The key to comprehensively promoting Chinese modernization lies in the Party.

　　Report to the 20th CPC National Congress of the Party clearly put forward: "Chinese modernization is socialist modernization led by the Communist Party of China (CPC)." The leadership of the Party is directly related to the fundamental direction, future and destiny, and ultimate success or failure of Chinese modernization. On February 7, 2023, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader profoundly expounded the internal relationship between the Party’s leadership and Chinese modernization at the seminar for newly-appointed members of the Central Committee, alternate members and leading cadres at the provincial and ministerial levels to study and implement Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the new era and the Party’s Twentieth Spiritual Congress, with the strategic height of observing history and reality, the grand vision of comparing international and domestic, and the political consciousness of combining theory with practice, which provided scientific theoretical guidance and strong practical follow-up for upholding and strengthening the Party’s overall leadership over Chinese modernization.

　　The leadership of the Party determines the fundamental nature of Chinese modernization.

　　The fundamental nature is related to the key issues such as what Chinese modernization is, why and how to do it. The leadership of the party determines the fundamental nature of Chinese modernization. Only by unswervingly adhering to the leadership of the party can Chinese modernization have a bright future and flourish. Otherwise, you will deviate from the course, lose your soul, and even make subversive mistakes.

　　Looking at the history of human modernization, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader emphasized that "there is neither a modernization model fixed on one statue nor a universal modernization standard in the world". The Communist Party of China (CPC) insists on putting modernization development on the basis of China’s own strength, constantly promotes socialist modernization, and actively absorbs all outstanding achievements of civilization created by human beings. On the basis of long-term exploration and unremitting practice since the founding of New China, especially since the reform and opening up, and through theoretical and practical breakthroughs since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, our party has successfully promoted and expanded Chinese modernization and created a new form of human civilization in the historical process of adhering to and developing Socialism with Chinese characteristics. The unique world outlook, values, historical outlook, civilization outlook, democratic outlook, ecological outlook, etc. contained in Chinese modernization and its great practice surpass the western modernization theory and practice, make a great contribution to socialist modernization, expand the way for developing countries to move towards modernization, and provide new choices for countries and nations in the world who want to speed up their development and maintain their independence.

　　The leadership of the Party highlights the socialist nature of Chinese modernization. Historically, human modernization not only has a sequence in time, but also has great differences in nature. Modern China gradually degenerated into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. The country was humiliated, the people were suffering and civilization was dusty. Countless people with lofty ideals struggled for modernization to save the nation and make the country strong and enrich the people, but all the plans ended in failure. The important task of exploring China’s modernization road has historically fallen on the Communist Party of China (CPC). The party’s ideals and beliefs, nature and purpose, and initial mission determine that Chinese-style modernization is socialist modernization, not any other modernization. In the new era, the Party holds high the great banner of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and is firm in road confidence, theoretical confidence, institutional confidence and cultural confidence, which provides the correct road, scientific guidance, institutional guarantee and spiritual strength for Chinese modernization and further strengthens the socialist nature of modernization.

　　The leadership of the party ensures that Chinese modernization anchors the goal of struggle.

　　The goal is related to the major issue of where Chinese modernization will eventually go and where it will go. The leadership of the party is comprehensive, systematic and holistic, and it must be implemented comprehensively, systematically and holistically. The party’s leadership ensures that the Chinese-style modernization anchors the goal of steady and far-reaching progress. Only by upholding and strengthening the overall leadership of the party can we ensure that the goal of Chinese modernization remains unchanged, the bull’s-eye remains unchanged, and the intensity remains undiminished.

　　Realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the theme of the Communist Party of China (CPC) uniting and leading the people in all struggles, sacrifices and creations in the past century, and it is the goal of Chinese modernization, which is related to the future of the nation and the fate of civilization, the world pattern and human progress. The Communist Party of China (CPC) adhered to his initial mission, unified his lofty ideals and phased goals, and made continuous, arduous and unremitting efforts to achieve a series of great achievements. Over the past century, the Party has United and led the people in their hard work, successively creating fundamental social conditions, laying a fundamental political premise and institutional foundation, providing a new dynamic institutional guarantee and rapid development material conditions, providing a more perfect institutional guarantee, a more solid material foundation and a more active spiritual strength. History and reality have fully proved that without the Communist Party of China (CPC), there would be no Chinese-style modernization, no phased goals to promote Chinese-style modernization, and no historic achievements to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

　　From a comparative perspective, the modernization of western countries has been promoted by different political forces, and the modernization process and objectives are full of many unstable and uncertain factors. Chinese-style modernization has always been promoted under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, thus ensuring that modernization will consistently anchor the goal. The 19th and 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China have successively anchored the goal of Chinese modernization and mapped out the "two-step" strategic arrangement for the coming decades. At the same time, the strict organizational system formed by the party’s hundred years of struggle and constantly improved has provided a strong organizational guarantee for continuously promoting and expanding Chinese modernization.

　　The leadership of the Party inspires the strong motive force of building Chinese modernization.

　　Strong motivation is a major issue related to the speed, quality, kinetic energy and efficiency of Chinese modernization. The leadership of the Party inspires a strong impetus to build Chinese-style modernization. Our Party is brave in reform and innovation, constantly eliminating the shortcomings of various institutional mechanisms and injecting inexhaustible impetus into Chinese-style modernization.

　　It is an important historical experience of the party’s struggle for a hundred years to build the party stronger and stronger through self-revolution and provide a strong impetus for promoting social revolution. Chinese-style modernization involves reform, development and stability, internal affairs, foreign affairs and national defense, and the administration of the party, country and army. Promoting Chinese-style modernization is a long-term and arduous social revolution. Only by adhering to the Party’s self-revolution can we provide an inexhaustible motive force for the social revolution. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party has faced up to the unique problems of the big party, dared to carry out self-revolution, became stronger and stronger in revolutionary forging, and historically enhanced its long-term ruling ability and self-revolution ability. In the new era, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has extremely strong leadership, which is the political guarantee that Chinese modernization can withstand the test of high winds, high waves and even stormy waves. Chinese-style modernization has entered a period in which strategic opportunities and risk challenges coexist, and uncertainties and unpredictable factors increase. Only by upholding and strengthening the overall leadership of the Party can Chinese-style modernization move steadily towards the established goals.

　　Reform is the self-improvement of production relations, economic base and superstructure, which inevitably involves the optimization and adjustment of power and resources and the reconstruction of interest relations. The Communist Party of China (CPC) does not have any special interests of its own, and never represents the interests of any interest group, any powerful group or any privileged class, so it can go beyond interest groups and carry out comprehensive and deepening reforms. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, with great political courage, our Party has comprehensively deepened the reform, highlighted the problem orientation, dared to break into deep water areas, dared to gnaw hard bones, dared to venture into dangerous beaches, dared to face new contradictions and challenges, broke through the shackles of ideological concepts, broke through the barriers of solidification of interests, and resolutely got rid of the shortcomings of various institutional mechanisms. The reform has changed from local exploration and breakthrough to system integration and comprehensive deepening, and many fields have achieved historic changes, systematic reshaping and overall reconstruction, which has injected inexhaustible power into Chinese modernization. Facing the future, only by upholding and strengthening the Party’s overall leadership can we further strengthen our confidence in reform, pool the joint efforts of reform, promote comprehensive deepening of reform and make greater breakthroughs, and inject a steady stream of endogenous power into Chinese modernization.

　　The leadership of the Party condenses the majestic power to promote Chinese modernization.

　　Majestic power concerns who Chinese modernization depends on and for whom. The party’s leadership embodies the majestic power to promote Chinese modernization. The people are the main force to promote social and historical development, which contains profound power and creative vitality. The Communist Party of China (CPC) comes from the people and is rooted in the people. All its struggles are for the people and rely on them, so that it can win the support and support of the people. To promote Chinese-style modernization, we must uphold and strengthen the overall leadership of the party, so as to form a strong cohesive force and gather the majestic power of unity and struggle.

　　The leadership of the party ensures that Chinese modernization is for the people. Different from the western countries that focus on capital and for the modernization of a few people, the Chinese modernization led by the Communist Party of China (CPC) insists on people-centered, which is a modernization that satisfies people’s yearning for a better life. This value orientation is the concentrated expression of the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s nature and purpose, and it is the bright background of Chinese modernization. On the new journey, only by upholding and strengthening the overall leadership of the party can we ensure that Chinese modernization always serves and benefits the people.

　　The leadership of the Party ensures that Chinese modernization depends on the people. All wisdom will make things clear, and all efforts will make things happen. Turning the Party’s correct ideas into the conscious actions of the masses is an important historical experience for the Party to rely on the people to constantly overcome difficulties and create great achievements. Chinese modernization is a pioneering and exploratory undertaking, and there is no empirical model in history to learn from. Only by upholding and strengthening the party’s overall leadership can we give full play to the powerful appeal, mobilization and organization of the mass line, unite all forces that can be United, mobilize all positive factors that can be mobilized, maximize the powerful forces of common struggle, and gather the majestic power to promote Chinese modernization.

　　The leadership of the Party ensures that the fruits of Chinese modernization are shared by the people. The reason why the Communist Party of China (CPC) has been able to rally the people’s strength to work together in different historical periods is fundamentally that the Party has always represented the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people, made efforts to solve the people’s urgent problems and worries, and made the achievements of the struggle truly benefit all the people. In the process of promoting Chinese-style modernization, only by upholding and strengthening the overall leadership of the party can we ensure that the fruits of modernization benefit all the people more and more fairly, thus bringing together powerful forces to build Chinese-style modernization with one heart and one mind.

　　[This article Source: The author of Economic Daily is a researcher at the Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought Research Center of the New Era, the supreme leader of the Central Party School (National School of Administration), Hao Yongping and Sun Lin]