Modernization theory -- the belief that industrialization and economic development lead directly to positive social and political change -- has been a subject of intense scholarly and policy interest ...

Originally promoted by Daniel Bell in the 1950s, the theory of convergence suggested ... years who has been most prominent in claiming that modernization can have only one destination has been ...

China ushered in a new era of reform and opening up and socialist modernization. It was against this background that Deng Xiaoping Theory gradually formed and developed, based on a review of China ...

The modernization theory is aptly enshrined in the Belt and Road Initiative, which will pave the ground for regional and global development in the economic sector and step up cultural exchanges ...