China’s Wisdom in the Development of World Socialism
On the occasion of the Spring Festival, people in Tulou, Zhangzhou, Fujian, dressed up for a party and danced the China Dragon, wishing a better life. Bright pictures/vision china
How to develop world socialism is a question that all socialist countries explore and think about, and it is also a question of global concern and discussion. In the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out that Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s entering a new era "means that scientific socialism is full of vitality in China in the 21st century and holds high the great banner of Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the world", which is of great significance in the history of world socialist development. Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era embodies the China wisdom of the development of world socialism, which has important reference and enlightenment significance for the development of world socialism.
1. Adhere to the people-centered value pursuit.
For whom development is for and who it depends on is the first problem that must be clarified in the development of world socialism. Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era not only emphasizes that development is oriented to the interests of the people and aimed at improving their well-being, but also emphasizes that people are the main body of development, and development must rely on and trust people. Adhering to the people-centered value pursuit is of universal significance to the development of world socialism.
Develop for the people. The Communist Party of China (CPC)’s initial intention and mission is to seek happiness for the people of China and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader has repeatedly stressed that people’s yearning for a better life is our goal. Building a well-off society in an all-round way is in line with the people’s yearning for a better life. The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China regards "the contradiction between the people’s growing need for a better life and the unbalanced development" as the main contradiction of our society in the new era, and puts forward that the party’s mass line should be implemented in all activities of governing the country, and the people’s yearning for a better life should be the goal of struggle, which embodies our party’s concept of putting people’s interests first and developing for the people. Taking the satisfaction of people’s interests and the acquisition of people’s happy life as the aim should also be the starting point of the development of world socialism.
Development depends on the people. In the eyes of the Communist Party of China (CPC) people, the people are the creators of history and the masses are the real heroes. The enthusiasm, initiative and creativity of the people, and their practical exploration and wisdom are the source of strength for the development of Socialism with Chinese characteristics. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "Every breakthrough and development in understanding and practice of reform and opening up, the emergence and development of every new thing in reform and opening up, and the creation and accumulation of experience in every aspect of reform and opening up all come from the practice and wisdom of hundreds of millions of people." This is a full affirmation of people’s dominant position in the process of reform and opening up. At the first session of the 13th National People’s Congress, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader emphasized: "We must always uphold the people’s position and the people’s dominant position." It can be said that the development of world socialism must rely on people’s strength, unite people’s wisdom, and leave people’s support and people’s practice, so it is difficult for world socialism to move forward.
The fruits of development are shared by the people. Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s practice must be recognized by the people, so that the people can get tangible benefits and enhance their sense of acquisition and happiness. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader clearly pointed out: "Let the people live a good life is the starting point and the end result of all our work." The test of the effectiveness of all our work ultimately depends on whether the people have really benefited and whether the people’s lives have really improved. It is the destination of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s development and the goal of socialist development in the world to make a big cake and divide it well, so that people can share the fruits of development and realize the common prosperity of all people.
2. Comprehensively deepen reform to gain development momentum.
Where does the motive force of socialist development come from? This is an unavoidable problem in the development of world socialism. Deepening the reform in an all-round way, eliminating institutional and institutional obstacles, resolving social contradictions and realizing the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity are the fundamental driving force for Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s development, which has reference significance for the development of socialism in the world.
Comprehensively deepen reform and eliminate institutional and institutional obstacles. With the development of the times and social changes, socialist countries will encounter institutional and institutional obstacles to a certain extent in the process of development, and some originally effective institutional mechanisms will become outdated and become the fetters of development. Only by comprehensively deepening the reform can we eliminate the shortcomings of the system and mechanism and gain new development momentum. Without reform and opening up, there would be no development and progress in China. Reform and opening up is the fundamental driving force for the development of China and Socialism with Chinese characteristics. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "Reform and opening up is the source of vitality for the development and progress of contemporary China and an important magic weapon for the cause of the party and the people to catch up with the times in great strides." For the development of world socialism, the only way to eliminate the disadvantages of system and mechanism and gain new development momentum is to deepen reform.
Comprehensively deepen reform and resolve social contradictions. Reform and opening up are developing in depth, and general contradictions and deep-seated contradictions are complicated, and problems in development and problems after development are intertwined. Only by comprehensively deepening the reform can we solve the outstanding contradictions and problems faced by China’s economic and social development, unite social consensus, stimulate social vitality and gather development forces. As General Secretary of the Supreme Leader said, "Contradictions in reform and opening up can only be solved by reform and opening up". There is no other way for world socialism to solve the contradictions and problems it faces in its development than to deepen reform.
Deepen reform in an all-round way and realize the modernization of state governance. The national governance system and governance capacity are the concentrated expression of a country’s system implementation capacity, which provides sustained impetus for economic and social development. The overall goal of comprehensively deepening the reform established by the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee is to improve and develop the Socialism with Chinese characteristics system, and promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, so as to enhance the efficiency and level of national governance and give China’s economic and social development new growth momentum. This provides a valuable reference for world socialism in the choice of reform breakthrough.
3. Adhere to the new development concept to achieve high-quality development.
What kind of development concept to promote better economic and social development is an era topic that world socialism must face directly. The development concept of innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing not only reflects the staged characteristics of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s development, but also reflects the inherent laws of economic and social development. The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China regards adhering to the new development concept as one of the basic strategies for adhering to and developing Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, which shows the importance of the new development concept.
Adhere to the new development concept to change the development mode. Development concept relates to development mode. Since the reform and opening up, the extensive growth mode has supported the miracle of China’s rapid economic growth. While consuming huge resources, it has caused problems such as tight resource constraints, serious environmental pollution and ecosystem degradation. Nowadays, the traditional mode of development is unsustainable, and the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation in the world is making many breakthroughs. Only by promoting high-quality development and forming a high-quality, efficient and diversified supply system can we achieve a balance between supply and demand at a new level and achieve sustained and healthy economic development. Changing the development mode under the guidance of the new development concept is an inevitable requirement to maintain sustained and healthy economic development, to adapt to the changes in major social contradictions in China, to build a well-off society in an all-round way and to build a socialist modern country in an all-round way, and to follow the economic laws. Under the situation that socialist countries in the world are generally facing the transformation of development mode, the new development concept has leading significance.
Adhere to the new development concept to optimize the economic structure. Economic structure is closely related to the concept of development. Innovation and development are conducive to promoting the optimization and upgrading of the economic structure. The process of innovation is the process of optimizing and upgrading the economic structure, and the economic structure is optimized by breaking through the core key technologies and upgrading the scientific and technological content of economic development. Coordinated development includes the coordination between industries, which can promote the coordination of industries and optimize the economic structure through the upgrading of manufacturing industry, the development of strategic new industries and modern service industries. Green development is a necessary condition for sustainable development and an important embodiment of people’s yearning for a better life. Only by adhering to green development can we promote the formation of a new pattern of modernization with harmonious development between man and nature. Open development conforms to the trend that China’s economy is deeply integrated into the world economy, which helps to make better use of two markets and two resources and raise China’s open economy to a new level. Optimizing China’s economic structure needs the support of new development concepts, which is also of exemplary significance to world socialism.
Adhere to the new development concept to transform the growth momentum. China’s economic development has entered a new normal. From the appearance, it is a shift in the speed of economic growth, but in essence it is a transformation of development momentum. According to the law of economic development, we must rely more on scientific and technological progress and innovation to promote economic development and realize the transformation from factor-driven, investment-driven to innovation-driven in the case of slowing investment growth and declining efficiency. The new development concept emphasizes that innovation is the first driving force to lead development, and greater development space can be obtained through innovation; Coordinated development emphasizes the harmonious and orderly allocation of all production factors, which is an indispensable condition for promoting high-quality development; Open development is a development concept, and it is also the driving force to promote the high-quality development of China’s economy. It is also applicable to world socialism to gain growth momentum by changing the development concept.
4. Always maintain the development of socialism.
World socialism should not only learn from the outstanding achievements of human civilization, but also always maintain its own development strength. Choosing the development path based on the national conditions, strengthening Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s road confidence, theoretical confidence, institutional confidence and cultural confidence, and upholding the Party’s leadership over all work are the successful experiences of Socialism with Chinese characteristics in maintaining its strength, which has important reference value for world socialism.
Maintain development strength based on national conditions. The key to Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s success lies in adhering to the principle of independence, neither rejecting or rejecting western experience, nor blindly advocating and copying western models, but exploring based on the national conditions and embarking on a development path suitable for China’s national conditions. The General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "China, based on its own national conditions and practice, draws wisdom from Chinese civilization, draws on the strengths of various schools in the East and the West, sticks to it but is not rigid, draws lessons from it but does not copy it, and has formed its own development path through continuous exploration." As far as world socialism is concerned, choosing the development path independently based on the national conditions provides a new path guide for those countries and nations that want to speed up their development and maintain their independence.
Be firm and confident to maintain development strength. With the rapid development of China, the advantages of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s road, theory, system and culture are gradually emerging, which has won universal praise and recognition from the international community. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out in his important speech at the celebration of the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) that the whole Party should be firm in road confidence, theoretical confidence, institutional confidence and cultural confidence. In today’s world, if any political party, country or nation can be confident, the Communist Party of China (CPC), People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Chinese nation have the most reasons to be confident. It is this self-confidence that gives the people of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and China the confidence to persist in and develop Socialism with Chinese characteristics without hesitation or slack. Only by establishing full self-confidence can world socialism maintain its development strength.
Adhere to the overall leadership of the party to maintain the development strength. The most essential feature of Socialism with Chinese characteristics is the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s leadership, the greatest advantage of Socialism with Chinese characteristics system is the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s leadership, and the Party is the highest political leadership. It is by upholding and strengthening the Party’s overall leadership that Socialism with Chinese characteristics kept his certainty and sobriety in choosing the road and avoided directional and subversive mistakes. Upholding the Party’s leadership over all work is one of the basic strategies for upholding and developing Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, and it also provides an important reference for the development of world socialism.
Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era has opened up a new realm for Socialism with Chinese characteristics, which not only promoted the development of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s theory and practice, but also showed the bright future of world socialism, expanded the development space of world socialism and contributed China’s wisdom and China’s plan to the development of world socialism.
(Author: Chen Jinlong, a special researcher at the New Era Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought Research Center, the supreme leader of Guangdong Province, and a professor at the School of Marxism of South China Normal University)