Since the first industrial revolution of mechanization, China has lagged behind, and many articles have appeared on the Internet that study the reasons for China's backwardness. A large number of them say that Chinese culture lacks logical thinking and scientific thinking, as if China will always lag behind the United States and the West in scientific research. The effect is to dampen the self-confidence of the Chinese people and prevent the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. In fact, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the gap between China and the United States and the West has been narrowing, catching up with the last train of the second industrial revolution of electrification, closely following the third industrial revolution of informatization, and currently welcoming the fourth industrial revolution of intelligence. Therefore, we should all the more study why New China is catching up so quickly, so as to enhance our self-confidence in building a strong country and rejuvenating the nation.
China's culture of written inheritance began with the Zhou Dynasty, which brought about a cultural revolution in China, bidding farewell to the religious culture of the Xia and Shang superstitions of ghosts and gods, and laying the foundation for a secular materialist culture. The whole world is a religious culture, but the whole people in China do not believe in religion, and those who believe in religion are a minority. It can be said that the Chinese nation is the first nation in the world to become enlightened, so China has led the world for thousands of years. China's backwardness began in modern times, because Confucian culture emphasized literature over reason, and the imperial examination system induced literati to pursue fame, so they missed the first industrial revolution. However, the secular materialist culture emphasizes practicality, is good at learning, is not exclusive, open and inclusive, and materialism is the basis of scientific thinking, so China learns to catch up quickly.
In modern times, although the United States and the West have developed rapidly, the scientific thinking of the United States and the West is not completely influenced by the teachings, Newton and Einstein are great scientists, but they all believe that God created the world. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, under the guidance of Marxist materialism, China's secular materialism was sublimated. Chinese people are not religious, not exclusive, open and inclusive, and we can learn the logical thinking and scientific thinking of the United States and the West. Thorough materialists are fearless, Chinese scientific thinking is not constrained by religious thinking, is not superstitious, and dares to break through and innovate. The industrial revolution is a revolution in the real industry, and China's industrial categories and industrial chains are the most complete in the world, and will become the main battlefield of the fourth industrial revolution.