“亚洲的戏剧”:中印消除贫困的现代化路径

Asia’s Drama: A Modern Path to Poverty Eradication in China and India

第二次世界大战结束至今,“亚洲的戏剧”主题就是消除贫困、追求现代化发展,戏剧的主角在中国和印度之间呈现周期性的变化。与印度相比,中国的最初贫困率和现代化起点均处于劣势,但是中国早于印度在2021年解决了绝对贫困问题。这一成功主要归因于中国总体的现代化发展速度快于印度以及中印不同的现代化路径。中印现代化路径的差异在于:印度的生态现代化一直处于前列,而中国的社会现代化长期占据优势地位,但21世纪以来两国现代化路径的共性增强。中印现代化路径的共性在于:均是由政治、经济、社会、文化和生态组成的五位一体架构,不同于西方用以破坏环境为代价的现代化模式去消除贫困。“亚洲的戏剧”证实了现代化是消除贫困的必由之路,丰富和夯实了“亚洲模式”,彰显了中国式现代化的制度优势和对未来人类社会的文明价值。

Since the end of World War II, poverty eradication and the pursuit of modernization have been the themes of the “Asian Drama”, with the protagonists changing periodically between China and India. Compared with India, China’s initial poverty rate and the starting point of modernization are both in an inferior position, but China has solved the problem of absolute poverty ahead of India in 2021. This success is mainly due to the fact that China’s overall modernization rate is faster than India’s and that China and India have different modernization paths. The differences of the modernization paths between China and India are that India’s ecological modernization has always been in the forefront, while China’s social modernization has been in an advantageous position for a long time, but since the 21st century, the commonness of the modernization paths of the two countries has been enhanced. The common feature of the modernization paths of China and India is that they both are five-in-one structures composed of politics, economy, society, culture and ecology, which are different from the western modernization model of eliminating poverty at the cost of destroying the environment. “Asian Drama” proves that modernization is the only way to eliminate poverty, and also enriches and strengthens the “Asian model”, and highlights the institutional advantages of Chinese modernization and the civilized value of human society in the future.