Lixiang China: Building a community with a shared future for mankind and Chinese modernization

Mondo International Updated on 2024-01-31

This article**[China Social Science Net];

**In the report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the General Secretary pointed out: "China has always adhered to the foreign policy purpose of safeguarding world peace and promoting common development, and is committed to promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind. "Promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind is not only a strategic choice for China to respond to the challenges of the times, but also an essential requirement of Chinese modernization. When revealing the Chinese characteristics of Chinese-style modernization, the general secretary pointed out that "China's modernization emphasizes mutual benefit and win-win results with all countries in the world, promotes the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind, and strives to contribute to human peace and development", closely combines Chinese-style modernization with the promotion of building a community with a shared future for mankind, and closely links the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with the future and destiny of all mankind, and clearly declares that China will continue to uphold peace, development, cooperation, The banner of win-win, the firm confidence, determination and ability to unswervingly follow the path of peaceful development. To deeply understand the mission of the times and the historical significance of promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind and demonstrating the lofty mission of Chinese-style modernization, we should focus on the following three aspects.

First, Chinese modernization solves the problem of world modernization and clarifies the historical inevitability of building a community with a shared future for mankind. ** The general secretary pointed out: "If we solve national problems well, we will have a stronger ability to solve world problems;If we sum up China's practice well, we will have a stronger ability to provide ideas and methods for solving world problems. "The successful practice of Chinese-style modernization has laid a solid foundation for building a community with a shared future for mankind. First of all, building a community with a shared future for mankind is an inevitable requirement for conforming to the development trend of world history. With the rapid rise of emerging economies and developing countries represented by China, the international political and economic order is facing reshaping and transformation, and the world situation is showing a development trend of rising in the east and falling in the west. Marx pointed out that communism can only become a reality if it exists as a world history, and now the trend of "history turning into world history" is even more prominent. Promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind is to replace mutual isolation with interconnectedness and mutual exclusion with interdependence, which is the Chinese wisdom that focuses on the overall interests of mankind, is based on the law of human historical development, and conforms to the development trend of world history. Second, building a community with a shared future for mankind is the only way to address global issues. Due to the obstacles of economic globalization, it is more urgent to promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind. In the face of international political, economic, security and health challenges, all countries need to transcend narrow national interests, abandon the Cold War mentality, closely integrate the interests of other countries, jointly address global challenges, and explore the right way to overcome difficulties. Finally, building a community with a shared future for mankind is the right choice that has been proven in practice. Since the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind was proposed, it has not only contributed China's strength to the development and prosperity of the world, but also won wide recognition from people around the world. As the world's second largest economy, China's average contribution to world economic growth is more than 30%, which is undoubtedly the main driving force for world economic development. While achieving this development achievement, China is also deeply aware of its heavy responsibility and continues to help build a broader community of interests by providing public goods for global governance, so that all countries can share the fruits and dividends of China's progress. China has always used its own development to drive other countries, especially the Belt and Road Initiative, which has achieved excellent results as a precursor to building a community with a shared future for mankind, which has greatly promoted the economic prosperity of neighboring countries.

Second, Chinese-style modernization has created a new form of human civilization and painted a civilizational background for building a community with a shared future for mankind. Chinese modernization is based on the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and since ancient times, the spiritual world of the Chinese nation has contained the ideas of "harmony among all nations" and "kindness and good-neighborliness". These profound wisdoms are like genes integrated into the blood of the Chinese, constituting the unique spiritual outlook of the Chinese nation and laying a solid foundation for friendly exchanges between China and other countries in the world. Chinese modernization is unique in that it is not built on the basis of external expansion and plunder, but is committed to the peaceful development and mutual benefit of all countries. This pursuit of modernization is not only in line with China's national interests, but also highly consistent with the long-term interests of human society. The report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) emphasized that "Chinese-style modernization is modernization that follows the path of peaceful development", which profoundly revealed the internal logic and essential attributes of Chinese-style modernization, effectively countered the outdated mindset of "a strong country must be hegemonic", and clearly expressed China's determination and confidence to firmly pursue a defensive national defense policy and unswervingly follow the path of peaceful development. Peace is the foundation of development, and there can be no development without peace, and China's development cannot be separated from a peaceful international environment. Realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is not only the desire and pursuit of the Chinese people, but also deeply in line with the development vision of the people of all countries, and closely linked to the world dream of lasting peace and common prosperity. The concept of a community with a shared future for mankind represents China's firm commitment to world peace and development, embodies the universal aspirations and common aspirations of all mankind, and has increasingly aroused widespread and strong resonance in the international community. China will draw spiritual nourishment from this concept, further consolidate its relations with neighboring countries, and improve the quality of its relations with developing countries, especially emerging powers, so that the world will believe that China is developing itself while maintaining world peace, and will feed the world with its own development, promote world peace, and actively promote the development of globalization in a more inclusive, inclusive and balanced direction. ** The general secretary pointed out that "China will always be a builder of world peace". This is a strategic choice and solemn commitment made by the Party and the country based on the development trend of the times and the fundamental interests of the country, and embodies the civilizational background of building a community with a shared future for mankind.

Third, Chinese modernization presents a new picture of world development and broadens the path of building a community with a shared future for mankind. **The general secretary pointed out: "Chinese modernization has broken the myth of 'modernization = Westernization', presented another picture of modernization, expanded the path options for developing countries to modernize, and provided a Chinese solution for mankind's exploration of a better social system." Different from the path of modernization taken by developed countries in the West, Chinese modernization is full of strong pursuit of a new picture of world development of "lasting peace, universal security, common prosperity, openness, inclusiveness, cleanliness and beauty". All things nurture each other without harming each other, and the Tao goes hand in hand without contradicting each other. As the guiding ideology and fundamental principle of China's diplomacy in the new era, the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind can not only effectively respond to the universal aspirations of the people of all countries for peace, development and cooperation, but also point out the fundamental path to solve global problems, thus becoming a clear banner leading the trend of the times and the direction of human progress. We should firmly pursue an independent foreign policy of peace, uphold the concept of "one family" and actively carry out multilateral diplomatic activities with all countries, seek common ground while reserving differences, share weal and woe, and work together to build a community with a shared future for mankind. It is necessary to persist in developing friendly and cooperative relations with other countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, carry out more effective and in-depth international cooperation on the basis of equality and mutual benefit, and promote the establishment of a new type of international relations on the premise of mutual respect. It is necessary to adhere to the basic national policy of opening up to the outside world, firmly pursue a mutually beneficial and win-win opening-up strategy, participate in international macroeconomic policy coordination, and jointly cultivate new drivers of global development. It is necessary to actively participate in the reform and construction of the global governance system, build a value-oriented governance pattern of "extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits", establish a governance concept that follows the principle of justice and benefit, and improve the modernization level of national and global governance. It is necessary to deepen exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations, promote the common values of all mankind, and then enhance the consensus on values, and on this basis, lead and promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind. It is necessary to adhere to political leadership, continue to consolidate and strengthen the Party's centralized and unified leadership over external affairs, improve the Party's leadership system and mechanism for foreign affairs, and deepen international cooperation and exchanges between political parties. It should be emphasized that to promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, "it is not about replacing one system with another, not with one civilization for another, but about the symbiosis of interests, rights and responsibilities among countries with different social systems, ideologies, histories and cultures, and different levels of development in international affairs, so as to form the greatest common divisor for building a better world." By finding the greatest common denominator, countries can live in harmony and learn from each other, which will help promote cooperation on the basis of equality, respect and mutual benefit, and promote the development of a more just and reasonable global governance system.

Author's Affiliation: School of Marxism, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry).

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