| The current Chinese Constitution provides a solid constitutional ground, an integrated constitutional norm system, and a comprehensive constitutional guarantee mechanism for promoting the Chinese modernization. In the meanwhile, the modernization discourse permeates the historical process of making, amending, and implementing the Chinese Constitution, evidenced by the inclusion into the Constitution of the “Socialist Industrialization” and the “Four Modernizations” (the modernization of industry, agriculture, national defense, and science and technology) in the early days of the People’s Republic of China, and the “Socialist Modernization” as the fundamental task of the state after the reform and opening up, as well as the formation of the constitutional norm system centering on building a “Great Modern Socialist Country”. The historical narrative and the expression of the state goals and objectives in the Preamble of the Constitution define the normative context of the Chinese path to modernization. The norms of basic state policy, fundamental rights, state institution system, etc. stipulated in the main body of the Constitution provide a normative basis for ensuring the advancement of Chinese modernization. Comprehensive implementation of the Constitution is not only a necessity but also an effective safeguard for the Chinese modernization. In order to give better play to the regulatory and safeguarding role of the Constitution in achieving the Chinese modernization, it is necessary to take the text of the Constitution seriously, apply the methods of constitutional interpretation systematically, concentrate on the basic categories and concepts of the constitution, and construct a historically aware and modernization-oriented theoretical system of the Chinese Constitution. |
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