[In-depth study, publicity and implementation of the spirit of the 20th Party Congress]
Author: Zhong Ruitian (chief expert and professor of "Research Center of Marxist Theory and Regional Practice" in Guangxi University)
When meeting with Chinese and foreign journalists in the 20th CPC The Politburo Standing Committee (PSC), General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed: "Chinese modernization is the result of long-term practice and exploration by the people of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and China, and it is a great and arduous undertaking." A deep understanding of the theoretical logic, historical logic and practical logic of Chinese-style modernization is of great theoretical significance and practical value for inspiring us to be confident and self-reliant and strive for a new journey of building a socialist modernized country in an all-round way.
Chinese modernization has inherited and developed the ideal pursuit of a better life.
The theoretical origin of Chinese-style modernization is diverse, and the most important thing is the inheritance and development of Marxist modernization theory and the promotion and transcendence of Chinese excellent traditional culture.
Marxist social ideal points out the direction for Chinese modernization. Marxism holds that productivity is the most active and revolutionary factor to promote social progress. As a negation of the feudal system, the capitalist system has played a very revolutionary role in history. "The productive forces created in its less than 100-year class rule are more than all the productive forces created by all generations in the past." However, Marx and Engels’ research on social development has never been "productivity-only theory", but put productivity and production relations, economic base and superstructure together for research. Under the capitalist system, productive labor is alienated into "the rule of capitalists over workers is the rule of things over people, the rule of dead labor over living labor, and the rule of products over producers", and the result is the accumulation of capitalist wealth and the relative poverty of the proletariat. Capitalist private ownership is the root of labor alienation. Only by overthrowing the capitalist system and establishing the socialist system can the proletarian revolution "provide all people with healthy and beneficial jobs, provide all people with ample material life and leisure time, and provide all people with real and full freedom".
China’s rich social ideals in ancient times provided beneficial nourishment for Chinese modernization. The "Great Harmony Society" is an ideal society put forward by the ancient people in China. The so-called "the trip to the avenue is also the public, the world is public, the talents and abilities are chosen, and the trust is maintained." "People don’t only kiss their relatives, they don’t have their only sons and daughters, so that they can get old, be strong and useful, and have their own strengths." "Goods are evil and abandoned in the ground, so there is no need to hide them from themselves; If you hate it, you don’t have to do it for yourself. " Chinese excellent traditional culture rejects and despises social behaviors that harm others’ self-interest, harm nature and justice, be rich and heartless, and be mercenary, and advocates and praises the ideological concepts of respecting benevolence and love, valuing people’s interests, keeping honesty, stressing dialectics, respecting harmony and seeking common ground. Although the ideas of our forefathers were only a vision of the social picture, they also provided important enlightenment for the Chinese modernization theory.
Chinese modernization is the historical achievement of the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s endeavor and exploration.
The modern history of China has fully proved the profound truth that "you will be beaten if you fall behind". When we fight against the muskets and cannons of the great powers with broadswords and spears, when our agricultural civilization and almost blank modern industry are forced to fight against the mature industrial civilization and complete industrial system in the West, it can only be the end of rout. In the face of suffering, the people of China did not give in, but stood up and fought. People of insight from generation to generation began to explore the plan of saving the nation from extinction. The Westernization Movement, which aimed at the modernization of utensils, put forward the idea of "learning from foreigners to control foreigners", resulting in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, which declared the disillusionment of the dream of modernization of utensils. The 100-day reform, which aimed at system modernization, carried out the "New Deal", abolished stereotyped writing and promoted new learning. As a result, it died under the ruthless suppression of the old school headed by Empress Dowager Cixi. The Revolution of 1911 led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the feudal monarchy that lasted for thousands of years in China and established a bourgeois democratic republic. However, the fruits of victory were almost ruined by Yuan Shikai’s restoration of the monarchy. China’s modern modernization exploration fully shows that "in a semi-colonial, semi-feudal and divided China, many people have dreamed this dream for many years, but they have all been disillusioned".
In the face of China’s suffering, the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s primary historical task is to create fundamental social conditions for China’s modernization. The birth of the Communist Party of China (CPC) profoundly changed the direction and process of the development of the Chinese nation in modern times, and profoundly changed the future and destiny of the people of China and the Chinese nation. During the arduous period of the new-democratic revolution, the Communist Party of China (CPC) people fought bloody battles and persevered, that is, to "make the Chinese nation make a big turn over", to overthrow the three mountains that weighed on the people of China, "to change from a semi-colonial country to a truly independent country" and "to create a prerequisite for changing from an agricultural country to an industrial country", and then to build a "civilized and advanced China ruled by a new culture". This historical task is the political prerequisite for realizing modernization in China. The victory of the new-democratic revolution has made the Chinese nation end the era of being trampled upon and bullied forever, and started the historical process of independently exploring modernization and realizing national rejuvenation.
The primary task after the founding of New China is to lay a fundamental political premise and institutional foundation for modernization. Under the brand-new historical conditions, on the one hand, the Communist Party of China (CPC) established and consolidated the state power of the people’s democratic dictatorship, and established the basic political system and the basic political system to ensure that the people are masters of their own affairs. Through the socialist transformation of agriculture, handicrafts and capitalist industry and commerce, it established the socialist economic foundation and realized the most extensive and profound social changes in the history of the Chinese nation; On the other hand, it began an active exploration to realize modernization, and based on the worldwide consensus at that time, it put forward the modernization goal of "changing from an agricultural country to an industrial country". After a period of exploration, the Communist Party of China (CPC) formally put forward the task of "building China into a powerful socialist country with modern agriculture, modern industry, modern national defense and modern science and technology", and China’s modernization entered a new historical stage.
Theoretical innovation and successful practice in the new period of reform, opening up and socialist modernization have established the fundamental direction and main path of Chinese modernization, and the modernization process in China has shown an accelerated development trend. During this period, the achievements of our party’s exploration of modernization are mainly reflected in: putting forward that socialist modernization is our biggest politics at present, "because it represents the greatest and most fundamental interests of the people"; Our modernization is to develop the socialist economy, and it is by no means a modernization in which only a few people get rich; Under the socialist conditions, the main motive force for the development of modernization is reform and opening up, which is a key measure to determine the fate of contemporary China and the success or failure of modernization. The layout of Chinese-style modernization must follow the road of civilized development of production development, affluent life and good ecology, comprehensively promote socialist economic construction, political construction, cultural construction, social construction and ecological civilization construction, and strive to accelerate the realization of people-oriented, comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable scientific development.
Ten years of great practice in the new era has successfully promoted and expanded Chinese modernization.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era and Chinese modernization has entered a new stage. Under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, and under the guidance of the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era, our party has been innovative in theory and formed a more perfect theoretical system of Chinese modernization; In terms of practical results, it has withstood the test of risks and challenges from economy, politics, ideology and nature, created great achievements of Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, and advanced the great cause of modernization at a steady pace. The decade of the new era has provided a more perfect system guarantee, a more solid material foundation and a more active spiritual strength for realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and successfully promoted and expanded Chinese modernization. The grand blueprint of Chinese-style modernization drawn by the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is a comprehensive summary of "deepening understanding, maturing strategy and enriching practice" in the new era for ten years, and it is the fundamental road to comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization.
Adhering to the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s leadership and Socialism with Chinese characteristics is the essential requirement of Chinese modernization. The Communist Party of China (CPC)’s century-long struggle history fully proves that without the Communist Party of China (CPC), there would be no socialism, let alone socialist modernization. Building Chinese-style modernization is a great and arduous undertaking, and it is necessary to "be prepared to withstand the major test of high winds, high waves and even stormy waves" at any time. Only by upholding and strengthening the party’s overall leadership can we ensure the correct direction of modernization, make all the people have a reliable backbone when the storm strikes, and gather the majestic power to overcome the difficulties with one heart and one mind.
Building modernization with China characteristics based on national conditions. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "Chinese-style modernization is a socialist modernization led by the Communist Party of China (CPC), which has both the common characteristics of modernization in all countries and the characteristics of China based on its own national conditions." The realization of Chinese-style modernization will completely rewrite the world map of modernization, fully reflect the essential requirements of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, fully reflect the people-centered development thought in the new era, and fully reflect the overall appearance of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s all-round development and progress.
Adhere to the courage to struggle and rely on tenacious struggle to open a new world of Chinese modernization. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader warned the whole Party, "Be sure to keep in mind Do not forget your initiative mind’s mission, be modest and prudent, work hard, dare to struggle and be good at it". Only it is arduous, so it is great; Only it is arduous and more glorious. The historical process of comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese modernization is bound to be full of difficulties, obstacles and risks. To realize Chinese-style modernization, the whole party and the people of all ethnic groups in China must have strong enough "ambition, backbone, confidence, unbelief in evil, fear of ghosts, fear of pressure, advance despite difficulties and face difficulties", and open up a new world of career development with fearless courage and tenacious struggle.
The construction and successful practice of Chinese-style modernization theory system has surpassed the western modernization model with liberalism, capital supremacy and western centralism as its pillars, and provided a Chinese plan for human society, especially developing countries, to explore the modernization road suitable for their own national conditions in practice, making epoch-making contributions.