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Changes unseen in a century

"Great changes unseen in a century" have frequently become a buzzword in recent years, and seeing this naturally reminds people of "great changes unseen in a thousand years". What happened to hundreds of thousands of years?

This millennium was proposed by Li Hongzhang. Jiang Tingfu gave a very high evaluation to this formulation. He believed that it was a sentence of the 19th century when the Chinese opened their eyes to see the world, "with the highest vision and the farthest vision". In Liang Qichao's "Li Hongzhang Biography", there are two related sentences mentioned:

"My minister steals from the European countries. In the past 100 years, from India to the South Seas, from the South Seas to China, they have intruded into the border hinterland. Everything that has not been recorded in the history of the past, and the ancient times have been unreachable. This is a great change for more than 3,000 years.” - Reconsideration in May of the 11th year of Tongzhi Manufacture of ships can not be abolished

"In the past dynasties, Bibian was mostly in the northwest. Its strength and weakness, the shape of the host and the guest, are all suitable for each other, and there is still a boundary between China and foreign countries. Today, there are more than 10,000 miles of sea and border in the southeast. In the name of reconciliation, Yang entrusts the reconciliation, and the yin is devouring the plan. One country creates trouble, and several countries instigate it. This is a change that has not been seen in thousands of years!" ----The Taiwan Incident in the first year of Guangxu planned the coastal defense collapse

The economic foundation has changed dramatically: For thousands of years, China has basically been a traditional agricultural society. Now, facing the impact of the industrial society, the entire economic foundation is facing a complete subversion.

Great changes in political structure: The heavenly kingdom, which was originally served by all nations, has become the sick man of East Asia who was beaten and ridiculed by others. The original political ideology and related policies are completely out of line with the current situation. The complete subversion of the highly centralized power of the monarchy by the constitutional monarchy.

Great changes in ideology and knowledge: In traditional Chinese society, the knowledge structure is dominated by moral articles and economics, economics and people's culture, and the natural sciences are mainly based on practical technology. Science, engineering, economics, biology, and medicine in the modern sense are completely absent. But now suddenly these knowledges, which were almost non-existent in the past, have become the most useful and mainstream ones in the world, and the original knowledge structure and academic thinking will have to undergo large-scale changes.

Great changes in moral beliefs: The strong impact of the West has greatly subverted the original self-confidence values of the barbarian Western values that were originally despised. Next, how to absorb Western concepts, how to transform one's original values, and what problems may arise during the transformation process? Nobody knows.

In short, the three views are broken, and the entire society is facing complete changes in all directions. And this change, almost can not find any experience in history. This is also the "big change that has not been seen in thousands of years" that Li Hongzhang recognized but was quite helpless, and that more Chinese people did not even recognize at that time.

Since the Opium War in 1840, the violent collision between the East and the West, whether in political economy, ideology and morality, military education, medical technology and other social aspects, the impact and changes of the West on us are extremely far-reaching and huge.

Recently, in addition to the changes in domestic and foreign epidemic data and the performance of the West in responding to the epidemic, the most frequently heard sentence is the "big change unseen in a century" proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping. This is not simple official propaganda, this is what is happening right now, the pattern of the world is ushering in a new round of reshuffle, and we have caught up with this great era.

In today's world, there are many conflicts, hot issues keep emerging one after another, and new phenomena and new problems are emerging one after another. On the one hand, undercurrents of thought such as marketization, capitalization, democratization, self-media, and anti-globalization are surging; "The increase in instability and uncertainties certainly means greater risks and challenges, but it also means the emergence of world development. New trends and new opportunities." Between countries, there is competition in contact, cooperation in competition, and confrontation in cooperation. These new changes have never been experienced or imagined by people in the past hundred or even hundreds of years. At present, China is in the best period of development since modern times, and the world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century. Since then, Chinese leaders have repeatedly emphasized the "great changes unseen in a century" in some important meetings and important occasions. Pattern trends and trends.

The scientific assertion of "great changes unseen in a century" implies at least three meanings: first, the current domestic situation and international environment have never been experienced or encountered by China in a century; second, the current changes are It is a "great change" with extensive content, great significance and far-reaching impact; third, the current reform places China and the world in the same frame, and all countries are equal in the face of opportunities and challenges. Undoubtedly, from the economy to politics, from culture to science and technology, from information to technology, from concept to system, from domestic to international, this great change covers a wide range and has a profound impact, which is unprecedented.

In recent years, especially since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, the conflict between China and the United States has intensified, and it has expanded to confrontation with the "Five Eyes Alliance", the European Union, Japan, and India. The Chinese Exclusion Act, repealed in 1943 and apologised in 2012, the 90-year history of Chinese exclusion in Australia, and the "yellow peril theory" that was rampant in the 19th century in the West. Corresponding to the current attitudes of the United States and Europe towards Taiwan independence, Xinjiang independence, Tibetan independence, Hong Kong independence, and human rights, it is not difficult to see that the essence of the dispute between the East and the West is a cultural dispute and a conflict of values. It is a competition of attitudes and methods for living and developing space resources.

Under the great changes unseen in a century, there are uncertainties unseen in a century and opportunities unseen in a century. Standing at the juncture of the new era, how to choose how to act is related to the national destiny and the future.

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