Socialism with Chinese characteristics with global vision and a sense of humanity
By Zhong Sheng
As China celebrates the 70th anniversary of
its founding, and global observers are casting their eyes towards the east and
seeking the codes to China’s development miracle which is unseen in human
history, a white paper recently issued by the country’s State Council
Information Office stated how China made such success possible.
The white paper, titled China and the World in
the New Era, says that the ultimate reason for China’s success achieved in the
past 70 years is that China has found and will continue on the right path -
socialism with Chinese characteristics.
The choice of path is critical to the
successful development of a country. By closely combining Marxism and reality
of China, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has built a wide path, the socialism
with Chinese characteristics that helped the country achieve prosperity and
helped the people achieve happiness.
The wide path, achieving magnificent results,
will be forever recorded by the history of human progress for its distinctive
Chinese characteristics, broad and farsighted global vision and care for
humanity.
This path has helped China, a populous
country, provide adequate food and clothing for its people, making the
brightest chapter in the history of global poverty reduction.
In the early days of the People’s Republic of
China, following a century of war and chaos, the country and the people were in
dire poverty. However, the country today is moving towards a moderately
prosperous society in all respects.
During the past 40 years of reform and
opening-up, over 700 million people were lifted out of poverty, accounting for
70 percent of the world’s total. It is a miracle in the human history of
poverty reduction.
Providing adequate food and clothing for the
people is a basic issue of global peace and development. Therefore, China’s
huge poverty alleviation efforts help not only itself.
Peter Nolan, professor from the University of
Cambridge, believes that the development path explored by China will promote
global sustainable development. Many leaders of developing countries also noted
that they would learn from China’s experiences.
This path has helped China promote innovative
solutions in global governance as the country is injecting powerful energy into
the peaceful development of the world.
China adopts independent foreign policy of
peace, and actively promotes the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence
(mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, mutual
non-aggression, non-interference in each other's internal affairs, equality and
mutual benefit, and peaceful coexistence) to be the basic norm of international
relations and basic principle of the international law.
It is playing an important role in building a
fair and equitable international political and economic order, contributing
ideas and plans to safeguarding world peace and promoting common development.
In the new era, China is promoting the
building of a community with a shared future for mankind and a new type of
international relations, and has offered the Belt and Road Initiative.
Getting closer to the center of the world
stage, China has become an important power to protect international justice and
the international system with UN at its core.
Chairman of the Kuhn Foundation Robert Kuhn
noted that China, by actively engaging in global governance, is a defender of
world stability, equality and prosperity.
This path, which suits China’s reality and
requirements of the times, has shown developing countries a new choice of
modernization through China’s successful practices.
China’s practices explained that western
systems and models are not the only solution to a country’s governance and
modernization, and every country can explore their own path.
Rather than copying the development mode of
western countries, China has built its own path by learning from past
experiences and human civilization according to its reality.
American scholar Arif Dirlik noted that the
value of the socialism with Chinese characteristics lies not only in its
importance to global economy, but also the alternative path it has offered for
developing countries.
China’s progress in the past 70 years proved
that no country can achieve prosperity by asking for assistance and waiting,
and only striving leads to a bright future. The socialism with Chinese characteristics
relies on its solid and unremitting efforts, the
fulfillment of its own responsibility and its pioneering
spirit.
In the new era, China will maintain its
original aspiration with confidence, and join hands with global countries to
achieve common development and win-win cooperation.
(Zhong Sheng is a penname often used by
People’s Daily to express its views on foreign policy.)
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