(1) The modern history of China is a historical era in which the people of China stood on their own feet among the nations of the world and changed from a weak country that was invaded and enslaved to a powerful country that played an important role in the world political arena.
(2) The modern history of China is the exploration history of China's socialist revolution and socialist construction;
From the perspective of exploration
1, from the exploration direction: it is a continuation of modern western learning and has the characteristics of imitation: before the 1980 s, it imitated the highly centralized political and economic system of the Soviet Union, both politically and economically; Since the reform and opening up, it has imitated the western management model and management experience.
From the process of exploration
2. From the course of exploration, it has the characteristics of stumbling: before the reform and opening up, the process of revolution and construction was either rashly divorced from reality, or interrupted from time to time because of left-leaning mistakes, which wrongly shifted the focus of work and made economic construction from rashness to interruption. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, it was formalized and always centered on economic construction.
Judging from the content of exploration
3. From the content of exploration, it has the characteristics of originality and continuity: the three major transformations realize the transition to socialism in a peaceful way; Adhere to and expand the United front and develop it into a new stage of patriotic United front; The concept of "one country, two systems" has created conditions for the reunification of the motherland; The reform and opening up has made China's economy develop rapidly, forming a socialist road and theory with China characteristics; From highly centralized planned economy to the combination of planning and market, and then to the establishment of socialist market economy.