Social Sciences in China (Chinese Edition)

No. 9, 2022

 

The Construction of China’s Modern State System and Its Governance Effectiveness: A Perspective Based on the Convergence and Realization of the State Will

(Abstract)

 

He Xianming

 

The construction of a modern state is an important starting point for the large-scale modernization of late-comer societies. The effectiveness of the modernization-oriented state will is an important indicator of the success of modern state building by later-comers. The modern state formed under the leadership of the Communist Party of China in response to the trend of human civilization and in accordance with China’s national conditions is a set of creative institutional choices that includes the centralized and unified leadership system of the Party, a democratic and centralized system of state governance, the national integration of a mobilized society, and the state system of pooling all resources to accomplish major tasks, representing a strongly effective aggregation and realization of the state will. This system of state governance, which balances formal and substantive rationality, successfully resolved the problem of the ungovernability of early modern China and many developing countries, and provides a strong institutional guarantee for the great rejuvenation of the nation, forming an important part of the road to Chinese-style modernization.