Mao Zedong has long noticed modernization is the main direction for the development and progress of human society and the historical mission of the CPC. The five characteristics of Chinese modernization appeared in Mao’s era, namely, the modernization with a huge population, with common prosperity for all the people, with the coordinated development of material and cultural-ethical advancement, with harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and on the path of peaceful development, In this regard, Mao Zedong launched an arduous exploration and led the people of China to struggle hard to establish an independent and relatively complete industrial system and national economic system, which established indelible contributions for the development of China’s socialist cause.

Editor: Zhong Yao、Liu Tingting

From: Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping Theories.2023.No.7.