This course is one of required ideological and political theory courses for the university students. Meanwhile, the students of science and technology can acquire systematic knowledge about social sciences through this course. The main content of this course is: take the national conditions of China in modern times as the background; analyze how Chinese Communist Party led the Chinese nation to seek for a path different from the western modernization in the context of the global capitalism under the modern challenge of the western countries; why the Chinese modernity was fulfilled by means of the localization of Marxism with Chinese characteristics; why the history and people selected Chinese Communist Party; why the market economy was selected by China again after “the Cultural Revolution”.