关键词: 现代化类型, 中国式现代化, “内生型”, 定位, 价值

Abstract: The new and uniquely Chinese path to modernization and the creation of a new form of human civilization signify that the Chinese modernization has achieved a transformation from being “exogenously driven” to “endogenously driven”. The type of modernization in latedeveloping countries depends on their chosen path to modernization. China's unique cultural traditions, historical destiny, and national conditions determine that its modernization must follow a development path suited to its own characteristics, rendering the change in its type of modernization a historical inevitability. Since the inception of Chinese modernization in the latter half of the 19th century as a “latedeveloping, exogenously driven” model, its path has undergone multiple significant transformations, ultimately culminating in the “endogenously driven” path to Chinese modernization. This has created an exemplary case of modernization transition from being “exogenously driven” to “endogenously driven”. The change in the type of Chinese modernization possesses not only sufficient preconditions, but also historical conditions such as the unity of ideological emancipation and theoretical innovation, a powerful spiritual drive, and the impetus of reform and openingup. The positioning of the Chinese path to modernization as “endogenously driven” is of critical importance for constructing an independent knowledge system, disciplinary system, academic system, and discourse system for Chinese philosophy and social sciences.

Key words: type of modernization, the Chinese path to modernization, “endogenous”, positioning,  , significance