An Exploration of the Practical Positioning of the New Stage of Development

Correctly grasping the stage of social development is an important foundation for a Marxist political party to formulate its line, principles, and policies. In the great course of revolution, construction, reform and opening up, and the New Era, the Communist Party of China, based on the Marxist theory of stages of social development and in light of China’s specific realities, has creatively explored the laws of China’s social development, actively investigated China’s historical orientation, stage of development, principal contradiction, and historical tasks in different historical periods, and made scientific judgments. In particular, since reform and opening up, the CPC has made major judgments on historical orientations and stages of development such as the primary stage of socialism, the New Era of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and the new stage of development. This is of great significance for the CPC to consciously follow the laws of social development, conform to the trend of social development to promote stage-by-stage leaps, and advance China’s social development in accordance with the laws.

正确把握社会发展所处阶段，是马克思主义政党制定路线、方针、政策的重要基础。中国共产党在革命、建设、改革开放和新时代的伟大进程中，根据马克思主义社会发展阶段理论，结合中国具体实际，创造性地探索中国社会发展规律，在不同历史时期对中国社会历史方位、发展阶段、主要矛盾、历史任务等进行主动探索，作出了科学判断。特别是改革开放以来，中国共产党作出了关于社会主义初级阶段、中国特色社会主义新时代、新发展阶段等历史方位和发展阶段的重大判断，这对于中国共产党自觉遵循社会发展规律，顺应社会发展趋势以推动阶段性飞跃，推进中国社会合乎规律地向前发展具有重要意义。

After completing the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects and realizing the First Centenary Goal, China has officially entered the new stage of development. This is a major strategic judgment made by the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, standing at a new historical starting point, on the historical orientation of China’s development. It provides scientific guidance for China’s current historical mission, development direction, and practical tasks.

在全面建成小康社会、实现第一个百年奋斗目标后，中国正式进入新发展阶段。这是以习近平同志为核心的党中央站在新的历史起点上对中国发展的历史方位作出的重大战略判断，为中国当下的历史使命、发展走向、实践任务等提供了科学指引。

I. The New Stage of Development Is “a Stage within the Primary Stage of Socialism”

一、新发展阶段是“社会主义初级阶段中的一个阶段”

In January 2021, at a special seminar for principal leading officials at the provincial and ministerial level on studying and implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee, General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly pointed out that “the new stage of development we are in today is a stage within the primary stage of socialism.” This clearly defines the positioning of the new stage of development in the history of socialist development.

2021年1月，习近平总书记在省部级主要领导干部学习贯彻党的十九届五中全会精神专题研讨班上明确指出，“今天我们所处的新发展阶段，就是社会主义初级阶段中的一个阶段”。这明确界定了新发展阶段在社会主义发展史中的定位。

(A) The New Stage of Development Is a Sub-Stage of the Primary Stage of Socialism

（一）新发展阶段是社会主义初级阶段的子阶段

First, we should clarify the basic understanding that the stage characteristics of socialist social development and the basic national condition that China is in the primary stage of socialism remain unchanged for a long time. This is the basic logic for grasping the origin of the new stage of development. Second, we should understand that the new stage of development is a stage within the primary stage of socialism, and at the same time, it is a stage that, after decades of accumulation, has stood at a new starting point. It is not a stage of development that has already entered communism, nor is it a stage of development still in capitalism. Correctly grasping the social nature of the new stage of development is fundamental to ensuring that the direction of development in this stage does not deviate, is not radical, and advances steadily. Finally, it should be made clear that the primary stage of socialism does not generally refer to a stage that every socialist country must go through, but rather a specific stage that China must go through based on its special national conditions.

首先，应明晰社会主义社会发展的阶段性特征与中国处于社会主义初级阶段的基本国情长期不变的基本认知，这是把握新发展阶段由来的基本逻辑。其次，应明了新发展阶段是社会主义初级阶段中的一个阶段，同时是其中经过几十年积累、站到了新的起点上的一个阶段。并非已经进入共产主义的一个发展阶段，更不是还处于资本主义的发展阶段。正确把握新发展阶段所处的社会性质，是保证本阶段发展方向不偏航、不激进、稳定向前的根本。最后，应明确社会主义初级阶段并不泛指每个社会主义国家都要经历的阶段，而是中国基于特殊国情必须经历的特定阶段。

As a stage or sub-stage embedded within the primary stage of socialism, the new stage of development has an inherent unity with the primary stage of socialism in terms of its stage characteristics, goals, and tasks. Currently, academic circles have heated discussions on the “new” and “change” of the new stage of development, while there is less exploration of the “unchanged” aspects of the new stage of development. The author believes that, as a sub-stage of the primary stage of socialism, the new stage of development reflects its unified core with the primary stage of socialism in the following aspects, reflecting the continuous characteristics of social development.

新发展阶段作为内嵌于社会主义初级阶段的一个阶段或子阶段，其阶段特质、目标任务等与社会主义初级阶段具有内在统一性。目前学界对新发展阶段的“新”与“变”讨论较为热烈，而对新发展阶段的“不变”探究较少。笔者认为，作为社会主义初级阶段的子阶段，新发展阶段在以下几个方面体现了其与社会主义初级阶段的统一内核，反映了社会发展的连续性特征。

First, from the perspective of the time category, the primary stage of socialism needs to go through a relatively long period, and the new stage of development is contained within the primary stage of socialism. According to Deng Xiaoping’s thought on the primary stage of socialism, the 13th National Congress of the CPC clearly pointed out that the primary stage of socialism “will take at least a hundred years.” The 19th National Congress of the CPC made the major judgment of the “two no changes” [1]1 The “second centenary goal” refers to building China into a great modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious, and beautiful by the middle of the 21st century, the centenary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. in the New Era. The 20th National Congress of the CPC once again emphasized that “China is a large developing country and is still in the primary stage of socialism.” [2]2 The 18th National Congress of the CPC, held in 2012, marked the beginning of the New Era under Xi Jinping’s leadership. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that “after completing the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects and realizing the First Centenary Goal, we must take advantage of the momentum to embark on a new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country and march toward the Second Centenary Goal. This marks that China has entered a new stage of development.” [3]3 This is a quotation from Xi Jinping’s speech at the ceremony marking the centenary of the CPC on July 1, 2021. This statement clarifies that the time category of the new stage of development is from 2021 to the middle of this century, contained within the development period of the primary stage of socialism.

第一，从时间范畴来看，社会主义初级阶段需要经历一个较长的时期，新发展阶段内含于社会主义初级阶段中。根据邓小平关于社会主义初级阶段的思想，党的十三大明确指出，社会主义初级阶段“至少需要上百年时间”；党的十九大作出新时代“两个没有变”的重大判断；党的二十大再次强调，“我国是一个发展中大国，仍处于社会主义初级阶段”③。习近平总书记指出，“全面建成小康社会、实现第一个百年奋斗目标之后，我们要乘势而上开启全面建设社会主义现代化国家新征程、向第二个百年奋斗目标进军，这标志着我国进入了一个新发展阶段”。该论断明确了新发展阶段的时间范畴是2021年到21世纪中叶，包含于社会主义初级阶段的发展时期内。

Second, from the perspective of the process of social contradiction movement, the transformation of China’s principal social contradiction has not fundamentally broken through the basic contradiction of the primary stage of socialism. Its essence is the concrete extension of the contradictory movement between productive forces and relations of production, highlighting prominent issues in different social realities within the same social formation. Marxism holds that the principal social contradiction embodies the nature of the basic social contradiction. Within the same social formation, although different stages of development evolve due to different principal social contradictions, the nature of the basic social contradiction has never changed. Specifically, in the new stage of development, China’s “basic national condition of being in and will long remain in the primary stage of socialism has not changed,” and the fundamental task of continuously improving relations of production to promote the liberation and development of productive forces has not changed. Because “China’s social productive forces have generally improved significantly, and its social productive capacity has entered the forefront of the world in many aspects,” the development of socialism with Chinese characteristics “has not only put forward higher requirements for material and cultural life but also has growing demands in areas such as democracy, the rule of law, fairness, justice, security, and the environment,” while “the more prominent problem is unbalanced and inadequate development.” [4]4 This phrasing is from the Report to the 20th National Congress of the CPC in 2022. Therefore, the new stage of development, which is committed to meeting the people’s growing needs for a better life, is still generally in the primary stage of socialism.

第二，从社会的矛盾运动过程来看，中国社会主要矛盾的转化并未从根本上突破社会主义初级阶段基本矛盾，其实质是生产力与生产关系的矛盾运动在同一社会形态下对不同社会现实中突出问题的具象延伸。马克思主义认为，社会主要矛盾体现着社会基本矛盾的性质。在同一的社会形态内部，不同的发展阶段虽因不同的社会主要矛盾而不断演进，但社会基本矛盾的性质从未改变。具体而言，在新发展阶段，中国“仍处于并将长期处于社会主义初级阶段的基本国情没有变”，中国不断完善生产关系以促进生产力的解放和发展这一根本任务并未改变。由于中国“社会生产力水平总体上显著提高，社会生产能力在很多方面进入世界前列”，中国特色社会主义的发展“不仅对物质文化生活提出了更高要求，而且在民主、法治、公平、正义、安全、环境等方面的要求日益增长”，而“更加突出的问题是发展不平衡不充分”。因此，致力于满足人民日益增长的美好生活需要的新发展阶段，总体上仍处于社会主义初级阶段。

Third, from the perspective of the degree of comprehensive human development, China is still in a social form based on material dependence, and human development generally still presents a state based on material dependence. Therefore, the new stage of development still adheres to taking economic construction as the central task and is committed to promoting the transformation of the development concept from “one center” to “three centers,” that is, adhering to “taking economic construction as the central task” while more prominently highlighting “taking improving the quality and efficiency of development as the center” and “taking the people as the center,” thereby gradually enabling socialist development to break away from the external stipulation of things and enhance the self-stipulation of people.

第三，从人的全面发展程度来看，中国目前仍处于以物的依赖性为基础的社会形态下，人的发展仍普遍呈现以物的依赖为基础的状态。因此，新发展阶段仍坚持以经济建设为中心，并致力于推动实现发展理念从“一个中心”到“三个中心”的转变，即坚持“以经济建设为中心”并更加凸显“以提高发展质量和效益为中心”和“以人民为中心”，进而使社会主义的发展逐步脱离外在物的规定性、增强人的自我规定性。

Fourth, from the perspective of the world development process and China’s development level, China is still the world’s largest developing country and has not yet reached the level of moderately developed countries. Engels once divided “each era” of the same social form into “lower, middle, and higher stages” based on the progress of the production of means of subsistence. [5]5 This phrasing is from Xi Jinping’s speech at a study session for provincial and ministerial-level officials in January 2021. Mao Zedong, using the degree of development as a criterion, divided socialism into two stages: one is “underdeveloped socialism,” and the other is “more developed socialism.” [6]6 This is a common Party slogan, often used by Xi Jinping, The two lines of thinking basically correspond to each other, so it can be considered that the primary stage of socialism is equivalent to the underdeveloped stage of socialism. In 2023, China’s per capita GDP reached 89,358 yuan (approximately US$12,681 based on the average exchange rate of 1 US dollar to 7.0467 yuan in 2023), far exceeding the “four thousand US dollars” that Deng Xiaoping considered in the 1980s to be “a moderately developed country.” [7]7 Xi Jinping, “Explanation of the ‘Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Further Comprehensively Deepening Reform and Promoting Chinese-Path Modernization’,” July 21, 2024. However, China has not actually reached the level of moderately developed countries. This is because countries around the world are generally developing forward, and the degree of development of a country is assessed through horizontal comparison; past standards should not be used to measure current development. Therefore, the new stage of development will still be committed to getting rid of the underdeveloped, unbalanced, and inadequate state of socialism, laying a solid foundation for the transition of socialism from the primary stage to a higher stage.

第四，从世界发展进程和中国的发展水平来看，中国当前仍是世界上最大的发展中国家，仍未达到中等发达国家水平。恩格斯曾经根据生活资料生产的进步，将同一社会形态的“每一时代分为低级阶段、中级阶段和高级阶段”；毛泽东则以发达程度为划分标准，将社会主义分为两个阶段，一是“不发达的社会主义”，二是“比较发达的社会主义”。两者的划分思路基本相对应，因此可以认为社会主义初级阶段等同于社会主义的不发达阶段。2023年，中国的人均国内生产总值已达89358万元（按照2023年全年人民币平均汇率1美元兑7.0467元人民币计算，约合1.2681万美元），远超20世纪80年代邓小平所认为的“四千美元”就算是“中等发达的国家了”。然而，当前中国实际上并未达到中等发达国家水平。这是由于世界各国整体上都在向前发展，而国家的发达程度是横向对比评估的，不应以过去的标准衡量当下的发展。因此，新发展阶段仍将致力于摆脱社会主义的不发达、不平衡、不充分状态，为社会主义从初级阶段向更高阶段的发展奠定坚实基础。

Fifth, from the perspective of the goals and tasks of the stage of development, the overall goal set by the New Stage of Development is highly consistent with the primary stage of socialism and is more precise and explicit. Deng Xiaoping first proposed “blazing a Chinese-style path to modernization,” specifying that by the middle of the 21st century, i.e., at the end of the primary stage of socialism, the goal of basically realizing modernization would be achieved. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “Soon after the founding of New China, our Party set the goal of building a modern socialist country… The next thirty years will be the New Stage of Development in which we complete this historic grand aspiration.” [1]1 The “second centenary goal” refers to building China into a great modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious, and beautiful by the middle of the 21st century, the centenary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. The strategic goal of the New Stage of Development is to accomplish the goal of building a modern socialist country in stages: to basically realize socialist modernization by 2035, and to build China into a great modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious, and beautiful by the middle of the 21st century. In this way, the strategic goals set by the New Stage of Development make the goals of the primary stage of socialism more precise and explicit, thereby enabling a transition to a higher stage with higher-level and higher-quality development outcomes.

第五，从阶段发展的目标任务来看，新发展阶段提出的总目标与社会主义初级阶段高度一致，并更加精准、明确。邓小平最早提出要“走出一条中国式的现代化道路”，指明21世纪中叶即在社会主义初级阶段结束之时要基本实现现代化的目标。习近平总书记指出：“新中国成立不久，我们党就提出建设社会主义现代化国家的目标……未来三十年将是我们完成这个历史宏愿的新发展阶段。”新发展阶段的战略目标，就是分阶段完成建设社会主义现代化国家的奋斗目标，到2035年基本实现社会主义现代化，到21世纪中叶建成富强、民主、文明、和谐、美丽的社会主义现代化强国。这样，新发展阶段设定的战略目标，就使社会主义初级阶段的目标更加精准、明确，从而能以更高水平、更高质量的发展成果迈入更高阶段。

(2) The New Stage of Development will continuously improve the primary stage of socialism

（二）新发展阶段将不断完善社会主义初级阶段

General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasizes that, on the basis of “firmly taking the primary stage of socialism as the greatest reality,” it is also necessary to “more accurately grasp the constantly changing characteristics of our country’s primary stage of socialism.” [2]2 The 18th National Congress of the CPC, held in 2012, marked the beginning of the New Era under Xi Jinping’s leadership. Only by recognizing that the cause of the Party and the state has undergone historic changes, and by recognizing that “our country’s development has reached a new historical starting point, and socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new stage of development,” [3]3 This is a quotation from Xi Jinping’s speech at the ceremony marking the centenary of the CPC on July 1, 2021. can we accurately understand the present, plan for the future, formulate policies, and advance our cause. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the movement and transformation of the principal contradiction in Chinese society in the New Era have driven the evolution of the stage of social development into the New Stage of Development. Therefore, the New Stage of Development should naturally become a stage for deeply resolving the new principal social contradiction and continuously improving socialism.

习近平总书记强调，在“牢牢立足社会主义初级阶段这个最大实际”的基础上，还要“更准确地把握我国社会主义初级阶段不断变化的特点”。只有认识到党和国家事业已经发生了历史性变革，认识到“我国发展站到了新的历史起点上，中国特色社会主义进入了新的发展阶段”，才能准确地认识当下、规划未来、制定政策、推进事业。党的十八大以来，新时代中国社会主要矛盾的运动和转化，推动着社会发展阶段演进到新发展阶段。因此，新发展阶段理应成为深入解决新的社会主要矛盾、不断完善社会主义的阶段。

Socialism is the lower stage of communism, and the primary stage of socialism is an underdeveloped stage of socialism, a stage of “unqualified” socialism. [4]4 This phrasing is from the Report to the 20th National Congress of the CPC in 2022. As a sub-stage of the primary stage of socialism, the core task of the New Stage of Development is to change the underdeveloped, unbalanced, and inadequate state of socialism and to fulfill the historical mission of the primary stage of socialism. Entering the New Stage of Development, the productive forces in the primary stage of socialism have been greatly developed, the people’s lives have been greatly improved, and the people’s needs have turned into more comprehensive and deeper needs for a better life. At the same time, the situation China faces is more complex, and the tasks it shoulders are more arduous. At present, we should take the changed principal social contradiction as the basis, comprehensively consider the contradictions and difficulties that China urgently needs to resolve, formulate systematic methods and strategies for resolving contradictions starting from the commonality of contradictions, and be adept at controlling the particularity of contradictions to implement precise policies, seeking the focal points and entry points for resolving the principal social contradiction.

社会主义是共产主义的低级阶段，而社会主义初级阶段又是不发达的社会主义阶段、“不够格”的社会主义。作为社会主义初级阶段的子阶段，新发展阶段的核心任务就是要改变社会主义不发达、不平衡、不充分的状况，实现社会主义初级阶段的历史使命。进入新发展阶段，社会主义初级阶段的生产力已经大大发展，人民生活大大改善，人民的需求已转为更为全面、深层次的对美好生活的需求。同时，中国面临的局势更加复杂，肩扛的任务更加艰巨。当下，应以变化了的社会主要矛盾为依据，综合考量中国当下亟需解决的矛盾和难题，从矛盾的共性入手制定解决矛盾的系统性方法和策略，并善于把控矛盾的特性精准施策，寻求解决社会主要矛盾的着力点和切入点。

The fundamental method for resolving the principal contradiction of socialism is to further comprehensively deepen reform. In the New Stage of Development, the direction of reform should be “anchored to the overall goal of improving and developing the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics and advancing the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity.” [5]5 This phrasing is from Xi Jinping’s speech at a study session for provincial and ministerial-level officials in January 2021. While further liberating and developing social productive forces, it should “promote better compatibility between relations of production and productive forces, and between the superstructure and the economic base.” [6]6 This is a common Party slogan, often used by Xi Jinping, We should “resolutely break down the ideological concepts and institutional drawbacks that hinder the advancement of Chinese-path modernization, and strive to resolve deep-seated institutional obstacles and structural contradictions,” [7]7 Xi Jinping, “Explanation of the ‘Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Further Comprehensively Deepening Reform and Promoting Chinese-Path Modernization’,” July 21, 2024. providing a strong institutional guarantee for Chinese-path modernization. We should take innovation as the primary driving force for development, focus on resolving the problems of unbalanced and inadequate development among regions, industries, and fields, guide the people to establish a positive and upward outlook on a better life, and spare no effort to create for the people a high-quality quality of life, a democratic and free living atmosphere, a diverse and rich spiritual life, and a harmonious and beautiful living environment.

解决社会主义主要矛盾的根本方法，是进一步全面深化改革。在新发展阶段，改革的方向应是“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”，在进一步解放和发展社会生产力的同时，“推动生产关系和生产力、上层建筑和经济基础更好相适应”。应当“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”，为中国式现代化提供有力的制度保障。应当把创新作为引领发展的第一动力，着力解决各地区、各行业、各领域的发展不平衡、不充分的问题，引导人民树立积极向上的美好生活观，全力为人民打造高质量的生活品质、民主自由的生活氛围、多元丰富的精神生活、和谐美丽的人居生活环境等。

Continuously improving and developing socialism requires orderly advancement in stages. The New Stage of Development is a process of unified coordination and steady progress, within which it can be divided into two stages of development that ascend in a stepwise manner. By 2035, China’s comprehensive national strength will be significantly enhanced, per capita gross domestic product will achieve new breakthroughs and reach the level of moderately developed countries, common prosperity will make substantial progress, the people’s lives will be happier and more beautiful, and the all-round development of people will be further advanced. By the middle of the 21st century, China will be built into a great modern socialist country that leads the world in all respects. The continuously improved socialism will increasingly highlight its advantages over capitalism, radiating a brilliant luster in the 21st century.

不断完善发展社会主义需要分阶段有序推进。新发展阶段就是统一协调、稳步发展的过程，在其内部又可以划分为阶梯式上升的两个发展阶段。到2035年，中国的综合国力将大幅跃升，人均国内生产总值实现新的突破、达到中等发达国家水平，共同富裕取得实质性进展，人民生活更加幸福美好，人的全面发展得以进一步推进。到21世纪中叶，中国将建成全方位领先于世界的社会主义现代化强国，不断完善的社会主义将愈加凸显更胜于资本主义的优势所在，在21世纪焕发出耀人的光彩。

(3) The New Stage of Development will promote the transition of socialism from the primary stage to a higher stage

（三）新发展阶段将推动社会主义从初级阶段向更高阶段迈进

Socialism is not achieved overnight. From the perspective of the history of socialist development, the goal of the primary stage of socialism is to promote the transition of socialism to a higher stage, stimulate the potential advantages of socialism, and pave the way for the lofty ideal of communism. As a sub-stage of the primary stage of socialism, the New Stage of Development will promote the transition of socialism from the primary stage to a higher stage.

社会主义并非一蹴而就。从社会主义发展史的角度看，社会主义初级阶段的目标是推动社会主义迈向更高阶段，激发社会主义的潜在优势，为共产主义远大理想铺路。而新发展阶段作为社会主义初级阶段的一个子阶段，则将推动社会主义从初级阶段向更高阶段迈进。

First, we should grasp that the New Stage of Development is a historic “leapfrog stage” of the primary stage of socialism, not a “transitional stage.” When Marxist classical writers discuss the concept of a “transitional stage,” they often link it to the “theory of social formations,” referring to a transitional period between changes in different social formations. For example, in his 1875 *Critique of the Gotha Programme*, Marx put forward the view of a “transition period”: “Between capitalist and communist society lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.” [8]8 Karl Marx, *Critique of the Gotha Programme* (1875). Shortly after the founding of New China, Mao Zedong put forward the theory of the socialist transition period and formulated the general line for the socialist transition period from the founding of New China to the basic completion of the socialist transformation of the means of production into public ownership. [9]9 The socialist transition period in China, as theorized by Mao Zedong, refers to the period from the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 to the basic completion of the socialist transformation of agriculture, handicrafts, and capitalist industry and commerce in 1956. As a sub-stage of the primary stage of socialism, or a “leapfrog stage” toward a higher stage, the New Stage of Development is not a stage of transition between different social formations, but a stage of development within the socialist social formation. Therefore, it belongs theoretically to the “theory of social stages” rather than the “theory of social formations.” In this way, the New Stage of Development can be distinguished from the “transitional stage” associated with the “theory of social formations,” thereby helping to better grasp the practical orientation and target direction of the New Stage of Development.

首先，应当把握新发展阶段是社会主义初级阶段的历史性“跨越阶段”而非“过渡阶段”。马克思主义经典作家在谈及“过渡阶段”的概念时，往往将之与“社会形态论”联结起来，指不同社会形态变迁之间的一个过渡时期。例如：马克思在1875年的《哥达纲领批判》中，就提出了“过渡时期”的观点，“在资本主义社会和共产主义社会之间，有一个从前者变为后者的革命转变时期。同这个时期相适应的也有一个政治上的过渡时期，这个时期的国家只能是无产阶级的革命专政”。新中国成立后不久，毛泽东就提出了社会主义过渡时期的理论，并制定了从新中国成立到生产资料公有制的社会主义改造基本完成这一阶段的社会主义过渡时期总路线。新发展阶段作为社会主义初级阶段的一个子阶段，或向更高阶段迈进的“跨越阶段”，不是不同社会形态之间的一个变迁阶段，而是社会主义社会形态之内的一个发展阶段，因此在理论范畴上归属于“社会阶段论”而非“社会形态论”。这样，就能将新发展阶段同与“社会形态论”关联的“过渡阶段”区别开来，从而有助于更好把握新发展阶段的实践定位和目标指向。

Second, we should grasp that the New Stage of Development is the result of quantitative change causing partial qualitative change, and is also a process in which new quantitative change triggers new qualitative change. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasizes that the primary stage of socialism is not static or unchanging, but is “a process of stepwise progression, continuous development and progress, and the accumulation and change of quantity increasingly approaching a qualitative leap.” [10]10 Xi Jinping, “Speech at the Opening Ceremony of the Seminar on Studying and Implementing the Spirit of the 19th National Congress of the CPC,” December 25, 2017. This judgment inherently contains two meanings: first, on the basis of the accumulation of quantitative change over the past 60-plus years, China’s socialist development has already formed partial qualitative change and reached a new height—the New Stage of Development; second, overall, the New Stage of Development is still a stage of quantitative change “approaching a qualitative leap,” and has not yet formed a qualitative change—entering a higher stage.

其次，应当把握新发展阶段是量变引起部分质变的结果，也是以新量变引发新质变的过程。习近平总书记强调，社会主义初级阶段不是一成不变、静态发展的，是“一个阶梯式递进、不断发展进步、日益接近质的飞跃的量的积累和发展变化的过程”。这一判断内在地蕴含两层意思：第一，中国的社会主义发展在过去60余年的量变积累的基础上，已经形成部分质变，达到了新的高度——新发展阶段；第二，总的来看，新发展阶段依旧是“接近质的飞跃”的量变阶段，尚未形成质变——迈入更高阶段。

Finally, we should grasp that the New Stage of Development is a preparatory stage for advancing to a higher stage. To this end, we should urgently construct an evaluation system for the degree of progress in the New Stage of Development, persist in using historical materialism to examine social change and development, use the movement and change of the principal social contradiction to judge the degree of social development and progress in the New Stage of Development, use a systematic concept to coordinate the construction of a multi-level, multi-dimensional, multi-weight scientific evaluation system, strengthen comprehensive research on the objective indicators and measurement standards for reaching a higher stage, and make the process of entering a higher stage have more precise reference coordinates and more scientific practical guidance.

最后，应当把握新发展阶段是向更高阶段前进的准备阶段。为此，应当抓紧构建新发展阶段进步程度的评估体系，坚持运用唯物史观考察社会变迁和发展，运用社会主要矛盾的运动变化判断新发展阶段社会发展进步的程度，运用系统观念统筹构建多层次、多维度、多权重的科学评估体系，增强对达到更高阶段的客观指标和衡量标准的综合研究，使迈入更高阶段的过程有更为精准的参照坐标、更为科学的实践指南。

II. The New Stage of Development is “the stage of comprehensively building a modern socialist country and marching toward the Second Centenary Goal” [11]11 The Second Centenary Goal refers to the goal of building China into a great modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious, and beautiful by the middle of the 21st century, the centenary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China.

二、新发展阶段是“全面建设社会主义现代化国家、向第二个百年奋斗目标进军的阶段”

General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out: “The new stage of development is the stage of comprehensively building a modern socialist country and marching toward the second centenary goal.” [1]1 The “second centenary goal” refers to building China into a great modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious, and beautiful by the middle of the 21st century, the centenary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. This distinguishes it from the New Era of decisively building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and then comprehensively building a great modern socialist country in terms of both time and target scope, directly indicating that the strategic task of the new stage of development is to basically achieve modernization by 2035 and to comprehensively build a great modern socialist country by the middle of the 21st century. The modernization of the new stage of development is Chinese-path modernization, socialist modernization, and a comprehensive transcendence of Western modernization dominated by the logic of capital.

习近平总书记指出：“新发展阶段就是全面建设社会主义现代化国家、向第二个百年奋斗目标进军的阶段。”这就与决胜全面建成小康社会、进而全面建设社会主义现代化强国的新时代从时间和目标范畴上区别开来，直接指明了新发展阶段的战略任务就是在2035年基本实现现代化、在21世纪中叶全面建成社会主义现代化强国。新发展阶段的现代化，是中国式现代化，是社会主义的现代化，是对资本逻辑主导下西方现代化的全面超越。

(I) The New Stage of Development Is the Stage of Comprehensively Building a Great Modern Socialist Country

（一）新发展阶段是全面建设社会主义现代化强国的阶段

From the perspective of historical development, the new stage of development is a brand-new stage in which Chinese-path modernization enters a new journey. The pursuit of modernization has been the unswerving ideal of people of insight in modern times who sought self-strengthening. Since the Opium War, many Chinese intellectuals began the arduous journey of seeking modernization. After the founding of the Communist Party of China, this ideal of modernization was continued, providing correct theoretical guidance for Chinese-path modernization. Since the founding of New China, under the leadership of the CPC, adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times and Chinese socialist modernization have advanced in mutual integration, especially demonstrating vigorous vitality in the thriving development process of the construction of socialist modernization with Chinese characteristics. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, [2]2 The 18th National Congress of the CPC, held in 2012, marked the beginning of the New Era under Xi Jinping’s leadership. the theory and practice of Chinese-path modernization have achieved substantive progress and innovative breakthroughs. This will, in the new stage of development, provide a solid material foundation and civilizational support for the leap from the primary stage of socialism to a higher stage, and promote the new form of civilization of Chinese-path modernization to the world.

从历史发展来看，新发展阶段是中国式现代化迈入新征程的崭新阶段。追求现代化是近代仁人志士徐图自强、恪守不渝的理想。自鸦片战争以来，中国诸多有识之士就开始了寻求现代化的艰辛历程。中国共产党成立后，将这一现代化的理想赓续，为中国式现代化提供了正确理论指引。新中国成立以来，在中国共产党领导下，马克思主义中国化和中国社会主义现代化互融共进，特别是在中国特色社会主义现代化建设事业蒸蒸日上的发展进程中展现旺盛的生命力。党的十八大以来，中国式现代化的理论和实践取得了实质性进展和创新性突破，这将在新发展阶段为实现社会主义初级阶段向更高阶段的跨越提供雄厚的物质基础与文明支撑，推动中国式现代化的文明新形态走向世界。

From the perspective of realistic conditions, through the long-term efforts of the Party and the people, the path of Chinese-path modernization has already had a relatively solid realistic foundation. The new stage of development opens a new starting point for China to build a great modern socialist country after achieving leapfrog economic and social development. General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out that, through the persistent struggle of the CPC and the Chinese people, especially the construction cause of more than 40 years of reform and opening up, China “already possesses a solid material foundation for embarking on a new journey and achieving new, higher goals.” According to data from the International Monetary Fund, the economic scale of emerging market and developing countries as a share of the global total rose from 21% in 2000 to 43% in 2022, while China’s share of the global economy rose from 11.4% in 2012 to 18%. In particular, after building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, the problem of absolute poverty that had plagued the Chinese nation for thousands of years has been historically resolved. In short, China has already “become the world’s second-largest economy, the largest industrial country, the largest trader in goods, and the largest holder of foreign exchange reserves, with a GDP exceeding 100 trillion yuan, a per capita GDP exceeding 10,000 US dollars, an urbanization rate exceeding 60%, and a middle-income group exceeding 400 million people.” [3]3 This is a quotation from Xi Jinping’s speech at the ceremony marking the centenary of the CPC on July 1, 2021. After this, the Chinese people will, with greater confidence and stronger self-assurance, embark on the modernization construction of the new stage of development, promoting the comprehensive building of a great modern socialist country and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

从现实条件来看，在党和人民的长期努力下，中国式现代化道路已经有了较为坚实的现实基础，新发展阶段开启了中国实现经济社会跨越式发展后建设社会主义现代化强国的新起点。习近平总书记指出，经过中国共产党和中国人民持之以恒的奋斗，特别是改革开放40多年的建设事业，中国“已经拥有开启新征程、实现新的更高目标的雄厚物质基础”。根据国际货币基金组织数据，新兴市场国家和发展中国家经济规模占全球比重由2000年的21%提升到2022年的43%，中国占全球经济的比重则由2012年的11.4%提升到18%。特别是全面建成小康社会后，困扰中华民族几千年的绝对贫困问题得到了历史性的解决。总之，中国已经“成为世界第二大经济体、第一大工业国、第一大货物贸易国、第一大外汇储备国，国内生产总值超过一百万亿元，人均国内生产总值超过一万美元，城镇化率超过百分之六十，中等收入群体超过四亿人”。在这之后，中国人民将以更足的底气和更强的自信心开启新发展阶段的现代化建设，推动全面建成社会主义现代化强国和实现中华民族伟大复兴。

From the perspective of the development environment, the opportunities and challenges faced by the new stage of development have both undergone new changes. On the one hand, changes unseen in a century in the world today are accelerating, with anti-globalization trends of thought, unilateralism, protectionism, and hegemonism appearing frequently, local conflicts and regional turbulence occurring frequently, and “the world has entered a new period of turbulence and transformation.” At this juncture, a new round of technological revolution and industrial revolution is reshaping the landscape of world economic development and technological innovation. After years of effort, China has already kept pace with or even led the world in many technological fields compared to Western developed countries. In 2023, the number of global top 100 science and technology clusters owned by China reached 24, ranking first in the world for the first time, indicating that China has achieved substantive breakthroughs in the field of technological innovation. In addition, the world economic center has begun to show a trend of shifting from the West to the East. Developing countries represented by China have accelerated their development, promoting the trend of world multipolarization. China’s role on the international stage is growing, and its sphere of influence is expanding. On the other hand, the modernization construction of the new stage of development also faces many deep-seated contradictions, as well as external suppression and containment that may escalate at any time. Therefore, China has entered “a period in which strategic opportunities and risk challenges coexist, and uncertain and unpredictable factors increase.” [4]4 This phrasing is from the Report to the 20th National Congress of the CPC in 2022. For this reason, it is necessary not only to expand and make good use of existing advantages but also to avoid unprecedented risks. The risks and challenges China faces in the new stage of development are concentrated in: the risk of local wars and division in the world caused by major-power games, geopolitics, trade protectionism, hegemonism, etc.; the risk of the United States intensifying its “containment” of China’s development in concert with other countries; the potential risks brought about by China’s economic development transformation and domestic unbalanced and inadequate development; the risks in the process of the CPC’s long-term governance in managing a huge Party membership, preventing internal degeneration, and promoting the innovative development of the Party’s governance capacity building; and so on. On the journey of promoting the comprehensive building of a great modern socialist country in the new stage of development, the CPC must also be prepared to “withstand major tests of high winds, choppy waters, and even treacherous storms,” [5]5 This phrasing is from Xi Jinping’s speech at a study session for provincial and ministerial-level officials in January 2021. uphold the principles and direction of socialism, and “be adept at fostering new opportunities amidst crises and opening up new horizons amidst changes.” [6]6 This is a common Party slogan, often used by Xi Jinping,

从发展环境来看，新发展阶段所面临的机遇和挑战均有新的变化。一方面，当今世界百年未有之大变局加速演进，逆全球化思潮、单边主义、保护主义、霸权主义频现，局部冲突和地区动荡频仍，“世界进入新的动荡变革期”。当此之际，新一轮科技革命和产业革命正在重塑世界经济发展和科技创新版图。经过多年努力，中国已经在诸多技术领域与西方发达国家并驾齐驱甚至领跑世界。2023年，中国拥有的全球百强科技集群数量已经达到了24个，首次跃居全球第一，表明中国在技术创新领域取得实质性突破。除此之外，世界经济中心已经初显由西向东转移的趋势，以中国为代表的发展中国家加速发展，推进了世界多极化的发展趋势，中国在国际舞台上所发挥的作用越来越大、辐射的影响范围越来越广。另一方面，新发展阶段的现代化建设又面临着不少深层次矛盾，以及外部随时可能升级的打压遏制，因此我国进入了“战略机遇和风险挑战并存、不确定难预料因素增多的时期”。为此，不仅要扩大利用好既有优势，还必须规避前所未有的风险。中国在新发展阶段面临的风险挑战，集中体现在：大国博弈、地缘政治、贸易保护主义、霸权主义等引发的世界局部战争和分裂的风险；美国联合其他国家加紧“遏制”中国发展的风险；中国经济发展转型与国内不平衡不充分发展带来的潜在风险；中国共产党长期执政下管理庞大党员队伍、防止内部变质、推进党的执政能力建设创新发展过程中的风险；等等。中国共产党在新发展阶段推进全面建设社会主义现代化强国的征程中，也要做好“经受风高浪急甚至惊涛骇浪的重大考验”的准备，守好社会主义的原则与方向，“善于在危机中育新机、于变局中开新局”。

(II) The New Stage of Development Will Earnestly Implement the New Development Philosophy and Construct the New Development Pattern

（二）新发展阶段将切实贯彻新发展理念、构建新发展格局

The new development philosophy serves the grand blueprint of socialist modernization with Chinese characteristics and is the action guide for the path of Chinese-path modernization; the new development pattern is committed to promoting the unimpeded domestic and international dual circulation and is the practical path of Chinese-path modernization. Grasping the practical positioning of the new stage of development is the realistic basis for implementing the new development philosophy and constructing the new development pattern, while the latter two are the action guarantees for the steady and sustained progress of the new stage of development.

新发展理念服务于中国特色社会主义现代化建设的宏伟蓝图，是中国式现代化道路的行动指引；新发展格局致力于推动国内国际双循环的畅通无阻，是中国式现代化的实践路径。把握新发展阶段的实践定位是贯彻新发展理念、构建新发展格局的现实依据，后两者又是新发展阶段行稳致远的行动保障。

“Philosophy is the precursor of action,” [7]7 Xi Jinping, “Explanation of the ‘Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Further Comprehensively Deepening Reform and Promoting Chinese-Path Modernization’,” July 21, 2024. and the leading role of the new development philosophy in the new stage of development should be highlighted. The transformation of the principal contradiction in Chinese society determines that the new stage of development must implement the new development philosophy. The “barrel-plank short-board effect” [8]8 Karl Marx, *Critique of the Gotha Programme* (1875). caused by China’s unbalanced and inadequate development has constrained the improvement of China’s comprehensive national strength and its pace of progress. Therefore, it is necessary to make good use of the “baton” of the new development philosophy, [9]9 The socialist transition period in China, as theorized by Mao Zedong, refers to the period from the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 to the basic completion of the socialist transformation of agriculture, handicrafts, and capitalist industry and commerce in 1956. highlight the people-centered value stance of the new development philosophy, and realize the driving role of the new development philosophy in transforming the economic development model. First, use “innovative development” to provide forward momentum for the new stage of development, the most important of which is scientific and technological innovation. Persist in tackling key scientific and technological problems with a problem-oriented approach, focus on overcoming “bottleneck” technologies in key areas, attach importance to stimulating the vitality of innovation entities, create a healthy and upward innovation ecosystem, and endow development with new momentum. Second, use “coordinated development” to level the gaps and shortcomings for the new stage of development, focusing on using a systematic approach to promote balanced development among regions, fields, and industries, while also preventing a new resurgence of “egalitarianism.” Third, use “green development” to transform the development model in the new stage of development, changing the previous extensive development model that emphasized production over environment, speed over quality, the present over the long term, and capital accumulation over resource protection, ensuring that the next generation shares the fruits of development. Fourth, use “open development” to open up broader development paths for the new stage of development. On the one hand, strive to overcome the adverse effects of anti-globalization, using a higher level of openness to drive higher-quality development; on the other hand, practice the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind, allowing the fruits of China’s development to benefit the whole world. Fifth, use “shared development” to pave the way for the new stage of development toward its ultimate goal. Shared development emphasizes dividing the cake well while making it bigger. It is an inevitable requirement for promoting common prosperity for all people, and it is also the ultimate purpose of innovation, coordination, green, and openness. To this end, it is necessary to uphold and develop China’s basic socialist economic system and distribution system, give full play to the roles of the market and the government, more actively and effectively address the problems of large gaps in urban-rural and regional development and income distribution, and achieve a higher degree of social fairness.

“理念是行动的先导”，应突出新发展理念在新发展阶段的引领作用。中国社会主要矛盾的转化决定了新发展阶段必须贯彻新发展理念。中国不平衡不充分的发展引发的“木桶短板效应”束缚了中国综合国力的提升与前进的步伐。因而，必须运用好新发展理念这根“指挥棒”，彰显新发展理念以人民为中心的价值立场，实现新发展理念对转变经济发展方式的推动作用。第一，以“创新发展”为新发展阶段提供前进动力，其中最重要的就是科技创新。坚持科学技术的攻关以问题为导向，重点攻克关键领域的“卡脖子”技术，重视激励创新主体的活力，打造健康向上的创新生态，赋予发展以新动能。第二，以“协调发展”为新发展阶段扫平短板缺口，注重运用系统观念促进各地区、各领域、各行业的平衡发展，同时也要杜绝“平均主义”的新抬头。第三，以“绿色发展”为新发展阶段扭转发展方式，改变过去重生产而轻环境、重速度而轻质量、重当下而轻长远、重资本积累而轻资源保护的粗放型发展方式，保障下一代人共享发展成果。第四，以“开放发展”为新发展阶段开拓更广阔的发展路径。一方面，努力克服逆全球化的不利影响，以更高层次的开放带动更高质量的发展；另一方面，践行人类命运共同体理念，让中国的发展成果惠及全世界。第五，以“共享发展”为新发展阶段铺设走向最终旨归的道路。共享发展强调在做大蛋糕的同时分好蛋糕，是推进全体人民共同富裕的必然要求，也是创新、协调、绿色、开放的最终目的。为此，应坚持和发展中国的社会主义基本经济制度和分配制度，发挥好市场和政府的作用，更加积极有效地解决城乡、区域发展和收入分配差距较大的问题，实现更高程度的社会公平。

“Implementing the new development philosophy inevitably requires constructing a new development pattern.” This is a strategic choice for smoothing the circulation of the national economy and maintaining dynamic equilibrium at a high economic level; it is an overall deployment made by the Party Central Committee in light of China’s development realities that concerns overall development. Due to the “leaning to one side” policy in the early days of the founding of New China and the blockade by external forces, China’s international economic and trade development and technology introduction were relatively weak. In the early period of reform and opening up, out of the need to “borrow a boat to go to sea” in order to quickly traverse the century-long path of developed countries, China adopted an international circulation open development model of “two ends abroad, massive imports and massive exports.” Although this policy met the strategic requirements of China’s economic development at the time, over the long term, the mode of participation in the global value chain through low-end embedding was detrimental to the vigorous development of the domestic market and to China’s ability to play a leading role internationally. The international financial crisis, the state of isolation among countries worldwide during the pandemic, and the United States’ “sanctions” and “containment” of China have all made China realize that only by building a strong and powerful domestic market can China, no matter the circumstances, “not break the chain”—ensuring the smooth flow of production chains, supply chains, and sales chains, constructing a firewall to withstand attacks, and possessing the confidence to resolve any risks and confront hostile forces. Therefore, the new development pattern requires taking the domestic circulation as the mainstay, persisting in the coordinated effort of deepening supply-side structural reform and expanding effective domestic demand, and enhancing the degree of compatibility between the supply system and the diversified needs of the people, thereby constructing a benign dynamic cycle in which demand drives supply and supply stimulates new demand. At the same time, it is not possible to abandon the international circulation and revert to the old path of “closing the country to international intercourse.” Instead, the continuously growing domestic circulation should be used to attract external resources and new factors of production, enhance strategic initiative in opening up and foreign engagement, take ourselves as the mainstay, and establish and improve a system of domestic and international dual circulations.

“贯彻新发展理念，必然要求构建新发展格局。”这是畅通国民经济循环、维持经济在高水平层面的动态平衡的战略选择，是党中央结合中国的发展现实作出的关系全局发展的整体部署。由于新中国成立初期“一边倒”政策和外部势力的封锁，中国的国际经贸发展和技术引进较弱。改革开放初期，出于“借船出海”以迅速走完发达国家百年路程的需要，中国实行“两头在外、大进大出”的国际大循环开放发展模式。该政策虽符合当时中国经济发展的战略要求，但长此以往，低端嵌入下的全球价值链参与模式，不利于国内市场的蓬勃发展和中国在国际上引领作用的发挥。国际金融危机、疫情下世界各国的隔绝状态、美国对中国的“制裁”“遏制”等更让中国意识到，建立雄厚强大的国内市场才能让中国无论何时都“不掉链”——保证生产链、供应链、销售链等的顺畅，构筑抵御攻击的防火墙，拥有化解任何风险和对抗敌对势力的底气。因此，新发展格局要求以国内大循环为主，坚持深化供给侧结构性改革和扩大有效内需协同发力，增强供给体系与人民多样化需求的适配度，从而构建以需求牵动供给、以供给激发新需求的良性动态循环。与此同时，并不能放弃国外循环、走“闭关锁国”的老路子。应以不断壮大的国内大循环吸引外来资源和新的生产要素，增强在对外开放与交往中的战略主动权，以我为主，建立健全国内国际双循环体系。

(III) The New Stage of Development Will Promote China’s High-Quality Development

（三）新发展阶段将推动中国高质量发展

General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly pointed out: “High-quality development is the primary task in building a modern socialist country in all respects.” Promoting high-quality development is the theme of the period of the 14th Five-Year Plan and even the entire new stage of development; achieving high-quality development is a key weight and powerful proof of demonstrating the advantages of Chinese-path modernization to the world. China’s problem of unbalanced and inadequate development is concentrated precisely in the issue of development quality, which raises requirements for improving the quality and efficiency of China’s current development.

习近平总书记明确指出：“高质量发展是全面建设社会主义现代化国家的首要任务。”推动高质量发展是“十四五”时期乃至整个新发展阶段的主题，实现高质量发展是向世界展示中国式现代化优势的关键砝码和有力证明。中国不平衡不充分的发展问题就集中体现在发展质量的问题上，这就对提高当前中国的发展质量和效益提出了要求。

In the new stage of development, the state should promote a transformation in the pursuit of development from quantity-oriented bigness to quality-oriented excellence, and “all fields, including the economy, society, culture, and ecology, must embody the requirements of high-quality development.” The key lies in developing new quality productive forces. New quality productive forces are “a more advanced form of productive forces formed by the qualitative enhancement of factors of production and their optimal combination,” including three basic elements: new quality laborers, new quality means of labor, and new quality objects of labor. Some scholars, through studying panel data from 30 provinces from 2012 to 2022, have concluded that inputs of new quality production factors, new quality laborers, new quality means of labor, new quality objects of labor, green output, and scientific and technological output have a significant driving effect on high-quality development. This driving effect shows a “marginally increasing” trend under different levels of economic development, industrial structure, and digitalization, and also has a significant spillover effect on the high-quality development of economically adjacent regions. The characteristics of new quality productive forces are innovativeness, integrativeness, and sustainability; they possess the inherent requirements of high technology, high efficiency, and high quality. They can form high-tech productive forces, giving rise to new technologies, new industries, and new drivers of growth, promoting high-quality and efficient economic development, and facilitating the self-iteration and leap of productive forces. They can form high-efficiency productive forces, significantly increasing total factor productivity, improving the efficiency of resource allocation, and thereby enhancing economic and social benefits. They can form cultural productive forces, driven by digital technology in the New Era, transforming intangible spiritual culture or cultural carriers such as music, emotions, calligraphy and painting, cuisine, landmarks, performances, and knowledge into cross-temporal and cross-spatial heterogeneous objects that can be seen, heard, and touched, endowing various cultural elements with new forms and economic value. They can form green productive forces, accelerating the transformation of the economic development mode toward green development, strengthening the promotion and application of green technologies, promoting the formation and extension of green and low-carbon industrial chains, and gradually constructing a green and low-carbon circular economy system. Therefore, new quality productive forces will inevitably drive major changes in new types of relations of production; they are the living source for modernizing all fields and provide the fundamental driving force for achieving high-quality development. In the new stage of development, developing new quality productive forces should be taken as an important lever for promoting high-quality development, using new quality productive forces to strengthen and empower Chinese-path modernization.

新发展阶段，国家应推动发展追求从数量之大到质量之优的转变，而“经济、社会、文化、生态等各领域都要体现高质量发展的要求”，其关键就在于发展新质生产力。新质生产力是“生产要素及其优化组合的质的提升而形成的更为先进的生产力形态”，包括新质劳动者、新质劳动资料、新质劳动对象三大基本要素。有学者通过研究2012年至2022年30个省份的面板数据，得出结论：新质生产要素投入、新质劳动者、新质劳动资料、新质劳动对象、绿色产出、科技产出等对高质量发展有显著驱动效应。这种驱动效应在不同经济发展、产业结构和数字化水平下呈“边际递增”趋势，对经济邻近区域的高质量发展也具有显著溢出效应。新质生产力的特性是创新性、融合性、可持续性，具有高技术、高效能、高质量的内在要求，能够形成高科技生产力，催生出新技术、新产业、新动能，推动经济高质高效发展，促成生产力的自我迭代与跃迁；能够形成高效能生产力，大幅提升全要素生产率，提高资源配置效率，进而提高经济效益与社会效益；能够形成文化生产力，在新时代数字技术推动下，将音乐、情感、书画、美食、地标、表演、知识等无形的精神文化或文化载体，转化为可视、可听、可触的跨时空异质物体，赋予各类文化要素以新的形态和经济价值；能够形成绿色生产力，加快经济发展方式向绿色转型，加强绿色技术的推广运用，推动绿色低碳产业链的形成与延长，逐步构建绿色低碳的循环经济体系。因此，新质生产力必然推动新型生产关系的重大变革，是推动各领域现代化的活水源泉，为实现高质量发展提供了根本推动力。新发展阶段，应当将发展新质生产力作为推动高质量发展的重要抓手，以新质生产力为中国式现代化强基赋能。

III. The New Stage of Development Is “a Great Leap Forward in the Historical Process of the Great Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation”

三、新发展阶段是“中华民族伟大复兴历史进程的大跨越”

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the new stage of development is “a new stage in which our Party leads the people to achieve a historic leap from standing up, growing rich, to becoming strong,” and is “a great leap forward in the historical process of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.” This clarifies the practical positioning of the new stage of development as a “leap-forward stage” and elaborates on the historical inevitability of achieving the comprehensive rejuvenation of the nation upon entering the new stage of development.

习近平总书记指出，新发展阶段是“我们党带领人民迎来从站起来、富起来到强起来历史性跨越的新阶段”，是“中华民族伟大复兴历史进程的大跨越”。这就明确了新发展阶段作为“跨越阶段”的实践定位，阐述了进入新发展阶段将迎来民族全面复兴的历史必然。

(I) The New Stage of Development Is the Leap-Forward Stage for Realizing the Great Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation

（一）新发展阶段是实现中华民族伟大复兴的跨越阶段

The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the theme of the CPC’s struggle over more than a century. The report of the 20th National Congress of the CPC clearly states that in the new stage of development, the central task of the CPC is to achieve the second centenary goal, “comprehensively advancing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese-path modernization.” In the new stage of development, the process of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has become irreversible, presenting an inevitable trend of historical development.

中华民族伟大复兴是中国共产党百余年奋斗的主题。党的二十大报告明确指出，新发展阶段，中国共产党的中心任务就是实现第二个百年奋斗目标，“以中国式现代化全面推进中华民族伟大复兴”。新发展阶段，实现中华民族伟大复兴的进程已经不可逆转，呈现了历史发展的必然趋势。

That the new stage of development can achieve a great leap forward in the historical process of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is rooted in the truth of Marxism and the innovativeness of 21st-century Marxism and contemporary Chinese Marxism. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out at the Party History Study and Education Mobilization Conference: “The history of our Party is a history of continuously advancing the adaptation of Marxism to the Chinese context, a history of continuously advancing theoretical innovation and theoretical creation.” Countless social trends of thought, theories, and doctrines have emerged in Chinese history, but all have been eliminated by history or forgotten by history without exception, while Marxism still shines brightly in the 21st century. Why is Marxism effective? This lies in the fact that Marxism is a scientific theory, a theory of the people, a practical theory, and a constantly developing and open theory. Marxism profoundly reveals the inevitable laws of historical development, points out the direction forward for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and, by integrating with China’s concrete realities and the excellent traditional Chinese culture, has given rise to innovative theoretical achievements in adapting Marxism to the Chinese context, enabling the CPC to unite and lead the Chinese people in realizing the great leap from standing up, growing rich, to becoming strong. Entering the 21st century, the adaptation of Marxism to the Chinese context has achieved a new leap. Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, with its complete and rigorous scientific theoretical system, elaborates on the basic connotations, historical orientation, and realization path of the great cause of national rejuvenation, providing practical guidance for the great cause of national rejuvenation. By integrating with China’s concrete realities in the 21st century and the excellent traditional Chinese culture, it has creatively developed socialism with Chinese characteristics, enabling scientific socialism to radiate strong vitality in 21st-century China and providing a scientific theoretical guide for national rejuvenation. It has put forward original concepts such as a community with a shared future for mankind and a new form of human civilization, dedicated to solving global problems, demonstrating China’s great-power sentiment and sense of responsibility, and creating a unique global significance for national rejuvenation. Therefore, Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era will inevitably guide the Chinese nation in realizing the great rejuvenation in the new stage of development.

新发展阶段能够实现中华民族伟大复兴历史进程的大跨越，根源于马克思主义的真理性和21世纪马克思主义、当代中国马克思主义的创新性。习近平总书记在党史学习教育动员大会上指出：“我们党的历史，就是一部不断推进马克思主义中国化的历史，就是一部不断推进理论创新、进行理论创造的历史。”中国历史上涌现过无数的社会思潮、理论、主义，但都无一例外被历史淘汰或已被历史遗忘，而马克思主义在21世纪依然熠熠生辉。马克思主义为什么行？这就在于马克思主义是科学的理论、人民的理论、实践的理论、不断发展的开放的理论。马克思主义深刻地揭示了历史发展的必然规律，为中华民族伟大复兴指明了前进方向，同中国具体实际和中华优秀传统文化相结合催生了马克思主义中国化的创新理论成果，使中国共产党团结带领中国人民实现了从站起来、富起来到强起来的伟大飞跃。进入21世纪，马克思主义中国化实现了新的飞跃，习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想以其完整严密的科学理论体系，论述了民族复兴伟业的基本内涵、历史方位和实现路径等，为民族复兴伟业提供了现实的实践指引；同21世纪中国的具体实际、中华优秀传统文化相结合，创造性地发展了中国特色社会主义，使科学社会主义在21世纪的中国焕发出强大生机活力，为民族复兴提供了科学的理论指南；提出了人类命运共同体、人类文明新形态等致力于解决全球问题的原创性理念，彰显了中国的大国情怀与大国担当，为民族复兴创造了独有的世界意义。因此，习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想在新发展阶段，必将指引着中华民族实现伟大复兴。

The New Stage of Development will inevitably achieve a great leap forward in the historical process of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The Opium War of 1840 brought humiliation to the nation, suffering to the people, and obscurity to its civilization, plunging the Chinese nation into an unprecedented crisis. Since then, “realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has become the greatest dream of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation.” [20]20 Xi Jinping, “Speech at the Ceremony Commemorating the Centenary of the Communist Party of China” (July 1, 2021). All classes of Chinese society, one after another, launched the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, the Westernization Movement, the Hundred Days’ Reform, the Boxer Rebellion, and the Xinhai Revolution, attempting to find a way to save the nation, but all ended in failure. This proved that: “For realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, the path is the most fundamental issue.” [21]21 Xi Jinping, “Speech at the Ceremony Commemorating the 130th Anniversary of the Birth of Comrade Mao Zedong” (December 26, 2023). The October Revolution brought Marxism-Leninism to China. A segment of China’s advanced elements accepted the theoretical guidance of Marxism, founded the Communist Party of China, and gave the Chinese revolution a strong leading core. The Chinese Communists, with Comrade Mao Zedong as their main representative, gradually explored a path of New Democratic Revolution that surrounded the cities from the countryside and seized political power by armed force, established a people’s democratic state, built a socialist system, embarked on the great journey of national strength and rejuvenation, and created the fundamental social conditions and institutional foundation for national strength and rejuvenation. Since reform and opening up, the Chinese Communists, with Comrades Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, and Hu Jintao as their main representatives, have initiated and expanded the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, consolidating the institutional guarantees and material foundation for national strength and rejuvenation. Entering the New Era, the Chinese Communists, with Comrade Xi Jinping as their main representative, have pushed the development of the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics to a new historical height. The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation now has more complete institutional guarantees, a more solid material foundation, and a more proactive spiritual strength. China has officially entered the decisive stage of comprehensively advancing national strength and rejuvenation. Looking back over more than a century of struggle, the Chinese people, under the leadership of the CPC, have walked on the correct path of socialism. After 28 years of New Democratic Revolution struggle, nearly 30 years of socialist revolution and construction accumulation, more than 30 years of struggle in the new period of reform, opening up, and socialist modernization, and more than 10 years of pioneering work in the New Era of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the Chinese nation is now striding forward on the path of comprehensively advancing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese-path modernization. This continues the history of the Chinese nation’s development and demonstrates the strong resilience of the Chinese nation, which has endured millennia of hardships and thrived endlessly. In the New Stage of Development, the Chinese people already possess a better foundation for life, more steadfast confidence in their culture, and a more conscious historical initiative. They will take the final leap in the historical relay race of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with even more heroic strides.

新发展阶段必然实现中华民族伟大复兴历史进程的大跨越。1840年鸦片战争，国家蒙辱、人民蒙难、文明蒙尘，中华民族陷入史无前例的危机之中。自此，“实现中华民族伟大复兴，就成为中国人民和中华民族最伟大的梦想”。中国社会各阶级前赴后继，先后发动了太平天国运动、洋务运动、戊戌变法、义和团运动、辛亥革命等，尝试救国之道，但都以失败告终。这证明了：“实现中华民族伟大复兴，道路是最根本的问题。”十月革命一声炮响，给中国送来了马克思列宁主义。一部分中国的先进分子接受了马克思主义的理论指导，成立了中国共产党，使中国革命有了坚强领导核心。以毛泽东为主要代表的中国共产党人逐渐探索出一条农村包围城市、武装夺取政权的新民主主义革命道路，创建了人民民主国家，建立了社会主义制度，开启了强国复兴的伟大征程，创造了强国复兴的根本社会条件和制度基础；改革开放以来，以邓小平、江泽民、胡锦涛为主要代表的中国共产党人开创并拓展了中国特色社会主义道路，夯实了强国复兴的体制保障和物质基础；进入新时代，以习近平同志为主要代表的中国共产党人把中国特色社会主义道路的发展推向了新的历史高度，中华民族伟大复兴有了更为完善的制度保证、更为坚实的物质基础、更为主动的精神力量，中国正式迈入了全面强国复兴的决胜阶段。回看百余年征程，中国人民在中国共产党的领导下走在了社会主义的正确道路上，历经28年新民主主义革命斗争、近30年的社会主义革命和建设积累、30多年改革开放和社会主义现代化建设新时期的奋斗、10多年中国特色社会主义新时代的开拓，当下中华民族正阔步行进在以中国式现代化全面推进中华民族伟大复兴的大道上，实现了中华民族发展史的赓续，展现了中华民族历经千年磨难而生生不息的强大韧性。新发展阶段，中国人民已然有了更加美好的生活基础、更加坚定的文化自信、更加自觉的历史主动，将以更加豪迈的步伐实现中华民族伟大复兴历史接力赛的最后跨越。

(2) The New Stage of Development will solidly promote common prosperity for all the people

（二）新发展阶段将扎实推动全体人民共同富裕

General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasizes: “Promoting common prosperity for all the people is a long-term task.” [22]22 Xi Jinping, “Solidly Promoting Common Prosperity” (October 15, 2021), in *Selected Readings from Xi Jinping’s Works*, vol. 2. With the completion of the task of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and the commencement of the new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country, in the New Stage of Development, “it is necessary to place the promotion of common prosperity for all the people in a more important position.” [23]23 Xi Jinping, “Speech at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China” (October 29, 2020).

习近平总书记强调：“促进全体人民共同富裕是一项长期任务。”随着全面建成小康社会的任务完成、全面建设社会主义现代化强国的新征程开启，新发展阶段“必须把促进全体人民共同富裕摆在更加重要的位置”。

The main force for realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the people. Persistently putting the people first requires that the New Stage of Development must solidly promote common prosperity for all the people. Common prosperity not only embodies the basic principles of scientific socialism, which criticizes capitalist exploitation, takes “the prosperity of all” as the purpose of production, and emphasizes that all working people share “the benefits created by everyone,” but also contains the millennia-old ideals of “enriching the people,” “moderate prosperity,” “great harmony,” and “shared prosperity” from China’s excellent traditional culture. It is a distinctive marker that distinguishes Chinese-path modernization from Western modernization. The development of socialism requires proceeding step by step, and common prosperity is also a dynamic development process that gradually moves from quantitative accumulation to qualitative breakthroughs. From the founding of New China to the present, common prosperity has achieved phased successes through the efforts of the Chinese people. The victory in the battle against poverty marks the complete eradication of absolute poverty for the Chinese people. However, “the profitability of capital is linked to relative poverty,” [24]24 Karl Marx, *Capital*, vol. 1. so the elimination of absolute poverty is still insufficient for common prosperity; relative poverty must also be gradually addressed. With the completion of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, China has entered a new stage of solidly promoting common prosperity for all the people. On October 29, 2020, the “Proposal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development and the Long-Range Objectives Through the Year 2035,” adopted at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the CPC, pointed out that by 2035, basically realizing socialist modernization should enable “more obvious and substantive progress in common prosperity for all the people,” and it prominently emphasized that improving the quality of people’s lives requires “solidly promoting common prosperity.” [25]25 “Proposal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development and the Long-Range Objectives Through the Year 2035,” adopted at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the CPC. This means that “common prosperity” has been elevated to an unprecedented height in Party documents, serving as a concentrated expression of the socialist nature and communist direction of the New Stage of Development.

实现中华民族伟大复兴的主体力量是人民，始终坚持人民至上要求新发展阶段必须扎实推动全体人民共同富裕。共同富裕不仅体现着科学社会主义批判资本主义剥削、以“所有的人富裕”为生产目的、强调所有劳动者共享“大家创造出来的福利”的基本原理，同时也蕴含着中华优秀传统文化中“富民”“小康”“大同”“共富”等千年理想，是中国式现代化区别于西方现代化的鲜明标志。社会主义的发展需要循序渐进，共同富裕也是一个从量的积累逐步达到质的突破的动态发展历程。从新中国成立至今，共同富裕已经在中国人民的努力下取得了阶段性的成功，脱贫攻坚战的胜利标志着中国人民彻底摆脱了绝对贫困。然而，“资本的赢利是与相对贫困联系在一起的”，因此绝对贫困的消灭对共同富裕而言仍是不够的，还应当逐步解决相对贫困问题。随着全面小康社会的建成，中国进入了扎实推动全体人民共同富裕的新阶段。2020年10月29日，党的十九届五中全会通过的《中共中央关于制定国民经济和社会发展第十四个五年规划和二〇三五年远景目标的建议》指出，2035年基本实现社会主义现代化应使“全体人民共同富裕取得更为明显的实质性进展”，并突出强调了改善人民生活品质必须“扎实推动共同富裕”。这意味着“共同富裕”在党的文献中被提到了一个前所未有的高度，是对新发展阶段社会主义性质和共产主义方向的集中表达。

In the New Stage of Development, emphasis should be placed on coordinating the relationships between efficiency and fairness, and between effectiveness and quality. Focus should be on resolving the “Achilles’ heel” of common prosperity, such as unbalanced and inadequate development and excessively large income distribution gaps among residents. We must insist on the means of production being owned by the state and the people, preventing “the emergence of a new bourgeoisie.” [26]26 Deng Xiaoping, “Speech at the Meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China” (January 17, 1992), in *Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping*, vol. 3. We must adhere to public ownership as the mainstay and allow diverse forms of ownership to develop together, promoting state-owned capital and state-owned enterprises to become stronger, better, and larger, continuously consolidating the foundation of common prosperity. We must scientifically understand the wealth standards of common prosperity, break the capitalist standard of measuring wealth solely by capital accumulation, and establish a wealth evaluation system that equally values material wealth, spiritual wealth, social wealth, ecological wealth, and political civilization wealth. This will drive the transformation of the ideal of shared prosperity from mere “material prosperity” to “both material abundance and spiritual enrichment,” giving true meaning to “prosperity” for the realization of people’s free and comprehensive development. At that time, countries around the world will not only see an ancient Eastern nation achieving rejuvenation in the New Era and radiating renewed brilliance, but this will also inspire developing countries to find their own development paths in the integration of tradition and modernity, and show the people of all countries a beautiful vision of the future communist society.

新发展阶段，应着重协调好效率与公平、效能与质量的关系，着重解决发展不平衡不充分、居民收入分配差距过大等共同富裕的“阿喀琉斯之踵”；坚持生产资料归国家和人民所有，防止“产生新的资产阶级”；坚持以公有制为主体，多种所有制共同发展，推动国有资本和国有企业做强、做优、做大，不断夯实共同富裕的地基；科学认识共同富裕的财富标准，打破资本主义以资本增殖为根本尺度衡量财富的标准，建立物质财富与精神财富、社会财富、生态财富、政治文明财富等并重的财富评价体系，推动实现共富理想由单纯“物质富裕”向“既要物质富足、也要精神富有”转变，为实现人的自由全面发展赋予“富裕”真正的意义。彼时，世界各国不仅会看到一个古老的东方民族将在新时代实现复兴、重新焕发出耀人的光芒，更启发着各发展中国家在传统与现代的融合中找寻自己发展的道路，也向世界各国人民展示了未来共产主义社会的美好图景。

(3) The New Stage of Development will promote the construction of a new form of civilization compatible with Chinese-path modernization

（三）新发展阶段将推动与中国式现代化相适应的文明新形态建设

As the only civilization in the world that has never interrupted its development, Chinese civilization is all-encompassing and uniquely brilliant, having refined the profound, extensive, and long-standing excellent traditional Chinese culture. The integration of the basic tenets of Marxism with China’s excellent traditional culture has initiated “another ideological emancipation,” [27]27 Xi Jinping, “Speech at the Symposium on Cultural Heritage” (June 2, 2023). realizing the creative transformation and innovative development of China’s excellent traditional culture and creating a modern form of Chinese civilization. From the people-oriented thought of “the people are more important than the ruler” and “the ruler is the boat, the people are the water” to the people-centered mass thought; from the social ideals of “great harmony” and “moderate prosperity” to the socialist ideal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and achieving common prosperity; from the family-nation sentiment of “everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the nation” to the great-power mission of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and jointly building a community with a shared future for mankind; from following the natural law that “heaven operates with constancy” to the ecological civilization concept that “lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets”; from the pragmatic thought that “what you get on paper is shallow, you must practice it to truly understand” to the spirit of hard work expressed in “empty talk harms the country, solid work makes it flourish” and “roll up your sleeves and work harder”; and so on. The new form of civilization compatible with Chinese-path modernization, in its actuality, transcends the value core of China’s excellent traditional culture. It not only imprints the mark of modernization on China’s excellent traditional culture but also injects distinct national genes into Marxism adapted to the Chinese context and the needs of the times. The construction of a new form of civilization compatible with Chinese-path modernization is an inherent requirement for realizing the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. It is a driving factor for generating a new form of human civilization, “containing the interaction and parallel progress of ‘inheritance’ and ‘construction,’” [28]28 The authors’ own formulation, referencing the interaction between cultural inheritance and construction. thus becoming the cultural mission of the New Stage of Development.

作为世界上唯一没有中断发展的文明，中华文明包罗万象、独放异彩，淬炼出了博大精深、源远流长的中华优秀传统文化。马克思主义基本原理同中华优秀传统文化相结合开启了“又一次的思想解放”，实现了中华优秀传统文化的创造性转化和创新性发展，创造出中华文明的现代样态。从“民贵君轻”、“君舟民水”的民本思想到人民至上的群众思想，从“大同”、“小康”的社会理想到全面建成小康社会、实现共同富裕的社会主义理想，从“天下兴亡，匹夫有责”的家国情怀到实现中华民族伟大复兴、共塑人类命运共同体的大国使命，从遵循“天行有常”的自然法则到“绿水青山就是金山银山”的生态文明理念，从“纸上得来终觉浅，绝知此事要躬行”的务实思想到“空谈误国，实干兴邦”、“撸起袖子加油干”的实干精神；等等。与中国式现代化相适应的文明新形态，在其现实性上实现了对中华优秀传统文化价值内核的超越，不仅让中华优秀传统文化烙上了现代化的印记，而且为中国化时代化的马克思主义注入了鲜明的民族基因。与中国式现代化相适应的文明新形态建设是实现中华民族伟大复兴中国梦的内在要求，是生成人类文明新形态的动力因素，“蕴含了‘传承’与‘建设’的互动与并进”，从而成为新发展阶段的文化使命。

The new stage of development is the stage of comprehensively advancing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese-path modernization. The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, pursued by generations of the Chinese people, encompasses not only renewed economic prosperity, renewed political strength, social stability and harmony, and enduring ecological beauty, but also cultural rejuvenation. “Cultural rejuvenation and the height and achievements it attains are more competitive and vital than the economy and politics.” [29]29 The New Development Stage (新发展阶段) refers to the period following China's completion of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, marking a new historical starting point for China's development. The New Development Philosophy (新发展理念) encompasses innovation, coordination, green development, openness, and sharing. The New Development Pattern (新发展格局) refers to the dual-circulation strategy where domestic and international markets reinforce each other, with the domestic market as the mainstay. Building a new form of civilization compatible with Chinese-path modernization not only inherits and develops the history of Chinese civilization but also concerns the future and destiny of the Chinese nation. Therefore, realizing civilizational rejuvenation and building a strong cultural country become the vision for cultural development and civilizational progress in the new stage of development. Based on this, on June 2, 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping provided a clear orientation and expectations

新发展阶段是以中国式现代化全面推进中华民族伟大复兴的阶段。一代代中国人民所追求的中华民族伟大复兴不仅是经济再度繁华、政治再度强盛、社会安定和谐、生态美丽依旧，更是文化复兴，“文化复兴及其所达到的高度和成就，较之经济和政治更具竞争力、生命力”。建设与中国式现代化相适应的文明新形态，不仅传承和发展中华文明的历史，更关系到中华民族的前途和命运。因而，实现文明复兴、建设文化强国就成为新发展阶段中关于文化发展、文明进步的愿景。基于此，2023年6月2日，习近平总书记在文化传承发展座谈会上对建设文化强国给予了明确的定位和期望：第一，指出“全面深入了解中华文明的历史”是建设文化强国的应有之义，这蕴含了对与中国式现代化相适应的文明新形态提出的坚守民族内核、传承民族精髓的要求；第二，明确了“在新的起点上继续推动文化繁荣、建设文化强国……是我们在新时代新的文化使命”，这就指明了建设文化强国的实践定位；第三，强调了建设与中国式现代化相适应的文明新形态的实践坚守，即：坚定文化自信、秉持开放包容、坚持守正创新；第四，点明了建设与中国式现代化相适应的文明新形态的实践内容，即“创造属于我们这个时代的新文化”。这样，通过新发展阶段的奋斗，将推动文化强国的建设，为中国与世界创造人类文明新形态。

In summary, upon entering the New Development Stage, the Communist Party of China will continue to unite and lead the Chinese people, taking the comprehensive building of a great modern socialist country as the strategic goal, earnestly implementing the New Development Philosophy, constructing the New Development Pattern, striving to promote China's high-quality development, solidly advancing common prosperity for all the people, and vigorously realizing the great cause of building a strong country and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

综上，进入新发展阶段，中国共产党将继续团结带领中国人民，以全面建成社会主义现代化强国为战略目标，切实贯彻新发展理念、构建新发展格局，努力推动中国高质量发展，扎实推进全体人民共同富裕，奋力实现强国建设和民族复兴伟业。

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