Friday, January 30, 2026

《红旗文稿》2025年第23期 Red Flag Articles (2025:23): Understanding China's "Centering the Country" Modernization Path ; the in 四大优势 [Four Major Advantages] and 推进全面依法 [Comprehensively Promote the Rule of Law]


Pix credit here ("Create a great new situation in socialist modernized construction," early 1980s)



Socialist (Chinese style) modernization has, in the new era of Chinese historical development, become a comprehensive subject. That is, socialist moderation has become an important means of rationalizing the entirety of the project, overseen by the Communist Party of China, to develop all of the productive forces of the Chinese nation toward the ends of establishing a communist society for the nation. Those dimensions include not just the nation's productive forces but the Communist Party itself as a core productive force of the political-economic model and its fundamental mission. I have briefly suggested its constitutional dimensions (here), and also the fundamental importance of understanding modernization as a comprehensive approach to the understanding pf social forces, and its instrumentalization toward the fundamental goal (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here).

The current issue of Red Flag (or perhaps more comprehensively transliterated as Revolutionary Banner) Journal 《红旗文稿》2025年第23期 (on the semiotics of flags, banners and the like, see here), includes a number of essays that again drive home this point. The table of contents (with links to the Chinese language essays) follows below. 


The issue starts with its Commentary [要论], 深刻理解“十五五”时期我国经济社会发展优势更加彰显 /张占斌 [A Deeper Understanding of the Increasingly Prominent Advantages of my country's Economic and Social Development During the 15th Five-Year Plan Period / Zhang Zhanbin]. This foregrounds the conceptual basis for new era socialist modernization (its template) around the 四大优势 [Four Major Advantages] of a socialist system with Chinese characteristics: "The advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, the advantage of a super-large market, the advantage of a complete industrial system, and the advantage of abundant human resources are becoming increasingly evident." [中国特色社会主义制度优势、超大规模市场优势、完整产业体系优势、丰富人才资源优势更加彰显]. That Commentary is then bookended with a Qiushi Commentator drafted Red Flag forum [红旗论坛/求是网评论员] entitled Continuously Promoting the Constitution to Take Root in People's Hearts [持续推动宪法深入人心 ]. Its essence is this:

在推进全面依法治国的新征程上,要牢牢把握党对宪法工作的全面领导这一根本原则,充分彰显我国宪法制度的独特优势。将宪法实施深度融入治国理政各环节,持续提高党依宪治国、依宪执政的能力水平。[On the new journey of advancing the comprehensive rule of law, it is essential to firmly grasp the fundamental principle of the Party's overall leadership over constitutional work and fully demonstrate the unique advantages of my country's constitutional system. The implementation of the Constitution should be deeply integrated into all aspects of national governance, continuously improving the Party's ability to govern and administer the country in accordance with the Constitution.]
Again, the issue bookends the two key elements of the Chinese political-economic model. Its normative basis is manifested in and through socialist development (modernization) along a Socialist Path toward communism. Its structural and methodological basis is organized around the leadership and guidance of its vanguard of social forces whose work is undertaken within a cage of regulation that manifests the structures within which it exercises leadership to the ends of forward movement along the Socialist Path.

It then applies the conceptual framework to to (1) 中国共产党的思想工作 [the ideological work of the Communist Party of China]; (2) politics (政治); (3) economy (经济); (4) culture (文化); (5) society (社会); and (6) ecology (生态). 

The table of contents (with links) and an English translation follow.

 

《红旗文稿》2025年第23期

来源:《红旗文稿》2025/23 2025-12-15 16:56:07

 

No comments: