The connotation of the Chinese path to modernization is condensed in the century-old exploration of the Chinese modernization by the Communist Party of China(CPC). To study the historical process and rational logic of the evolution of the connotation of the Chinese path to modernization is conducive to better grasping the basic connotation of the “Chinese path to modernization”. The CPC's understanding of the connotation of the Chinese path to modernization has gone through the process of establishing political direction, focusing on specific practice, reconstructing economic goals, and deepening comprehensive systems, gradually realizing the transformation from the grand vision of socialism to the specific practice of focusing on economic and political modernization led by economic construction, and sublimating and condensing into the Chinese path to modernization which focuses on “people-centered” and systematic comprehensive promotion of “five-in-one”, completing the transition and sublimation of understanding, inheritance, transformation and integration. On the new journey of building a modern socialist country, we should attach importance to the summary of historical experience to deepen our understanding of the connotation of the Chinese path to modernization, better promote the Chinese modernization, and the creation of a new form of human civilization.