China Modernization Report 2006: Research on Social Modernization

Author: China Modernization Strategy Research Group
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Publish Date: 2006-01-25
Features: "China Modernization Report 2006" focuses on the study of social modernization. It adopts a research methodology that combines chronological analysis, cross-sectional analysis, quantitative analysis, and theoretical analysis to examine the 300-year historical process of global social modernization. It completes a quantitative evaluation of social modernization in 131 countries over the past 53 years, summarizes 30 long-term trends, 12 insights, and 8 experiences of world social modernization, expands classic social modernization theories, summarizes the basic principles of broad social modernization, and proposes 10 recommendations to promote China's social modernization construction, including the roadmap for China's social modernization. This report also completes a quantitative evaluation of the social modernization process in New China over 53 years (1950–2003) and an analysis of the World Modernization Index in 2003, providing a wealth of basic data and useful information for macro-level decision-making in China's modernization efforts. Currently, humanity is accelerating its transition to a knowledge-based society, with rapid advancements in science and technology and social development, and scientific exploration has no bounds. It is hoped that the Research Group can stay at the forefront of global development and continue to scale new heights in modernization research.