Abstract:

Since the beginning of the new era, China has comprehensively built a moderately prosperous society, successfully embarked on a new journey of fully building a modern socialist country, formulated new "two-step" strategic goals, and created a distinctive new theoretical paradigm of "parallel modernization" through its new practice of Chinese-style modernization. The formation of this major theoretical system has enabled the academic community to gradually break free from the shackles of Westernization, constructing an independent knowledge system for the theory of China's social development around core issues such as social structural transformation, social governance innovation, social mentality adjustment, social security improvement, and cultural change adaptation. "Parallel modernization" provides theoretical support and practical reference for understanding the laws of China's social development and solving the modernization challenges faced by developing countries.

Key words: parallel modernization, social development, sociology of development, indigenized theory