developed in sequence. Modern countries, modern economies, and modern societies are built one by one, with relatively ample time and more opportunities for trial and error. As the largest developing country in the world, China has a vast territory, a large population and great regional differences. To achieve modernization in such a super large country, it needs to solve many problems that have not been encountered in the West. Instead of following the western modernization process, China has gone through a "parallel" process. Through superposition development, it has completed the industrialization process of western developed countries for hundreds of years in decades, creating a miracle of rapid economic development and long-term social stability.
Chinese style modernization belongs to China as well as the world. Chinese style modernization aims to solve many problems that have emerged in the history of modernization and have not been solved by western countries. Chinese style modernization has broken the myth of "modernization=westernization", opened up a new way for non Western countries to explore modernization independently, provided a new path for countries and nations in the world who both hope to accelerate development and maintain their independence, and provided a Chinese solution for mankind to explore a better social system. China's development experience shows that there is neither a single model of modernization nor a universal standard of modernization in the world. There is more than one road to modernization. As long as we find the right direction, keep going, and follow our own path, we will be able to achieve modernization.
For the majority of developing countries, modernization is a "must answer question". China has given the answer through its own development, and has created a new form of human civilization with a modernization path that conforms to its own national conditions: different from western modernization, Chinese modernization abandons capital supremacy and pursues people supremacy in its value orientation; In the system construction, the theory of "the end of history" is proved to be false, and continuous improvement and innovation are made; Get rid of "one-way" and "alienation" in the development path and move towards comprehensive coordination; In the form of democracy, we should not engage in minority people's ownership and realize that the people are masters of the country; In terms of cultural identity, it never separates tradition and insists on inheritance and innovation; We should refrain from unilateralism in global governance and promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.
Modernization is not only the modernization of economy, but also the modernization of all-round development of human beings. The Chinese style modernization regards the realization of the people's aspiration for a better life as the starting point and end result of the modernization drive, with the realization of the free and comprehensive development of people as the ultimate goal. In the process of modernization, China has won the battle against poverty, which has enabled China to bid farewell to absolute poverty from a poor, poor and weak oriental country. It has lifted one-fifth of the world's population out of absolute poverty as a whole, creating a huge achievement unparalleled in the history of human social development. China has become the second largest economy in the world. Its GDP has exceeded one million billion yuan and its per capita GDP has exceeded 10000 US dollars. This has changed the marginal position and backwardness of the Chinese nation in the world economic system since modern times, and has made great contributions to the world economy with its own development.
All things grow together without harming each other, and the Tao runs parallel without contradicting each other. A peaceful and developing world should bear different forms of civilization, and must be compatible with various paths to modernization. At present, in the face of changes in the world, times and history, China vigorously promotes the common values of peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy and freedom for all mankind, abandons small circles and zero sum games, and calls for joint efforts to build a new type of international relations featuring mutual respect, fairness and justice, and win-win cooperation, expand the convergence of interests, and draw the largest concentric circle. The road of Chinese modernization is becoming wider and wider, and it will certainly better develop itself, benefit the world, and contribute wisdom and strength to a better future for mankind. (Xinhua News Agency reporter Fu Yanlin Wei)
