中国式现代化的特质与意蕴:中西文明比较的视野

On Characteristics and Implications of Chinese Modernization:A Perspective of Comparison Between Chinese and Western Civilizations

从大历史的视野来看,现代化不是人类社会在同一种文明形态内零散、局部的发展和进步,而是由低阶文明向高阶文明的全面社会转型。完成这种转型,必须处理好一系列的矛盾和冲突。由于文化传统、发展基础等不同,中国的现代化在历史境遇、现代化路径、制度支撑、价值追求等方面与西方的现代化存在诸多差异,中国式现代化在物质形态上扬弃了西方以物和资本为中心的模式,创造了人类物质文明新形态;在制度形态上,扬弃了西方制度文明,创造了人类制度文明新形态;在精神形态上,以实现人自由而全面的发展为目标建设中华民族现代文明,创造了人类精神文明新形态。

From the perspective of grand history,modernization is not a scattered and partial development and progress of human society within the same form of civilization,but a comprehensive social transformation from one civilization to another.To complete this transformation,it is necessary to handle a series of contradictions and conflicts well.Due to different cultural traditions and development bases,Chinese modernization has many differences from the West in terms of historical circumstances,modernization path,institutional support,value pursuit,etc.Chinese modernization has created a new form of human civilization.In terms of material form,it has abandoned the Western model centered on material and capital,and created a new form of human material civilization;In terms of institutional form,it has sublated Western institutional civilization and created a new form of human institutional civilization.In terms of spiritual form,the construction of modern Chinese civilization with the goal of achieving comprehensive and free human development has created a new form of human spiritual civilization.