The Communist Party of China,at the key historical juncture of promoting Chinese-style moderniza-tion,calls for the joint efforts of the intellectual and theoretical communities to"build modern Chinese civ-ilization",which is a theoretical blueprint based on China's perspective,exploring the world and aiming to lead the future.Examining the proposition of"building modern Chinese civilization"currently discussed in academia from a long-term historical perspective helps to better understand its true essence.From a macroscopic view of history,promoting the modernization transformation of civilization has been a common endeavor of the Chinese intellectual community in modern times,and one of the focal points of the debate is the"consciousness"of cultural subjectivity."Consciousness"goes beyond inheriting tradition and refers to an integrated understanding of one's own"history-reality-future".Its distinction ari-ses to some extent from the uncertainty about the future This proposition not only extends the question of"consciousness"raised by the May Fourth generation of intellectuals but also stimulates a self-reflection a-mong Chinese intellectuals due to the constant changes in the world order."Consciousness"becomes the starting point for reconstruction.The distinction of consciousness among the intellectual community at that time originated from the confusion of latecomer countries regarding their own modernization path,with multiple options of both advantages and disadvantages,and internal and external uncertainties.As a re-sult,the"consciousness"of the intellectual community at that time was difficult to turn into reconstruc-tion,and the path of"building modern Chinese civilization"was hard to discern.It also inherits the legacy of the Communist Party of China during the Counter-Japanese War period,namely the combination of the development of new democratic culture with China's actual situation,insisting on the power of Chinese culture as the backbone and reestablishing China as the starting point for integrating"consciousness".The Kuomintang's adherence to the reinvigoration of Eight Virtues strategy produced limited results,while the Communist Party of China,at this important historical juncture,renewed its interpretation of"China"and successfully achieved integration of"consciousness"by focusing on both reality and future.Additionally,it responds to the various disorders in the ideological field at the turn of the 21st century.In the context of the dynamic development of global competition,the Communist Party of China revisits the notion of"building modern Chinese civilization",grasping its own civilizational subjectivity from a cultural perspec-tive and adopting new interpretations and definitions of"modernization","modern China",and"modern civilization"based on concrete practices of Chinese-style modernization.In the exploration of a century,the distinction and integration of intellectual"consciousness"have in-fluenced the development of China's path and continuously reinterpreted and defined the term"China"in the panorama of global modernization.The so-called"China-centric"perspective encompasses not only Chi-na of the past,but also contemporary China and the future China.Conversely,in this new stage of explo-ring Chinese modernization,China is no longer passively reconstructing,but is transforming into an ac-tively constructing actor,striving to lead the way for the world.This broader integration of"conscious-ness"connecting peoples and regions in the world also provides lasting momentum and resilience for Chi-na,allowing it to move beyond engaging with Western modernization to surpassing it.Therefore,"building modern Chinese civilization"is actually a competitive concept proposed by China as it transitions from passive modernization to active modernization.It aims to more extensively integrate the"consciousness"of the Chinese intellectual community in the era of global transformation,adjustment,and development,and strives to make it another"new form of human civilization"compared with the Western discourse system.At the same time,it injects sustainable and resilient modernization momentum into the next century,thus quite significant for the world.
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