China Net Commentator Huazhang
"From now on, the central task of the Communist Party of China is to unite and lead the people of all ethnic groups in the country to fully build a socialist modern power, achieve the second centenary goal, and comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization." On October 16, Xi Jinping made this declaration in the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. In recent days, the international community has heatedly discussed Chinese-style modernization, not only because it is the key to the success of China in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and the roadmap for achieving the second centenary goal, but also because the "harmony" charm in Chinese culture contained therein will contribute Chinese wisdom to the enrichment and development of a new form of human civilization.
For a long time, Western society has monopolized the definition and discourse power of modernization by taking the lead in realizing modernization, equating modernization with Westernization, and instilling into the world that "only by following the path of Western capitalism can modernization be achieved." However, Western modernization is accompanied by endless demands for resources, with brazen conquests on other countries' territories, and with cruel suppression of non-Western civilizations. For the vast majority of developing countries, which are eager to achieve economic prosperity and national rejuvenation, the Western path to modernization cannot be replicated.
And the Communist Party of China leads more than 1.4 billion Chinese people, not relying on plunder and exploiting other countries, but relying solely on its own unremitting efforts to build a poor and weak country into the world's second largest economy. This makes the whole world see that there is not only the West to achieve modernization. Tong Meng Dave, a researcher at the Cambodian Institute of Vision of Asia, is quite representative: "China has completed the fight against poverty and built a moderately prosperous society in all respects. China's success is inspiring many developing countries to bravely explore their own plans for development and prosperity."
The world significance of Chinese-style modernization is far more than its exemplary role. While achieving its own development, China has never been hesitant to share its own development achievements and experience with other countries, and is keen to encourage other countries to find a development path that suits its national conditions.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly proposed to advocate the awareness of a "community with a shared future for mankind", China has always actively promoted the joint construction of the "Belt and Road", maintained the security and stability of the global industrial chain and supply chain, participated in global governance and South-South cooperation in depth, accelerated the implementation of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and was committed to building a world of common prosperity; China has successively put forward global development initiatives and global security initiatives, contributed to the global response to development difficulties and security difficulties, and was committed to building a universally secure world; China launched the multicultural exchange mechanisms such as the Dialogue of Asian Civilizations, the Dialogue of China-Latin America Civilizations Forum, and the Dialogue of China-Africa Civilizations Conference, and advocated the promotion of civilized exchanges and mutual learning through cultural exchanges, and enhance the understanding and learning of each other through civilized exchanges and mutual learning, and strive to build an open and inclusive world. This is also very different from the modernization path of "success and defeated" in the West.
is different from the traditional Western dual opposition thinking, and Chinese traditional culture advocates the idea of "harmony". For a long time, harmony is the most important thing and harmony is to seek harmony by "harmony" and to examine itself and deal with relationships between people and countries. The idea of "harmony" not only respects the differences and diversity between things, but also emphasizes the importance of achieving harmonious unity on this basis. General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward the concept of unity in human destiny, emphasizing that countries should "sharing beauty of beauty and sharing beauty" and believe that "only China can be good if the world is good; when China is good, the world can be better." These concepts are rooted in the traditional Chinese idea of "harmony" and are the inheritance and development of China's excellent traditional culture.
China's "harmony" idea is also reflected in dealing with the relationship between man and nature. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China elevated "modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature" to one of the connotations of "Chinese-style modernization", and once again clarified the strategic tasks of China's ecological civilization construction in the new era.Before this, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out profoundly: "my country's modernization focuses on simultaneously promoting the construction of material civilization and ecological civilization, and takes the path of civilized development with production development, prosperous life and good ecology, otherwise the pressure on resources and environment will be unbearable." He repeatedly emphasized the concept of " green waters and green mountains are gold and silver mountains ", and placed environmental protection at an equal importance as economic development, and even more important than the latter. Under the guidance of high-level strategies, in the past 10 years, China has formulated and revised more than 20 laws and regulations, including the Biosafety Law, Forest Law, Wildlife Protection Law, , Wetland Protection Law, etc., providing solid legal guarantees for ecological protection. The concept of
takes the lead in escorting the rule of law, and promotes significant improvement in China's ecological environment. In 2021, the average concentration of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in cities at or above the prefecture level nationwide decreased by 34.8% compared with 2015; the proportion of surface water I-III sections in the country reached 84.9%; soil pollution risks were effectively controlled. In the past 10 years, China has completed a total of 960 million mu of forests, improved grass planting and improvement, and added and restored wetlands for more than 12 million mu. China's forest coverage rate reached 24.02%, and the comprehensive vegetation coverage of grassland reached 50.32%, contributing one-quarter of the new forest area to the world. China has set a arduous task for itself to achieve carbon peak from to carbon neutrality in the shortest time in global history. As the world is facing energy crisis, some countries are still moving step by step towards the established goal when they show signs of regression in their stance on carbon emission reduction.
China's enterprising spirit in environmental protection work is not only due to the moral persistence of a responsible major country, but also the inheritance and development of Chinese traditional culture. China has had the idea of "harmony between man and nature" since ancient times, which is another important part of the idea of "harmony". This idea believes that there is a certain inevitable connection between human society and the natural environment. Confucianism , which has a profound impact on China and even Asia, emphasizes the harmonious unity between nature and human society. The concepts proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping, "Green water and green mountains are gold and silver mountains" and "ice and snow are gold and silver mountains" contain the ecological ideas of ancient Chinese sages "harmony between man and nature" and "Tao follows nature", emphasizing that the ecological environment not only has economic value, but also social and ecological value. Therefore, on the road of modernization, China has not followed the old path of "pollution first and then governance" in Western society. It has achieved the restoration and effective protection of the ecological environment in a shorter time, and achieved the mutual promotion and harmonious unity of economic and social development and ecological environment protection.
The current world is suffering from the impact of the epidemic, economic downturn, conflicts and wars, and contradictions are constantly conflicting. After all, it is that humans have deviations in their concepts and methods of understanding and transforming the world. The Chinese-style modernization path is based on the harmonious unity of all things in the world. It may point out the direction for the global bridge of development gap, get rid of security difficulties, and achieve sustainable development. It is a major theoretical contribution to the new form of human civilization. (Editor in charge: Leshui Yuxin Yuan Jing)
