现代化既是一个世界现象，也是一种文明进步，还是一个发展目标。从18世纪到21世纪，现代化的内涵和特征发生了巨大变化。目前，世界上绝大多数国家都在自觉或不自觉地经历某种现代化过程，都在直接或间接地把实现现代化作为一种发展目标。党的十九大报告提出了我国的现代化目标，令人鼓舞，催人奋进。本书汇集了来自中国、美国、英国、日本、意大利、俄罗斯等10多个国家数十名专家学者开展现代化研究的最新进展，反映了世界现代化研究的前沿动态，从教育、科技、健康、生态和生活质量等方面探讨现代化与人类发展的关系问题，内容包括现代化与人类发展、教育现代化与人类发展、现代科技与人的现代化、生态现代化与人类发展、生活质量与现代化等。

Alberto Martinelli，Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Sociology, University of Milan, Italy.
President of International Social Science Council ( ISSC ).
Co-Chair, Scientific Advisory Committee of the International Modernization Forum.

Opening Address
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Part I Modernization and Human Development
The European Welfare State
“Healthy China 2030”: Goals and Actions
Social Policy and Social Development in Latin America
Periodic Table of Human Civilization Process
How to Assess Human Development
Part II Education Modernization and Human Development
To Better the Man: Education and Human Development in Modern Romania
AI， Human Education and Social Development
The Roles of History and Historical Research in a Modernizing Society
Modernization of Languages and Writing Systems in Human Development
The Government Strategy Towards Education in Modern Russia
Modernization and Human Development
The Spiritual Motive of Capitalism: From Max Weber to Liah Greenfield
The Hot Spots and Development Trends for Education Informatization in China
Part III Science & Technology and Human Modernization
Ruin-causing Knowledge and Scientific & Technological Crisis: The Biggest
Challenge and Opportunity Confronted by Human Beings
The Development of Communication as the Cause and Indicator of Modernity
Ophthalmological AI: Requirements and Challenges
Development of a System for Primarily Innovative Human Capital in China: A Tentative Exploration
Developing Social Enterprises and Cultivating Innovation Entities for Social Governance Modernization
Ideological Modernization as the Key Step and Core Content in the Course of Human Modernization
The Human Modernization: A Historical Reflection on China’s Road to a Moderately Prosperous Society
Informal Networks as a Resource for Humanization of Corporate Activities: Methodological Aspects of Diagnostics
The Influence of Digital Nomad on Modernization and Inequality
Part IV Health Modernization and Human Development
Aging Society and Welfare Policy: A Case of Japan
Medicine and Health: Description of and Reflection on the Thalidomide Event
A Brief Historical Overview of the World Health Modernization
Part V Ecological Modernization and Human Development
Research on the Transition to Ecological Civilization
China’s National Parks: Development Path and Model
The Environmental Modernization and Human Capital Potential of Modern Russia Through the Creative Industries’Development:
International Experience and National Specifics
Analysis on the Basis and Path of “16+1” Innovation Cooperation
Modernization and Exploitation of Nature
Chinese Rural Modernization Based on the Construction of Public Cultural Space
Part VI Quality of Life and Modernization
Immigration and Its Welfare Implications: The Case of Health Policy in Lombardia， Italy
Productivity: Anywhere and Anytime
Formation， Development and Evolution Path of Modernity in the Process of Human Civilization
The Core of Socialist Modernization Is Human Modernization
Social Space of Russia: Measuring Tension
The Quality of Life in View of Chinese Modernization: With Reference to a Tripartite Model
The Role of Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine in Facing the Challenges of the Prevalence of Modern Diseases: Moving Forward，
Complacent or Being Dragged Behind with Dogmas? — The Crises and Opportunities
Appendices
Appendix 1 Charter of International Modernization Forum
Appendix 2 New Human Development Index