Abstract: After the Fourth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the “governance of China” has ushered in an important point of opportunity for theorization. Different from Western governance which takes bourgeois liberal humanology as the theoretical foundation, the humanology consciousness of “the governance of China” is manifested in the sinicization of Marxist humanology, and there is a development process from freedom to self-confidence in discourse. Mao Zedong laid the foundation for socialist humanology discourse with the “people’s freedom and happiness” as the theoretical core. Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thought of “Three Represents”, and the scientific outlook on development have promoted Marxist humanology self-consciousness on the basis of socialist humanology and shaped the self-confident expression of “the governance of China”. General Secretary Xi Jinping has summarized and sublimated the self-confident discourse of “the governance of China”, which takes the people as the core, reflecting the fundamental interests of the people, the requirements of the times and the essence of “good governance”, and creating a new realm of “the governance of China”.

Key words: the governance of China, humanology, freedom, self-confidence