Chinese Characteristics Of State-owned Enterprises Pushing Forward The Construction Of Social Modernization

Modernity research has fully testified that modernity and modernization issues all originated from the early stage of industrialization and climaxed in the middle and end of industrialization. Chinese and foreign histories have proved that various social problems seemed to be stemmed from urbanization, while in essence they rooted in enterprises. On February 19,2011, Hu Jintao clearly pointed out at the opening ceremony of Social Management & Innovation Seminar of Government Officials of Provincial and Ministerial Level that "we shall further enhance and improve social management structure, strengthen the leadership of party, intensify the social management functions of the government, improve social management and service functions of various enterprises and public institutions, guide various social organizations to strengthen themselves and their ability in serving the society, support social groups to take part in social management and public service, and engage the people into social management so as to give play to their basic functions." However, there are a variety of different interpretation of the concept of social modernization in the academic circle, which is not familiar with the relations between enterprises and social modernization and ignores the position of and the role played by state-owned enterprises during the process of social modernization.With the clue of nationalization-led industrialization and industrialization-led urbanization in China, this thesis studies the relationship between the development of Chinese state-owned enterprises with social construction and social modernization, with a focus on the state-owned enterprises pushing forward the social modernization process under the background with Chinese characteristics, including the responsibility and approach for the state-owned enterprises to push forward the social modernization. The thesis is composed of 6 chapters. In Chapter I with application of the Marxism movement law of human society conflicts, the theories and concepts related to social modernization as well as the influence of modernity contradiction to the social modernization is differentiated and analyzed, and the Chinese characteristics of social modernization is analyzed in depth, as a result the question why the social modernization in China must adopt the construction mode having the Chinese Communist Party for leadership, the government for governance and the state-owned enterprises for mainstay is answered in a theoretic way. Chapter II puts forward the thinking of state-owned enterprises as the mainstay of social modernization with Chinese characteristics, elaborating the five reasons for state-owned enterprises to enter social construction domain and the five values of state-owned enterprises for social construction. Chapter III analyzes the ideological conflict on "corporate social responsibility" between China and western countries, proposes a brand-new Chinese corporate social responsibility concept, and proposes the basic framework of Chinese corporate social responsibility theory,and brings forth the three important responsibilities of the state-owned enterprises in pushing forward the social modernization construction. From the perspective of taking part in social modernization with Chinese characteristics, Chapter IV dwells on the political advantage of state-owned enterprises'party organizations in social construction. Chapter V puts forward paths for state-owned enterprises to push forward social modernization with Chinese characteristics. In detail, it includes five key paths and five specific paths, proving that state-owned enterprises'taking responsibility in social construction is the inevitable choice for social modernization with Chinese characteristics. Chapter VI presents the practice made by Hudong-Zhonghua Company and Hudong Community in jointly pushing forward the construction of social modernization, and conducted theoretic and case studies on the mode of state-owned enterprises'participation in the community construction with Chinese characteristics.Among the interaction of government, society and state-owned enterprises, the leadership of CPC is a core factor. Party organization of state-owned enterprises is the key link for the CPC's leadership of state-owned enterprises'pushing forward of social construction. Maintain social stability and promote social development are the historical missions of state-owned enterprises. To achieve the highest stage of social modernization—complete freedom of human being, state-owned enterprises'development and driving force are indispensible. China's socialism construction has its historical experience in industrialization-led urbanization. It absolutely can create a new experience in the synchronized development of state-owned enterprises and urban society.