In contemporary political parlance, to speak of China’s modernization path is to refer to a specific, official conceptualization of both historical and ongoing efforts to develop China as a fully modernized nation, thereby culminating the major efforts associated with national rejuvenation and doing so within a century of the People’s Republic of China’s founding in 1949.
In 2021, it was declared that Chinese-style modernization is the path for creating a new era of human civilization, one that would not only be used to facilitate Chinese development, but could likewise offer insights and perhaps support for others who wanted to develop their own countries and, further, join China’s call for building a global community with a shared future.
China has long acknowledged that
