“现代化”是18世纪伴随着工业化进程出现的一个新名词,是由工业化主导的新的社会形态。19世纪后,对“现代化”的描述,逐渐由原来的文字性解释向数值量化转变,建立现代化指标体系成为对“现代化”水平衡量的主要方法,本文尝试从现代化衡量指标的研究演变过程中来探讨关于“现代化”的科学内涵和特点。 “Modernization ” is a new noun accompanying the process of industrialization in the 18th century, and is a new social form led by industrialization. After the 19th century, the description of “modernization ” gradually shifted from the original textual interpretation to numerical quantification. Establishing a modern index system has become the main method for measuring the level of “modernization ”. This article attempts to study the modernization from the measurement index To explore the scientific connotation and characteristics of “modernization ” in the process of evolution.