Because of the modern China's special national conditions, the modernization of China demonstrates two kinds of forms different from modernization of the world, namely turning the passive modernization to the active modernization. This paper compares similarities and differences between Sun Yat-sen's and Mao Zedong's theories of turning the passive modernization to the active modernization, and has drawn two major enlightenments: The modernized theory should be changed with the changes of the national conditions; We must conduct the modernization construction of China from the global angle.