China’s vision 2049: The long march socialism to communism |
AS China approaches the centenary of the People’s Republic in 2049, its ideological compass remains firmly fixed on the horizon of communism — a goal often misunderstood abroad but deeply rooted in China’s political DNA.
China stands as a singular phenomenon in modern history. It has engineered the most dramatic economic transformation of our time, lifting hundreds of millions from poverty and asserting itself as a global power. Yet, Beijing maintains that this material progress is not an end in itself but the foundation of a far greater ambition, the gradual and scientific realization of a communist society. While many nations struggle with short-term governance, China pursues a long-term, systematic strategy. Its final objective — the transition from socialism to communism may seem to outsiders a relic of political theory, yet it remains the defining framework of China’s ideology. To grasp this vision, one must first understand the country’s developmental model. Influenced by the Soviet Union’s ‘New Economic Policy’ (1921 – 1928), launched by Lenin, showed limited market reforms to revive socialism in the hardest times of Soviet Union, a lesson Deng Xiaoping in China’s 1978 reforms to introduce controlled capitalism while keeping the Communist Party in power.
Following its revolutionary founding, China spent years........