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The first unit of the theme seminar was hosted by Professor Dai Changzheng.
Professor Xu Xianglin of Peking University w88 casino of Government focuses on the issue of national governance structure and its knowledge system. He believes that national governance is a structural functional combination system, and the functional elements in the structure are supported by institutional arrangements and institutional settings. He profoundly elaborated on the basic functions of the modern state, the six dimensions of national governance capabilities, the six aspects of national governance capabilities, and the knowledge system of national governance.
Professor Tong Dezhi, Vice President of the Chinese Political Society and Vice President of Tianjin Normal University, sorted out the connotation, structure and changes of Chinese-style modernization. He believes that the connotation of Chinese-style modernization is the strategic goal of the Communist Party of China to lead the Chinese people to achieve development and build socialism through reform and opening up; structurally, it is the five-in-one of politics, economy, society, culture and ecology; and has experienced a three-wave change process from the "four modernizations" to a "moderately prosperous society" to a "socialist modern country".
Professor Zhang Xianming, Vice President of the Chinese Political Society and Dean of the w88 casino of Administration of Jilin University, shared his research results on the theme of "Structural Adjustment and Resilience Construction of the National Vertical Governance System". He believes that the structural adjustment of the national vertical governance system is to solve the problem of structural rigidity in the vertical governance system; resilience construction is to build institutional resilience so that the vertical governance system can display simple governance logic in the huge governance complexity to effectively respond to the profound changes in the internal and external environment.
Professor Wang Xutian, Director of the Institute of Chinese Politics, w88 casino of International Relations, Renmin University of China, elaborated on his understanding of the new modern state. He believes that the new modern state is the new form of the modern state. This new form is different from the original form of the modern state in terms of the nature, internal structure, external form, and basic concepts of the state. He pointed out that China has generally experienced three major stages and three types of modern country evolution.
Professor Chen Guoquan from the w88 casino of Public Administration of Zhejiang University shared his interpretation of the "state" in contemporary China from the perspective of "general government". He believes that the organization of the Communist Party of China is divided into two parts based on "state and society" and can be divided into "party organizations of a national nature" and "party organizations of a social nature"; the national party organizations and the national institutions in the constitution are integrated into the general government. General government has party attributes and government attributes. The government attributes are mainly expressed by people's representatives. The party attributes refer to national party organizations such as the party's local committees at all levels.
Han Xu, deputy secretary-general of the Chinese Political Society and director of the Political Institution Research Office of the Institute of Political Science, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, is committed to summarizing the experience and theoretical paradigm of national construction in the process of Chinese modernization. He pointed out that our entire governance system is actually established with the People's Congress system as the main structure. It is a people-centered national institutional system. The people in such a governance system are not an abstract concept.
Professor Han Donglin from the w88 casino of International Relations at Renmin University of China examined the relationship between political co-optation, ethnic divisions and civil conflict. He believes that according to different ways of power formation, political absorption can be divided into administrative absorption and electoral absorption. Administrative absorption and electoral absorption are heterogeneous due to their institutional characteristics, so their impact on domestic conflicts is also different. Under different ethnic cleavages, the role of administrative co-optation and electoral co-optation on civil conflict will change.
The second unit of the theme seminar was hosted by Professor Xu Xianglin.
Professor Lu Chunlong of the w88 casino of Politics and Public Administration, Vice President of China University of Political Science and Law, advocates bringing time back to the center of national construction research. He pointed out that since different concepts of time produce different theories of nation-building, the concept of time should be treated as a core issue in nation-building research. In particular, we must oppose the behaviorist paradigm that despises the concept of time and get rid of the linear view of time advocated in Western nation-building theories.
Professor Guo Dingping, President of the Shanghai Political Society and Director of the Department of Political Science at the w88 casino of International Relations and Public Affairs of Fudan University, delivered a speech on the theme of "Chinese-style modernization and a new political civilization centered on the party." He believes that the Communist Party of China has created a new form of the development of China's political civilization in the new era; this new form of political civilization is clearly reflected in China's party system, state and political form, national structure, ethnic relations, foreign relations and global governance.
Professor Fang Shengju, Dean of the w88 casino of Government of Yunnan University, is committed to exploring the underlying logic and practical innovation of social governance in the process of Chinese modernization. He pointed out that the underlying logic of social governance is the dilemma of people's livelihood and the loss of social fairness and justice. Based on this logic, innovation in social governance must start from the source, that is, the construction of people's livelihood, and be committed to fair law enforcement, fair justice, and fair distribution. There must be a practical innovation of source governance, systematic governance, governance according to law, and comprehensive governance.
Professor Fang Lei, Dean of the Qingdao Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences of Shandong University, first examined three paths to explain modernization from the perspective of knowledge systems, including considering a certain feature as modernization, understanding modernization from the perspective of tradition and modernity, and the dependency theory and world system theory of modernization. Next, he analyzed the structural elements of Chinese modernization, which is to achieve five transcendences: transcending the logic of capital, transcending differentiated societies, transcending liberal democracy, transcending Western hegemony, and transcending Western knowledge systems.
Professor Yang Xuedong, head of the Department of Political Science at Tsinghua University, shared his thoughts focusing on "the disciplinary positioning of national governance". He pointed out that national governance research is the "middle zone" between basic political science research and practical knowledge, allowing basic political science research to be transformed into practical knowledge through the buffer zone of national governance. The principle of national governance discipline construction is to take the country as the center, focus on modern national governance, and study modern countries and nation-state governance.
Professor Yang Guangbin, Vice President of the Chinese Political Society and Dean of the w88 casino of International Relations at Renmin University of China, examined the rise and fall of countries from the perspective of organizationalism. He believes that from a historical perspective, the country should be viewed from the perspective of organizationalism rather than from the perspective of institutionalism. Recovering the country is actually retrieving the organization; modernization is an organizational process; in national governance, regardless of centralized governance or decentralized governance, organizational traps may occur, that is, the degree of organization is too high and too dense, which will stifle the thinking space and action ability of individuals, and ultimately make society lose vitality.
The third unit of the theme seminar was hosted by Professor Guo Dingping.
Professor Xie Tao, Dean of the w88 casino of International Relations at Beijing Foreign Studies University, gave a speech on the theme of “The Road to Modernization—Seeking Universality in Particularity”. He believes that the term modernization with Chinese characteristics demonstrates the political proposition and particularity of modernization; summarizing the commonalities between Chinese-style modernization and the modernization of other countries demonstrates the academic proposition and universality of modernization; constructing China's independent knowledge system means finding the universality of modernization in particularity.
Professor Liu Xianjun, Dean of the w88 casino of Politics and Administration of Tianjin Normal University, shared his latest results on modernization research. He pointed out that the commonality of early modernization in the West is reflected in the goals and results of modernization, such as marketization in the economic field and democratization in the political field. However, due to different national conditions in various countries, they have significant differences in the order and approaches of modernization, forming diversified modernization models; in addition, different modernization paths and models are greatly affected by political thought.
Professor Liu Wei, Dean of the w88 casino of Politics and Public Administration of Wuhan University, is committed to exploring the reasons why China can still achieve remarkable development achievements and maintain social stability without directly copying the Western political democracy model, and decode it from the perspective of economic democracy. He believes that China's economic democracy provides a feasible path for steady democratic development: enhancing the legitimacy of the regime through economic performance, driving social participation through economic democracy, and ultimately providing a social foundation for deeper political democracy.
Professor Ren Yong, Dean of the w88 casino of Government of East China University of Political Science and Law, gave a speech on the theme of "From Nation Construction to Nation Governance". He analyzed the reasons for the rise of national governance research against a grand background, and discussed the changes in the research logic of national governance, including the people-centered development thinking, which has caused changes in the subject of national governance; national governance is better adapted to social development, and specific and visible reference standards have been formed from the value level.
Professor Cheng Tongshun, Dean of the Institute of National Security at Nankai University, systematically analyzed the problem of idiot leftists. He believes that the idiot leftists have pushed political correctness to the extreme, which can be divided into different types, including education issues, immigration issues, treatment of criminals, etc.; the reasons include self-satisfaction, self-righteousness, self-enhancement, and high self-esteem. He emphasized that in the process of China's modernization, our core value system must not be allowed to go out of order.
Professor Chang Shiyi from the w88 casino of International Relations at Beijing Foreign Studies University discussed the issues of democratic political construction in post-development countries. He believes that the democratic mechanisms of post-developing countries that have entered the ranks of democratic countries have made certain constructive developments, including changes in multiple structures and the expansion of "people", the establishment of basic institutional forms of democratic regimes, and the multiple intersections of democratic mechanisms. However, realistically, there are still uncertainties in the construction of democratic systems and democratic mechanisms in post-developing countries.
Professor Qi Lingling from the w88 casino of Government of Nanjing University compared the democratic operation of 21 Western developed industrial countries from several aspects such as constitutional structure, electoral system and party system, political culture, and difficulties and challenges in democratic operation. He believes that there are currently many debates about whether Western democracy has regressed. We should pay attention to the complexity behind the support of Western democracy and the differences within Western countries, and see the resilience of Western democracy.
The fourth unit of the theme seminar was hosted by Professor Han Xu.
Professor Cai Liqiang, Executive Dean of the w88 casino of Government of the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, focused on the governance experience and unique advantages of the Chinese Communist Party’s leadership in Chinese-style modernization. He believes that Chinese-style modernization is the transcendence and sublimation of modernization theories, models and paths. It embodies the vision, leadership and strategic planning of the Communist Party of China, and reflects our governance advantages and distinctive characteristics from Chinese-style modernization to Chinese-style modernization.
Professor Dai Changzheng, Director of the Department of Political Science, Dean of the w88 casino of International Relations, and Dean of the Institute of National Security and Governance of the w88 casino, examined the different genealogies of modern countries and their evolutionary paths. He believes that different countries have different paths, and European countries cannot be the only examples of modern countries; the historical conditions for building nation-states have undergone tremendous changes in contemporary times, and building a nation-state is what most countries should pursue. Only by solving problems in this direction can the stability and order of the country be finally achieved.
Professor Ma Xuesong, Vice Dean of the w88 casino of Administration of Jilin University, elaborated on the political logic, functional positioning and path selection of shrinking urban governance. He believes that shrinking cities pose challenges to growth-oriented urban planning and policies, promote coordinated regional development, and maintain spatial justice, and have become a new governance proposition in promoting the high-quality development of new urbanization; shrinking urban governance has also brought us relevant theoretical implications and practical inspirations.
Professor Mu Liangze, Vice Dean of the w88 casino of Politics and Public Administration of Shanxi University, discussed academic issues on the modernization of China’s grassroots governance system and governance capabilities. He believes that we have formed a basic consensus on the research paradigm of governance theory in terms of the history of disciplines and development; the overall structure of the national governance system, the grassroots governance community, the national integration and identification mechanism, and the specific governance mechanism constitute the four academic topics for the modernization of China's grassroots governance system and governance capabilities.
Professor Luo Shuyuan from the w88 casino of History and Political Science of Guizhou Normal University used an empirical study to examine the coupling, coordination and collaborative promotion of migrant workers' return to their hometowns to start businesses and the revitalization of rural organizations. His research results show that: the entrepreneurial performance of migrant workers returning home and the revitalization of rural organizations have achieved a high level of development, but there are large differences within each system; there are obvious regional differences and intra-system differences in the coupling coordination between entrepreneurial performance and organizational revitalization.
Professor Ye Jing from the w88 casino of International Relations at the w88 casino is committed to explaining Japan’s economic resilience from the perspective of Japan’s inclusive system construction. She believes that existing explanations ignore the fact that Japan has done a lot of inclusive system construction while implementing industrial policies; it is precisely because Japan's inclusive system construction has supported Japan's rapid growth during the economic catch-up period and maintained Japan's economic resilience during the "disappearance" decades that began in the second half of the 1990s.
After the unit speech session, the guests also had a long and in-depth discussion and exchange. Finally, Professor Dai Changzheng gave a closing summary. He believes that this seminar has four distinctive features: the first is problem orientation; the second is academic core; the third is China care; and the fourth is comparative perspective. This was both a successful academic seminar and an in-depth academic exchange. The meeting ended successfully in a warm and peaceful atmosphere.
