Overview
The term "Chinese modernization," also referred to as "Chinese-style modernization" or "Chinese path to modernization," first appeared consistently in the discourse of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 2021. A year later, President Xi Jinping formally advanced the concept at the 20th CPC National Congress. The concept crystallizes the CPC's decades of governance experience, taking into account China's huge population, common prosperity for all, the pursuit of economic, cultural, and ethical progress as a whole, harmony between humanity and nature, and peaceful development. Studies on Chinese Modernization is a series of ten-plus monographs authored by acclaimed Chinese scholars, aiming to offer an overview of the concept and elaborate on its various manifestations such as values selection, national security, digital economy, innovation-driven development, dual circulation, state governance, man-nature harmony, ideological security, the rule of law, energy transformation, and modern state-managed finance.
This book discusses the values and values selection around Chinese modernization by examining the latter's goal, concept, and foundation in value orientation. Considering the importance of values through the lens of different subjects, societal needs, and national goals, the author argues that Chinese modernization can be elaborated through the main relations between history and reality, science and values, and China and the world. Among the main topics addressed in this book are the origin of Chinese modernization development, Chinese people's pursuit of a happy life and their corresponding value goals, value conflicts in the modernization process and how to resolve them,
values selection in the process of building China's governance system, the value orientation of the Five-Sphere Integrated Plan, and the consolidation of individual and national interests in the pursuit of common development and shared values among different countries.
What's New
Outlines the impact of Chinese history on the country's values selection process
