On Studying Mao Zedong' Chinese Modernization Thoughts

The modernization is the primary theme in the modern historical process of China. It is the pursuit and dream of several Chinese generations to realize modernization and reconstmct Chinese national life style from the modern times. But it is from Mao Zedong Times to actually launch the historical beginning of China's modernization. Mao Zedong is the pioneer and founder of the lofty cause of Chinese socialistic modernization.Mao Zedong's thought on China's modernization is the historical crystallization of China's modernization practices. His understanding of China's modernization went through the process from industrialization to industrialization taking heavy industry as the core, and then to the Four Modernizations. The Four Modernizations Theory is one of Mao Zedong's most remarkable theoretical contributions to China's modernization. Mao Zedong's exploration to Chinese socialistic modernization went through a section of enormous twists and even wrong course. The basic reason was related to Mao Zedong's enthusiasm to catch up with and even surpass the developed countries and wrong understanding of the nature of China's modernization, besides the restrictions of the historical condition.Mao Zedong's thought about China's modernization was very abundant. On the precondition of realizing China's modernization, he proposed that politically we want to set up a sovereign state with unified independence, so economically we must revolute the old relations of production and set up socialistic system. On the choice of China's modernization road, he put emphasis on using Soviet as a mirror, developing the Chinese own modernization road and launching foreign economic interactions actively; but preventing from monopolizing and controlling by the foreign forces at the same time. On the political system of China's modernization, he suggested setting up a set of legal supervision mechanism favorable the people becoming the masters of their own houses and a set of modern political system based on democratic centralism. On the strategic objectives and stepping design of China's modernization, he made every effort to structure a goal mode that combining socialism and modernization together, and planned the "two-step" development strategy. On the strategic arrangement and development power of China's modernization, he advocated coordinating the economy of industry and area, promoting the productive forces in a overall balance and a morecost-effective manner, arousing all positive factors and turning pessimism into positivism to build modernization actively. On the economic and management system of China's modernization, he once proposed to set up a kind of mixed economy mode combining state-owned economy and private-owned economy as well as planned economy and commodity economy, and delegate power properly while consolidating the central unified leadership, etc.Mao Zedong's thought about China's modernization has very important theoretical values. On one hand, it has opened up a realistic way for China's modernization, and has solved the historical difficult problem of the backward countries' moving towards the socialistic modernization, thus it enriches and develops the Marxist modernization theories. On the other hand, it has offered the enlightenment of Deng Xiaoping's modernized theory with distinct Chinese characteristics, and has offered the principled guide of the strategic concept of present China's modernization, thus it becomes the foundation and pathfinding of theory and implementation of China's modernization in the new period and new century.