中国式现代化是中国在实现现代化进程中的路径探索、实践创新、经验总结与理论创造。中共二十大报告提出“以中国式现代化全面推进中华民族伟大复兴”。作为世界上最大的发展中国家，中国式现代化具有重要的世界意义，主要体现在以下四个方面：

一是中国式现代化强调各国要立足于本国国情探索适合本国发展的现代化道路。现代化是发展中国家追求的共同目标，如何有效实现现代化成为诸多发展中国家面临的重大课题。中国式现代化结合自身发展经历得出了一个重要启示，即各国需要将现代化的一般经验与本国实际相结合，探索出一条适合本国国情的现代化发展道路。若将某种现代化路径说成是放之四海而皆准的现代化模式，其推进结果往往并不理想。二战后诸多发展中国家在实现现代化过程中屡屡受挫，其主要原因即在于此。中国式现代化破除了对所谓现代化道路“唯一论”的迷思，是一场影响深刻的思想解放。

二是中国式现代化侧重于高质量发展。现代化离不开工业化、市场化与全球化，但传统工业化、市场化与全球化均奉行效率至上原则，高度依赖化石能源，过分突出比较优势，这可能带来经济结构的失衡。一国经济结构高度依赖于全球劳动分工，将造成本国经济结构的单一性与畸形性，给本国经济安全与可持续发展带来负面影响，贫富差距扩大，资源环境破坏，并最终影响到国际安全、和平与稳定。中国式现代化强调高质量发展，这包括经济结构的优化升级、增长动能的更新换代、社会分配与保障机制的健全完善以及人与自然的和谐共生，意在促进经济增长、维护社会公平、保护生态环境等层面一体推进，实现协调、均衡、普惠、可持续发展。

三是中国式现代化立足于人的全面发展。现代化本质上是人的现代化，人既具有生物性特征，又具有社会性特征，这决定了人的多样化需求。现代化促进了生产力的发展，带来人们物质生活的丰富。然而，这并不意味着他们会生活得更充实、更幸福。满足人们的物质生活需求仅是人类繁衍生息的基础，既非全部，亦非主流。一个人要获得更多的幸福感需要有更高的价值追求。换言之，人类幸福感的获得主要来自于对人精神层面与价值层面需求的满足。中国式现代化在促进物质生活丰富的同时强调对精神层面需求的有效供给，以促进人的全面发展与自我价值的更好实现。

四是中国式现代化致力于促进世界和平与共同发展。中国式现代化是坚持走和平发展道路的现代化，其核心要义就是通过在维护世界和平与发展中实现自我发展，同时以自身发展更好地维护世界和平与发展。这彻底摈弃了历史上传统大国通过战争、殖民、掠夺等方式实现现代化的老路，清晰回答了中国“如何实现发展”及“实现发展之后做什么”这两个国际社会高度关注的重大问题。因此，和平、发展、合作、共赢是中国式现代化的本质特征，也是其最大特色。

中国式现代化是进行时，这意味着它将在不断探索中丰富完善、在创新实践中变为现实。中国式现代化是诸多现代化路径中的一种形态，具有鲜明的中国特色，但它为发展中国家实现现代化提供了新的思路、方向和方法。因而，理解中国式现代化需要认识到它是一种发展着的现代化理论与实践，是一种既具有普遍性价值又具有特殊性意义的理论与实践，是一种为发展中国家实现现代化提供借鉴而非照抄照搬意义上的理论与实践。

The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to “comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization.” Thus, the country's emphasis on this mode of modernization has global implications.They lie mainly in four aspects:

First, Chinese-style modernization emphasizes that countries should explore their own path to modernity based on their own national conditions. Modernization is a common goal of developing nations, many of which face significant obstacles to effectively fulfilling that vision. Drawing lessons from its own past, China has come to the important conclusion that countries should combine the general experiences of modernization with their own realities and find a path to modernization that suits their situation. Outcomes may be disappointing if people take a particular approach to modernization as universally applicable.This has been a major reason that many developing nations have suffered repeated setbacks in their pursuit of modernization since World War II. Chinese-style modernization broke away from the myth that there is only one path. This realization brought a profound emancipation of the mind.

Second, Chinese-style modernization emphasizes quality development. Modernization is inseparable from industrialization, marketization and globalization, yet traditional industrialization, marketization and globalization all followed the principle of efficiency first, while relying heavily on fossil fuels and other short-term advantages, which may destabilize the economic structure.For instance, when one country's economic structure becomes highly dependent on a global division of labor, making its economic structure lopsided, there will be negative influences on its economic security and sustainable development. Widening wealth gaps and the sabotage of resources and the environment ultimately affect international security, peace and stability.Chinese-style modernization highlights quality development, which includes optimizing and upgrading economic structures, renewing growth dynamism, improving social distribution and guarantee mechanisms and the harmonious coexistence of man and nature. The idea is to facilitate integrated progress in such areas as promoting growth, preserving fairness and protecting the environment to achieve coordinated, balanced, universally beneficial and sustainable development.

Third, Chinese-style modernization proceeds from mankind's all-around development. Modernization is in essence human modernization, since people have both biological and social characteristics and their needs are diverse. Modernization promotes the development of productivity and enriches people's material lives.However, this doesn't mean their lives will be richer or happier. Meeting people's material needs is only the basis for sustaining the human species, which is not the whole picture or even the main element. To obtain greater sense of happiness, a person needs to pursue higher values. In other words, people's sense of happiness originates mainly from the satisfaction of their needs at the spiritual or values level.Chinese-style modernization, while enriching material lives, also highlights an effective approach to human needs at the spiritual level, so as to promote mankind's all-around development and better match individual and societal values.

Fourth, Chinese-style modernization is aimed at promoting world peace and common development. It follows the path of peaceful development, the core idea of which is to accomplish self-development through preserving world peace and development, while at the same time better preserving world peace and development with its own development.This completely forsakes the old paths of traditional major powers achieving modernization by means of war, colonization and looting and provides clear answers to the two significant questions of global concern: How China will achieve development and what China will do after achieving development. Therefore, peace, development and win-win cooperation are the essential characteristics of Chinese-style modernization.

Chinese-style modernization is ongoing, which means it will be enriched and improved by continuous exploration and turned into reality in innovative practice. It is one of various roads to modernization, having clear Chinese characteristics, but it has also provided new ideas, directions and methods that developing countries can use to accomplish modernization.Therefore, to understand Chinese-style modernization, one needs to realize that it's a kind of developing theory and practice. It has both universal value and special significance. And it presents developing nations with a meaningful reference, rather than a rigid template.