The Transformation of China's Modernization from the Perspective of Modern History

1. China's "modernization transition" began when it was forced to interrupt its own historical development process.

Since the Opium War of 1840, China's passive transformation has undergone numerous attempts and failures, and has moved forward based on the experiences and lessons of its predecessors. However, the impact of this passive response has highlighted many problems of insufficient psychological, theoretical and social preparation, and inevitably, it has stumbled forward and fallen into the double anxiety of dreaming and confusion.

2. The reform and opening up thus established a historical position in the "modernization and transformation", and one of its distinctive features is this autonomy.

And in the history of the 20th century, China's "modernization and transformation" went through the Xinhai Revolution, which put an end to more than 2,000 years of the imperial system, and the New Democratic Revolution, which created a new China, and other major twists and turns, and then opened up a brand-new transformation of autonomy in the new period of history.

3. More than 20 years of reform and opening up have proved the correctness of modernization and transformation.

If, at the beginning of the reform and opening up, this autonomy inevitably need to "feel the stones across the river", "kill a bloody road" in the exploration of the way forward.

Then, after entering the new century, the exploration and pioneering of the reform and opening up for more than 20 years have laid a solid psychological, theoretical and social foundation for contemporary China to move forward. It is on this basis, a decade of China's continued "modernization and transformation", its autonomy and response has been different from the past, increasingly highlighting its forward-looking, scientific, regularity.

Expanded Information:

Problems and Difficulties of China's Modernization Transition:

These problems and difficulties are as follows. Over the years, with the growing economic power, China's social atmosphere has also changed significantly. Because more and more people are going abroad, studying and doing business, or traveling and shopping, they have a more direct understanding of the "outside world". This is of course a good thing. However, there are also many people who come back to the country and feel that the foreign country is just like that, and gradually develop a sense of superiority, pride and complacency.

Particularly after the 2008 international financial crisis, China relied on strong government investment to maintain an economic growth rate of 8 percent. In the view of some people, all developed countries are in deep trouble, while China is a unique. As a result, a social atmosphere of self-exclusion from the world and arrogance has gradually spread.

Some people disparage the "Western way" and praise the status quo without mincing words, while shying away from discussing real social problems and contradictions, and even opposing further reforms.

China's economy is on the rise, and its international status is becoming more and more important, but on the other hand, China is also facing a huge transformation problem. Only by looking at China from the world's perspective can we clearly see the problems and challenges facing China; only by examining China's transformation from a global perspective can we accurately recognize China's future path.

People's Daily Online - A decade of change in China's modernization and transformation