中國式現代化是中國在實現現代化進程中的路徑探索、實踐創新、經驗總結與理論創造。中共二十大報告提出“以中國式現代化全面推進中華民族偉大復興”。作為世界上最大的發展中國家，中國式現代化具有重要的世界意義，主要體現在以下四個方面：

一是中國式現代化強調各國要立足於本國國情探索適合本國發展的現代化道路。現代化是發展中國家追求的共同目標，如何有效實現現代化成為諸多發展中國家面臨的重大課題。中國式現代化結合自身發展經歷得出了一個重要啟示，即各國需要將現代化的一般經驗與本國實際相結合，探索出一條適合本國國情的現代化發展道路。若將某種現代化路徑說成是放之四海而皆準的現代化模式，其推進結果往往並不理想。二戰後諸多發展中國家在實現現代化過程中屢屢受挫，其主要原因即在於此。中國式現代化破除了對所謂現代化道路“唯一論”的迷思，是一場影響深刻的思想解放。

二是中國式現代化側重於高質量發展。現代化離不開工業化、市場化與全球化，但傳統工業化、市場化與全球化均奉行效率至上原則，高度依賴化石能源，過分突出比較優勢，這可能帶來經濟結構的失衡。一國經濟結構高度依賴於全球勞動分工，將造成本國經濟結構的單一性與畸形性，給本國經濟安全與可持續發展帶來負面影響，貧富差距擴大，資源環境破壞，並最終影響到國際安全、和平與穩定。中國式現代化強調高質量發展，這包括經濟結構的優化升級、增長動能的更新換代、社會分配與保障機制的健全完善以及人與自然的和諧共生，意在促進經濟增長、維護社會公平、保護生態環境等層面一體推進，實現協調、均衡、普惠、可持續發展。

三是中國式現代化立足於人的全面發展。現代化本質上是人的現代化，人既具有生物性特徵，又具有社會性特徵，這決定了人的多樣化需求。現代化促進了生產力的發展，帶來人們物質生活的豐富。然而，這並不意味着他們會生活得更充實、更幸福。滿足人們的物質生活需求僅是人類繁衍生息的基礎，既非全部，亦非主流。一個人要獲得更多的幸福感需要有更高的價值追求。換言之，人類幸福感的獲得主要來自於對人精神層面與價值層面需求的滿足。中國式現代化在促進物質生活豐富的同時強調對精神層面需求的有效供給，以促進人的全面發展與自我價值的更好實現。

四是中國式現代化致力於促進世界和平與共同發展。中國式現代化是堅持走和平發展道路的現代化，其核心要義就是通過在維護世界和平與發展中實現自我發展，同時以自身發展更好地維護世界和平與發展。這徹底擯棄了歷史上傳統大國通過戰爭、殖民、掠奪等方式實現現代化的老路，清晰回答了中國“如何實現發展”及“實現發展之後做什麼”這兩個國際社會高度關注的重大問題。因此，和平、發展、合作、共贏是中國式現代化的本質特徵，也是其最大特色。

中國式現代化是進行時，這意味着它將在不斷探索中豐富完善、在創新實踐中變為現實。中國式現代化是諸多現代化路徑中的一種形態，具有鮮明的中國特色，但它為發展中國家實現現代化提供了新的思路、方向和方法。因而，理解中國式現代化需要認識到它是一種發展着的現代化理論與實踐，是一種既具有普遍性價值又具有特殊性意義的理論與實踐，是一種為發展中國家實現現代化提供借鑒而非照抄照搬意義上的理論與實踐。

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.