Grasping the Laws of Chinese-Path Modernization from a Political Perspective

Chinese-path modernization is a major achievement of the long-term exploration and practice led by our Party, and it is the only correct path for building a strong country and achieving national rejuvenation. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out at the Central Economic Work Conference: “We must make advancing Chinese-path modernization the overarching political task, unite the broadest masses of the people under the unified leadership of the Party, focus on economic construction as the central task and high-quality development as the primary task, and step by step turn the grand blueprint of Chinese-path modernization into a beautiful reality.” This scientific thesis is a fundamental guideline for deeply grasping the laws of Chinese-path modernization from a political height and comprehensively implementing the goals and tasks of Chinese-path modernization. It holds significant epistemological and methodological implications for effectively strengthening the Party’s overall leadership over Chinese-path modernization, ensuring the correct direction of Chinese-path modernization, and unleashing the powerful driving force of Chinese-path modernization.

中国式现代化是我们党领导人民长期探索和实践的重大成果，是强国建设、民族复兴的唯一正确道路。习近平总书记在中央经济工作会议上指出：“必须把推进中国式现代化作为最大的政治，在党的统一领导下，团结最广大人民，聚焦经济建设这一中心工作和高质量发展这一首要任务，把中国式现代化宏伟蓝图一步步变成美好现实。”这一科学论断是从政治的高度深刻把握中国式现代化建设规律、全面落实中国式现代化目标任务的根本指针，对于切实加强党对中国式现代化的全面领导、确保中国式现代化正确方向、释放中国式现代化强大动力，具有重要的认识论和方法论意义。

Marxist classical writers adhered to the fundamental stance and scientific method of historical materialism, proceeding from the fundamental interests of the proletariat and the broadest masses of the people, clarifying various one-sided and superficial understandings of the concept of politics, and providing a scientific explanation of the connotation, function, and role of politics. According to the Marxist view of politics, we can scientifically reveal the rich connotations of politics. Politics embodies the fundamental interests and objective laws of economic and social development and is the most essential factor commanding changes in relations of production and social relations; politics is the operation and governance of the state; politics centrally expresses the interest demands of the principal members of a social body and is a global and strategic issue concerning the realization of the interests of the vast majority of the people; only by treating politics with a scientific attitude can we deeply understand the essence of politics, grasp the laws of politics, and actively promote economic development and social progress from a political height. Chinese-path modernization is a great social transformation led by the Communist Party of China with the people as the main body, a fundamental path for realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, an important guarantee for building a modern socialist country, a unique exploration of the path to modernization, and a pioneering contribution to human civilization. It is precisely on strategic, global, and fundamental political issues such as building a strong country and achieving national rejuvenation that Chinese-path modernization contains profound political significance.

马克思主义经典作家坚持唯物史观的根本立场和科学方法，从无产阶级和最广大人民根本利益出发，廓清在政治概念上种种片面的、表象的认识，对政治的内涵、功能和作用作出科学阐释。按照马克思主义政治观，我们可以对政治的丰富内涵作出科学揭示。政治体现经济社会发展的根本利益和客观规律，是统领生产关系和社会关系变革的最本质因素；政治是国家的运行和治理；政治集中体现社会主体成员的利益诉求，是关系最大多数人利益实现的全局性、战略性问题；只有以科学的态度对待政治，才能深刻认识政治的本质、把握政治的规律，从政治的高度能动地推动经济发展和社会进步。中国式现代化是中国共产党领导的以人民为主体的伟大社会变革，是实现中华民族伟大复兴的根本道路，是建设社会主义现代化强国的重要保证，是对现代化道路的独创性探索，是对人类文明的开创性贡献。正是在强国建设、民族复兴等战略性、全局性、根本性政治问题上，中国式现代化蕴含着深邃的政治意义。

The grand goal of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation endows Chinese-path modernization with far-reaching political significance.

实现中华民族伟大复兴的宏伟目标，赋予中国式现代化以深远性的政治意义

In the long river of Chinese history, national rejuvenation is a political phenomenon formed under specific historical conditions. It is precisely the unique political essence and political orientation inherent in the grand goal of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation that endows Chinese-path modernization with profound political functions and significance.

在中华民族历史长河中，民族复兴是一种在特定历史条件下形成的政治现象。正是实现中华民族伟大复兴宏伟目标所特有的政治本质和政治指向，赋予中国式现代化以深邃的政治功能和政治意义。

After the Opium War of 1840, due to the wanton invasion of imperialist powers and the corruption and incompetence of the feudal ruling class

1840年鸦片战争以后，由于帝国主义列强的肆意入侵，由于封建统治阶级的腐败无能，中国逐步沦为半殖民地半封建社会，国家蒙辱、人民蒙难、文明蒙尘。正是从此时起，一批仁人志士发出实现民族复兴的时代呼喊，成为近代以来最具动员力和号召力的政治纲领，无数中华儿女为拯救民族危亡、实现民族复兴上下求索、前赴后继，付出了鲜血和生命的代价。太平天国运动、洋务运动、戊戌变法、义和团运动、辛亥革命接连而起，各种救国方案轮番出台，但无不以失败而告终。只有中国共产党的成立和不懈奋斗，才开辟了民族复兴的人间正道，使民族复兴逐步由梦想变为现实。中国共产党是中国工人阶级的先锋队，同时又是中国人民和中华民族的先锋队，党一经诞生，就把为中国人民谋幸福、为中华民族谋复兴确立为自己的初心和使命。“一百年来，中国共产党团结带领中国人民进行的一切奋斗、一切牺牲、一切创造，归结起来就是一个主题：实现中华民族伟大复兴。”实现中华民族伟大复兴，是数代中国人的美好夙愿，体现了中华民族和中国人民的整体利益，是每一个中华儿女的共同期盼，是近代以来影响中国社会变革最重大的政治现象，更是中国共产党人义不容辞的政治责任。

The key reason why the Communist Party of China has been able to turn the dream of national rejuvenation into reality lies precisely in its discovery of a correct path—the path of Chinese-path modernization. After 28 years of arduous struggle, our Party led the people to win the great victory of the New Democratic Revolution, establish a new China where the people are the masters of the country, achieve national independence and people's liberation, and create the fundamental social conditions for realizing modernization. After the founding of New China, our Party led the people in beginning the blueprinting and practical exploration of Chinese modernization. From the Communist Party of China with Comrade Mao Zedong as its main representative clearly proposing and beginning to practice the goal of the "Four Modernizations," to the Communist Party of China with Comrade Deng Xiaoping as its main representative clearly proposing and striving to realize the strategic concept of "Chinese-style modernization," and then to the Communist Party of China with Comrade Xi Jinping as its main representative successfully advancing the theoretical innovation and practical creation of "Chinese-path modernization," this constitutes the magnificent development process and profoundly rich development logic of the Chinese nation's march toward great rejuvenation, and manifests the unique mission responsibility and political wisdom of Chinese Communists in leading the people to realize the historical task of national rejuvenation. History has eloquently demonstrated that "the history of the Communist Party of China uniting and leading the Chinese people in the pursuit of national rejuvenation over more than 100 years is also a history of continuously exploring the path of modernization. Through the unremitting efforts of several generations, we have blazed the path of Chinese-path modernization." [1]1 The Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee, held in December 1978, is widely regarded as the starting point of China’s reform and opening up policy. Practice has powerfully proven that Chinese-path modernization is workable and stable, and is the only correct path for realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

中国共产党之所以能把民族复兴由梦想变为现实，关键就在于找到了一条正确道路，这就是中国式现代化之路。经过28年浴血奋斗，我们党领导人民夺取了新民主主义革命的伟大胜利，建立了人民当家作主的新中国，实现了民族独立、人民解放，为实现现代化创造了根本社会条件。新中国成立后，我们党领导人民开始了中国现代化的蓝图擘画和实践探索。从以毛泽东同志为主要代表的中国共产党人明确提出并着手实践“四个现代化”目标，到以邓小平同志为主要代表的中国共产党人明确提出并奋力实现“中国式的现代化”的战略构想，再到以习近平同志为主要代表的中国共产党人成功推进“中国式现代化”的理论创新和实践创造，构成了中华民族走向伟大复兴波澜壮阔的发展历程和内涵深邃的发展逻辑，彰显了中国共产党人在领导人民实现民族复兴这一历史重任上所特有的使命担当和政治智慧。历史雄辩地表明，“中国共产党100多年团结带领中国人民追求民族复兴的历史，也是一部不断探索现代化道路的历史。经过数代人不懈努力，我们走出了中国式现代化道路”。实践有力地证明，中国式现代化走得通、行得稳，是实现中华民族伟大复兴唯一正确的道路。

The historical process and development logic of the mutual interaction and integration of Chinese-path modernization and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation endow Chinese-path modernization with profound political connotations and significance. From the perspective of the essential characteristics of Chinese-path modernization, Chinese-path modernization is not a copy or imitation of the Western path and model of modernization, but takes realizing the building of a strong country and national rejuvenation as its core value orientation. It both draws on and absorbs all outstanding achievements of human civilization, possessing the common features of modernization in various countries, and is deeply rooted in fine traditional Chinese culture, embodying the advanced essence of scientific socialism, with distinct Chinese characteristics. From the perspective of the major principles of Chinese-path modernization, Chinese-path modernization is a people-centered modernization led by the Communist Party of China. Upholding and strengthening the Party's overall leadership, and safeguarding and realizing the fundamental interests of the people, fundamentally ensures that modernization construction has a deep social foundation and popular support. From the perspective of the overall goals of Chinese-path modernization, Chinese-path modernization adheres to taking the comprehensive realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation as its goal orientation. It has formulated a development strategy for comprehensively building a modern socialist country from a strategic vantage point, and has expanded effective paths for comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and national rejuvenation through Chinese-path modernization.

中国式现代化与中华民族伟大复兴相互作用、融为一体的历史进程和发展逻辑，赋予中国式现代化以深邃的政治内涵和意义。从中国式现代化的本质特征来说，中国式现代化不是对西方现代化道路与模式的照抄照搬，而是以实现强国建设和民族复兴为核心价值导向，既借鉴吸收一切人类优秀文明成果，具有各国现代化的共同特征，又深深植根于中华优秀传统文化，体现科学社会主义先进本质，具有鲜明的中国特色。从中国式现代化的重大原则来说，中国式现代化是中国共产党领导的以人民为中心的现代化，坚持和加强党的全面领导，维护和实现人民根本利益，从根本上确保了现代化建设拥有深厚的社会基础和民心所向。从中国式现代化的总体目标来说，中国式现代化坚持以全面实现中华民族伟大复兴为目标导向。高屋建瓴制定了全面建设社会主义现代化国家的发展战略，拓展了以中国式现代化全面推进强国建设和民族复兴的有效路径。

The arduous task of advancing the modernization of national governance endows Chinese-path modernization with an institutionalized political function

推进国家治理现代化的艰巨任务，赋予中国式现代化以制度化的政治功能

The question of the state is the core question of politics. In the present era, in contemporary China, political change and political development centered on the question of the state undertake two major tasks: first, relying on the power of the Party and the state to liberate and develop social productive forces, promote high-quality economic and social development, and build a modern socialist power; second, taking institutional reform and innovation as the key to solidly advancing the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, continuously raising the level of institutional modernization, and better transforming the advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics into national governance effectiveness. These two major tasks are interconnected and interact with each other, integrated in theoretical logic and practical logic, endowing Chinese-path modernization with its unique political connotations and political functions.

国家问题是政治的核心问题。在当今时代、在当代中国，围绕国家问题的政治变革和政治发展，承担着两个方面重大任务：一是依靠党和国家的力量解放和发展社会生产力，促进经济社会高质量发展，建设社会主义现代化强国；二是以制度改革和创新为关键扎实推进国家治理体系和治理能力现代化，不断提升制度现代化水平，把中国特色社会主义制度优势更好转化为国家治理效能。这两个方面的重大任务相互联系、相互作用，在理论逻辑和实践逻辑上融为一体，赋予中国式现代化以特有的政治内涵和政治功能。

The world modernization process shows that institutions play a fundamental, overarching, stable, and long-term role in raising the level of national governance modernization. Chinese-path modernization is a socialist modernization led by the Communist Party of China, a modernization based on and supported by the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics. This is one aspect in which Chinese-path modernization differs from and surpasses Western modernization, and it is also a prominent manifestation of its distinct political nature in the modernization process.

世界现代化进程表明，提升国家治理现代化水平，制度起根本性、全局性、稳定性、长远性作用。中国式现代化，是中国共产党领导的社会主义现代化，是以中国特色社会主义制度体系为基础和支撑的现代化，这是中国式现代化区别和超越于西方现代化的一个方面，也是现代化进程中具有鲜明政治性的突出表现。

The epoch-making Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the CPC [1]1 The Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee, held in December 1978, is widely regarded as the starting point of China’s reform and opening up policy. was a great awakening of our Party in leading the exploration of the path of Chinese-path modernization. This awakening was prominently reflected in deepening institutional reform and advancing institutional innovation. General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out: “The practice of reform and opening up over the past 40 years enlightens us: institutions are a fundamental, overarching, stable, and long-term issue concerning the development of the Party and the country.” It was precisely by firmly grasping the task of perfecting the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics through institutional reform that reform and opening up vigorously liberated and developed social productive forces. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has persistently deepened institutional reform and promoted institutional innovation, taking solid steps and achieving great results in continuously raising the level of institutional modernization. The Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the CPC [2]2 The Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee, held in November 2013, set the goal of comprehensively deepening reform, with a focus on institutional reform and governance modernization. established “perfecting and developing the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics and advancing the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity” as the overall goal of comprehensively deepening reform, thereby opening a New Era of comprehensively deepening reform and systematically and holistically designing and advancing reform, and creating a new situation for China’s reform and opening up. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the CPC [3]3 The Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee, held in October 2019, focused on upholding and improving the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics and advancing national governance modernization. emphasized, “Uphold and improve the fundamental institutions, basic institutions, and important institutions that support the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics, focus on consolidating the foundation, leveraging strengths, shoring up weaknesses, and strengthening weak links, build a system of institutions that is complete, scientifically standardized, and effectively operational, strengthen systematic governance, law-based governance, comprehensive governance, and source governance, and better transform China’s institutional advantages into national governance effectiveness.” Institutional reform and innovation in the New Era have taken on many new connotations and characteristics, guided by the goals of building a strong country and national rejuvenation, with advancing national governance modernization as the main axis of reform, thereby endowing Chinese-path modernization with a more prominent institutional political function. It is precisely the reform and innovation oriented toward institutional modernization that have fully released the enormous political advantages of the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics, injecting strong institutional momentum and vitality into the new journey of advancing Chinese-path modernization.

具有划时代意义的党的十一届三中全会，是我们党在领导探索中国式现代化道路上的一次伟大觉醒，这一觉醒突出体现在深化制度改革、推进制度创新上。习近平总书记深刻指出：“改革开放40年的实践启示我们：制度是关系党和国家事业发展的根本性、全局性、稳定性、长期性问题。”正是牢牢抓住在制度改革中完善中国特色社会主义制度这一任务，改革开放有力地解放和发展了社会生产力。党的十八大以来，以习近平同志为核心的党中央持之以恒深化制度改革、促进制度创新，在不断提升制度现代化水平上迈出了坚实步伐、取得了巨大成效。党的十八届三中全会把“完善和发展中国特色社会主义制度，推进国家治理体系和治理能力现代化”作为全面深化改革的总目标，由此开启了全面深化改革、系统整体设计推进改革的新时代，开创了我国改革开放的全新局面。党的十九届四中全会强调，“坚持和完善支撑中国特色社会主义制度的根本制度、基本制度、重要制度，着力固根基、扬优势、补短板、强弱项，构建系统完备、科学规范、运行有效的制度体系，加强系统治理、依法治理、综合治理、源头治理，把我国制度优势更好转化为国家治理效能”。新时代的制度改革和制度创新呈现出许多新内涵和新特点，以强国建设和民族复兴为目标导向，以推进国家治理现代化为改革主轴，从而赋予中国式现代化更加突出的制度化政治功能。正是以制度现代化为导向的改革创新，充分释放了中国特色社会主义制度的巨大政治优势，为推进中国式现代化新征程注入了强大的制度动力和活力。

On the new journey of Chinese-path modernization, the function of institutional reform and innovation becomes more prominent and the tasks more arduous. The report of the 20th National Congress of the CPC established “persisting in deepening reform and opening up” as a major principle that must be firmly grasped in Chinese-path modernization, clearly emphasizing “deepen reform and innovation, unswervingly expand opening up, strive to resolve deep-seated institutional and mechanistic obstacles, continuously highlight the institutional advantages of socialism with Chinese characteristics, continuously enhance the momentum and vitality of socialist modernization, and better transform China’s institutional advantages into national governance effectiveness.” The profound changes in the world situation and the arduous tasks facing China’s modernization construction deeply require that, in the critical period of comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-path modernization, institutional reform must be placed in a more prominent position, and the enormous political effectiveness of institutional innovation must be further unleashed. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: “To further comprehensively deepen reform, we must anchor the overall goal of perfecting and developing the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics and advancing the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, closely follow the advancement of Chinese-path modernization, combine goal orientation with problem orientation, go after problems and focus on solving them, resolutely eliminate ideological concepts and institutional and mechanistic drawbacks that hinder the advancement of Chinese-path modernization, strive to resolve deep-seated institutional and mechanistic obstacles and structural contradictions, and continuously inject strong momentum and provide solid institutional guarantees for Chinese-path modernization.” Only by unswervingly advancing institutional reform can we resolve the deep-seated institutional and mechanistic obstacles faced on the road ahead, solve the unique problems of this major Party of ours, and smoothly achieve the grand goals of building a strong country and national rejuvenation.

在中国式现代化新征程上，制度改革创新的功能更加凸显、任务更加繁重。党的二十大报告把“坚持深化改革开放”确立为中国式现代化必须牢牢把握的一项重大原则，明确强调“深入推进改革创新，坚定不移扩大开放，着力破解深层次体制机制障碍，不断彰显中国特色社会主义制度优势，不断增强社会主义现代化建设的动力和活力，把我国制度优势更好转化为国家治理效能”。世界局势的深刻变革和我国现代化建设面临的艰巨任务深刻要求，在以中国式现代化全面推进强国建设、民族复兴伟业的关键时期，必须把制度改革摆在更加突出的位置，进一步发挥制度创新的巨大政治效能。习近平总书记强调：“进一步全面深化改革，要锚定完善和发展中国特色社会主义制度、推进国家治理体系和治理能力现代化这个总目标，紧扣推进中国式现代化，坚持目标导向和问题导向相结合，奔着问题去、盯着问题改，坚决破除妨碍推进中国式现代化的思想观念和体制机制弊端，着力破解深层次体制机制障碍和结构性矛盾，不断为中国式现代化注入强劲动力、提供有力制度保障。”只有坚定不移地把制度改革推向前进，才能破解前进道路上面临的深层次体制机制障碍，解决我们这个大党的独有难题，顺利实现强国建设和民族复兴的宏伟目标。

The principal position and developmental needs of the people in modernization endow Chinese-path modernization with a subjective political value.

人民在现代化中的主体地位和发展需要，赋予中国式现代化以主体性的政治价值

The fundamental political foundation lies in the direction of popular sentiment. The country is the people, and the people are the country. To win the country and to hold the country is to win the people’s hearts. This is a fundamental experience summed up by the Communist Party of China in the long-term practice of revolution, construction, and reform. Applied to the theory and practice of Chinese-path modernization, this experience is centrally embodied in the necessity of firmly adhering to the people-oriented direction of modernization and consistently following the logic of the people’s subjectivity in modernization.

政治的根本基础在于民心所向。江山就是人民、人民就是江山，打江山、守江山，守的是人民的心，这是中国共产党在长期革命、建设、改革实践中总结出来的一条根本经验。这一经验运用到中国式现代化理论与实践中，集中体现为必须牢牢坚守现代化的人民性方向，始终遵循人民在现代化中的主体性逻辑。

People are the subjects of modernization, and the essence of modernization is the modernization of people. General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out that in the historical process of Chinese-path modernization, it is necessary to “adhere to the people-first concept and highlight the people-oriented direction of modernization.” The fundamental point where Chinese-path modernization surpasses Western modernization lies in its emphasis on the people’s subjectivity and the construction of human quality, focusing on building a modernization with a huge population, a modernization of common prosperity for all people, a modernization where material civilization and cultural-ethical progress are coordinated, a modernization where humans and nature coexist harmoniously, and a modernization that takes the path of peaceful development. This effectively avoids and prevents the various drawbacks inevitably caused by Western modernization driven by the “logic of capital,” such as interest differentiation, political polarization, extreme individualism, and the loss of human subjectivity, so that the fruits of modernization construction benefit all people more and more fairly, continuously realizing comprehensive social progress and the all-round development of people.

人是现代化的主体，现代化的本质是人的现代化。习近平总书记深刻指出，在中国式现代化历史进程中，必须“坚守人民至上理念，突出现代化方向的人民性”。中国式现代化超越西方现代化的根本点就在于，注重人民的主体性和人的素质建设，着力建设人口规模巨大的现代化、全体人民共同富裕的现代化、物质文明和精神文明相协调的现代化、人与自然和谐共生的现代化、走和平发展道路的现代化，有效避免和防止“资本逻辑”驱动的西方现代化所不可避免导致的利益分化、政治极化、极端个人主义、人的主体性迷失等种种弊端，使现代化建设成果更多更公平惠及全体人民，不断实现社会全面进步和人的全面发展。

Continuously meeting the people’s growing needs for a better life and allowing the people to share the fruits of modernization construction are the unique political values of Chinese-path modernization. Modernization, in a fundamental sense, is a product of human needs. Humanity’s longing for a better life and its desire for civilized progress are nothing less than the “original driving force” of modernization. At the current stage in China, the people’s needs are diverse and multi-layered, including not only material needs but also spiritual and cultural needs. Moreover, with the development of the modernization cause, the scope of people’s needs for a better life will further expand and their levels will further rise. On the new journey of Chinese-path modernization, we must firmly grasp the principal contradiction in society, adapt to the diversity and multi-layered nature of the people’s needs, take adhering to high-quality development as the hard truth of the New Era, fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development philosophy, further enhance the endogenous momentum of high-quality development, and further stimulate the people’s subjective creativity. The direction of popular sentiment is the greatest politics. It is precisely in meeting the people’s growing needs for a better life—this core political value—that Chinese-path modernization has become the greatest politics affecting all aspects of contemporary China.

不断满足人民日益增长的美好生活需要，让人民共享现代化建设成果，是中国式现代化所特有的政治价值。现代化从根本意义上说是人的需要的产物，人类对美好生活的向往、对文明进步的渴望，不啻是现代化的“原动力”。在我国现阶段，人民的需要具有多元性和多层次性，不仅包括物质生活方面的需要，而且包括精神文化生活方面的需要，并且随着现代化事业的发展，人们对美好生活需求的范围会进一步扩大、层次会进一步提升。在中国式现代化新征程上，必须紧紧扭住社会主要矛盾，适应人民需要的多元化和多层次性，把坚持高质量发展作为新时代的硬道理，完整、准确、全面贯彻新发展理念，进一步增强高质量发展的内生动力，进一步激发人民的主体创造力。民心所向是最大的政治，正是在不断满足人民日益增长的美好生活需要这一核心政治价值上，中国式现代化成为影响当代中国一切方面的最大的政治。

Continuously enhancing the people’s subjective consciousness and fully unleashing the people’s subjective role are the unique political power of Chinese-path modernization. “The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.” [4]4 A quotation from Mao Zedong’s 1945 report “On Coalition Government.” The subjects of Chinese-path modernization are the people, and in comprehensively building a modern socialist country, the people are the decisive force. Currently, social production methods and lifestyles are both undergoing profound changes. This brings people opportunities and momentum, urging them to keep pace with the progress of modernization and jointly create a better life, but it also brings many new challenges. Certain negative factors inevitably arising in the modernization process can cause some members of society to have distorted values and degraded subjective consciousness. This urgently requires placing the stimulation of people’s subjective consciousness in an important position, continuously enhancing identification with the grand goals, distinctive features, essential requirements, main tasks, development stages, and major principles of Chinese-path modernization, using the beautiful vision of Chinese-path modernization to inspire, encourage, and move people, mobilizing all positive factors that can be mobilized, uniting all social forces that can be united, and throwing themselves with full enthusiasm and down-to-earth efforts into the various undertakings of modernization construction.

不断增强人民的主体意识、充分发挥人民的主体作用，是中国式现代化所特有的政治伟力。“人民，只有人民，才是创造世界历史的动力”。中国式现代化的主体是人民，全面建设社会主义现代化国家，人民是决定性力量。当前，社会生产方式和生活方式均处于深度变革之中，这既给人们带来机遇和动力，促使人们紧跟现代化前进步伐，共同创造更加美好的生活，同时也给人们带来许多新的挑战，现代化进程中不可避免产生的某些消极因素会造成一部分社会成员价值观念扭曲、主体意识退化。这就迫切要求把激发人们的主体意识提到重要位置，不断增强对中国式现代化宏伟目标、鲜明特色、本质要求、主要任务、发展阶段、重大原则的认同，以中国式现代化的美好愿景激励人、鼓舞人、感召人，调动一切可以调动的积极因素，团结一切可以团结的社会力量，满腔热情而又脚踏实地地投入到现代化建设各项事业中来。

Chinese-path modernization is the most significant political task, which inherently requires that we strengthen the Party’s overall leadership over the modernization cause from a political height, firmly adhere to the people-oriented direction of modernization, continuously enhance the political judgment, political understanding, and political execution of leading cadres at all levels regarding Chinese-path modernization, and gather the mighty forces to advance the great cause of building a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

中国式现代化是最大的政治，内在要求必须从政治的高度切实加强党对现代化事业的全面领导，牢牢坚持现代化建设的人民性方向，不断提高各级领导干部对中国式现代化的政治判断力、政治领悟力、政治执行力，汇聚推进强国建设、民族复兴伟业的磅礴力量。

(The author is Deputy Director of the Academic Committee of the Chinese Political Science Association and a member of the Academic Committee of the Shandong Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era)

（作者系中国政治学会学术委员会副主任，山东省习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想研究中心学术委员会委员）

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