The Inner Implications of the New Form of Human Civilization

Over the course of more than 5,000 years of history, the Chinese nation created a splendid civilization and made indelible contributions to the progress of human civilization. After the Opium War of 1840, China gradually degenerated into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, the country endured humiliation, the people suffered, and civilization was tarnished, as the Chinese nation experienced unprecedented calamities. In order to continue Chinese civilization and achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, countless people of vision undertook arduous explorations. Only the Communist Party of China found the correct path of Chinese-path modernization. General Secretary Xi Jinping points out, “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 development, and presents a new picture different from the Western model of modernization; it is a completely new form of human civilization.” The reason why the new form of human civilization is “new” lies mainly in the fact that Chinese-path modernization provides the world with a completely new model of modernization, represents a major transcendence of the theory and practice of Western-style modernization, offers a completely new choice for developing countries, and fully demonstrates the Communist Party of China’s civilizational consciousness and cultural confidence, which has important practical significance and far-reaching historical significance for both the development and progress of the Chinese nation and the entire world.

中华民族在5000多年的历史长河中创造了光辉灿烂的文明，对人类文明进步作出了不可磨灭的贡献。1840年鸦片战争以后，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，中华民族遭受了前所未有的劫难。为了赓续中华文明，实现中华民族伟大复兴，无数仁人志士进行了艰辛探索。而只有中国共产党找到了中国式现代化的正确道路。习近平总书记指出，“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”。人类文明新形态之所以是“新”的，主要在于中国式现代化为全球提供了一种全新的现代化模式、是对西方式现代化理论和实践的重大超越、为广大发展中国家提供了全新选择，充分显示了中国共产党的文明自觉与文化自信，对于中华民族和整个世界的发展进步都具有重要的现实意义和深远的历史意义。

I. Rooted in fine traditional Chinese culture, actively promoting its creative transformation and innovative development, it is a new form of civilization that continues an ancient civilization

一、植根于中华优秀传统文化，积极推进其创造性转化、创新性发展，是赓续古老文明的文明新形态

Chinese-path modernization is deeply rooted in the more than 5,000 years of Chinese civilization, but it is not a simple continuation of the master copy of our historical culture. Rather, it adheres to making the past serve the present, weeding through the old to bring forth the new, and, in light of the requirements of the new era and practice, fully draws on the ideological wisdom of fine traditional Chinese culture, applying it to solving various difficulties of modernization and providing Chinese solutions for humanity’s exploration of a good social system. Under the guidance of Marxism, the Communist Party of China leads the Chinese people not only to base themselves on China’s actual conditions but also to face modernization, the world, and the future, carrying out the creative transformation and innovative development of fine traditional Chinese culture, and promoting the renewal of life and modern transformation of Chinese civilization.

中国式现代化，深深植根于中华民族5000多年文明，但并不是简单延续我国历史文化的母版，而是坚持古为今用、推陈出新，结合新的时代和实践要求，充分汲取中华优秀传统文化的思想智慧，运用于破解现代化的各种难题，为人类探索美好社会制度提供中国方案。在马克思主义指导下，中国共产党领导中国人民既立足中国实际，又面向现代化、面向世界、面向未来，对中华优秀传统文化进行创造性转化和创新性发展，推动中华文明的生命更新和现代转型。

The Chinese nation conceived the dream of prosperity and strength very early on, hoping both for a prosperous and strong country and for a well-off people. The *Book of Documents* contains the ideas of “enriching the people” and “benefiting the people.” Guan Zhong advocated giving equal weight to enriching the state and enriching the people: “The way to govern a state is to first enrich the people”; “What the ruler achieves merit through is prosperity and strength”; “When the granaries are full, the people know propriety and honor; when food and clothing are sufficient, they know glory and disgrace,” emphasizing that material civilization is the foundation of cultural-ethical progress. Confucius proposed, “First enrich the people, then educate them,” and “Benefit the people by following what is beneficial to them.” Moreover, fine traditional Chinese culture also contains valuable ideas such as “moderate prosperity” and “great harmony.” The Communist Party of China inherits and promotes fine traditional Chinese culture. At the beginning of reform and opening up, it used “moderate prosperity” to interpret the goal of Chinese-style modernization and made “prosperity and strength” one of the goals of building a modern socialist country. Over more than 40 years of reform and opening up, we have achieved a historic leap in the people’s living standards from having only enough to eat and wear to moderate prosperity in general and then to moderate prosperity in all respects, and we are now striving to build a great modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious, and beautiful. Fine traditional Chinese culture contains a profound people-oriented thought, advocating that “the people are the foundation of the state; when the foundation is stable, the state is at peace,” and so on. The Communist Party of China has inherited the essence of traditional people-oriented thought and carried out its creative transformation and innovative development, establishing the fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, leading and supporting the people to be masters of their own affairs, actively promoting whole-process people’s democracy, and creating the broadest, most genuine, and most effective socialist democracy.

中华民族很早就提出了富强梦想，既期盼国家富强，也期盼人民富足。《尚书》中有“裕民”、“惠民”的思想。管仲主张富国与富民并重，“凡治国之道，必先富民”，“主之所以为功者，富强也”，“仓廪实而知礼节，衣食足而知荣辱”，强调物质文明是精神文明的基础。孔子提出，“富而后教”，“因民之所利而利之”。不仅如此，中华优秀传统文化还包含着“小康”、“大同”等宝贵思想。中国共产党传承和弘扬中华优秀传统文化，在改革开放之初就用“小康”来诠释中国式的现代化目标，并把“富强”作为社会主义现代化国家建设的目标之一。改革开放四十多年来，我们实现了人民生活从温饱不足到总体小康再到全面小康的历史性跨越，正向建成富强民主文明和谐美丽的社会主义现代化强国而努力。中华优秀传统文化包含着深厚的民本思想，主张“民为邦本，本固邦宁”，等等。中国共产党继承了传统民本思想的精华，并对传统民本思想进行了创造性转化和创新性发展，树立了全心全意为人民服务的根本宗旨，领导和支持人民当家作主，积极推进全过程人民民主，创造了最广泛、最真实、最管用的社会主义民主。

Over its long historical development, the Chinese nation has formed a national spirit centered on patriotism, containing rich connotations such as the great spirit of creation, the great spirit of struggle, the great spirit of unity, and the great spirit of dream. At the same time, through long-term practice, it has cultivated and formed unique ideological concepts and moral norms, including ideas such as advocating benevolence, valuing the people, keeping faith, emphasizing dialectics, upholding harmony, and seeking great harmony, as well as traditional virtues such as unremitting self-improvement, devotion to work and delight in fellowship, upholding justice and promoting goodness, helping the distressed and aiding those in peril, acting courageously for a just cause, and filial piety and respect for the elderly. Adhering to the Marxist stance, viewpoint, and method, Chinese Communists, with communist faith and morality, have endowed traditional excellent ideas and morals with new contemporary connotations in the great practice of revolution, construction, and reform. They have carried forward the spiritual lineage of Chinese Communists originating from the great founding spirit of the Party, promoted the national spirit centered on patriotism and the spirit of the times centered on reform and innovation, provided powerful spiritual motivation and value support for revolution, construction, and reform, and shaped a completely new spiritual outlook for the Chinese nation. By deeply exploring the contemporary value of fine traditional Chinese culture, and promoting and practicing the core socialist values, they have gathered a more proactive spiritual force for realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

中华民族在长期历史发展中形成了以爱国主义为核心的民族精神，包含着伟大创造精神、伟大奋斗精神、伟大团结精神、伟大梦想精神等丰富内涵。同时，在长期实践中培育和形成了独特的思想理念和道德规范，有崇仁爱、重民本、守诚信、讲辩证、尚和合、求大同等思想，有自强不息、敬业乐群、扶正扬善、扶危济困、见义勇为、孝老爱亲等传统美德。中国共产党人坚持马克思主义的立场观点方法，以共产主义信仰和道德，在革命、建设、改革伟大实践中赋予优秀传统思想和道德新的时代内涵。传承以伟大建党精神为源头的中国共产党人精神谱系，弘扬以爱国主义为核心的民族精神、以改革创新为核心的时代精神，为革命、建设、改革提供了强大的精神动力和价值支撑，塑造了中华民族的崭新精神面貌。深入挖掘中华优秀传统文化的时代价值，弘扬和践行社会主义核心价值观，为实现中华民族伟大复兴凝聚了更为主动的精神力量。

Fine traditional Chinese culture put forward the beautiful ideal that “the old are provided for, the able-bodied have employment, the young are nurtured, and the widowed, orphaned, childless, disabled, and sick are all cared for.” Chinese Communists have expanded the social ideal of traditional culture, proposing in the New Era the “seven guarantees” goal, namely, “guaranteeing children’s education, students’ learning, workers’ remuneration, patients’ medical care, the elderly’s care, residents’ housing, and the vulnerable’s support.” Promoting the traditional cultural ideas of enriching the people and valuing life, and balancing righteousness and benefit, they respond to the new expectations of the people, clearly defining common prosperity as the essential requirement of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and promoting more obvious substantive progress in common prosperity for all the people.

中华优秀传统文化提出“老有所终，壮有所用，幼有所长，鳏寡孤独废疾者皆有所养”的美好理想。中国共产党人拓展了传统文化的社会理想，在新时代提出“七有”目标，即“幼有所育、学有所教、劳有所得、病有所医、老有所养、住有所居、弱有所扶”。弘扬中华优秀传统文化所倡导的富民厚生、义利兼顾思想，顺应人民群众的新期待，明确把共同富裕作为中国特色社会主义的本质要求，推动全体人民共同富裕取得更为明显的实质性进展。

Fine traditional Chinese culture advocates ecological concepts such as “harmony between man and nature” and “all things grow together.” The *Book of Changes* states, “The great person is one who is in harmony with the virtue of heaven and earth, in accord with the brightness of the sun and moon, and in sequence with the order of the four seasons.” The *Dao De Jing* states, “Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Dao; the Dao takes its law from its own nature.” The *Doctrine of the Mean* states, “One can assist the transforming and nourishing powers of Heaven and Earth, and thus can form a triad with Heaven and Earth.” Chinese Communists inherit and promote the ecological wisdom in fine traditional Chinese culture, emphasizing that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets and that man and nature are a community of life. On the basis of advancing industrialization, urbanization, informatization, and agricultural modernization, they continuously promote the realization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature.

中华优秀传统文化倡导“天人合一”、“万物并育”的生态理念。《周易》提出，“夫大人者，与天地合其德，与日月合其明，与四时合其序”。《道德经》提出，“人法地，地法天，天法道，道法自然”。《中庸》提出，“可以赞天地之化育，则可以与天地参矣”。中国共产党人传承弘扬中华优秀传统文化中的生态智慧，强调绿水青山就是金山银山、人与自然是生命共同体，在推进工业化、城镇化、信息化、农业现代化基础上，不断推动实现人与自然的和谐共生。

Chinese-path modernization is a modernization that continues an ancient civilization, not a modernization that negates an ancient civilization. General Secretary Xi Jinping points out: “Without the five thousand years of Chinese

中国式现代化是赓续古老文明的现代化，而不是否定古老文明的现代化。习近平总书记指出：“如果没有中华五千年文明，哪里有什么中国特色？如果不是中国特色，哪有我们今天这么成功的中国特色社会主义道路？”中国共产党是中华优秀传统文化的忠实继承者、弘扬者和建设者，既强调中国式现代化植根于中华优秀传统文化，使得中华文明赋予中国式现代化以深厚底蕴，又坚持在中国式现代化的基础上破除传统文化中的消极因素，积极赋予中华文明以现代力量，推动中华优秀传统文化实现创造性转化和创新性发展。

II. Embodying the advanced essence of scientific socialism, adhering to one's own path, is a new form of civilization that innovatively develops socialism with Chinese characteristics

二、体现科学社会主义的先进本质，坚持走自己的路，是创新发展中国特色社会主义的文明新形态

Chinese-path modernization embodies the advanced essence of scientific socialism, but it is not a simple application of the template envisioned by classical Marxist writers, nor is it a reprint of socialist practices in other countries. Rather, it adheres to its own path and creates a new Chinese form of socialist civilization.

中国式现代化，体现了科学社会主义的先进本质，但不是简单套用马克思主义经典作家设想的模板，也不是其他国家社会主义实践的再版，而是坚持走自己的路，创造了社会主义文明的中国新形态。

The socialist envisioned by the classical Marxist writers is based on developed productive forces, adheres to the basic principles of public ownership of the means of production and distribution according to work, and implements a planned economy. China’s situation differs greatly from the vision of the classical Marxist writers. It not only possesses a civilization of over 5,000 years but also, due to the aggression of imperialist powers, was reduced to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. After the victory of the New Democratic Revolution, it built socialism independently on the basis of a backward economy and culture, starting from a blank slate. Unique cultural traditions, a unique historical destiny, and unique basic national conditions have determined that we must take a development path suited to our own characteristics. Especially since reform and opening up, we have adhered to the integration of the basic tenets of Marxism with China’s specific realities and with the best of traditional Chinese culture, based ourselves on the basic national conditions of the primary stage of socialism, insisted on taking our own path, and initiated, upheld, defended, and developed socialism with Chinese characteristics. Economically, we adhere to the public sector playing a dominant role alongside the development of diverse forms of ownership, and distribution according to work as the main form alongside multiple forms of distribution. With immense theoretical courage and practical boldness, we have organically integrated the socialist system with the market economy, achieving a historic transformation from a highly centralized planned economic system to a vibrant socialist market economy, and from a closed and semi-closed state to all-round opening up, realizing a great leap from catching up with the times to leading the times.

马克思主义经典作家所设想的社会主义是建立在发达生产力基础之上的，坚持生产资料公有制和按劳分配的基本原则，实行计划经济。中国的情况与马克思主义经典作家的设想有很大不同，既有着5000多年中华文明，又因为帝国主义列强的侵略而沦为半殖民地半封建社会，在新民主主义革命胜利后，在经济文化落后、一穷二白的基础上独立自主地建设社会主义。独特的文化传统，独特的历史命运，独特的基本国情，注定了我们必然要走适合自己特点的发展道路。特别是改革开放以来，我们坚持把马克思主义基本原理同中国具体实际相结合、同中华优秀传统文化相结合，立足社会主义初级阶段的基本国情，坚持走自己的路，开创、坚持、捍卫、发展了中国特色社会主义。在经济上，坚持公有制为主体、多种所有制经济共同发展，按劳分配为主体、多种分配方式并存，以巨大的理论勇气和实践魄力把社会主义制度和市场经济有机结合起来，实现了从高度集中的计划经济体制到充满活力的社会主义市场经济体制、从封闭半封闭到全方位开放的历史性转变，实现了从赶上时代到引领时代的伟大跨越。

Scientific socialism advocates smashing the old state machinery through armed struggle and establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat, holding that leadership by a proletarian political party, the working people holding state power, and highly developed productive forces are conditions for achieving communism. Chinese Communists both adhere to the basic principles of scientific socialism and continuously endow them with distinct Chinese characteristics and contemporary connotations. We implement a people’s democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on an alliance of workers and peasants, implement the system of people’s congresses, and uphold the organic unity of Party leadership, the people being the masters of the country, and law-based governance. We promote the ideas of the world being for all, inclusiveness and compatibility, and seeking common ground while reserving differences, creating the system of multi-party cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, making a significant contribution to the development of human political civilization. We inherit the tradition of great unity [1]1 Great unity (大一统): A traditional Chinese political concept emphasizing the unification and centralized governance of a vast territory under a single sovereign authority, historically associated with the Qin and Han dynasties. where all regions are governed in common, all customs are harmonized, and the whole world is one family, implementing the system of regional ethnic autonomy. Practice has proven that the socialist political system with Chinese characteristics has grown from China’s social soil. It both adheres to the basic principles of scientific socialism and conforms to China’s national conditions, continuously undergoing reform and innovation in line with the development of the times and practice, possessing strong vitality and significant advantages.

科学社会主义主张通过武装斗争砸碎旧的国家机器、建立无产阶级专政，认为无产阶级政党领导、劳动人民掌握政权、生产力高度发展是实现共产主义的条件。中国共产党人既坚持科学社会主义基本原则，又不断赋予其鲜明的中国特色和时代内涵。实行工人阶级领导的、以工农联盟为基础的人民民主专政，实行人民代表大会制度，坚持中国共产党领导、人民当家作主、依法治国有机统一。弘扬天下为公、兼容并包、求同存异的思想，创造了中国共产党领导的多党合作和政治协商制度，为人类政治文明发展作出了重大贡献。承继九州共贯、六合同风、四海一家的大一统传统，实行民族区域自治制度。实践证明，中国特色社会主义政治制度是从中国的社会土壤中生长起来的，既坚持科学社会主义基本原则，又符合中国国情，结合时代和实践的发展不断进行改革创新，具有强大生机活力和显著优势。

Socialism with Chinese characteristics is the dialectical unity of the theoretical logic of scientific socialism and the historical logic of China’s social development. It is scientific socialism rooted in China’s land, reflecting the will of the Chinese people, and adapting to the requirements of China and the progress of the times. It is the only way to achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The upholding of fundamental principles and innovation [2]2 Upholding fundamental principles and innovation (守正创新): A key principle in contemporary Chinese political discourse, meaning to maintain the core tenets of Marxism and socialism while creatively adapting them to new conditions. of socialism with Chinese characteristics and its great achievements have successfully opened up a correct path with high practicality and feasibility for socialism with a history of 500 years, allowing scientific socialism to radiate new vitality in the 21st century. This has caused the historical evolution and contest between the two ideologies and two social systems of socialism and capitalism worldwide to undergo a major shift favorable to socialism, opening up bright prospects for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

中国特色社会主义是科学社会主义理论逻辑和中国社会发展历史逻辑的辩证统一，是根植于中国大地、反映中国人民意愿、适应中国和时代发展进步要求的科学社会主义，是实现中华民族伟大复兴的必由之路。中国特色社会主义的守正创新及其取得的伟大成就，使具有500年历史的社会主义，成功开辟出具有高度现实性和可行性的正确道路，让科学社会主义在21世纪焕发出新的蓬勃生机，使世界范围内社会主义和资本主义两种意识形态、两种社会制度的历史演进及其较量，发生了有利于社会主义的重大转变，开辟了中华民族伟大复兴的光明前景。

III. A New Form of Civilization that Draws on and Absorbs All Outstanding Achievements of Human Civilization, Transcends Capitalist Civilization, and Represents the Direction of Progress in Human Civilization

三、借鉴吸收一切人类优秀文明成果，是超越资本主义文明、代表人类文明进步的发展方向的文明新形态

Chinese-path modernization draws on and absorbs all outstanding achievements of human civilization, but it is not a copy of foreign modernization paths. Rather, under the guidance of the theoretical innovations of adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times, it is a new path of modernization different from that of the West, forged based on China’s actual conditions, leading the new development of human civilization.

中国式现代化，借鉴吸收一切人类优秀文明成果，但不是国外现代化发展的翻版，而是在马克思主义中国化时代化的理论创新成果的指导下，立足中国实际走出的一条不同于西方的现代化新路，引领人类文明的新发展。

The Communist Party of China unites and leads the Chinese people, based on their own national conditions and practice, drawing wisdom from Chinese civilization and learning from the effective practices and advanced experiences of countries around the world. We adhere to principles without being rigid, learn from others without copying, and have formed our own development path through continuous exploration. We uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics, promoting the coordinated development of material, political, cultural-ethical, social, and ecological civilization. We uphold and improve the basic socialist economic system, unswervingly consolidate and develop the public sector, unswervingly encourage, support, and guide the development of the non-public sector, fully leverage the decisive role of the market in resource allocation, and better play the role of the government. We unswervingly follow the path of socialist political development with Chinese characteristics, improve the system of institutions for the people being the masters of the country, promote the development of whole-process people’s democracy, and achieve the unity of process democracy and outcome democracy, procedural democracy and substantive democracy, direct democracy and indirect democracy, and the will of the people and the will of the state. We adhere to the path of socialist cultural development with Chinese characteristics, develop a socialist culture that is national, scientific, and popular, oriented toward modernization, the world, and the future, and stimulate the cultural creativity and innovation vitality of the whole nation. We insist on ensuring and improving people’s livelihoods through development, improve the basic public service system, raise the level of public services, enhance their balance and accessibility, and solidly advance common prosperity. We respect, conform to, and protect nature, firmly establish and practice the concept that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets [3]3 Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets (绿水青山就是金山银山): A famous slogan of Xi Jinping, emphasizing that ecological protection is as valuable as economic development., and plan development from the perspective of harmonious coexistence between humanity and nature.

中国共产党团结带领中国人民立足自身国情和实践，从中华文明中汲取智慧，博采世界各国有效做法和先进经验，坚守但不僵化，借鉴但不照搬，在不断探索中形成了自己的发展道路。坚持和发展中国特色社会主义，推动物质文明、政治文明、精神文明、社会文明、生态文明协调发展。坚持和完善社会主义基本经济制度，毫不动摇巩固和发展公有制经济，毫不动摇鼓励、支持、引导非公有制经济发展，充分发挥市场在资源配置中的决定性作用，更好发挥政府作用。坚定不移走中国特色社会主义政治发展道路，健全人民当家作主制度体系，推动发展全过程人民民主，实现过程民主和成果民主、程序民主和实质民主、直接民主和间接民主、人民民主和国家意志相统一。坚持中国特色社会主义文化发展道路，发展面向现代化、面向世界、面向未来的，民族的科学的大众的社会主义文化，激发全民族文化创新创造活力。坚持在发展中保障和改善民生，健全基本公共服务体系，提高公共服务水平，增强均衡性和可及性，扎实推进共同富裕。尊重自然、顺应自然、保护自然，牢固树立和践行绿水青山就是金山银山的理念，站在人与自然和谐共生的高度谋划发展。

Chinese-path modernization expands the path of human civilization development. With its comprehensiveness and systematicity, it fully demonstrates that “the essence of modernization is the modernization of people,” breaking the myth that “modernization equals Westernization.” Chinese-path modernization shares common features with the modernization of other countries but is more characterized by China’s unique national conditions. Chinese-path modernization is the modernization of a huge population, the modernization of common prosperity for all, the modernization of material and cultural-ethical progress in tandem, the modernization of harmony between humanity and nature, and the modernization of peaceful development. Chinese-path modernization has solved many difficult problems in the development of human society, abandoned the Western old path of capital-centered modernization, polarized modernization, materialistic modernization, and expansionist and predatory modernization, expanded the avenues for developing countries to achieve modernization, and provided a Chinese solution for humanity’s exploration of better social systems.

中国式现代化拓展了人类文明发展路径，以其全面性和系统性，充分彰显了“现代化的本质是人的现代化”，打破了“现代化=西方化”的迷思。中国式现代化既有各国现代化的共同特征，更有基于自己国情的中国特色。中国式现代化是人口规模巨大的现代化，是全体人民共同富裕的现代化，是物质文明和精神文明相协调的现代化，是人与自然和谐共生的现代化，是走和平发展道路的现代化。中国式现代化，破解了人类社会发展的诸多难题，摒弃了西方以资本为中心的现代化、两极分化的现代化、物质主义膨胀的现代化、对外扩张掠夺的现代化老路，拓展了发展中国家走向现代化的途径，为人类对更好社会制度的探索提供了中国方案。

Chinese-path modernization has changed the landscape of human civilization development. China’s population of over 1.4 billion entering modernization as a whole, a scale exceeding the total population of existing developed countries, will greatly reshape the world map of modernization. Chinese-path modernization injects new momentum for growth and cultivates innovative vitality into the world, continuing to play the role of a major engine and stabilizer for world economic growth. At the same time, it injects positive energy into the changes unseen in a century in the world. It has not only fundamentally changed the destiny of the Chinese nation since modern times but also profoundly altered the international political landscape, promoting the reshaping of a new pattern of human civilization.

中国式现代化改变了人类文明发展格局。我国14亿多人口整体迈入现代化，规模超过现有发达国家人口的总和，将极大地改变现代化的世界版图。中国式现代化为世界注入增长新动能、培育创新活力，持续发挥世界经济增长的重要引擎和稳定锚作用。同时，为世界百年未有之大变局注入正能量，不仅从根本上改变了近代以来中华民族的命运，而且深刻地改变了国际政治版图，推动重塑人类文明新格局。

Chinese-path modernization represents the direction of progress in human civilization. It advocates a view of civilization based on equality, mutual learning, dialogue, and inclusiveness, promotes the common values of all humanity—peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy, and freedom—and insists on replacing estrangement with exchange, conflict with mutual learning, and superiority with coexistence among civilizations. It promotes the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, providing Chinese wisdom, Chinese solutions, and Chinese strength to address the global challenges of peace deficit, development deficit, security deficit, and governance deficit, and to build a world of lasting peace, universal security, common prosperity, openness and inclusiveness, and clean and beautiful, leading the new development of human civilization.

中国式现代化代表人类文明进步的发展方向。主张平等、互鉴、对话、包容的文明观，弘扬和平、发展、公平、正义、民主、自由的全人类共同价值，坚持以文明交流超越文明隔阂，以文明互鉴超越文明冲突，以文明共存超越文明优越。推动构建人类命运共同体，为解决全球面临的和平赤字、发展赤字、安全赤字、治理赤字问题，建设一个持久和平、普遍安全、共同繁荣、开放包容、清洁美丽的世界，提供中国智慧、中国方案、中国力量，引领了人类文明的新发展。

Chinese-path modernization and the new form of human civilization are two aspects of the same process. Chinese-path modernization is the fundamental driving force and pathway for creating the new form of human civilization, while the new form of human civilization is an important crystallization of Chinese-path modernization. The unique path of Chinese-path modernization has forged the unique form of human civilization. It is a new form of civilization that continues the ancient civilization, a new form of civilization that innovatively develops socialism with Chinese characteristics, and a new form of civilization that transcends capitalist civilization. It represents the direction of the progress of human civilization, embodies the unity of inheritance and innovation, subjectivity and openness, nationality and worldliness, and is an integrated innovation and comprehensive innovation of human civilization, constituting a completely new form of human civilization.

中国式现代化与人类文明新形态是同一个过程的两个方面，中国式现代化是创造人类文明新形态的根本动力和路径，人类文明新形态是中国式现代化的重要结晶。中国式现代化的独特道路铸就了人类文明的独特形态，是赓续古老文明的文明新形态、创新发展中国特色社会主义的文明新形态、超越资本主义文明的文明新形态，代表人类文明进步的发展方向，体现了继承性和创新性、主体性和开放性、民族性和世界性的统一，是人类文明的集成创新、综合创新，是一种全新的人类文明形态。

(Author: Chen Zhigang, Deputy Director and Researcher of the Institute of Marxism, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

（作者：中国社会科学院马克思主义研究院副院长、研究员）

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