Abstract:

The changes in China's politics from ancient to modern have put forward two crucial issues in modern Chinese state building, namely, development and governance. From the development perspective, there was derived the great strategic task of construction of the state planning system. From the governance persepctive, there was derived another great strategic task of construction of the state institutional system. Centering on state development and state governance, the political logics of “seeking modernity through emancipation”“seeking emancipation through development”and “seeking development through governance” have been successively formed in modern Chinese state building, thus different political forms have been generated. These different political forms profoundly determined the implementation of the state planning system and the state institutional system and their relations with each other. From “omnipotent planning” to “central planning” and then to “comprehensive planning”, from the construction of “state founding institutions” to “interrelated institutions” and then to “comprehensive institutions”, the intersection and confluence of “planning China” and “institutional China” inherently gave rise to the problem of constructing the “real China”. On the road to the future, the political logic of “seeking governance through democracy” bred by the political logic of “seeking development through governance”, will lead the interaction patterns among “planning China” “institutional China” and “real China”. Thus, this will mark the complete transcendence of modern Chinese state governance based on development over the traditional form of state governance.

Key words: development, governance, planning China, institutional China, real China