作者：国防大学教授、博士生导师 公方彬
十八大以来的四年间，中国正在发生且继续发生着三大变化，又是这三大变化，影响和决定着党、国家、民族，以至我们每个人的未来。
第一、党内政治生态发生变化
在过去很长时间里，全党乃至社会一再诟病，党内出现信仰失重、行为失规、道德失范、心理失衡。表现出来的就是权力寻租比比皆是，包括周永康、郭伯雄、徐才厚这些身处高位的高级领导干部走向堕落。
十八大后，以最高领袖同志为核心的党中央从严治党，采取“定规矩，惩奸恶，扬正气”。或者说，“上树信仰、中立价值坐标、下划红线”，已经和继续改变着党内政治生态，因此改变着党的走向。
The change of political ecology is the most fundamental change. Only by ecological optimization can we jump out of the historical cycle, such as avoiding anti-corruption becoming "cutting leeks". Judging from the situation of inner-party construction, positive energy is rapidly condensed. While "dare not rot" has become a reality, the system of ensuring "can’t rot" has been continuously improved and promoted, and the spirit and value pursuit of supporting "don’t want to rot" has begun to be endogenous. It is thus asserted that the "turning point" of the inner-party political ecology has arrived.
Of course, the significance and value of the formation of a new political ecology are by no means limited to anti-corruption. The key is that the mentality, value orientation and behavior of party member cadres, especially senior leading cadres, have changed. Bad political ecology will make the members of the group move in the direction of their own interests, while ignoring or even damaging the interests of the party and the people. A good political ecology is the opposite.
It is certain that as long as we persist in the "Do not forget your initiative mind", especially fully implement the "initial intention" in the actions of every leading cadre in party member, especially in party member, the party’s ruling ability will be continuously strengthened, and party building will enter a new virtuous circle.
Second, the social and humanistic ecology has changed.
The party style determines the political style, which in turn affects the folk customs. Because of the change of political ecology, it has more and more profound influence and even changed the social humanistic ecology. However, the change of humanistic ecology must be counter to political ecology, and the two are mutual motivations and complement each other.
What elements are contained in the improved or changing humanistic ecology? Including: reconstruction of spiritual world, adjustment of value pursuit, determination of interpersonal relationship and social relationship. These elements are fundamental because they lay the cultural foundation of a nation and constitute the humanistic character of a nation. Therefore, the change of humanistic ecology is destined to profoundly influence and even determine the dynamic foundation and direction of the Chinese nation.
It can be seen from the change of the concept of "official standard" that the humanistic ecology has changed and is changing. China’s dynasties have never really solved the problem of power corruption, which is rooted in the failure to solve the "metaphysics" of officials, that is, the spiritual world and value pursuit that have not provided the basis of modern political views. Since "learning to be excellent is to be an official", "being an official for food and clothing", and "being an official with one person makes a chicken and a dog ascend to heaven" … … Then, the hierarchical interest is the power system, even the motive force, of officials and even the whole society.
Successive dynasties have repeatedly strengthened the "official standard" and the phenomenon of "power takes all" has emerged, which has led to tensions within the system, social contradictions and class conflicts, and more fundamentally distorted the public’s pursuit of value. Why is the originality of the clever Chinese nation so weak? It must be related to "power takes all" distorting people’s pursuit of value. Being an official can get everything. How can anyone be addicted to the creation of science and culture? Without the creativity of civilization, it is not impossible for a nation to stand on the commanding heights of human civilization and play a leading role.
In fact, no matter how great a political party or powerful a government is, it is impossible to satisfy people’s excessive desires. Excessive mobilization of people’s desires is bound to be the more fruitful economic achievements, and the more social contradictions and conflicts there are. Without the balance between spirit and matter, people are doomed to be in pain forever and cannot extricate themselves.
The supreme leader guides the society by systematic engineering. He "upholds faith" and emphasizes that "the people have faith, the nation has hope, and the country has strength". This great emphasis on faith is clearly reflected in the speech commemorating the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Party, the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Long March and the spirit of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee. He regulated the power boundary and the behavior of officials, and demanded that "the communication between officials and businessmen should be respectful, and there should be no backslapping", and that "if you want to be an official, you should not want to get rich, and if you want to get rich, you should not want to be an official" … … These ideas have been institutionalized, directly affecting the values of officials and even the people, and then forming a new humanistic ecology beyond history.
We have seen that a large number of officials who come for profit are squeezing out the "officialdom". When officials generally establish a new value system, the officialdom ecology is purified, the social and humanistic ecology is improved, China’s science and technology are prosperous, and the sound economic development has a solid foundation, and the Chinese nation has the ability to lead the world.
Third, the ecology of China’s participation in the world is changing.
China used to be a big country, but it has been far away from the center of the world for nearly a hundred years. The Opium War was the turning point. Since then, it has gone from bad to worse, and over time it has created a "weak country mentality" and behavior style, which is sometimes incompatible with the world. This is actually the international ecology in which we live.
If we distinguish the international ecology we live in, there have been three states in the century and a half since 1840: from Lin Zexu, the first person who opened his eyes to see the world, to the founding of New China, the world in Chinese’s eyes is vague, and the number of people who really have the world height, world vision and world mind is extremely limited. Even Lin Zexu, at that time, thought that the legs of the British army would not bend, and they could not get up as long as they were knocked down with bamboo poles. He even asked the officers and men to prepare a large number of filthy things to deal with the British gun attack.
After the founding of New China, China had "two bombs and one satellite" and won the war to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea. These achievements gave Chinese a rare self-confidence, which, to a certain extent, made a nation who had been kneeling for a long time straighten up. Of course, because we still lack a real understanding of the world and international thinking, we still took a detour. For example, during the period of participating in the international communist movement, there were ideals higher than reality, passions more than rationality, and they still tried to save the "people of the world in dire straits" when they could not eat. Revolutionary enthusiasm with a serious ignorance of the world is doomed to be a tragedy.
Before the 18th National Congress of China’s Reform and Opening-up, China, which was led by Deng Xiaoping and continued the Deng Xiaoping route, began to break its closed door, more people went abroad, and began to understand that "the world used to be like this". Because they knew the world, they caught up and finally achieved the development achievements of the world’s second largest economy. To sum up, Deng Xiaoping’s reform and opening up is to let people know about the world and try to shorten the gap between advanced countries. The participation of countries and people in the world at this stage is passive and limited.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the supreme leader has led the new central collective leadership, which has not only put forward the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, but also been accompanied by a series of measures, including the Belt and Road Initiative and the AIIB, as well as the "China Plan" put forward at the G20 meeting. Goals and behaviors, or China, who participates in the formulation of world rules, take the people of the whole country as the main body. Since they are the main body, they must think independently, and they must make their own judgments by observing the world. In the long run, it will certainly create mature nationals of big countries, and then let the Chinese nation have the ability to lead human civilization forward.
This is the root of China’s rise as a great power.