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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
BEIJING, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) — Genuine civilizational progress is a process of development based on one's own cultural foundation while critically absorbing the outstanding achievements of humanity, rather than simply imitating or copying a specific model, a think tank said in a report released Saturday.
The report, titled "The Theory of Civilization Development: A Perspective on the Formation of a New Concept of Civilization with Development at its Core," was released by the Xinhua Institute, a think tank affiliated with the Xinhua News Agency, at an international academic symposium held in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, southern China.
Although the paths to modernizing human society are diverse, since the 19th century the West has argued that all civilizations should modernize along the “Western path,” but historical practice has profoundly refuted this, the report notes.
The report emphasizes that the fundamental failure of the “Western paradigm” lies in the reduction of civilizational development to the mechanical transfer of technologies and institutions, while ignoring the historicity and uniqueness of the core of civilization.
The breakthrough significance of Chinese modernization lies precisely in the wisdom of adhering to fundamental principles and striving for innovation, destroying the myth that “modernization equals Westernization,” and opening up a scientific path of civilizational development that revives tradition and creates new forms of civilization through the dialectical unity of heritage and innovation, the authors of the document assert.
The report calls for prioritizing the heritage and innovation of civilization, fully releasing the contemporary value of the historical culture of each nation, and promoting the creative transformation and innovative development of high-quality traditional cultures in the process of modernization. -0-
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