The development of Chinese modernization has gone through four stages: clearing obstacles in the revolutionary period

early exploration in the construction period

initial establishment in the reform period and promotion and expansion in the New Era. Among them

Mao Zedong led the clearing of two obstacles in the revolutionary period and the early exploration of Chinese modernization in the construction period

and was explorer

pioneer and founder of the Chinese modernization path

theory and cause. All through his life

he was concerned about the fate of the people of China and the Chinese nation

and devoted himself to the two historical tasks of striving for national independence and people's liberation and realizing the prosperity of the country and the people

and to realizing the historical cause of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. He advocated "going our own way"

opposed copying old-style democratic revolution or the Soviet revolutionary model without considering China’s national conditions

and opposed copying Western modernization or Soviet planned economy model without considering China's national conditions. During the revolutionary period

he advocated the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal new-democratic revolution to remove the two major obstacles to modernization and liberate the productive forces with revolution. In the early days of the People’s Republic of China

he advocated promoting national industrialization with the three major socialist transformations and promoting productivity with revolution. In his later years

he was troubled by the relationship between revolution and construction

and unrealistically expected to "boost revolution to promote production"

which led to serious mistakes. His understanding of the connotation of Chinese modernization had gone through "national industrialization"

to "modern industry and modern agriculture"

then to "modern industry

modern agriculture and modern science and culture"

and finally

to the four modernizations. He had a preliminary understanding and exploration of the five distinctive features of Chinese modernization summarized by Report to the 20

th

CPC National Congress

including "modernization with large-scale population"

"modernization with common prosperity for all people"

"modernization with harmonious coexistence between material civilization and spiritual civilization"

"modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature" and "modernization of peaceful development" .