Xinhuanet Wuxi, Jiangsu, March 28th (Reporter Gui Tao, Li Jianmin, Shi Yonghong) The 2nd World Buddhist Forum opened on the 28th in the Fan Palace in Lingshan, Wuxi, Jiangsu. More than 1,700 eminent monks, great virtues, experts, scholars and celebrities from nearly 50 countries and regions at home and abroad feel the "harmony of all people" together.
Different languages, the same "Lotus"
Although the language used by the eminent monk Dade at home and abroad is different, and many people wear simultaneous interpretation headphones provided by the forum, this does not hinder their communication. Smiling and folded hands are enough to transcend any language barrier.
Under the huge dome decorated with more than a thousand lotus lanterns, Master Xingyun, a Taiwan Province monk, delivered a speech in Mandarin with a slight accent of Jiangsu, the 11th Qoigyi Gyaibo delivered a speech at the conference in English, and Sri Lankan officials read a congratulatory message in Sinhala …
"When the three elders poured holy water from all over the world into huge golden lotus flowers to pray for the world, language was no longer an obstacle, and I felt empathy with all other Buddhists present." Frank alm, a Buddhist from Germany, said.
"Star-level" Buddhist believers
In addition to the eminent monks and great virtues, Jet Li, Li Ning, Yu Minhong and other "star-rated" Buddhist believers, as well as many other film stars and well-known businessmen attending the meeting, have also become the targets of the reporters on the spot.
Pan Shiyi, a well-known businessman, said when he entered the venue that he came to attend the World Buddhist Forum mainly to learn from the eminent monks, and he "cares about all topics and wants to learn everything".
Six-year-olds, an actor wearing beads, said, "I have met many long-lost old friends and many eminent monks and virtues in this forum. The topic of concern this time is the relationship between art and Buddhism." A six-year-old boy who became famous for playing the Monkey King said that it is more effective to express the theme of Buddhism through art forms that people like to see and hear than just to preach the truth.
"Walking into the Vatican Palace for the first time is like going home."
When Da De, a monk attending the meeting, walked into the main venue of Wuxi, the World Buddhist Forum, they were all shocked by this magnificent building. Many monks took out their mobile phones and video cameras, and took photos in front of exquisite and elegant Ou Su relief murals and magnificent oil paintings.
Shi Xiuan, director of the Hong Kong Buddhist Federation and head of the Focijing Temple in Hong Kong, took photos in front of the murals of Buddha statues as a souvenir. She said: "The Vatican Palace is very solemn, and its internal carvings and decorations are very modern. It will be greatly shocked to come to the venue."
Shiloh, a Sri Lankan monk who is taking a photo with a friend from China, said: "This palace is solemn and modern, and there is one in my hometown, Sri Lanka. Coming here makes me feel like going home."
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On August 14th, it was reported that the "Automobile Robot Strategic Cooperation Project" jointly created by Geely Holding Group and Baidu Group ushered in important progress.
According to reports, the first model of Extreme Vietnam was officially named "",and the official has exposed a number of exterior publicity maps.
From the appearance, the new car is expected to be a crossover SUV model with a closed grille design. From the side of the car body, the roof is slightly slipped and the tail is equipped with a hidden tail.
It is worth mentioning that. In October last year, the first model of Jidu-Robo-01 lunar exploration limited edition was officially unveiled, and the price was 399,800 yuan, which was consistent with the appearance of the newly unveiled "Extreme Yue 01", so it was basically determined to be a renamed model.
At present, the mark of concentration has changed, that is to say,
IT House found that according to the "Announcement of Road Motor Vehicle Manufacturers and Products" (the 374th batch) issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the first model of the new brand was officially unveiled.
, white body; Equipped with Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited ternary lithium battery, equipped with rear-drive 200kW single motor and four-wheel drive 200kW+200kW dual motor.
In addition, the car can be equipped with rims, brake calipers, brake discs, different types of awnings, logo, front license plates and so on.
, the rest of the configuration is basically the same and the size is the same.
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If you wanted to buy a new energy vehicle with excellent product strength in the previous budget of 250,000 yuan, there were not many choices, but now there are many models to choose from, such as the three cars we are going to talk about today, and the extreme krypton 001 and Tesla. Who should you choose?
First of all, the Extreme Yue 01 is positioned as a medium-sized SUV, the Extreme Krypton 001 is positioned as a medium-sized car, and Tesla Model Y is positioned as a medium-sized SUV. This time, WE compared the Extreme Yue 01 2024 Max long-life version (guide price of 249,900), ZEEKR 001 2025 WE 95kWh rear drive (guide price of 259,000) and Model Y 2024 rear-wheel drive version (guide price of 249,900)
Body size:
The length, width and height of the car body of Extreme Yue 01 are 4853x1990x1611mm respectively, and the wheelbase of the car body reaches 3000mm；;
The length, width and height of the body of Krypton 001 are 4977x1999x1545mm respectively, and the wheelbase of the body reaches 3005mm；;
The body length, width and height of Tesla Model Y are 4750x1921x1624mm respectively, and the wheelbase of the body reaches 2890 mm..
From this data, it seems that Krypton 001 has more advantages. Except for its height, it is larger than the other two cars, and its wheelbase is larger, providing more spacious space.
On the intellectual drive:
Extreme Yue 01 has built-in 8295 intelligent cabin chips, and adopts two dual NVIDIA Orin X intelligent driving chips, which supports full off-line voice interaction, can realize voice-controlled parking outside the car, and can easily cope with intelligent driving scenes in complex urban areas. Moreover, the advanced intelligent driving capability (ASD point-to-point navigation assistance) has achieved nationwide coverage.
Extreme Krypton 001 is equipped with extreme Krypton AI OS system, and the core of the extreme Krypton AI OS system is AI Eva, which is a brand-new intelligent interactive system combined by Qualcomm 8295 chip and Kr AI model, and it is also quite good during the experience.
Tesla Model Y has built-in two HW 4.0 intelligent driving chips to support the Autopilot system. The vehicle can complete some active safety and basic operations such as obstacle avoidance during the intelligent cruise with lane keeping. The vehicle is also equipped with AMD Ryzen chip to support Tesla in-vehicle system software, and has 16GB memory /256GB storage space support, which makes the vehicle more active and smooth in speech recognition control, in-vehicle game platform, multimedia software and other functions.
From this aspect, we can see that Tesla Model Y is the best seller among the three models, but its intelligence is really average. Although there is no problem in realizing some functions of the car, compared with some domestic models, it is much worse in entertainment, and in intelligent driving assistance, because of various factors, it is also impossible to land in China.
On the power life:
All three models are rear mounted with a single motor, among which the maximum output power of the motor of Extreme Yue 01 2024 Max long battery life version is 272 HP and the battery life is 720Km, the maximum output power of Model Y 2024 rear-wheel drive version is 299 HP and the battery life is 554Km, while the maximum output power of ZEEKR 001 2025 WE 95kWh rear-wheel drive is 422 HP and the battery life is 722Km. In terms of chassis, all three cars are double wishbone independent suspension and multi-link independent suspension.
From this data point of view, it is obvious that the household consumers who pay more attention to battery life, Extreme Yue 01 and Extreme Krypton 001, perform better. Of course, because Extreme Krypton 001 locates cars, its power explosion is indeed stronger, but Extreme Yue 01 and Tesla Model Y have good power reserves in actual experience.
As the current 250,000-class model with outstanding performance, the three models of Extreme Yue 01, Model Y and Extreme Krypton 001 all have their own audiences. However, in terms of comprehensive appearance, intelligent driving, space and power life, the performance of the Extreme Yue 01 is more balanced, so Xiaobian thinks that if there is a budget of about 250,000, this Extreme Yue 01 is worth your experience.
From September 3 to 5, the 2024 China Information and Communication Industry Development Forum was held in Beijing. As a high-end event to explore new trends and promote new transformation in the field of information and communication, the forum has been successfully held for 20 times and is known as the "weather vane for the development of information and communication industry". With the theme of "promoting digital transformation and creating a new future of information and communication", the forum brought together elites from all walks of life, such as government, enterprises and academia, to discuss new development paths of information and communication industry.
Jiao Wenbin, director of big data of Unicom Zhiwang Technology, attended as a special guest, and delivered a keynote speech entitled "Value Application of Internet of Vehicles Data Elements", which deeply analyzed the key role of Internet of Vehicles data in promoting the digital transformation of the industry.
Jiao Wenbin pointed out that Unicom Zhiwang Technology, as a professional subsidiary of China Unicom Group, has provided end-to-end solutions for many car companies with years of industry experience accumulation, data processing ability and continuous technological innovation, helping car companies accelerate the digital transformation process. Relying on China Unicom’s massive data of 470 million users and refined labeling system, Unicom Zhiwang Technology can accurately locate the target user groups of car companies and help them optimize their marketing strategies. At the same time, with intelligent vehicle networking products, Unicom Zhiwang Technology continuously promotes the landing of cutting-edge application scenarios such as smart travel and vehicle-road coordination, and promotes the intelligent upgrading and coordinated development of traffic. Unicom Zhiwang Technology has built a multi-dimensional data model covering user behavior, vehicle attributes, etc., which provides powerful market analysis, customer management and after-sales service support for car companies. In addition, through close cooperation with more than 60 strategic partners and more than 300 industrial chain partners, the company has always been at the forefront of the industry in terms of technological innovation and standard setting. Especially in the optimization of charging pile location and customized auto insurance service, Unicom Zhiwang Technology uses big data analysis technology, which not only improves the efficiency of resource utilization, but also enhances the customer experience and opens up new profit growth points for enterprises.
Jiao Wenbin said that Unicom Zhiwang Technology will continue to deepen the field of vehicle networking and intelligent transportation, and will continue to explore new applications of data value, promote the intelligent transformation of automobile enterprises, and work hand in hand with industry partners to create more market opportunities and technological breakthroughs, so as to contribute to building a more intelligent, convenient and efficient transportation system.
The combination of Didi and Tucki is essentially that two technology companies have a clearer understanding of their self-positioning and goals in the face of the era of smart travel.
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What sparks can be sparked by the joint efforts of shared travel giants and new forces to build cars?
Didi Chuxing and Xpeng Motors gave the answer.
On August 28th, Didi and Tucki jointly announced that they have reached a strategic cooperation, and will make use of their respective superior resources to jointly promote the global application and popularization of smart electric vehicles and related technologies, so as to accelerate the landing of "universal access to technology and smart equality".
For this cooperation, Cheng Wei, chairman and CEO of Didi, and He Xiaopeng, founder of Xpeng Motors, personally participated in the negotiation and discussion on the details of the cooperation.
The founders of both sides not only paid enough attention to this cooperation, but also had high expectations and great dreams. As Cheng Wei said, "The two sides will continue to deepen cooperation in various fields and jointly promote the transformation of the transportation and automobile industries."
Didi is the largest shared travel platform in China, and Xpeng Motors is one of the first new forces to explore smart electric vehicles in China.
On the whole, the two sides can complement each other and get what they need. In essence, two technology companies have a clearer understanding of their role positioning and goals in the face of the era of intelligent travel.
Complement each other’s advantages and take what they need.
Specifically, the cooperation between Didi and Tucki mainly includes the following information:
On the capital level, Tucki will acquire Didi’s smart car development business, including research and development, design and engineering development of new smart electric vehicles.
Neither party involved in the transaction involves cash, and it will be completed in the form of additional shares issued by Xpeng Motors. Tucki’s upfront consideration is 3.25% of Tucki Class A common stock. After the gambling target is achieved, Didi’s shareholding in Tucki will be expanded to 5% at most. The highest total consideration of this acquisition is about 5.835 billion Hong Kong dollars (about 744 million US dollars).
In terms of business cooperation, Xpeng Motors will launch an A-class intelligent electric vehicle, the project code is "MONA", and there will be multiple SKUs, which are respectively for the B-end shared travel market and the C-end personal consumption market. The goal of "MONA" is to build a pure electric vehicle with high-level assisted driving capability in the price range of 150,000, and the XNGP capability based on the Boom 2.0 architecture in Tucki is standard.
"MONA" will be made and produced in Xpeng Motors and owned by Tucki, and mass production is expected to start in 2024. Didi will open up the ecology to Xiaopeng Automobile, provide business support for MONA, including intelligent cockpit, intelligent driving and shared travel market, and help Tucki to create explosions in the "150,000-level" price range.
According to the gambling terms set by both parties, the issuance of additional shares includes four stages in total: 58.16 million shares will be issued on the acquisition delivery date; Mass production vehicles began to deliver and issue 4.63 million shares; In the first phase, the delivery of new cars reached 180,000 units and 14.05 million shares were issued; In the second stage, 180,000 new cars were delivered and 14.27 million shares were issued.
That is to say, if the annual sales volume of "MONA" reaches 180,000 vehicles, and this goal is achieved for two consecutive years, Didi will get up to 5% of Xpeng Motors’s Class A common stock after the transaction is completed.
Why did Didi take the road of Huawei?
A few years ago, Cheng Wei, the founder of Didi, shared his prediction of future travel. He mentioned that there are three irreversible trends in the next 10 years: car sharing, new energy vehicles replacing fuel vehicles, driverless and intelligent times.
Cheng Wei believes that Didi is essentially a big data company and an artificial intelligence company. What Didi will do in the future is to resolve the contradiction between supply and demand among people, cars and roads in a specific period of time by creating super traffic AI, so as to make travel smarter and more efficient.
To make travel smarter and more efficient, we must not only have smart roads, but also smart and shared cars.
As early as 2017, smart transportation has become one of Didi’s strategic directions. They hope to reduce urban congestion by 20% through a series of smart transportation products and services.
How to make cars smart and shared? This road is not easy to walk.
In April 2018, Didi and 31 automobile industry chain enterprises jointly established the "Torrent Alliance". The members of the alliance include OEMs, spare parts manufacturers, new energy fields, digital map companies, and car networking.
With openness and empowerment as the core, Torrent Alliance hopes that all enterprises in the alliance can open and empower each other, discuss the design and standard formulation of shared new energy vehicles, jointly develop a new generation of vehicles designed for sharing, and promote large-scale operation.
Based on the idea of Torrent Alliance, in May 2018, Didi and LI established a joint venture company, and the two sides planned to customize and produce smart electric vehicles for shared travel scenes. However, the cooperation finally ran aground for various reasons.
In 2020, Didi and BYD jointly established a joint venture company-Wonderful Travel (Hangzhou) Automobile Technology Co., Ltd., which is dedicated to the design and research and development of online car. BYD holds 65% of the shares, and Didi accounts for 35%.
In November of that year, the world’s first customized network car D1 jointly built by Didi and BYD was officially unveiled. D1 Didi is responsible for product definition, styling design, car networking research and development, and BYD is responsible for OEM.
In 2021, D1 sold 10,176 vehicles; In 2022, the sales volume was less than 1,000 vehicles. In November 2022, this car officially began to be sold to individual consumers. It has only one model and the price is 157,800 yuan. Only 367 vehicles were sold in November last year.
A very important reason why D1 is difficult to get a car is that the price of similar car models on the market has dropped to 70,000-110,000. Although D1 has better service, the price of 150,000 is not competitive for drivers.
Since D1 is a customized model, BYD needs to open a separate production line for it. Low sales volume cannot reduce production costs. Reality has proved that the OEM mode is uneconomical and unsatisfactory.
Joint development and OEM models are not feasible. Is it feasible for Didi to build a car by himself?
Earlier, it was also reported that Didi secretly launched a car-making project in 2021, with the internal code name "Da Vinci". This year, Xiaomi and Baidu also announced the next car.
Today, Xiaomi and Baidu’s car-making projects are still struggling, and the smart car market has fallen into a bloody price war. The sluggish consumption has forced head brands Tesla and BYD to cut prices to seek sales, while other brands have to cut prices to survive.
In this environment, it is better for Didi to take a more efficient road than to build a car himself. After all, building a car requires a lot of money, which is a heavy burden for Didi, which is still losing money at this stage.
This time, Didi changed her mind. In essence, its cooperation with Tucki is to export its capabilities and ecology in a modular way, exchange resources for sales, make a big cake together, and achieve a win-win situation for both sides.
This is a bit like Huawei’s path. Huawei has always emphasized not to build cars, but to be an eco-brand, empowering other car companies with its technology and capabilities accumulated in the ICT field for more than 30 years and helping them build cars.
Tucki found sales export.
With this cooperation, Xpeng Motors founder He Xiaopeng made no secret of his desire for sales. He said that he is very optimistic about the sales competitiveness of MONA, with an annual sales volume of at least 100,000, and his expectation is much higher than this figure.
As early as August 18th, at the conference call of Xpeng Motors Q2 financial report, He Xiaopeng mentioned that he was confident that he had the ability to launch fully-automatic driving cars at the most mainstream level of 150,000, which would greatly promote the comprehensive popularization of intelligence. Because he has clearly seen the clear and achievable path and timetable.
From MONA, where Tucki cooperates with Didi, we can see the path and timetable that He Xiaopeng refers to.
MONA plans to start mass production in 2024. The reason why it is so fast is that before the cooperation between the two parties, Didi has already had a class A smart electric car with a very high degree of completion, and has invested billions of yuan in development in the early stage.
Tucki believes that this is a very attractive asset and the core of cooperation between Tucki and Didi.
In addition to the car-making business, Xpeng Motors became the first vehicle enterprise to receive full support from Didi’s ecosystem. The two sides will explore mutually beneficial and win-win long-term cooperation opportunities in various fields, including the operation of Tucki vehicles on Didi platform, brand marketing, financial and insurance services, construction of charging facilities, Robotaxi and international market cooperation.
In recent years, some cities have begun to promote the use of new energy vehicles in the network car, and the network car market is becoming the main sales market for new energy vehicle brands.
According to the data of the Ministry of Transport, by the end of last year, a total of 5.09 million people in the country had obtained the driving license of the network car, and a total of 2.118 million vehicles had obtained the transportation license of the network car.
The Interim Measures for the Management of Online Booking Taxi Management Services stipulates that the online car will be scrapped when the mileage reaches 600,000 kilometers. Some cities have also made requirements for the newly applied network car, which must be brand-new new energy vehicles, and the old and worn-out vehicles are blocked from the door.
This means that every 3-5 years, there is a demand for changing cars for millions of network cars. Previously, Ai ‘an, BYD, etc. all took a large share in the online car market, and became the mainstream brands in the online car market at a price of less than 200,000.
As the head network car platform, Didi has accumulated a huge number of C-end users and network car drivers. In the 12 months to March 31st, 2023, Didi’s travel business in China had 411 million annual active users and 19 million annual active drivers. All these will guarantee MONA’s sales.
And boosting sales is what Xpeng Motors needs most at the moment. From January to June this year, Xpeng Motors delivered a total of 41,400 vehicles, down 40% year-on-year. In the same period last year, Tucki delivered 34,600 vehicles, up 160% year-on-year. In the first half of last year, the delivery volume of Tucki ranked first among Wei Xiaoli’s three companies, and it was at the bottom in the first half of this year.
For Tucki, it is the last word to promote sales in an eclectic way. Judging from Tucki’s actions in the first half of the year, it did.
Starting from MONA, Xpeng Motors not only started the multi-brand strategy, but also started the ToB sales. Previously, Xpeng Motors reached a cooperation with Volkswagen, and Tucki sold technologies related to smart cars to Volkswagen.
In other words, Tucki can sell Tucki brand cars, or MONA or other brands of cars; Tucki not only sells cars, but also sells technology.
This is not inconsistent with Tucki’s positioning. From the beginning, it was positioned as "a technology company focusing on future travel, committed to exploring technology and leading future travel changes."
Socrates said, "Know yourself". He believes that the deeper and more comprehensive a person knows about himself, the less detours he will take; Therefore, knowing yourself is the most important topic in everyone’s life.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader has profoundly grasped the law of human historical development, comprehensively understood the historical details of Chinese civilization, continuously deepened forward-looking, overall and strategic thinking on cultural construction, and put forward a series of new ideas, new viewpoints and new theories, comprehensively deployed and promoted the construction of a socialist cultural power, and made historic achievements and changes. At the symposium on cultural inheritance and development, the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader issued a great call of "strengthening cultural self-confidence, taking on the mission, working hard, making joint efforts to create a new culture belonging to our era and building a modern civilization of the Chinese nation".
A Scientific Answer to the Debate between China and the West in Modern Times
After 1840, the Chinese nation encountered unprecedented severe challenges, faced with a huge crisis of "national subjugation and extinction", and started a difficult transition from a traditional society to a modern society. As Mr. He Lin said: "The crisis in China in the past hundred years is basically a cultural crisis." In the arduous exploration with difficult steps and huge amplitude, how to understand the relationship between tradition and modernity, and between native and western countries, that is, how to evaluate and position our cultural traditions, has become an important issue related to "where is China going?" Countless people with lofty ideals go up and down to seek, or stick to tradition and advocate "Chinese style and western use"; Or refuse to reconcile and advocate "total westernization." In fact, whether conservative or radical, these two attitudes mechanically regard cultural tradition as a constant and solidified existence, and separate "tradition" from "modern", "native" from "western", ignoring or denying the possibility of development and innovation of cultural tradition.
General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out at the forum on cultural inheritance and development that Chinese civilization has outstanding continuity, innovation, unity, inclusiveness and peace. "If we don’t know China from its long-standing historical continuity, we can’t understand ancient China, modern China and future China." The great historical practice and contemporary practice of the Chinese nation have eloquently proved that we can neither copy the West nor copy the tradition. To treat cultural traditions, we should "review the old and learn the new" and "bring forth the new". Innovation is the best inheritance. The outstanding characteristics of Chinese civilization determine that we must draw nutrients from historical accumulation, explore and innovate from traditional culture, and take a development path of upholding integrity and keeping integrity and innovation.
A profound summary of the relationship between Marxism and Chinese excellent traditional culture
Combining the universal truth of Marxism with the concrete reality of our country is a summary of the historical experience that our party can lead the people to achieve great achievements in the new-democratic revolution, socialist revolution, reform and opening up and socialist modernization. This basic conclusion has been developed with the great practice of Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. Twenty years ago, Mr. Fei Xiaotong put forward: "We often talk about socialism with China characteristics, which refers to the combination of Marxism and China’s practice, so after Marxism entered China, it became Mao Zedong Thought and later developed into Deng Xiaoping Theory. There must be the characteristics of China culture at work behind this, but we can’t tell what the characteristics of these cultures are and how they are working. "
General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out at the symposium on cultural inheritance and development that Marxism and Chinese excellent traditional culture fit in with each other and achieve each other. "Chinese-style modernization gives Chinese civilization modern strength, and Chinese civilization gives Chinese-style modernization a profound foundation." In particular, the combination of Marxism and Chinese excellent traditional culture is another ideological emancipation, "allowing us to make full use of the valuable resources of Chinese excellent traditional culture in a broader cultural space and explore future-oriented theoretical and institutional innovations". These expositions by the Supreme Leader General Secretary have comprehensively summarized and highly summarized the theoretical relationship between Marxism and Chinese excellent traditional culture, which is an innovative breakthrough in the modernization of Marxism in China, and also the fundamental principle and essential requirement of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s cultural construction.
Greatly expanded the cultural connotation of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Since modern times, we have gradually realized that a nation should have "cultural consciousness". With Socialism with Chinese characteristics entering a new era, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, proceeding from the overall situation of the great rejuvenation strategy of the Chinese nation and the unprecedented changes in the world in the past century, put forward a major theoretical and practical proposition of "strengthening cultural self-confidence" on the premise of profoundly grasping the inherent requirements of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s development and the fundamental requirements of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s cultural construction, and defined it on the status of "more basic, broader and deeper" and "most basic, deepest and most lasting". General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed: "Without a high degree of cultural self-confidence and cultural prosperity, there would be no great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation."
General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out at the symposium on cultural inheritance and development, "Let Marxism become China, and Chinese excellent traditional culture become modern, and let it pass through ‘ Combination ’ The new culture formed has become a cultural form of Chinese modernization, and the goal of building a modern civilization of the Chinese nation has been put forward. This indicates that Chinese civilization is about to usher in a historic milestone after modernization and transformation. The completion of the "modern civilization of the Chinese nation" will become a glorious symbol of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
The General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "The great social changes in contemporary China are not simply the master of continuing our history and culture, nor the template of simply applying the ideas of classical Marxist writers, nor the reprint of socialist practice in other countries, nor the replica of foreign modernization, so it is impossible to find ready-made textbooks." The change of economic base will lead to the transformation of the whole huge superstructure sooner or later. The new era conditions determine that we must create a new culture that matches Chinese modernization, adhere to the modernization of Marxism in China, inherit and develop Chinese excellent traditional culture, promote the localization of foreign culture, constantly cultivate and create "Chinese-style modern cultural form" at a new historical starting point, and finally build "Chinese modern civilization". To build the modern civilization of the Chinese nation, we must "strengthen our cultural self-confidence, stick to our own path, base ourselves on the great historical and contemporary practice of the Chinese nation, sum up China’s experience with China’s truth, upgrade China’s experience to China’s theory, and realize spiritual independence". When we create a new culture that belongs to our time, the first thing is to build China’s independent knowledge system and a new cultural form that matches Chinese modernization.
To create a new culture that matches Chinese modernization, we should adhere to the spirit of being upright and not conservative, respecting the ancient and not retro, and promote the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese excellent traditional culture through reorganizing, evaluating, sublating and reconstructing traditional culture. At the same time, it is necessary to localize the ideas and theoretical systems spread from other civilizations in the world. Reviewing the source of culture, inheriting the lifeline of culture, integrating the essence of ancient and modern times, and accommodating Chinese and foreign heroes and Chinese, only through such sublimation and treatment can we create a new culture that matches Chinese modernization and build a modern civilization of the Chinese nation.
(Author: Wang Xuedian, chief expert of the National Social Science Fund’s major project "Multi-volume History of China in the 20th Century", executive dean of the Institute of Advanced Studies of Confucianism of Shandong University and editor-in-chief of Literature, History and Philosophy magazine)
Report to the 20th CPC National Congress of the Party pointed out: "From now on, the central task of the Communist Party of China (CPC) is to unite and lead the people of all ethnic groups in the country to build a socialist modernization power in an all-round way, realize the goal of the second century, and comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese modernization." Among the many characteristics of Chinese modernization, "people’s nature" is one of the most remarkable characteristics. The Party’s Report to the 20th CPC National Congress systematically explained the theoretical connotation of Chinese-style modernization, emphasizing that Chinese-style modernization is the common prosperity of all the people, and fully demonstrating the people-oriented characteristics contained in Chinese-style modernization.
Adhering to the people-centered development thought is an important principle to promote Chinese modernization. Popular support is the biggest politics. the Communist Party of China (CPC) led the people to fight and defend the country, and defended the people’s hearts. For a hundred years, the Communist Party of China (CPC) United and led the people in revolution, construction and reform, and always put the people in the highest position in their hearts. From "solving food and clothing" to "well-off life" to "common prosperity", from winning the biggest battle against poverty in human history and historically solving the problem of absolute poverty, Chinese modernization has always adhered to the people-centered development thought. Whether it is to improve the social security system, improve the distribution system, or implement the employment priority strategy, whether it is to promote the construction of a healthy China, a safe China and a beautiful China, or resolutely win the epidemic prevention and control war. In the final analysis, it is necessary to satisfy the people’s yearning for a better life and constantly consolidate the people’s sense of gain, happiness and security with tangible development achievements. Building a socialist modern country in an all-round way is a great and arduous undertaking. Report to the 20th CPC National Congress of the Party clearly emphasized that one of the major principles that must be firmly grasped on the road ahead is "adhering to the people-centered development thought". Adhering to the people-centered development thought and promoting Chinese modernization is an inevitable choice for upholding and developing Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, building a modern socialist country in an all-round way and realizing the Chinese dream of great rejuvenation.On the new journey, if we want to win new victories in building a socialist modernized country in an all-round way, we must bear in mind that "the country is the people and the people are the country", unswervingly follow the people-centered road of Chinese modernization, and take sharing achievements for the people, relying on the people and the people as the fundamental purpose and action guide to realize Chinese modernization.
Realizing the common prosperity of all the people is an important feature and essential requirement of Chinese modernization. The Communist Party of China (CPC) has always regarded seeking happiness for the people of China and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation as his initial mission. Whether it is revolution, construction, reform and development, it is all for the people to live a happy life. Making people live a happy life is "the greatest power in the country", and achieving common prosperity is the essential requirement of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and it is also a long-term historical process. Entering a new era, the Party takes people’s yearning for a better life as its goal. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we have experienced three major events of great practical significance and far-reaching historical significance to the cause of the Party and the people. History and practice have proved and will continue to prove that Socialism with Chinese characteristics Road is the broad road to common prosperity. Report to the 20th CPC National Congress of the Party regards the realization of people’s yearning for a better life as the starting point and the end result of modernization, and emphatically points out that "Chinese-style modernization is a socialist modernization led by the Communist Party of China (CPC), which has both the common characteristics of modernization in all countries and China characteristics based on its own national conditions." This highlights the socialist nature of Chinese-style modernization and summarizes its important features, namely, Chinese-style modernization is a modernization with a huge population, a modernization of common prosperity for all people, a modernization in which material civilization and spiritual civilization are coordinated, a modernization in which man and nature coexist harmoniously, and a modernization that takes the road of peaceful development.When explaining the essential requirements of Chinese modernization, the report once again stressed the need to "achieve common prosperity for all people." It can be seen that realizing the common prosperity of all the people is not only an important feature of Chinese modernization, but also the biggest feature of Chinese modernization, which occupies an important position in the overall situation of China’s modernization. In the new era and new journey, we must unswervingly implement the people-centered development thought, stand firm on the people’s stand, grasp the people’s wishes, take improving people’s well-being, promoting people’s all-round development and common prosperity as the starting point and the end result, take realizing people’s yearning for a better life as the value criterion and goal pursuit, and constantly promote "education for young children, learning to teach, earning from work, getting medical care, providing for the elderly, living in a proper place and being weak"
Giving full play to the creative power of hundreds of millions of people is the most powerful foundation for realizing Chinese modernization. Historical materialism holds that the masses of the people are the driving force and the real creators of history. The Communist Party of China (CPC)’s century-long struggle has fully proved that the people are the source of strength for China’s revolution, construction and reform, and the fundamental driving force for the Chinese nation to usher in a great leap from standing up, becoming rich and becoming strong. The people are the root of our party’s life, the foundation of governance and the source of strength. Today’s brilliant achievements in China, especially the great achievements in the new era, are neither falling from the sky, nor being given alms by others, but being made by the Party and the people together. The modernization in the new era has fully mobilized the people to participate in national strategies such as poverty alleviation, building a well-off society in an all-round way and implementing rural revitalization, which has injected strong impetus into the development of Chinese modernization. As long as we firmly stand on the right side of history, stand on the side of human civilization and progress, adhere to the people’s dominant position, trust the people, respect and inspire their initiative, and mobilize their enthusiasm to the maximum extent, we can fully tap the wealth of wisdom, unlimited creativity and unlimited strength of more than 1.4 billion people, which is a majestic force to promote Chinese modernization. Report to the 20th CPC National Congress of the Party pointed out that "to build a socialist modern country in an all-round way, we must give full play to the creative power of hundreds of millions of people." In the face of the unprecedented changes in the world in the past century,The risks and challenges that need to be dealt with and the contradictions and problems that need to be solved are more complicated than before. As long as we always insist on doing everything for the people and relying on the people, and constantly enhance the ambition, backbone and confidence of the whole party and the people of all ethnic groups, we are not afraid of evil, ghosts and pressure, advance despite difficulties, face difficulties, make overall plans for development and security, overcome all kinds of difficulties and challenges on the road ahead, and unswervingly promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation in an all-round way with Chinese modernization, we will certainly create new ones.
(The author is a professor at the School of Marxism of Lanzhou Jiaotong University. This article is the phased achievement of the 2019 Ministry of Education Demonstration Excellent Teaching and Research Team Construction Project (19JDSZK046).)
