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 

摘要： 中国式现代化新道路及人类文明新形态的创造，标志中国现代化实现了从“外源型”到“内生型”的转变。后发国家现代化类型取决于其现代化道路选择。中国独特的文化传统、历史命运、国情实际，决定中国现代化注定要走适合自己特点的发展道路，因而现代化类型改变是历史的必然。中国现代化从19世纪下半叶以“后发外源型”形态开启以来，其道路几经转换，发生多次重大转型，最终形成了“内生型”的中国式现代化，创造了由“外源型”变为“内生型”的现代化转型范例。中国现代化类型的改变不仅具备充分的前提条件，也具备思想解放与理论创新相统一、强大精神动力、改革开放推动等历史条件。中国式现代化“内生型”的定位，对于构建中国哲学社会科学自主知识体系和学科体系、学术体系、话语体系具有关键性意义。

关键词: 现代化类型, 中国式现代化, “内生型”, 定位, 价值