Chapter 6 Beyond the old industrial path

If I remember correctly, it was the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China that proposed the "new road to industrialization".The 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China organically combined "modernization" and "new road to industrialization" and clearly stated: "The realization of industrialization is still a arduous historical task in the process of modernization in my country. Informatization is an inevitable choice for my country to accelerate the realization of industrialization and modernization. Persist in Promote industrialization with informatization, promote informatization with industrialization, and find a new industrialization path with high technological content, good economic benefits, low resource consumption, less environmental pollution, and full use of human resource advantages.” What you said is beyond the old industrialization road , Is it relative to such a "new road to industrialization"?

The "new road to industrialization" was put forward by the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.The 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China talked about development, and said that development is the top priority of our party in governing and rejuvenating the country.How to develop?A very new thing is a new road to industrialization, which is sustainable development.I think this is a very important issue for China's future direction.Although we are a developing country, we are very big, so big.Especially in the years before the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, some new problems occurred in our foreign trade, resource demand, the amount of foreign investment and environmental pollution.These issues have aroused widespread concern.

I thought that the intensified international energy crisis had repeatedly alarmed China's international strategy. Due to the deepening of reform, the expansion of opening up and the acceleration of economic globalization, not only Chinese products are increasingly dependent on the international market, but also domestic development is increasingly dependent on foreign resources.However, our international strategy does not seem to be able to keep up with the pace, so that the external resources urgently needed for domestic development are often controlled by others, and it is easy to be cut off in case of accidents.

Problems do exist, but the key is how to solve them, and what to do next?This is the problem of China's industrialization and modernization.We can no longer follow the old path, the old path of old-fashioned industrialization. You can see that in the modern history of the world, several rising powers have followed the old path, resulting in catastrophes for all mankind, harming others and eventually themselves, and ending in failure.What is the old industrialization road?In short, it is an unrestrained consumption of resources, and if the country's resources are not enough, it will go to the world to grab them.Relying on plundering colonies, relying on aggression and expansion, and even launching a world war to rob resources. The two world wars in the first half of the 20th century were ultimately related to this.Can this old industrialization path be followed again?Absolutely not!As a post-prosperous country in the 21st century, China must go beyond this road and take a new road of industrialization, solve resource and environmental problems, base itself on the domestic market, pay equal attention to increasing income and reducing expenditure, and achieve sustainable development; problems, environmental issues, etc., promote international cooperation, and obtain funds, technologies, and resources needed for modernization through peaceful means.This is unprecedented in the modern history of the world.Is this called "peaceful rise"?In fact, under the conditions of reform and opening up in the past 25 years, China has achieved sustained and rapid development in the process of being connected with economic globalization rather than separating it, which has initially proved that such a development path can go well and has been created up.By the time of the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the 21st century, we have become more conscious and clear.

Please further explain why we can obtain those resources necessary for modernization through peaceful means? The reason why China can obtain foreign resources in a peaceful way is that apart from the fact that our nation’s historical tradition and the socialist nature of our country determine that we can only do so, an extremely important condition is opening up to the outside world, which is related to economic globalization. Not separate.It should be noted that we implemented comprehensive reform and opening up after the 1970s, when peace and development became the theme of the times and the third round of economic globalization was booming in human history.Because of this, we are able to introduce the necessary foreign resources through the international market on the basis of self-reliance.In this sense, it can even be said that economic globalization has enabled China's "peaceful rise".As a result of our internal reform and opening up to the outside world, more than 500 billion US dollars of foreign capital has come in, more than 10 trillion yuan of private capital has been formed, and huge state-owned assets have been revitalized.This is called the use of "two markets, two resources" at home and abroad.