Viewing the World through the Unique Worldview Embodied in Chinese-Path Modernization

In today’s world, the process of human social development twists and turns, and the paths of modernization explored by various countries and nations are strewn with thorns and fraught with hardships. Multiple challenges and crises are intertwined and overlapping: the world economy is struggling to recover, the development gap continues to widen, and the ecological environment continues to deteriorate. Once again, the modernization process of human society has arrived at a crossroads of history. Polarization or common prosperity? Material supremacy or coordinated material and spiritual development? Draining the pond to catch fish or harmonious coexistence between humanity and nature? Zero-sum game or win-win cooperation? Copying other countries’ models or pursuing independent development based on one’s own national conditions? What kind of modernization do we actually need? How can modernization be achieved? These “questions concerning world modernization” confront humanity and urgently demand answers that meet the needs of the times.

当今世界，人类社会发展进程曲折起伏，世界各国、各民族探索现代化道路的历程荆棘密布、充满艰辛。多重挑战和危机交织叠加，世界经济复苏艰难，发展鸿沟不断拉大，生态环境持续恶化，人类社会现代化进程又一次来到历史的十字路口。两极分化还是共同富裕？物质至上还是物质精神协调发展？竭泽而渔还是人与自然和谐共生？零和博弈还是合作共赢？照抄照搬别国模式还是立足自身国情自主发展？我们究竟需要什么样的现代化？怎样才能实现现代化？这些“世界现代化之问”横亘在人类面前，迫切需要做出时代应答。

Chinese-path modernization is deeply rooted in fine traditional Chinese culture, embodies the advanced nature of scientific socialism, draws on and absorbs all outstanding achievements of human civilization, represents the direction of progress in human civilization, presents a new picture different from the Western modernization model, and is a brand-new form of human civilization. Chinese-path modernization has broken the myth that “modernization equals Westernization,” presented another picture of modernization, expanded the pathway choices for developing countries to achieve modernization, and provided a Chinese solution for humanity’s exploration of better social systems. In particular, the unique worldview embodied in Chinese-path modernization and its great practice represent a major innovation in the theory and practice of world modernization, offering important methodological options for developing countries to move toward modernization independently and autonomously.

中国式现代化，深深植根于中华优秀传统文化，体现科学社会主义的先进本质，借鉴吸收一切人类优秀文明成果，代表人类文明进步的发展方向，展现了不同于西方现代化模式的新图景，是一种全新的人类文明形态。中国式现代化，打破了“现代化=西方化”的迷思，展现了现代化的另一幅图景，拓展了发展中国家走向现代化的路径选择，为人类对更好社会制度的探索提供了中国方案。特别是中国式现代化蕴含的独特世界观及其伟大实践，是对世界现代化理论和实践的重大创新，为广大发展中国家独立自主迈向现代化提供了重要方法论选择。

Relying on the major project of the National Social Science Fund, “Research on the Worldview Embodied in Chinese-Path Modernization,”[1]1 The National Social Science Fund (NSSF) is the primary government-funded research grant program for philosophy and social sciences in China, managed by the National Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences. we concentrate academic research, academic innovation, and academic focus on the study of the worldview of Chinese-path modernization and use that worldview to view the world. Amid the many contradictory movements between China and the world, tradition and modernity, theory and practice, present and future, thought and existence, we closely focus on major issues of a premise-based, fundamental, and decisive nature, grasp the “questions concerning world modernization,” and strive to provide possible intellectual support within a theoretical (academic) perspective for answering the world-class and century-long difficulties facing human modernization.

以“中国式现代化所蕴含的世界观研究”这一国家社科基金重大项目为依托，把学术研究、学术创新、学术焦点，集中在中国式现代化世界观研究上，以中国式现代化世界观看天下。在中国与世界、传统与现代、理论与实践、现在与未来、思维与存在等诸多矛盾运动中，紧紧围绕具有前提性、根本性、决定性意义的重大问题，把握“世界现代化之问”，力争在理论（学术）视野中，为应答人类现代化面临的世界难题和世纪难题提供可能的智力支持。

First, grasp China and the world through the worldview of Chinese-path modernization. The worldview of Chinese-path modernization stresses cultivating oneself and benefiting others while caring for the whole world [2]2 “Cultivating oneself and benefiting others while caring for the whole world” (lìjǐdárén, jiānjì tiānxià) reflects traditional Chinese ideals: first cultivating one’s own virtue to help others (from the Analects), then extending concern to all under Heaven (from Mencius), here used to express China’s vision of global common development.; it embraces not only the strategic overall situation of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation but also the changes unseen in a century in the world. While persisting in advancing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese-path modernization, it closely links its own destiny with that of the people of all countries, strives to provide new opportunities for world development with new achievements of Chinese-path modernization, offers new impetus for humanity’s exploration of modernization paths, and makes new contributions to innovation in the theory and practice of human social modernization. Chinese-path modernization actively shoulders the historical theme of the world; it is not only focused on China – building a great modern socialist country and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation – but also on all of humanity, promoting peace and development in world history with its own strength. The Communist Party of China, stepping beyond the perspective of a single country, takes promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind as one of the essential requirements of Chinese-path modernization, actively responds to the common concerns of the people of all countries, takes the initiative to contribute to solving the common problems facing humanity, and promotes the building of a better world.

第一，在中国式现代化世界观中把握中国与世界。中国式现代化世界观强调立己达人、兼济天下，不仅胸怀中华民族伟大复兴的战略全局，同时注重世界百年未有之大变局，在坚持以中国式现代化推进中华民族伟大复兴的同时，把自身命运同各国人民的命运紧紧联系在一起，努力以中国式现代化新成就为世界发展提供新机遇，为人类对现代化道路的探索提供新助力，为人类社会现代化理论和实践创新作出新贡献。中国式现代化主动担负起世界历史主题，不仅着眼于中国，建设社会主义现代化强国和实现中华民族伟大复兴，更着眼于全人类，以自身力量推动世界历史的和平与发展。中国共产党跳出中国一国视角，用世界眼光把推动构建人类命运共同体作为中国式现代化的本质要求之一，积极回应各国人民普遍关切，主动为解决人类面临的共同问题作出贡献，推动建设更加美好的世界。

Second, grasp China and the Global South through the worldview of Chinese-path modernization. China comes from the Global South, cares deeply about the Global South, and is rooted in the Global South; it is a natural member of the Global South and therefore pays attention to modernization in the South. China has always adhered to an independent development path, maintained an open and inclusive development attitude, always insisted on mutual respect and equal treatment of all countries, especially developing countries, understood and supported the people of Southern countries in choosing their own development paths, and takes the initiative to join hands with developing countries in advancing their respective modernization processes, optimizing bilateral trade structures, raising the level of cooperation, achieving complementary advantages, promoting the comprehensive economic, social, and cultural development of Southern countries, thereby providing other developing countries with space to autonomously choose their development paths and infusing them with confidence and momentum for development. At the same time, the worldview of Chinese-path modernization provides late-starting Southern countries with a practical path for avoiding the “modernization paradox” and the “malady of modernity” of the West.

第二，在中国式现代化世界观中把握中国与南方。中国出身南方、心系南方、扎根南方，是全球南方天然成员，因此，关注南方现代化。中国始终坚持独立自主的发展道路，秉持开放包容的发展态度，始终坚持相互尊重、平等相待世界各国尤其是发展中国家，理解和支持南方国家人民选择自己的发展道路，主动同发展中国家携手推进各自现代化进程，优化双边贸易结构、提升合作水平，实现优势互补，促进南方国家经济、社会、文化全面发展，为其他发展中国家自主选择发展道路提供了空间，注入发展信心和发展动力。同时，中国式现代化世界观为后发南方国家规避西方“现代化悖论”和“现代性之殇”提供了实践路径。

Third, grasp China and the new form of human civilization through the worldview of Chinese-path modernization. In the twenty-first century, world modernization presents three basic configurations: Chinese-path modernization, Western modernization, and the modernization of developing countries. The worldview of Chinese-path modernization contains the outlook of a commonwealth under Heaven, the outlook of coordinated development, and the outlook of win-win cooperation. Within the grand pattern of world history, the Chinese people, the Communist Party of China, socialism with Chinese characteristics, Chinese-path modernization, and the new form of human civilization are all great products of the development of human civilization. Although Western civilization opened the door to modern human civilization, this by no means implies that modern human civilization is Western civilization. In fact, the door to human civilization that has already been opened is bringing to all of humanity a brand-new, unlimited, and vast space for creation. Chinese-path modernization has dissolved the discursive hegemony of Western modernity; with the new form of human civilization it has created, it is becoming the true master of the progress of human civilization.

第三，在中国式现代化世界观中把握中国与人类文明新形态。21世纪世界现代化呈现了中国式现代化、西方现代化、发展中国家现代化三个基本盘。中国式现代化世界观蕴含着天下大同观、协调发展观、合作共赢观，在宏大世界历史格局中，中国人民、中国共产党、中国特色社会主义、中国式现代化、人类文明新形态，都是人类文明发展的伟大产物。西方文明固然打开了人类现代文明的大门，但这绝不意味着人类现代文明就是西方文明。实际上，已经被打开的人类文明大门正在给全人类带来一个崭新的、无限的、广阔的创造天地。中国式现代化消解了西方现代化话语霸权，以其创造的人类文明新形态，正在成为人类文明进步的真正主宰者。

In summary, Chinese-path modernization has expanded a new path for developing countries to achieve modernization, provided a Chinese civilization solution for better protecting and passing on human civilization, and offered richer and broader possibilities for the development of world civilization and the comprehensive progress of humanity.

总之，中国式现代化拓展了发展中国家走向现代化的新道路，为更好保护、传承人类文明提供了中国文明方案，为世界文明发展和人类全面进步提供了更加丰富而广阔的可能性空间。

(The author is Dean of the Institute of Chinese-Path Modernization, Northeastern University)

（作者系东北大学中国式现代化研究院院长）

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