关键词: 现代化, 中国式现代化, 全过程人民民主

Abstract: Modernization is the transitional process of human societies moving from traditional to modern ones through industrialization, democratization and rationalization. Historical experience shows that there are a variety of paths and models of human societies' modernization processes. Based on China's own history, culture and tradition, the Chinese-style modernization is the modernization that is adapted to its unique national conditions and development stage, combining tradition and modernity, featuring material and spiritual integration, and pairing institutional modernization with human modernization. From the dual dimensions of human modernization and institutional modernization, the development of the whole-process people's democracy is the essential requirement of the Chinese-style modernization. The wholeprocess people's democracy has been gradually enriched and institutionalized in practices, and surpassesed the electoral democracy in terms of theoretical construction. Taking the path of the Chinesestyle modernization requires the development of wholeprocess people's democracy, in order to solve the problems of governance in super-large-scale economies, achieve common prosperity through highquality development, continuously enhance the people's sense of gain, happiness and security, and surpass the simple “anthropocentric” or “eco-centric” approach, promote the harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and adhere to the path of peaceful development amidst the great power competition. 

Key words: modernization, Chinese-style modernization, the whole-process people's democracy