本书从世界视野和人类发展总体进程，论述了中国共产党开创的中国道路的先进性；从社会主义民主政治、社会主义市场经济、人民社会建设、社会主义新文化四个角度，清晰概括了中国道路的丰富内涵；以慷慨苍劲的史诗叙述，礼赞了中国共产党90年光辉征程，正面回答了国内外思想界和理论界争论和关心的一系列重大问题。

In the cruel struggle of China for getting rid of the miserable semicolony fate, the Communist Party of China (CPC) smashed the most powerful and atrocious imperialist forces in the world. Owen Lattimore said that “The Communist Party of China, taking Japanese and American armies as knife grinder, has forged a brand-new art of people’s war and opened a new chapter in the human war history”.

At the beginning of the 20th century, countries having “exterritoriality” in China included Brazil, Peru and Bolivia, apart from the so-called “Eight-Power Allied Forces”; in the early days of the founding of New China, it was one of the most impoverished and backward countries in the world (ranking 134th in the world concerning GDP per capita), the infant mortality was as high as 200‰, the average lifespan was approximately 35 years old, and the adult illiteracy rate reached up to 80%; in the early 1950s immediately after the CPC took over China, the industrial capacity of this country was less than half of that of Belgium, a small country in Europe.

Today, China has become the second economy in the world, and its economic aggregate in real terms will surpass that of the U.S. in 2016, making it the largest economic power around the world. 
Even those who continually accuse the CPC of “tyranny” are actually beneficiaries of the achievements made by the CPC through the struggle over 90 years, but such people, while enjoying the permanent peace and sustainable development, ingloriously make use of the peace and development created with the blood of thousands on thousands of the Chinese Communists and also the humility and modesty of the Chinese Communists.

It is an unrealistic hope that the CPC, consisting of more than 70 million members, maintains 100% purity; nevertheless, everyone holding no prejudice has to admit that the most excellent members of the Chinese nation are centralized in the CPC, right under the sickle-axe flag of the Party.

Although the CPC repeatedly emphasizes that its struggle progress is the history of never uncompromising fighting against its own mistakes and errors, as well as opportunists and corruption forces sneaking into the Party, and, instead of concealing mistakes it has made, declares that it will assume responsibility for the mistakes all the time and always take warning from them, the fact is that the CPC is the creator of the greatest miracles in man’s world in the 20th century, and these miracles were all created in the historical impasses making them “almost impossible”.

As said by Maurice Meisner, in that age when “power is right”, the CPC was confronted with opponents a hundred times stronger than it, whereas what it defeated were exactly such opponents; throughout the most progress of the People’s Republic of China, what the CPC had faced was the worst international quarantine, nevertheless, China was the country achieving the rapidest modernization around the world during 26 years from 1952 to 1978, with national income (calculated at constant price) increased by 4 times; from 1952 to 1972, its economic growth rate every decade reached 64.5%, vastly exceeding the growth rates of Germany, Japan and the Soviet Union, respectively, at their development peaks. 

It is revealed by the study of famous Indian economist Amartya Sen that the international quarantine and pressure experienced by New China was much greater than that encountered by India, which was founded as an independent country almost at the same time, but it was exactly such a complex and dangerous situation that built up the CPC’s more tenacious viability and capabilities to tackle the crises and overcome difficulties. In the time period mentioned above (1952 – 1978), the dead population of China was 100 million less than that of India, which, however, was just one of the many miracles created by the CPC.

Ray Huang, a his

Table of Contents

Part One The Strong Pass as A Wall of Iron
Introduction The Creation of the New World
The Chinese Communists always disdain to conceal their own opinions.
I Developing and Surpassing Traditional Civilization of China
Why China Fell Behind
Transformation at Basic Level
Complete Liberation of the People
Reform and Great Harmony
Revitalization of Military Virtue
II Developing and Surpassing Marxist Theory
Philosophy as a Weapon: “On Practice” and “On Contradiction”
Surpassing Marx’s Class Theory and Democratic Revolution Theory
Surpassing Soviet Socialist Road
Breaking and Surpassing Global Capitalism with “Socialist Market Economy”
III. Surpassing Western Development Path
China’s Path and World History
Tang-Song Transformation: the First Great Modern Transformation of Human Beings
Rise of the West: the Second Great Transformation of Human Beings
Rise of Socialism: the Third Great Transformation of Human Beings
Part Two Crossing the Summit with Firm Strides
Introduction Communist Party • New China
I Great Strategic Transition 201
“12th Five-Year Plan” • Great Transition
Old Development Mode Difficult to Sustain
Carving out a Way of Scientific Development
Fundamental Strategic Goal
Basic Characteristics of China’s Path
Institutional Advantage of ChinaA Long Way for Scientific Development to Go
II Democratic Path of China
The Myth of “Regime”
Investigation on “Oriental Despotism”
“Political Principle” and “Regime”
“Mass Line” and “Participating Democracy”
Selection and Election
Surpassing “Universal Value”
III Building a People’s Society
Surpassing “Market-oriented Society”
Surpassing Civil Society
Rebuilding People’s Society
Appendices
Postscript

胡鞍钢，清华大学国情研究中心主任、著名经济学家、中国国情研究的开拓者与领军人物，研究成果对国家高层决策产生持续的重要影响。
王绍光，香港中文大学政治与公共行政系教授、系主任，清华大学长江讲座教授，著名政治学家，开创政治学本土化道路的先行者。
周建明，上海社会科学院社会发展研究院院长、社会学研究所所长。
韩毓海，北京大学中文系教授，在思想文化界影响广泛的著名学者。代表作《五百年来谁著史》列2010年全国优秀畅销书排行榜•总榜第一名，书中的创新成果获得从党政领导、学术界到普通读者的强烈共鸣。