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Can We Talk about the Formation of a New Social System in China?

Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences volume 89, pages 78–83 (2019)Cite this article

Abstract

In connection with the 40th anniversary of the Chinese reforms, the authors analyzed the milestones reached by China. Particular attention was paid to recent events—the 19th CPC Congress and the 1st session of the NPC of the 13th convocation. According to the authors, reforms and modernization in China are close to completion. It was stated at the CPC congress that the country has entered a fundamentally new phase of development, it is forming an original social structure, and Chinese specificity is acquiring the features of integrity as an independent, social development project alternative to the West.

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  1. The CPC represents the interests, firstly, of the progressive productive forces; secondly, of the progressive culture; and thirdly, of the entire population of China.

  2. In the statute of the CPC adopted at the 12th Congress, the main contradiction of socialism is defined as “the contradiction between the material and cultural needs of our people and the backward level of our social production.”

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  1. Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    A. V. Vinogradov

  2. Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    A. I. Salitskii

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Translated by S. Avodkova

Andrei Vladimirovich Vinogradov is a Doctor of Political Sciences, Head of the Center for Political Studies and Forecasting at the Institute of Far East Studies, RAS, and a Professor at the Department of the Theory and History of International Relations at People’s Friendship University of Russia. Aleksandr Igorevich Salitskii is a Doctor of Economics, Chief Researcher of the Center for Problems of Development and Modernization at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations, RAS.

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Vinogradov, A.V., Salitskii, A.I. Can We Talk about the Formation of a New Social System in China?. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 89, 78–83 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331619010131

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Keywords:

  • Chinese reforms
  • theory and practice of socialism in China
  • modernization
  • 19th CPC Congress
  • socialism
  • Marxism
  • Chinese characteristics
  • social system.