当代中国历史方位和发展阶段的科学判断及其演进逻辑

Scientific Judgments on the Historic Juncture and Developmental Stages of Contemporary China and Their Evolutionary Logic

对社会发展规律和发展阶段的把握是一个重大课题。任何一种社会形态,包括社会主义社会,既是不断变化、长期发展的历史过程,又是分阶段演进、阶梯式发展的历史过程。在近代中国的时代背景下,中国共产党团结带领中国人民在不懈奋斗和艰辛探索中,历史性地选择了社会主义。在社会主义革命、建设、改革的进程中,中国共产党根据马克思主义关于社会发展及阶段划分理论,总结世界社会主义运动正反两方面经验,立足当代中国社会发展实际,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、历史任务进行主动探索、作出科学判断,在历史发展关键时期保证党的理论和路线方针政策的正确。新中国成立以来特别是改革开放以来,我们党作出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,体现了中国社会发展连续性与阶段性、量变与质变的辩证统一,对于自觉遵循当代中国发展规律及演进逻辑,发挥历史能动性和把握历史主动性,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,具有重大理论和现实意义。

Grasping the laws and stages of society's development is an important issue.Any form of society,including socialist society,goes through a historical process of constant change and long-term development,which occurs through evolutionary stages and developmental steps.In the context of modern China,the Communist Party of China(CPC)united and led the Chinese people making the historical decision to choose socialism in course of their unremitting struggle and arduous exploration.In the process of socialist revolution,construction and reform,the CPC,in accordance with Marxist theories on social development and stage division,summed up the positive and negative experiences of the world socialist movement,and,on the basis of the actual social development of contemporary China,creatively explored the laws of Chinese social development and proactively explored and made scientific judgments on the historical position,developmental stages,major contradictions and historical tasks of Chinese society in different historical periods,thus ensuring that the Party's theories and policies were correct at critical periods in China's historical development.Since the founding of the PRC in 1949,and especially since reform and opening-up,the CPC has made a number of important judgments on China's historic juncture and developmental stages,such as the primary stage of socialism,the New Era of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics,and the new stage of development.It embodies the dialectical unity of continuity and distinctive stages as well as the quantitative and qualitative changes in China's social development,and is of great theoretical and practical significance for its consciously pursuing the developmental laws and the logic of evolution of contemporary China,exercising historical dynamism and taking historical initiative,following social development trends to promote staged leaps forward,and advancing the rule-governed development of Chinese society.