Deeply understand the civilization implication of Chinese path to modernization Human civilization | people | China
Author: Gao Zhengli
On the basis of long-term exploration and practice since the founding of New China, especially since the reform and opening up, and through innovative breakthroughs in theory and practice since the 18th CPC National Congress, our party has successfully promoted and expanded Chinese path to modernization. Chinese path to modernization has not only pushed the Chinese nation to embrace a great leap from standing up, becoming rich to becoming strong, but also promoted the progress of human civilization, created a new form of human civilization, and has a very high civilization implication.
Developed a new type of spiritual civilization in human society
One of the important features of Chinese path to modernization is the coordination of material civilization and spiritual civilization, and the innovative development of a new type of spiritual civilization in human society. Classic Marxist writers once envisioned that socialist society could create a higher spiritual civilization than capitalist society. After the basic completion of socialist transformation, the Party clearly pointed out that the main contradiction in our country is already the contradiction between the people's demand for establishing an advanced industrial country and the reality of a backward agricultural country, and the contradiction between the people's need for rapid economic and cultural development and the current situation where the economy and culture cannot meet the needs of the people. Based on this, it is clear that the main task of the Chinese people is to concentrate their efforts on developing social productive forces, achieving national industrialization, gradually meeting the growing material and cultural needs of the people, and incorporating "scientific and technological modernization" into the "four modernizations" target tasks. At the beginning of the reform and opening up, Comrade Deng Xiaoping proposed that "the socialist country we want to build should not only have a high level of material civilization, but also a high level of spiritual civilization." The construction of material civilization and spiritual civilization should be "dual handed" and "dual handed". Later, the Party's understanding of the overall layout of Chinese path to modernization has expanded from "two in one", "three in one", "four in one" to "five in one", and the construction of spiritual civilization has always been one of them. Capitalism and its previous societies were societies where the ruling class "dominated spiritual production", and "dominant thoughts" and "spiritual power" were both "thoughts of the ruling class". They were not only idealistic, superstitious, and blindly obedient, but also a cultural and ideological culture enjoyed by a very small number of people in society, with the vast majority being imprisoned and enslaved. The spiritual civilization we want to build is socialist spiritual civilization, which is guided by Marxism and meets the needs of the people's lives. The purpose is to promote the cultivation of great virtue, public ethics, and strict private ethics, improve the moral standards and cultural literacy of the people, develop a scientific and popular socialist advanced culture that is oriented towards modernization, the world, and the future of the nation, and cultivate and practice the core socialist values. Socialist spiritual civilization is a new type of spiritual civilization in human society, which is a proactive, optimistic, scientific and healthy spiritual civilization.
Opened up the path of civilization for human modernization
Modernization is not only the result of human transformation from traditional society to modern society, but also the process of transformation itself. The modernization of capitalism, especially in old capitalist countries, is achieved through internal exploitation of the laboring masses, external wars, slave trade, colonization, plunder, and other means. "From head to toe, every pore drips with blood and dirty things.". This is a modernization path that brings deep suffering to the people of our country and the oppressed ethnic groups in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It is a barbaric path full of bloody crimes and morally condemned. The exploration and promotion of Chinese path to modernization always rely on the hard work and innovation of the domestic people to achieve its own development and growth. In terms of foreign exchanges, since the establishment of the People's Republic of China, it has implemented an independent and peaceful foreign policy, established and adhered to the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence to handle relations between countries, and clearly established the development of unity and cooperation with third world countries as the starting point of diplomatic work. It has always been committed to maintaining world peace and development, seeking its own development, and promoting world peace and development through its own development. It actively assists developing countries in getting rid of poverty and moving towards modernization, taking a new path of peaceful development and occupying the moral high ground of human civilization and modernization.Therefore, the remarkable achievements and valuable experience of Chinese path to modernization have broadened the way for developing countries to move towards modernization, provided new options for countries and nations in the world who both want to accelerate development and maintain their independence, and contributed Chinese wisdom and solutions to human problems.
Promoted the modern transformation of Chinese civilization
The Chinese civilization has a long and profound history, making significant contributions to the progress of human civilization. It also contains the intellectual wisdom to solve various problems and challenges faced by human society since modern times. In the course of more than a hundred years of struggle, our party has insisted on combining the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific reality and with the excellent traditional Chinese culture. It has insisted on taking Marxism as the guiding ideology, and has insisted on finding the source of the excellent traditional Chinese culture, constantly promoting the modernization of Marxism in China, and exploring and promoting Chinese path to modernization. The cosmology, world outlook, social outlook, and moral outlook advocated by the Chinese civilization, such as "the world is for the public, the people are the foundation of the country, reform the old, strive for self-improvement, and be kind-hearted and good neighbors", are the wisdom source of Chinese path to modernization.
Promoted the exchange and mutual learning of human civilization
Capitalist modernization adheres to cultural and civilization views such as zero sum game, self centeredness, modernization=Westernization, advantages and disadvantages of civilization, and conflicts. It has always regarded Western values and cultural habits as so-called "universal values" and forcibly promoted them to developing countries, believing that its own race and civilization are superior, and insisting on changing or even replacing other civilizations, causing great damage to the survival and continuation of many civilizations. Civilizations exchange and learn from each other due to diversity, and develop through mutual learning. Civilization exchange and learning are inexhaustible driving forces for the progress of human civilization; Civilization can only be distinguished by national characteristics, regional influence, and formal expression, without any distinction between high and low advantages or disadvantages. The various civilizations created by humanity are shining brightly, accumulating a rich foundation and endowing each country with distinct characteristics for modernization. Therefore, Chinese path to modernization advocates "respecting the diversity of world civilizations", "transcending civilization estrangement through civilization exchange, civilization mutual learning, civilization conflict, civilization tolerance, and civilization superiority". Since the establishment of the People's Republic of China, the Party has led the people to adhere to Marxism as the guide, draw on the wisdom of excellent traditional Chinese culture, and boldly draw on the beneficial achievements of all human civilizations. It has carried out cultural exchanges, dialogue, and cooperation with countries around the world, including capitalist modernized countries. Not only has it prospered and developed the advanced culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics, but it has also made important contributions to the exchange, mutual learning, and progressive development of human civilization.
Created a new form of human civilization
Human beings have created various forms of civilization. The CPC is not only a party for the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the happiness of the Chinese people, but also a party for the progress of mankind and the great harmony of the world. It always holds the world in mind, closely links the fate of the Chinese people with the fate of people in other countries, and takes the realization of a free and comprehensive development of the communist society of all mankind as its lofty goal. The Chinese path to modernization that the Party leads the people to explore, create, promote and expand has Chinese characteristics, such as a huge population, common prosperity of all people, coordination of material and spiritual civilization, harmonious coexistence of man and nature, and peaceful development. It follows the essential requirements of adhering to the leadership of the CPC, adhering to socialism with Chinese characteristics, achieving high-quality development, and developing people's democracy throughout the process, represents the development direction of human civilization and progress, shows a new picture different from the western modernization model, and is a new form of human civilization. The unique world view, values, history view, civilization view, democracy view, ecological view, etc. contained in Chinese path to modernization and its great practice are major innovations in the theory and practice of world modernization. As a new form of human civilization, Chinese path to modernization will greatly enrich the garden of world civilizations by learning from other civilizations around the world.
Guangming Daily
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