Xu Weixin.
In his congratulatory letter to the 2023 "Understanding China" International Conference (Guangzhou), the General Secretary pointed out: "Today, China is comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation with Chinese-style modernization, and promoting the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind, and China's future and destiny are closely linked to the future and destiny of mankind. "As China becomes an important engine of global development and the world's second largest economy, more and more people want to understand China's current shape and long-term trend. To understand China, we must understand China in the new era, the Communist Party of China, and Chinese-style modernization.
Where do we come from? Where are we headed? ”
In 2015, when the general secretary met with foreign representatives at the second "Understanding China" International Conference, someone on the scene asked how a developing China would handle its relations with the outside world. **The general secretary traced the source: "We came from? Where are we headed? Today, I have always reminded myself that I must have such a sense of history. The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed: "After long-term efforts, socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, which is a new historical direction for China's development." "To understand China in the new era, we must have a sense of history and a deep insight into where we have come from and where we are going.
The China in the new era that we need to understand is the inheritance and innovative development of Chinese civilization for more than 5,000 years. For more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has nurtured and formed unique folk customs and beliefs, formed a unique value system for looking at the world, society and life, and has always maintained the stability of the main body of civilization. The excellent traditional Chinese culture has become the gene of the Chinese nation, rooted in the hearts of the Chinese, and subtly affects the way of thinking and behavior of the Chinese.
In the new era, China has been nurtured and grown up in the history of world socialist development for more than 500 years. In 1516, the publication of Thomas More's Utopia marked the birth of utopian socialism. In 1848, Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto was published, marking the birth of scientific socialism. In 1917, Lenin led the October Revolution to victory and established the first socialist state. Over the past 500 years, socialism has evolved from utopian to scientific, from theory to practice, from one country to many countries, and socialism with Chinese characteristics has irreversibly and irreplaceably become the mainstream of the development of scientific socialism.
In the new era, China has come from the historical process of the Chinese nation from decline to prosperity for more than 180 years since modern times. After the Opium War, China fell into a dark situation of internal and external troubles, and the Chinese nation suffered unprecedented calamities. Countless people with lofty ideals have been indomitable, one after another, and have carried out a struggle that can be sung and wept. The history of modern times is the history of the great struggle and exploration carried out by the Chinese people in pursuit of national prosperity and strength, national rejuvenation and people's happiness.
In the new era, China has come through more than 100 years of practice in which the Party has led the people to carry out the great social revolution. The October Revolution brought Marxism-Leninism to China with the sound of a cannon. The Communist Party of China came into being in the course of combining Marxism-Leninism with the Chinese workers' movement, which profoundly changed the direction and course of the development of the Chinese nation after modern times, profoundly changed the future and destiny of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation, and profoundly changed the trend and pattern of world development.
In the new era, China has developed through continuous exploration for more than 70 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China. How to build socialism in China is a brand-new issue facing the party. Our party has gone through hardships and ups and downs and has constantly explored a path of socialist construction suited to China's national conditions, thus providing valuable experience, theoretical preparation, and material foundation for opening up a new historical period.
In the new era, China has forged ahead in the great practice of reform and opening up for more than 40 years. In the new era of reform, opening up and socialist modernization, the Party has led the people to pioneer the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, which is the correct path to guide China's development and prosperity, and has pushed China to catch up with the times in great strides. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Comrade China has led the people to forge ahead, providing a more perfect institutional guarantee, a more solid material foundation, and a more active spiritual force for the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
To understand today's China, we must understand the Communist Party of China."
** In his reply to the international students at Peking University, the general secretary pointed out that "to understand today's China, we must understand the Communist Party of China." Everything the CPC has done is to seek happiness for the Chinese people, rejuvenation for the Chinese nation, and peace and development for mankind.
The Communist Party of China has always represented the fundamental interests of the broadest masses of the people, shared weal and woe with the people, and depended on them for life and death, without any special interests of its own, and has never represented the interests of any interest group, any powerful group, or any privileged stratum. In the different historical periods of revolution, construction, and reform, the CPC led the Chinese people in waging an extremely arduous struggle to build a large eastern country with a large population and a great socialist new China. Especially since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, under the strong leadership of Comrade Zheng as the core, the cause of the Party and the country has made historic achievements and undergone historic changes. China is the world's second largest economy, has won the largest battle against poverty in human history, and hundreds of millions of people have truly lived a well-off and happy life.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) led the people in a bloody struggle and perseverance, established the People's Republic of China, achieved national independence and people's liberation, and "sang the rooster and the world was white". After more than 70 years of continuous construction, exploration, innovation and development of the People's Republic of China, we are closer to the goal of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation than at any other time in history, and we are more confident and capable of achieving this goal than at any other time in history. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the Chinese nation has ushered in a great leap from standing up, getting rich to becoming strong, and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has entered an irreversible historical process.
With a global mind, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has not only focused on China's development, but has also made important contributions to world economic growth. At present, we are focusing on promoting high-quality development, promoting institutional opening-up, building a new development pattern with the domestic cycle as the mainstay and the domestic and international cycles reinforcing each other, creating a first-class business environment, and providing broad markets and more business opportunities for all countries. At the same time, the Communist Party of China (CPC) advocates a new type of security path featuring dialogue rather than confrontation, partnership rather than alliance, and win-win rather than zero-sum, emphasizing adherence to the concept of common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security, attaching importance to the legitimate security concerns of all countries, resolving differences and disputes between countries through dialogue and consultation, and always being a builder of world peace.
The key to understanding China is to understand Chinese modernization."
On December 2, 2023, in a congratulatory letter to the 2023 "Understanding China" International Conference (Guangzhou), General Secretary ** emphasized that "the key to understanding China is to understand Chinese-style modernization". Comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization is the mission and task of the Communist Party of China in the new era and new journey. Only by understanding Chinese modernization can we understand today's China.
Chinese modernization is a modernization that adheres to the path of independent development. Chinese-style modernization is socialist modernization under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, which has the common characteristics of human modernization and Chinese characteristics based on its own national conditions. To understand Chinese-style modernization, it is necessary to break the myth of "modernization = Westernization", strengthen exchanges and cooperation among countries on the basis of equality and respect, and jointly follow the path of modernization that suits their national conditions.
Chinese modernization is the pursuit of common prosperity of human society. **The General Secretary pointed out: "We are unswervingly committed to expanding the convergence of interests with other countries, and constantly bring new impetus and new opportunities to the world with China's new development." China looks forward to working with other countries to achieve world modernization featuring peaceful development, mutually beneficial cooperation and common prosperity. "Chinese modernization seeks its own development while firmly safeguarding world peace and development, and better safeguards world peace and development through its own development.
Chinese modernization is a modernization that promotes exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations. The diversity of human civilization is a fundamental feature of the world and a source of human progress. Chinese modernization integrates the scientific truth of Marxism and the great civilization of the Chinese nation, draws on the achievements of outstanding civilizations of all countries in the world, realizes the organic combination of tradition and modernity, embarks on a new path of civilization development, promotes the inclusive coexistence of different civilizations, and promotes mutual understanding and mutual understanding among people of all countries.
Author: Xu Weixin, President of the China National Innovation and Development Strategy Research Association, former Vice President of the Party School