General Secretary of the Supreme Leader clearly put forward the concept of "new form of human civilization" for the first time at the celebration of the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Report to the 20th CPC National Congress pointed out that creating a new form of human civilization is the essential requirement of Chinese modernization. Grasping scientifically the relationship between the new form of human civilization and the Chinese-style modernization road, and comprehensively grasping the historical origin and the background of civilization of the Chinese-style modernization road are conducive to solving the "dispute between ancient and modern China and the West" in the process of Chinese-style modernization. Strengthening the exchange, mutual learning, understanding and tolerance of different civilizations is conducive to realizing the complementarity and harmony of different civilizations, promoting the common development of different civilizations and safeguarding world peace.
Diversity is the most essential and important attribute of human civilization.
Human civilization is created by different races and nationalities in different regions. There are more than 2,500 nationalities and more than 200 countries and regions in the world today. Different nationalities and countries have their own development processes and have contributed to different aspects of the development of human civilization to varying degrees. Just as biodiversity maintains the ecological balance of nature, the diversity of human civilization ensures the vitality and continuity of human society. The so-called view of describing cultural differences as "clash of civilizations" is based on the traditional theory of western cultural superiority.
Since the end of the 20th century, under the interaction of economic globalization and new technological revolution, the Americanization of cultural meaning has swept the world. However, the three waves that occurred at the same time as Americanization once again proved the diversity of human civilization.
The first wave is the blending of civilizations brought about by the wave of globalization.
Hundreds of sovereign and independent modern nation-states have been integrated into the process of globalization. In the era of globalization, civilized exchanges between nations, countries and regions have become more and more frequent, and the world has increasingly become an inseparable whole. However, the large-scale and multi-level cross-cultural exchanges brought about by the huge international movement of immigrant groups and personnel, the inherent vitality of different countries and ethnic civilizations, and the rapid development of information technology have made the cultures of various countries not unitary and homogeneous, but blended and innovated to varying degrees. Therefore, although there are differences between strong culture and weak culture, globalization is a two-way and multi-directional interaction with the participation of many countries and nationalities all over the world.
The second wave is the "global culture" created by global capital forces.
Driven by the globalization of production, market and finance, culture has become more "global" rather than "international" or "trans-cultural" rather than "inter-culture". The media and information systems controlled by transnational capital are spreading and legalizing global culture, and the tension between global culture and existing civilization forms and systems is becoming more and more prominent. For the late-developing countries, the problems brought by this tension are particularly serious, and western countries have also reflected and even resisted it.
The third wave is the resurgence of the "fence" of civilization embodied by the anti-globalization wave.
The global business strategy of multinational corporations aims to promote the localization of new products including cultural products, such as Kung Fu Panda, Mulan and other Hollywood blockbusters. The cultures of various countries, including the United States, are influenced and impacted by global culture, which in turn stimulates the "cultural consciousness" of various civilizations, leading to the revival of conservatism and nationalism, and some ethnic groups and countries have also produced tribalism that sticks to local culture and rejects foreign culture. As a result, the anti-globalization movement at the cultural level is increasingly showing the trend of globalization, the world is in the process of "re-politicization", and the nationalist trend of many countries in the world, including western countries, is on the rise. For example, in recent years, social tears, social movements and cultural identity conflicts in the United States have superimposed on each other, showing an increasingly intensified trend of cultural wars. Trump’s slogans such as "American priority" and "real Americans" express the populist sentiments such as ethnic consciousness, cultural crisis and economic nationalism of the traditional European white groups in the United States.
Chinese modernization creates a new form of human civilization.
General Secretary of the Supreme Leader emphasized that "the Communist Party of China (CPC) people are neither historical nihilists nor cultural nihilists." "No matter which country or nation, if you don’t cherish your own ideology and culture and lose the soul of ideology and culture, this country and nation can’t stand up." Chinese civilization is a whole composed of history, present and future, which is composed of traditional Chinese civilization and modern Chinese civilization. The excellent Chinese traditional culture has played a very important role in China’s transition from the danger of national extinction to today. It is precisely because he has never lost his soul of ideology and culture that China can successfully create the road of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and constantly enrich his theoretical system and improve his system construction.
History is the best textbook. Chinese civilization is one of the development sources of human civilization, and Chinese excellent traditional culture is the root and soul of the Chinese nation. "The people are the foundation of the country, the foundation is the foundation of the country", "Choose talents and abilities, uphold faith and repair friendship" and "Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it" … … Since the late Qing Dynasty, various European and American trends of thought have poured in. The reason why the Communist Party of China (CPC) was able to lead the people of China to establish the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and carry out the transformation and development of China society is that he not only realized the nationalization and concretization of Marxism, but also penetrated the historical context between China’s political and cultural traditions and continued to enrich and develop China’s political and cultural traditions. On this basis, the "two combinations" were put forward, that is, "combining the basic principles of Marxism with the concrete reality of China and the excellent traditional Chinese culture".
Chinese modernization has created a new form of human civilization. The Chinese-style modernization road is based on the Chinese civilization that has lasted for thousands of years, and it combines the basic principles of Marxism with the concrete reality of China. In less than a century, it has broken through the shackles of binary opposition since the Enlightenment. It has a high degree of openness and inclusiveness, absorbed the outstanding achievements of various civilizations in the world, including Western civilization, and carried out revolution and construction according to its own objective reality, which has changed the fate of more than one billion people in China. The exploration and practice of this road provides a new choice for developing countries to move towards modernization, and shows the world that modernization is not equal to westernization, and the road of modernization is not equal to the road of capitalism. This road is undoubtedly a great contribution to the progress of human civilization, and it is also an active exploration of another possibility by human society, which has made new contributions to enriching the diversity of world civilization.
"The propriety and righteousness are also great, so the faith is cultivated." Chinese civilization is a form of civilization that promotes the peaceful development of the world and maintains the diversity of human civilization. China promotes the democratization of international relations internationally, and always believes that all countries have the right to choose their own development path. It is willing to strengthen exchanges and cooperation, learn from each other and learn from each other with all countries and civilizations in the world, and jointly promote the sustainable development of human civilization, and finally realize "the beauty of each beauty, the beauty of each beauty, the beauty of the United States and the United States, and the world is one."
(The author is the sub-project leader of the major innovation project of China Academy of Social Sciences, "Research on Enhancing the Communication Influence of Chinese Civilization", and a researcher at the American Institute of China Academy of Social Sciences)
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