"advance modernization" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the progress of new technologies or ideas that facilitate modern life. For example: "The country has made great advances in modernization through investing in new infrastructure."
The Russian economy was the hardest hit of all members of the Group of 20, and this sobering event led to renewed efforts to integrate with the West in order to advance the modernization of Russia.
The Speaker has led, with his Assembly colleagues (particularly Assembly Budget Committee Chair Phil Ting of San Francisco and early-learning expert/Education Finance Budget Sub-Committee Chair Kevin McCarty of Sacramento) and the Legislative Women's Caucus, by advancing a modernization of the rate structure for ECE in the recently negotiated state budget agreement.
In addition, he helped advance the EHR modernization efforts across federal agencies for U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs that uses eHMP and U.S. Department of Defense's AHLTA EHR systems.
Microsoft is calling for Senate to advance the EPCA Modernization Act of 2017, which was introduced in July by Senators Mike Lee and Patrick Leahy to update privacy laws for electronic communication information served in third-party service providers, as well as geolocation information.
Writing from Beijing, Communist Party official Keping Yu says that China's modernization cannot advance further unless "nobody is empowered to act beyond the limit of the Constitution and laws".
Under the Reagan Administration's program to build a 600-ship Navy, led by Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman, Missouri was reactivated and towed by the salvage ship to the Long Beach Naval Yard in the summer of 1984 to undergo modernization in advance of her scheduled recommissioning.
As part of President Ronald Reagan's and Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman's effort to create an expanded 600-ship Navy, Iowa was reactivated and moved under tow to Avondale Shipyard near New Orleans, Louisiana, for refitting and equipment modernization in advance of her planned recommissioning.
Vice President Al Gore supports a "modernization" plan advanced by the Clinton administration last year, aides say, although he has focused in his campaign on shoring up the traditional program and adding a prescription drug benefit to it.
I hate to argue against the passing of time, modernization and technological advance because it seems pointless.
