Journal of Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics ›› 2025, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (3): 13-22.

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A Political Economy Analysis of Promoting the Coordination between Material Civilization and Spiritual Civilization in the Digital Age

Hu Ze-peng   

  1. Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China
  • Received:2024-10-29 Revised:2025-03-09 Online:2025-05-25 Published:2025-09-17

Abstract: Material abundance and spiritual richness are the fundamental requirements of socialist modernization. The modernization of the coordinated material civilization and spiritual civilization is an inevitable choice for the CPC to explore and promote the historical process of Chinese path to modernization. Currently, the application of digital technology has accelerated the process of digital industrialization and industrial digitization, not only driving significant changes in production methods, but also contributing to the construction of socialist spiritual civilization, thereby providing technical support and material conditions for the coordination of material civilization and spiritual civilization. To promote the Chinese path to modernization in which material civilization and spiritual civilization are coordinated in the digital era, we should be alert to and guard against the deviation of material civilization and spiritual civilization under the logic of digital capital, and adhere to the people-centered approach to promote the construction of material civilization and spiritual civilization enabled by digital technology. Specifically, the modern industrial systems, a unified national market, and the construction of advanced socialist culture should be empowered by digital technology, thereby promoting the coordinated development of material civilization and spiritual civilization, and in turn laying the foundation for the comprehensive enrichment of materials and the comprehensive development of people.

Key words: digital technology, coordination between material civilization and spiritual civilization, Chinese modernization

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