“最大的政治”:中国式现代化的政治逻辑

“The Highest Politics”:The Political Logic of the Chinese Path to Modernization

2023年12月中央经济工作会议提出“必须把推进中国式现代化作为最大的政治”。这是继邓小平提出“四个现代化是最大的政治”命题之后又一次关于现代化与政治关系的重大理论和实践创新。从“四个现代化是最大的政治”命题到“把中国式现代化作为最大的政治”的部署,形成了一个以“最大的政治”为轴心的相对完整的、既有现代政治普遍特征又有明显中国特色的现代政治逻辑链,其中最重要的是经济政治、大局政治和民心政治三重逻辑。从提出到部署“最大的政治”,反映出中国共产党对于经济与政治关系的把握,极大地丰富了中国特色社会主义政治的基本内涵,构成了中国特色社会主义政治的基本形态。这是一个由以经济建设为中心、以中华民族复兴为目标、以人民利益为根本要求的新型政治体系,其中各方面的内容和要素交叉重合,既相互依存又相互支撑,共同呈现出中国特色社会主义政治的鲜明特点,丰富和发展了人类政治文明新形态。

In December 2023,the Central Economic Work Conference proposed that“promoting the Chinese path to modernization must be regarded as the highest politics.”This represents a significant theoretical and practical innovation in the relationship between modernization and politics,following Deng Xiaoping’s proposi-tion that“the Four Modernizations are the highest politics.”The transition from the proposition of“the Four Modernizations are the highest politics”to the directive of“regarding the Chinese path to modernization as the highest politics”forms a relatively complete modern political logic chain centered on“the highest politics”.This chain exhibits both universal characteristics of modern politics and distinct Chinese features,with the three most important logics being economic politics,overall situation politics,and people’s politics.From the proposal to the deployment of“the highest politics,”it reflects the Communist Party of China’s grasp of the relationship be-tween economics and politics,greatly enriching the basic connotations of socialist politics with Chinese character-istics,and constituting the basic form of socialist politics with Chinese characteristics.This is a new political sys-tem centered on economic construction,aimed at the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,and fundamentally ori-ented towards the interests of the people.The various contents and elements of this system intersect and overlap,being both interdependent and mutually supportive,collectively presenting the distinctive characteristics of so-cialist politics with Chinese characteristics,and enriching and developing new forms of human political civiliza-tion.