当代中国正经历着空前广泛的社会变革,社会的转型进入关键阶段。这个阶段的显著特征是,经济上要继续推进改革开放,实现质的突破;政治和社会领域,必须进一步摆脱传统观念的束缚,高举旗帜,创新求变,科学发展,实现国家现代化。美国著名学者詹姆斯·麦格雷戈·伯恩斯在其代表 Contemporary China is experiencing an unprecedented wide-ranging social change and social transformation has entered a crucial stage. The notable feature of this stage is that it is economically necessary to continue to push forward reform and opening up so as to achieve a qualitative breakthrough. In the political and social fields, we must further get rid of the shackles of traditional concepts, hold high the banner, innovate and change, scientifically develop and realize the modernization of our country. The famous American scholar James McGregor Burns in his representative