People’s Republic of China, Confucius, Communist Party of China: To the peculiarities of development

In modern conditions, it is impossible to talk about the current picture of international relations if there is no talk about the People’s Republic of China. It has become customary today to hear about China as the “second economy of the world”, an influential force in the political arena. If such rates of economic development of the PRC look so striking against the background of characteristic trends of slowing down the growth of general indicators in most countries of the planet, only one question arises against this background. How to deal with the thesis, which has become so traditional in liberal ideology, about the incompatibility of conditions for accelerated economic development and the existence of a “leading and guiding role” of the Communist Party in any country? It can be said that China is more cautious about the events of the past. It should be noted that researchers of the past note a curious phenomenon: the Chinese themselves insist that, unlike the rest of mankind, they do not come from the African continent, but represent an independent branch of an earlier stage in the evolution of anthropoid apes, the remains of which were found in China, – Homo erectus. Despite the fact that most historians in the world accept such statements with a smile, individual interpretations of the past make it possible to lean towards a peculiar perception of the past. The reasons explaining the restrained attitude to power and the negative manifestations of the past, of course, include the spread in China two and a half thousand years ago of a unique philosophical doctrine, called Confucianism. The core concept of Master Kun was the thesis: “a noble ruler gives rise to noble people”. Thus, a chain of obligations and mutual services arises. The leadership of the Communist Party of China pays special attention to the need for maximum attention to the traditions of the past, when the cultural values that have developed in the course of history serve as a nourishing source that nourishes socialist values. Such a narrative of continuity between the spiritual and value orientations of the past and the present is accompanied by the proclamation of the foundations of Confucian morality as the fundamental principles of the “socialist code”.