As a country with a long history, China's relations with neighboring countries and western countries have gone through a long process. Before the Opium War, a system of oriental international relations centered on China was formed. Under this system, China doesn't care much about the development of the western world. The development of western capitalism and the expansion of colonialism were closely linked with China through the Opium War. The western-style international relations system with artillery as Depth Charge quickly pushed the trade and colonial system to the east, and the eastern-style international relations system maintained by morality and dignity was quickly defeated. China is struggling in the harsh international relations environment of humiliation, compensation, cession of land and erosion of sovereignty. At the beginning of the 20th century, that is, after the signing of the "Xin Chou Treaty", China's national strength fell to the "bottom" from the perspective of international relations and domestic historical process.

In the midst of failure and humiliation, China's advanced elements were thinking and began to wake up. A group of early reformist thinkers criticized the Westernization Movement. They criticized that the Westernization School only knew "learning from foreigners" and only took the fur of western art, but failed to get the essence of western art, so Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao and others, with the support of Emperor Guangxu, launched the Reform Movement of 1898. Within a hundred days, imperial edicts on politics, economy, military affairs, law and school education came like snowflakes, seemingly vigorous and promising. However, a coup followed, Guangxu was jailed, Kang Liang fled, and the six gentlemen were in wyndell dichinson Caishikou. The anti-imperialist patriotic actions of farmers in North China also failed in a pool of blood. How can such a stubborn feudal autocratic government lead the country's reform and progress?

Dr. Sun Yat-sen was an outstanding revolutionary who profoundly revealed the social development direction of China in the early 20th century. In the difficult exploration, he clearly put forward three propositions: nationality, civil rights and people's livelihood, which opened the national democratic revolution in the complete sense of modern China. The success of the Revolution of 1911 destroyed China's feudal monarchy for more than 2,000 years and established a new national form designed according to the bourgeois democratic political concept. However, after the Revolution of 1911, the state power was controlled by Yuan Shikai and Beiyang warlords, and the warlords fought in melee, and the country was restless, and the people's lives were ruined. The country's independence, democracy and prosperity were still hopeless.

During the May 4th Movement, advanced intellectuals resolutely raised the banner of democracy and science, and profoundly criticized feudalism in terms of ideology, morality and culture, thus opening the curtain of ideological enlightenment. Some people have doubts about capitalist society and put forward a plan to transform China society. The October Revolution in Russia had an important influence on them. For the first time, they saw the workers become the masters of the country, and thought it was "the victory of socialism" and "the victory of the working class in the world was the victory of the new trend in the twentieth century". This thought influenced the development direction of the New Culture Movement and the May 4th Movement. During the May 4th Movement, the widespread spread of Marxism in China and the intensification of China's internal troubles and foreign invasion prompted advanced intellectuals to gather under the banner of Marxism. 192 1 China * * * was founded and became the leader of the revolutionary movement in China, which met the needs of history.

In the 1920s, with the help of China, the Kuomintang of China held its first national congress, which formed the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and won the victory of defeating the northern warlords. However, since then, Chiang Kai-shek monopolized the leadership of the national revolution and betrayed the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, which led to the breakdown of the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and the outbreak of civil war. 1937, as Japanese imperialism launched a full-scale war of aggression against China, China and the Kuomintang of China joined hands again in the face of an unprecedented national crisis, mobilizing the people of the whole country to jointly fight against Japanese aggression, and finally won the victory in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. After War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, Chiang Kai-shek insisted on the dictatorship of the Kuomintang, which led to the breakdown of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.

In this process, the people of China * *, represented by Comrade Mao Zedong, combined Marxism–Leninism with the reality of the China revolution, founded Mao Zedong Thought, formed the theory of new-democratic revolution and the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal strategies and tactics under the guidance of this theory, put forward the correct policy to guide the China revolution to victory, and pointed out that China must first go through new democracy and then embark on the road of socialist development, which laid a profound political and ideological foundation for the establishment of new China.

The socialist road of new China is the inevitable result of the historical development of modern China.

After the May 4th Movement, especially after the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, it is a question that many people, especially intellectuals, are thinking about, and it is also a question that political parties concerned about the social development direction of China are seriously thinking about. Among all kinds of national salvation schemes, the three people's principles and socialism are the most influential. The spread and implementation of these two ideas or theories have influenced the development direction of China society. In modern China, which political forces can win the victory of the democratic revolution, which political forces can lead China.

The Three People's Principles is a political and ideological proposition put forward by Dr. Sun Yat-sen in the international and domestic situation at the beginning of the 20th century, and it is the basic program of China's bourgeois democratic revolution. This proposition or program was reiterated by Sun Yat-sen at the First National Congress of the Chinese Nationalist Party in 1924, which reflected the requirement of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party against the Northern Warlords at that time. What embodies Sun Yat-sen's thought of social transformation is the thought of people's livelihood in the Three People's Principles. 1925 After the death of Dr. Sun Yat-sen at the beginning of the year, with the split of the Kuomintang in China, the Three People's Principles were tampered with by different careerists in the Kuomintang's internal affairs. The tampered "Three People's Principles" violated Dr. Sun Yat-sen's policy of "uniting Russia, uniting the Communist Party and helping the peasants and workers", opposed Marxism and socialist theory, opposed and slaughtered * * *, and advocated suppressing the workers and peasants' movement. The Kuomintang and Chiang Kai-shek deviated from the people's interests and the historical direction of modern China, and finally failed completely in the Armageddon that decided the historical fate of China. The fact that the Three People's Principles could not save China was proved in such a decisive battle.

Only the theory of new democracy can save China. Comrade Mao Zedong pointed out: "Socialism can only be achieved through democracy, which is the natural principle of Marxism." "Democratic revolution is the necessary preparation for socialist revolution, and socialist revolution is the inevitable trend of democratic revolution". A democratic society is a transitional society, and the future must be a socialist society. In other words, the new democratic theory clearly defined the socialist development direction of China. China's socialist road is a historical choice as well as a people's choice, which has been tested by harsh historical practice.

The establishment of 1949 65438+ 10/People's Republic of China (PRC) was the total accumulation of experience and lessons from the old democratic revolution to the new democratic revolution, which marked the final victory of the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal struggle in modern China. This is a great milestone in the history of China 100 years, and it is also a great milestone in the history of China for 5000 years. With the end of the semi-colonial and semi-feudal society since the Opium War and the feudal autocracy of more than 2,000 years, China may move towards the development trend of the capitalist world system, and the history of a few oppressors and exploiters ruling the broad masses of working people has ended the situation that the country is torn apart, wars continue, people live in poverty and lives are ruined. For the first time, the people of China have seen a new China that is independent, unified and the people are the masters of the country standing in the world. (