Overview
The term "Chinese modernization," also referred to as "Chinese-style modernization" or "Chinese path to modernization," first appeared consistently in the discourse of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 2021. A year later, President Xi Jinping formally advanced the concept at the 20th CPC National Congress. The concept crystallizes the CPC\'s decades of governance experience, taking into account China\'s huge population, common prosperity for all, the pursuit of economic, cultural, and ethical progress as a whole, harmony between humanity and nature, and peaceful development. Studies on Chinese Modernization is a series of ten-plus monographs authored by acclaimed Chinese scholars, aiming to offer an overview of the concept and elaborate on its various manifestations such as values selection, national security, digital economy, innovation-driven development, dual circulation, state governance, man-nature harmony, ideological security, the rule of law, energy transformation, and public finance.
The valuable resources and experience of Chinese modernization are integral to China's theorization of enhancing its state governance capacity. In State Governance and Chinese Modernization, the author argues that China's modernization of state governance involves modernizing its values system, institutional frameworks, and governance capacity. The modernization of the values system revolves around the core socialist values centered on freedom, equality, justice, the rule of law, and democracy. For institutional frameworks, democratic centralism should be reflected in various power relations and the policymaking process, turning whole-process people's democracy into a reality. Finally, the modernization of governance capacity calls for effective policy implementation and the integration of different institutional frameworks.
What's New
Explains why current research frameworks and approaches rooted in the experience of developed countries cannot apply to the study of developing countries
