Boosting Global South Modernization with Chinese-Path Modernization

Modernization is a common task facing Global South countries and the greatest common divisor that pools their consensus and shared interests. For a long time, the international order dominated by Western countries has placed numerous obstacles in the way of Global South modernization; international rules and North-South relations have in many cases been unfavorable to the modernization process of the Global South. Hegemonism, economic sanctions, and "human rights" standards have become important factors hindering Global South modernization. In the international political and economic landscape, the modernization process of the vast number of developing countries still lags significantly behind that of developed countries. Therefore, in the era of economic globalization, Global South modernization concerns not only these countries' own development and stability but is also the key to achieving common global development and common prosperity.

现代化是全球南方国家面临的共同课题，也是汇集全球南方国家共识与共同利益的最大公约数。长期以来，西方国家主导的国际秩序对全球南方现代化形成了诸多障碍，国际规则和南北关系在很多情况下对全球南方现代化进程是不利的。霸权主义、经济制裁、“人权”标准等，成为阻碍全球南方现代化的重要影响因素。在国际政治经济格局中，广大发展中国家与发达国家的现代化进程仍存在着明显差距。因此，在经济全球化时代，全球南方现代化不仅关乎这些国家自身的发展与稳定，更是实现全球共同发展、共同繁荣的关键所在。

At present, changes unseen in a century are accelerating, the world has entered a new period of turbulence and transformation, and Global South modernization faces unprecedented opportunities and challenges. General Secretary Xi Jinping has stressed: "Chinese-path modernization is the modernization of peaceful development; it not only benefits the Chinese people but also promotes the modernization of all countries in the world." With its unique development path, Chinese-path modernization presents a new picture different from the Western modernization model and provides the world with a completely new model of modernization. China continues to comprehensively deepen reform and expand opening up, achieves high-quality development, and its practices in poverty alleviation, infrastructure construction, development financing, and sustainable development have not only driven its own development but also provided enormous opportunities for other countries, especially Global South countries, injecting new momentum into the process of Global South modernization and demonstrating China's sense of responsibility and action as a major responsible country.

当前，百年变局加速演进，世界进入新的动荡变革期，全球南方现代化面临前所未有的机遇与挑战。习近平总书记强调：“中国式现代化是走和平发展道路的现代化，既造福中国人民，又促进世界各国现代化。”中国式现代化以其独特的发展道路，展现了不同于西方现代化模式的新图景，为全球提供了一种全新的现代化模式。中国持续全面深化改革，扩大对外开放，实现高质量发展，在扶贫减贫、基础设施建设、发展投融资、可持续发展等方面的实践，不仅推动了自身发展，也给世界其他国家特别是全球南方国家提供了巨大机遇，为推动全球南方现代化进程注入了新动力，展现了中国作为负责任大国的担当与作为。

In advancing the process of Global South modernization, China focuses on promoting development cooperation through institutional design and policy coordination. China has proposed the Belt and Road Initiative and actively advocates and implements the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, and the Global Civilization Initiative, providing important platforms for Global South countries to board China's express train of development and achieve their own development. These initiatives are of great significance for Global South countries to advance modernization, maintain regional peace and stability, and promote inter-civilization exchanges and mutual learning. These initiatives reinforce each other and together constitute an important policy framework for China to promote Global South modernization. Through policy coordination and strategic collaboration, China actively participates in and promotes the reform of the global governance system. From being the first to explicitly support the African Union's accession to the G20, to promoting the bridging of the North-South "digital divide," and to advancing the reform of the international financial architecture, China practices true multilateralism, safeguards the common interests of developing countries, and contributes to improving the global governance system and increasing the representation and voice of Global South countries.

在推进全球南方现代化进程中，中国注重通过制度设计和政策协调推动发展合作。中国提出共建“一带一路”倡议，积极倡导和落实全球发展倡议、全球安全倡议、全球文明倡议，为全球南方国家搭乘中国发展快车、实现自身发展提供了重要平台，对于全球南方国家推进现代化建设、维护地区和平稳定、促进文明交流互鉴具有重要意义。这些倡议相互促进，共同构成了中国推动全球南方现代化的重要政策框架。通过政策协调、战略协作，中国积极参与和推动全球治理体系改革。从第一个明确表态支持非盟加入二十国集团，到推动弥合南北“数字鸿沟”，再到推进国际金融架构改革，中国践行真正的多边主义，维护发展中国家共同利益，为完善全球治理体系、增加全球南方国家代表性和话语权贡献力量。

The Global South rose for development and thrives because of development. As a collection of emerging market economies and developing countries, the Global South's share of the world economy has risen to over 40%, profoundly reshaping the world economic map and becoming a key force in remaking the global political and economic power landscape and driving changes in the international order. As the largest developing country and a member of the Global South, China has always placed development at the center of the international trade agenda: it has provided development assistance to over 160 countries and worked with more than 150 countries and over 30 international organizations to jointly build the Belt and Road; in the three years since the Global Development Initiative was proposed, it has mobilized nearly 20 billion US dollars in development funds, carried out over 1,100 projects, and brought a new model of sustainable development cooperation that better aligns with the interests and demands of the Global South. In key areas of development cooperation that many Global South countries focus on, such as poverty reduction, green development, industrialization, the digital economy, and connectivity, China has proposed and promoted the implementation of a series of concrete projects. On this basis, it has established a "Global South" research center and supported the G20 in carrying out practical cooperation that benefits the "Global South," among other things. In addition, China has actively promoted the establishment of multilateral financial institutions such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the New Development Bank of the BRICS countries, providing developing countries with more diversified, flexible, and targeted development financing channels. It has integrated and upgraded the South-South Cooperation Assistance Fund into the "Global Development and South-South Cooperation Fund" to support developing countries in implementing the Global Development Initiative and the sustainable development agenda, providing strong support for the poverty reduction and sustainable development process of Global South countries.

全球南方为发展而起，因发展而兴。作为新兴市场国家和发展中国家的集合体，全球南方占世界经济的比重已提升到40%以上，正在深刻改写世界经济的版图，成为重塑全球政治经济力量格局、推动国际秩序变革的关键力量。中国作为最大发展中国家、全球南方的一员，始终推动把发展置于国际经贸议程中心地位：向160多个国家提供发展援助，同150多个国家和30多个国际组织携手共建“一带一路”；全球发展倡议提出3年来，已经动员近200亿美元发展资金，开展了1100多个项目，带来了更符合全球南方利益和诉求的可持续发展合作新模式。中国在减贫、绿色发展、工业化、数字经济、互联互通等多个全球南方国家关注的重点发展合作领域，提出并推动一系列具体项目落地实施。在此基础上，建设“全球南方”研究中心，支持二十国集团开展造福“全球南方”的务实合作，等等。此外，中国积极推动建设亚投行、金砖国家新开发银行等多边金融机构，为发展中国家提供更加多元灵活、更有针对性的发展融资渠道。把南南合作援助基金整合升级为“全球发展和南南合作基金”，支持发展中国家落实全球发展倡议和可持续发展议程，为全球南方国家的减贫和可持续发展进程提供了有力支撑。

In today's world of interdependence among countries, humanity is an indivisible security community. Unlike Western countries, which have long adhered to the "might makes right" law of the jungle and confrontational zero-sum game thinking in their modernization process, Chinese-path modernization is the modernization of peaceful development. In advancing modernization, China has always steadfastly kept its solemn commitment never to seek hegemony, expansion, or spheres of influence, holds high the banner of peace, development, cooperation, and mutual benefit, and while striving for its own development, actively contributes to maintaining world peace and promoting common development. In particular, President Xi Jinping, based on the future of humanity, proposed the Global Security Initiative, which clearly answers the epochal question of "what kind of security concept the world needs and how countries can achieve common security," pointing out the direction and path for human society toward lasting peace and universal security, and contributing Chinese solutions and Chinese wisdom to peacefully resolving international and regional hot-spot issues and maintaining world peace and security.

在国与国相互依存的今天，人类是不可分割的安全共同体。与西方国家在现代化进程中长期奉行“国强必霸”的丛林法则和对抗性零和博弈思维不同，中国式现代化是走和平发展道路的现代化。在推进现代化的进程中，中国始终坚守永远不称霸、不搞扩张、不谋求势力范围的庄严承诺，高举和平、发展、合作、共赢旗帜，在努力谋求自身发展的同时，积极为维护世界和平、促进共同发展贡献力量。特别是习近平主席立足人类前途命运，提出全球安全倡议，明确回答了“世界需要什么样的安全理念、各国怎样实现共同安全”的时代课题，为人类社会通往持久和平和普遍安全指明了方向和路径，为推动国际和地区热点问题和平解决、维护世界和平安全贡献了中国方案和中国智慧。

Modernization is not only economic development but also includes social, political, and cultural development in many aspects. President Xi Jinping pointed out: "It is hoped that all developing countries can, based on their own national conditions and drawing on the outstanding achievements of human civilization, explore new paths to achieve modernization." In terms of commonalities, modernization involves basic elements such as industrialization, urbanization, and marketization. However, there are considerable differences among Global South countries in natural endowments, historical cultures, and development stages, so the path to modernization is bound to be diverse. In promoting the Global South modernization process, China has always maintained an attitude of equality, openness, and inclusiveness, practiced the Global Civilization Initiative, respected the diversity of Global South countries' development, emphasized that each country has its unique development trajectory and cultural tradition, and supported Global South countries in exploring modernization paths suited to their own national conditions based on their actual circumstances. This cooperation model, based on equality and respect, avoids imposing a single development model on others, promotes the diversified development of Global South modernization, and helps build a garden of world civilizations where all bloom together. For example, within the BRICS cooperation framework, China actively shares innovative technologies, promotes green development, and facilitates exchanges and cooperation in science, education, culture, and other fields; it hosts the China-Africa Civilization Dialogue Conference, the China-Arab Civilization Dialogue Seminar, etc., to promote the coexistence and inclusiveness of civilizations between different regions; it has established the "Global South" Think Tank Cooperation Alliance to foster people-to-people exchanges and mutual learning on governance; and so on.

现代化不仅是经济层面的发展，更包括社会、政治、文化等多方面发展。习近平主席指出：“希望广大发展中国家都能从本国国情出发，在借鉴人类优秀文明成果基础上，探索实现现代化的新路径。”在共同性方面，现代化涉及工业化、城镇化、市场化等基本要素。然而，广大南方国家在自然禀赋、历史文化、发展阶段等方面存在较大差异，现代化道路也必然是多样的。在推动全球南方现代化进程中，中国始终秉持平等、开放、包容的态度，践行全球文明倡议，尊重全球南方国家发展的多元性，强调每个国家都有其独特的发展轨迹和文化传统，支持全球南方国家立足本国实际，探索符合自身国情的现代化道路。这种基于平等和尊重的合作模式，避免将单一发展模式强加于人，促进全球南方现代化的多元化发展，推动建设美美与共的世界文明百花园。比如，在金砖合作框架下，中国积极共享创新技术、推动绿色发展，推动科教文化等领域的交流合作；举办中非文明对话大会、中阿文明对话研讨会等，推动不同地区之间文明包容共存；成立“全球南方”智库合作联盟，促进人文交流和治国理政互学互鉴；等等。

As a member of the Global South, China does not pursue a single flower blooming alone but hopes for a hundred flowers blooming together, joining hands with the vast number of developing countries to achieve modernization. Based on its own rich practical experience, Chinese-path modernization provides strong support for Global South countries to achieve better development and for the smooth progress of Global South modernization. Looking to the future, China will continue to engage in mutual learning and mutual assistance with Global South countries, march forward side by side, leverage the unique advantages of Chinese-path modernization, continuously contribute wisdom and strength to and inject strong momentum into Global South modernization, jointly promote Global South modernization to a higher level, and make greater contributions to building a community with a shared future for mankind.

中国作为全球南方的一员，不追求一枝独秀，更希望百花齐放，同广大发展中国家携手实现现代化。中国式现代化立足自身丰富的实践经验，为全球南方国家实现更好发展、为全球南方现代化顺利推进提供了有力支持。展望未来，中国将与全球南方国家继续互学互鉴、互帮互助、并肩前行，发挥中国式现代化的独特优势，持续为全球南方现代化贡献智慧力量、注入强劲动力，共同推动全球南方现代化迈向更高水平，为构建人类命运共同体作出更大贡献。

Online editor: Huihui

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