邓小平“最大的政治”命题及对新时代中国式现代化的理论先导意义

Deng Xiaoping’s Proposition of“The Greatest Politics”and Its Theoretical Significance for Chinese Path to Modernization in the New Era

40多年前,在中国改革开放起步和推进阶段,邓小平精准把握新时期中国经济社会发展的要求,曾经在不同场合提出和论述过“四个现代化是最大的政治”命题。邓小平提出这一命题,决不是即兴随意之言,而是有着深刻历史背景和丰富内涵的政治命题。这一命题具有四重核心要义:四个现代化决定着国家的命运、民族的命运;四个现代化代表着人民最大的利益、最根本的利益;实现四个现代化是从经济的角度解决政治问题;实现四个现代化需要有坚定的政治立场和充分的政治保证。这一命题的提出,无论是对于当时推进四个现代化,全面建设小康社会,还是对于今天推进中国式现代化,实现中华民族伟大复兴都具有深远意义。这一命题不仅体现了党的实事求是传统和作风,从根本上解决了社会主义经济基础问题,而且丰富了中国特色社会主义政治内涵,成为新时代推进中国式现代化的理论先导。

More than 40 years ago,during the initial and advanced stage of China’s reform and opening-up,Deng Xiaoping precisely grasped the requirements of China’s economic and social development in the new era,proposed and discussed the proposition that the“Four Modernizations are the greatest politics”on different occasions.Deng Xiaoping’s proposition was by no means an improvisation,but a political proposition with a profound historical background and rich connotation.This proposition has four core meanings:the Four Modernizations determine the destiny of the country and the nation;the Four Modernizations represent the greatest and most fundamental interests of the people;the realization of the Four Modernizations is a solution to the political problems from an economic perspective;and the realization of the Four Modernizations requires a firm political stance and sufficient political guarantees.The propositon’s introduction was of far-reaching significance both for promoting the Four Modernizations at that time and completing the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects,and also for promoting Chinese path to modernization and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.This proposition not only embodies the Party’s tradition and style of seeking truth from facts and fundamentally solves the problem of the socialist economic foundation,but also enriches the connotation of socialist politics with Chinese characteristics,and becomes the theoretical precursor for the promotion of Chinese path to modernization in the new era.