Abstract: The unique conception of democracy embodied in the Chinese path to modernization not only provides crucial intellectual impetus for advancing Chinese modernization comprehensively, but also represents a major innovation and development to the theory of modernization in the world. Western modernization has given rise to a liberal conception of democracy characterized mainly by individualism, checks and balances, and electoral democracy. It essentially serves to maintain capital expansion and the capitalist system, with its roots in rationalism and linear historical determinism. The unique conception of democracy embodied in the Chinese path to modernization encompasses a view of democratic values that puts the people first, a view of democratic institutions featuring the people being the masters of the country, a view of democratic processes based on wholeprocess peoples democracy, and a view of democratic evaluation that prioritizes extensive, genuine, and effective governance. Therefore, the global significance of the unique conception of democracy embodied in the Chinese path to modernization is demonstrated in the following aspects. First, adhering to the materialist conception of history, it transcends Westmonopolized democracy and expands the autonomy and diversity of democratic development worldwide. Second, by upholding the mass view of history, it deconstructs the Western theory of elite creation of democracy and blazes a new path of advancing modernization through peoples democracy. Third, by persisting in the “Two Integrations”, it resolves the challenge of political order in the development of modernization and creates a new model that organically unifies democratic governance and national unity.

Key words: unique conception of democracy, the Chinese path to modernization, wholeprocess peoples democracy, global significance

摘要： 中国式现代化蕴含的独特民主观不仅为全面推进中国式现代化提供了重要思想动力，也是对世界现代化理论的重大创新与发展。西方现代化生成的是以个人主义、权力制衡、选举民主为主要特征的自由民主观，其本质是维护资本扩张与资本主义制度，根源是理性主义和线性历史决定论。中国式现代化蕴含的独特民主观包含人民至上的民主价值观、人民当家作主的民主制度观、全过程人民民主的民主过程观、广泛真实管用的民主评价观。因此，中国式现代化蕴含独特民主观的世界意义体现为：第一，坚持唯物史观，超越西方民主一元论，开拓了世界民主发展的自主性和多样性；第二，坚持群众史观，解构西方民主的精英创制论，拓展了以人民民主推进现代化的新道路；第三，坚持“两个结合”，破解了现代化发展中政治秩序难题，创造了民主治理与民族团结有机统一的新模式。

关键词: 独特民主观, 中国式现代化, 全过程人民民主, 世界意义