国际智库中心博享沙龙系列

Global Think Tank Center Academic Activities

复旦发展研究院海外访问学者讲座系列100期

FDDI Overseas Visiting Scholar Seminar (100)

The Economic System of the New Democracy: 

The Place of the National Bourgeoisie in the Construction of Chinese Market Socialism and its Lessons for Africa

新式民主的经济体系：

中产阶级在中国特色社会主义市场中的作用及其对非洲的启示

复旦发展研究院

Fudan Development Institute

2025.11.18 9:30-11:00 

 9:30-11:00 am, November 18th, 2025

We propose to examine the key role of the national bourgeoisie in the prodigious economic rise of contemporary China, that of the new democracy, and the potential significance of such an involvement for Africa today confronted with neoliberal Structural Adjustment Programs. As the driving force of national development, we will deal with the question of the national bourgeoisie in the light not only of Mao Zedong Thought, but also of Deng Xiaoping's Theory and Xi Jinping's Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics of the New Era. This treatment of the case of the Chinese case will call for substantial remarks on national development in Africa, a continent in which liberal and socialist options have clashed, with, in the case of socialism, a fundamental schism between African socialism and scientific socialism. As the new centre of global historical development, the Global South presents itself as the resolution of this contradiction by reviving the spirit of Bandung, the cornerstone of Afro-Asian solidarity recently taken up by the Chinese proposal for a joint modernization of China and Africa.