本文回顾了现代化的学术源起,并给出了一般性的涵义,结合中国现代化的实践探索,诠释了中国特色社会主义现代化的独特意涵,即中国的现代化是开放的、分区域分阶段进行的、是内生和外源的统一、是以经济现代化为先导、渐次拓展的全面现代化。中国特色社会主义现代化走的是一条不同于西方的现代化道路,促成了我们对现代化中诸多问题的反思,这就是发展中国家政府的边界如何确定?区域率先实现基本现代化的特殊性何在?经济增长的动力、模式如何变化?经济增长与环境退化如何“脱钩”?如何摆脱“贫困化增长”的困境?
This article reviews the academic origins of modernization, gives general connotation, and considering the practical explorations of China' s modernization, explains the unique meaning of modernization of socialism with Chinese characteristics, i.e., China' s modernization is open, a process with various regions and stages, a unity of endogeneity and exogeneity, and an overall and gradually expanding modernization dominated by economic modernization. The modernization of socialism with Chinese characteristics follows a different way from the western countries, which encourages us to re -examine many problems in modern- ization. How to define the border of government in the developing countries? What is the particularity of realizing modernization in some regions? How do the driving forces and pattern of economic growth change? How to separate environmental degradation from economic growth? How to bail out economic growth with poverty increase?