BEIJING, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- The world urgently calls for the emergence of a new form of civilization, as the civilizational development paradigm formed since the Industrial Revolution is hard put to meet the new requirements for human survival and development in the 21st century, a think tank report said on Saturday.
The report, titled "Theory on the Development of Civilizations -- Building a New Vision of Civilizations with Development at the Core," was released by Xinhua Institute, a national high-level think tank of Xinhua News Agency.
The theory on the development of civilizations is a new civilizational perspective that centers on the right to development, has its roots in the genetic foundation of Chinese civilization, and relies on practices of the Chinese path to modernization, the report said.
The theory represents a systematic transcendence of the Western modernization paradigm, the report noted, adding that China completed a century-long Western industrialization process in just several decades and the scale of its digital economy has jumped to rank second globally -- a convincing testimony that developing countries can overtake on a bend by leveraging the "late-mover advantage."
The report emphasized that the theory is a reconstructive force in the global civilizational order. Replacing hegemonic logic with cooperation on the right to development, it promotes the transition of the international order from "zero-sum game" to "symbiotic win-win" through practices under the Belt and Road Initiative, Global Security Initiative, Global Development Initiative, Global Civilization Initiative, and Global Governance Initiative, among others.
China's 30-percent rate of average annual contribution to global economic growth and the participation of over 150 countries in Belt and Road cooperation provide evidence of the strong vitality of the cooperation based on the right to development, according to the report. ■
