China Characteristics and World Significance of Chinese Modernization

　　Report to the 20th CPC National Congress, the Communist Party of China, made a profound explanation of Chinese-style modernization, summed up the China characteristics of Chinese-style modernization in five aspects: a huge population, a common prosperity for all people, a coordinated modernization of material civilization and spiritual civilization, a harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and a peaceful development path, and profoundly revealed the scientific connotation of Chinese-style modernization. Chinese-style modernization is the broad road to build a socialist modernization power in an all-round way and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. It provides a new theoretical paradigm for world modernization and has great theoretical value and practical significance for China and the world.

　　General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed: "What kind of modernization path a country chooses is determined by its historical tradition, social system, development conditions, external environment and many other factors. Different national conditions will lead to different ways of modernization. Practice has proved that a country’s modernization should not only follow the general law of modernization, but also conform to its own reality and have its own characteristics. " China’s characteristics in five aspects of Chinese modernization show universality, popularity, coordination, symbiosis and openness.

　　First, the huge population reflects the extensiveness of Chinese modernization. The modernization with a huge population is a remarkable feature of Chinese modernization. As the largest developing country in the world, to realize modernization on the basis of a population of more than 1.4 billion means that more people than the total population of all developed countries will enter the ranks of modernization, which will completely rewrite the world map of modernization and fully reflect the extensiveness of China’s modernization drive. The huge population size can provide sufficient human resources and super-large-scale market for modernization. At the same time, the huge population size makes the difficulty and complexity of China’s modernization drive unprecedented, and the development approach and promotion method must have their own characteristics. To promote the modernization with a huge population, we should anchor the people’s yearning for a better life, fully tap the potential of human resources, deeply tap the potential of super-large-scale market, and provide strong human resources guarantee and domestic demand support for modernization. We should actively respond to the people’s demands and multi-level needs in employment, distribution, education, medical care, housing, old-age care and child care, and actively create an environment in which everyone participates in the development process and everyone enjoys the fruits of development, thus rallying more than 1.4 billion people to join in the modernization drive.

　　Second, the common prosperity of all the people reflects the people’s nature of Chinese modernization. The modernization of the common prosperity of all the people is the essential feature of Chinese modernization, and it is also a remarkable symbol different from western modernization. Realizing the common prosperity of all the people is the common expectation of the broad masses of the people, which shows the lofty value pursuit of the new form of human civilization. The biggest drawback of western modernization is that it takes capital as the center rather than people as the center, and pursues the maximization of capital interests rather than serving the interests of the vast majority of people, which leads to a large gap between the rich and the poor and serious polarization. Chinese-style modernization adheres to the people-centered development thought, insists on the people’s dominant position, emphasizes that the people are the main body of modernization and the creators of civilization, insists on development for the people, development depends on the people, and development results are shared by the people, and resolutely prevents polarization. To promote the modernization of common prosperity for all people, we should always take the people’s yearning for a better life as the goal. We should not only make the "cake" bigger and better through the joint efforts of the whole people, but also cut and divide the "cake" through reasonable institutional arrangements, and consciously and actively solve the problems of regional disparity, urban-rural disparity and income distribution gap, so that the achievements of modernization can benefit all people more fairly.

　　Third, the coordination of material civilization and spiritual civilization embodies the coordination of Chinese modernization. It is the lofty pursuit of Chinese modernization to be rich in material and spiritual resources. Chinese-style modernization is deeply rooted in Chinese excellent traditional culture, insisting on both material civilization and spiritual civilization, which provides solid support for creating two miracles of rapid economic development and long-term social stability, and also expands a new realm of civilization development in the ideological basis of unity and struggle, pioneering initiative and healthy and upward value pursuit of all people. To promote the coordinated modernization of material civilization and spiritual civilization, it is necessary to integrate the all-round enrichment of materials and the all-round development of people into the practice of modernization, better meet the people’s growing spiritual and cultural needs, build a socialist ideology with strong cohesion and leading power, develop advanced socialist culture, promote the formation of ideas, spiritual outlook, civilized fashion and behavioral norms that meet the requirements of the new era, continuously enrich the people’s spiritual world, improve the level of civilization of the whole society, promote the all-round development of people and enhance the influence of Chinese culture.

　　Fourthly, man and nature coexist harmoniously, which embodies the symbiosis of Chinese modernization. Respecting nature, conforming to nature, protecting nature and promoting harmonious coexistence between man and nature are the distinctive features of Chinese modernization. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China has adhered to the road of ecological priority and green development, incorporated "Beautiful China" into the goal of becoming a socialist modernization power, integrated "ecological civilization construction" into the overall layout of "Five in One", and integrated "harmonious coexistence between man and nature" into the basic strategy of adhering to and developing Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, creating an ecological miracle and a green development miracle that has attracted worldwide attention, and embarked on a civilized development path of production development, affluent life and good ecology. To promote the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, we should firmly establish and practice Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets’s concept, adhere to the integrated protection and systematic management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grass and sand, promote ecological priority, conservation and intensive, green and low-carbon development, accelerate the green transformation of development mode, enhance the diversity, stability and sustainability of ecosystems, actively and steadily promote carbon neutrality in peak carbon dioxide emissions, and support high-quality development with high-quality ecological environment.

　　Fifth, taking the road of peaceful development reflects the openness of Chinese modernization. Adhering to peaceful development is a prominent feature of Chinese modernization. Our Party has always stood firmly on the right side of history and the progress of human civilization, unified the development of China with the development of the world with a broad vision of the world, and embarked on a modern road to achieve common development and peaceful development through win-win cooperation. Seek self-development while firmly safeguarding world peace and development, and use self-development to better safeguard world peace and development, and contribute China wisdom, China plan and China strength to meet the common challenges faced by all mankind. To promote modernization along the road of peaceful development, we should always hold high the banner of peace, development, cooperation and win-win, pursue an open strategy of mutual benefit and win-win, promote the common values of all mankind, promote the building of a community of human destiny, realize national development by stimulating endogenous power and utilizing external resources, and constantly provide new opportunities for the world with China’s new development.

　　Our Party United and led the people of China to successfully embark on the road of Chinese modernization through long-term unremitting struggle, and achieved remarkable development achievements. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, our party has continued to advance on the existing basis, constantly achieved innovative breakthroughs in theory and practice, and successfully promoted and expanded Chinese modernization. It not only provides new opportunities and new impetus for world development, but also makes new contributions to the theoretical and practical innovation of human social modernization.

　　From the fundamental characteristics, Chinese modernization is the socialist modernization led by the Communist Party of China (CPC). From the construction content, Chinese modernization adheres to the coordinated development of material civilization and spiritual civilization, the sustainable development of economy and society, and the harmonious coexistence of man and nature, which embodies the overall layout of "five in one" and the strategic layout of "four comprehensive". From the realization path, Chinese-style modernization conforms to the development trend of today’s world, takes the new development concept as the guide, takes the synchronous development of the "four modernizations" as the promotion path, takes the construction of a new development pattern as the strategic arrangement, and pays attention to not only deeply tapping the potential of the domestic market, but also deeply participating in the international division of labor, which has distinct epochal and openness. From the perspective of value pursuit, Chinese modernization adheres to the people-centered development thought, and takes the realization of common prosperity of all people as an important content of the essential requirement, which benefits not only the people of China, but also the people of all countries in the world. From the perspective of international relations, Chinese modernization adheres to the concept of building a community of human destiny, and adheres to independence, peaceful development, and win-win cooperation. Chinese-style modernization theory is an important innovation in the modernization of Marxism in China. It is a great theoretical innovation of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the latest great achievement of scientific socialism to put forward and elaborate the Chinese modernization theory in general.

　　The development process of human society is tortuous, and the course of exploring the road of modernization in various countries is full of hardships. Chinese-style modernization not only follows the general law of modernization, but also conforms to China’s reality and has its own characteristics. Based on its own national conditions and drawing lessons from the experience of other countries; Inheriting history and culture and integrating modern civilization; It not only benefits the people of China, but also promotes the common development of the world; It is not only the broad road for our country’s construction and national rejuvenation, but also the only way for China to seek human progress and world harmony. Chinese-style modernization has opened up a new road to modernization and created a new form of human civilization. With its successful practice and theoretical innovation based on practice, it has provided new choices for countries and nations in the world who want to speed up their development and maintain their independence, and provided beneficial enlightenment and experience for the vast number of developing countries to explore their own unique modernization roads based on their own national conditions.

　　(Author: Guo Chunli, director and researcher of Economic Research Institute of China Macroeconomic Research Institute)