[In-depth study, publicity and implementation of the spirit of the 20th Party Congress]
Author: viki (special researcher at the New Era Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought Research Center, the supreme leader of China Academy of Social Sciences, and researcher at the Institute of Marxism)
General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out in his important speech at the opening ceremony of the seminar on studying and implementing the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China: "The unique world outlook, values, historical outlook, civilization outlook, democratic outlook, ecological outlook and its great practice contained in Chinese modernization are major innovations in the theory and practice of world modernization." This thesis contains rich theoretical connotation, which opens up a new realm of world modernization theory and practice, and helps us to understand the international contribution and world significance of Chinese modernization more deeply.
Chinese modernization contains a unique world outlook.World outlook is people’s overall view and fundamental view of the whole world. Different times, historical environments and cultural traditions will lead to different world views. The world outlook is practical and keeps pace with the times. "Chinese modernization is the socialist modernization led by the Communist Party of China (CPC)." As the leading force of Chinese modernization, how the Communist Party of China (CPC) views and handles the relationship between China and the world, and the relationship between Chinese modernization and other modernizations fundamentally determines the development trend and road choice of Chinese modernization. The Communist Party of China (CPC) is a political party with a world vision, a world mind and human feelings. The "world view" of Chinese excellent traditional culture and the spirit of Marxist internationalism endow the Communist Party of China (CPC) people with a world view of the world. For more than 100 years, the Communist Party of China (CPC) people have always kept their minds on the world and devoted themselves to making contributions to mankind and promoting the progress of human civilization in different historical periods. Chinese-style modernization conforms to the general trend of world development, advocates the common values of "peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy and freedom" based on the core pursuit of contributing to human peace and development, safeguards world peace and promotes world development, continuously promotes the building of a community of human destiny, and is committed to standing on the right side of history to jointly create a better future for mankind. Chinese modernization abandons "the law of the jungle" and "the country will dominate"Such as the old world outlook with the characteristics of the Cold War mentality, hold high the banner of "peace, development, cooperation and win-win". Adhering to this unique world outlook, Chinese-style modernization shows another picture of modernization under the premise of following the general law of modernization, and breaks the myth that modernization equals westernization, which has long bound developing countries’ modernization development ideas and practical innovation, providing these countries with opportunities to share development achievements and meaningful development paths, and providing a Chinese plan for human exploration of a better social system.
Chinese modernization contains unique values.The Communist Party of China (CPC)’s socialist modernization led by the people of China is for the sake of the people and depends on their modernization. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "The people are both creators and witnesses of history, and they are both historical ‘ People in the play ’ And historical ‘ The playwright ’ 。” Adhering to the people’s supremacy and people-centered development is the source of strength, nature, purpose and initial mission of our party, and it is also the unique value inherent in Chinese modernization. Different from the western modernization centered on capital, Chinese modernization transcends the logic of capital and insists on taking people as the center; Beyond the logic of polarization, to achieve common prosperity for all people is an important goal and main feature; Beyond material logic, adhere to the coordinated development of material civilization and spiritual civilization; Go beyond hegemonic logic and stick to the path of peaceful development. Chinese modernization adheres to the people’s dominant position, the party’s mass line, the people-centered development thought, gives full play to the people’s initiative, stimulates the people’s spirit of ownership, fully mobilizes the people’s enthusiasm, initiative and creativity, and widely gathers the people’s wisdom and strength, giving full play to the advantages of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s system of concentrating on doing great things, and inspiring the whole society to work together to achieve the goal of building a socialist modernization power in an all-round way. Chinese modernization always regards the people’s position as the fundamental value position and puts the people’s interests in the supreme position.It embodies the value background of the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era, and gives the era connotation of "people are the creators of history" in practice.
Chinese modernization contains a unique view of history.Historical development has laws to follow. Historical laws are generated and act on people’s material production practice. The historical process is not only an objective process that is not transferred by people’s subjective will, but also a dynamic process in which historical subjects exert their enthusiasm, initiative and creativity. Historical laws are embodied in the dialectical unity of historical inevitability and the initiative of historical subjects. Chinese-style modernization was initiated by the Communist Party of China (CPC), who united and led the people of China to conform to the historical trend and explored independently with self-confidence and historical initiative. The long history of human development has proved countless times that it is impossible to achieve national strength and national rejuvenation by relying on external forces, copying foreign models and following others. The General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "The people of China and the Chinese nation have never had a textbook, and there is no ready-made answer, from the deep suffering after modern times to the bright future of great rejuvenation." "China has more than 9.6 million square kilometers of land and 56 ethnic groups. Who can we follow? Who can tell us what to do? " The Communist Party of China (CPC) insists on independence, self-reliance and self-improvement, carries forward the historical initiative, insists on putting the development of the country and the nation on the basis of its own strength, insists that the affairs of China should be advocated and handled by the people of China themselves, and firmly holds the destiny of national development and progress in their own hands.
Chinese modernization contains a unique concept of civilization.Under the condition of world history, what kind of communication concept should human civilization uphold to coexist, namely, advocating "clash of civilizations" and "isolation of civilizations" or insisting on "equality of civilizations", "tolerance of civilizations" and "mutual learning of civilizations", which are two completely different views of civilization. From the factual dimension, the existence of diversity of civilizations is an objective fact. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "Civilization has diversity, just like the diversity of species in nature." Various ethnic groups have formed different and diverse forms of civilization in the practice of coping with different historical environments and development conditions. From the perspective of value, civilizations "have no advantages or disadvantages, only differences in characteristics", and "each civilization has its unique charm and profound heritage, and is a spiritual treasure of mankind". The exchange and mutual learning of civilizations is based on the premise of the coexistence of civilizations. Only when there are differences between civilizations can it be possible and necessary for all civilizations to exchange and learn from each other. In the process of civilization exchange and mutual learning, we can’t unilaterally emphasize "seeking common ground", which is not in line with the objective reality and requirements of civilization diversity, and is not conducive to the overall prosperity and development of world civilization. The General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out, "Chinese civilization has been famous for its openness and tolerance since ancient times, and it has constantly renewed its vitality in exchanges and mutual learning with other civilizations.We must persist in promoting the concept of civilization of equality, mutual learning, dialogue and tolerance, understand different civilizations’ understanding of value connotation with a broad mind, respect people of different countries’ exploration of their own development paths, transcend civilization barriers with civilized exchanges, transcend civilization conflicts with mutual learning, transcend civilization superiority with civilized coexistence, carry forward the common values of all mankind contained in Chinese civilization, and promote the building of a community of human destiny. " The Communist Party of China (CPC) led the people out of the road of Chinese modernization, created a new form of human civilization, and provided a new choice for promoting exchanges and mutual learning among different civilizations.
Chinese modernization contains a unique concept of democracy.Democracy is the common value of all mankind and an important concept that the people of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and China have always adhered to. In the process of realizing democracy, people of all countries choose the specific democratic development path suitable for their own countries according to their own characteristics such as history, culture and political system, thus forming democratic diversity based on pluralistic civilization. The unique concept of democracy contained in Chinese modernization was put forward on the basis of summarizing the process of human modernization, and was also formed in the process of promoting socialist modernization. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "People’s democracy is the life of socialism. Without democracy, there will be no socialism, no socialist modernization, and no great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation." "People’s democracy is a whole-process democracy." "The whole process of people’s democracy is the essential attribute of socialist democratic politics, and it is the most extensive, authentic and effective democracy." In the historical process of promoting socialist modernization, contemporary China always pays attention to improving the system of people being the masters of the country, giving full play to the important role of socialist deliberative democracy, enriching democratic forms, unblocking democratic channels, insisting on "developing deliberative democracy in an all-round way" and "actively developing grassroots democracy", expanding people’s orderly political participation from all levels and fields, and promoting the historical achievements of people’s democracy in the whole process, which has become a landmark achievement with great innovation significance in the field of democratic politics in China in the new era. Practice has fully proved that,Chinese-style modernization is developed on the basis of fully realizing people’s equal participation and equal development rights. Without people’s democracy in the whole process, there would be no Chinese-style modernization.
Chinese modernization contains a unique ecological view.Looking back on the development of western capitalist countries from traditional society to modern society, capitalism has played a historical and progressive role in liberating productive forces, creating material wealth, opening up the world market and promoting the development of industrial civilization. But at the same time, this development and progress has also brought a heavy price. Sturm und drang in the industrial revolution accelerated the plundering of natural resources, which led to the serious destruction of the natural ecosystem and the tension between man and nature. Man’s excessive plunder and destruction of nature has been retaliated by nature. The frequent occurrence of global ecological problems is the repeated warning of nature to human beings. Chinese modernization regards nature as "man’s inorganic body" and insists on the road of harmonious coexistence between man and nature. Chinese-style modernization plans economic and social development from the perspective of the sustainable development of the Chinese nation and the sustainable development of all mankind. It should not only create abundant material wealth and spiritual wealth, but also provide more high-quality ecological products to meet the people’s growing needs for a better life. It can be said that Chinese-style modernization has not only contributed wisdom and strength to the global ecological civilization construction, but also practiced the concept of building a community of human and natural life with concrete plans and practical actions, and shared China’s unique ecological concept and green development practice with the world.