Vision China

6 CHINA DAILY | HONG KONG EDITION Monday, June 21, 2021 | 7 VISION CHINA LED BY CPC, COUNTRY WILL CONQUER CHALLENGES, ACHIEVE PROSPERITY China doesn’t need Brazilian academic hails Western-style democracy, accomplishments of country By zhang zhihao and colonial- British Sinologist says [email protected] ism have been able to elimi- China will overcome many nate extreme By WANG MINGJIE in London CPC being the challenges, from improving liv- poverty. China [email protected] ruling party ing standards in rural areas to is the exception, for decades, it addressing pressure from Taiwan having eradi- The belief that China should does not offer separatists, through the leader- cated hunger adopt the Western style of democra- people choices ship of the Communist Party of and extreme cy, regarded by the West as the high- and thus does China and the strong support of poverty from est form of political system, does not not evolve the Chinese people, a Brazilian the most popu- really make sense because the Com- with the expert said. lous country in the world last year, munist Party of China has demon- times. The “We are sure that the country will which counts as “one of the most strated great success with its thought is that achieve its goal as a socialist and outstanding achievements in governance in modern times, a lead- only a multi- fully-developed nation in 2049,” human history”, he said. ing British Sinologist said. party system, with the alternation of Marcos Cordeiro Pires, professor of Currently, the world is still suf- “The West has dominated the parties in power, ensures this. But international political economy at fering from the COVID-19 pan- world for 200 years and believes China has disproved this, Jacques Sao Paulo State University, Brazil, demic. Despite being one of the ultimately it’s the destiny of every said. said during the Vision China event first country to be hit, China has society to adopt the Western model, “The CPC has this extraordinary on Sunday in Jiaxing, in East Chi- contained infections and revital- most certainly including China,” reforming capacity,” he said. “One of na’s Zhejiang province. ized its economy, becoming the said Martin Jacques, the author of the things that the CPC has been Pires said the history of China is only G20 nation to witness eco- When China Rules the World. remarkably good at is moving with Audience members listen to a speech by British Sinologist Martin Jacques via video at the Vision China “a long journey marked by many nomic growth last year, he said, But evidence suggests otherwise the times. It understands the event in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, on Sunday. WANG ZHUANGFEI / CHINA DAILY sacrifices, much struggle and many adding that it has also become one as China is becoming increasingly dynamics of the society and moving achievements”. of the world’s biggest suppliers of more prosperous and influential with it, and therefore being able to “Few countries in the world have COVID-19 vaccines to other coun- while the Western countries are change the direction whenever it a past associated with one of the tries, including his home country, constantly being contested and fac- needs to change.” great civilizations of history. How- Brazil. According to China’s For- ing a troubled and uncertain future, As an example, Jacques noted ever, only Chinese civilization can eign Ministry, as of early June, the said Jacques, a former senior fellow how late leader Deng Xiaoping had boast of more than 4,000 years of country had provided over 350 mil- of politics and international studies realized that the centralized eco- continuity,” he said. lion doses to the international at Cambridge University. nomic governance system was hin- “Only a few Asian and African community, including vaccine aid Jacques said in the West, there dering China’s economy before the countries that faced European to 80 countries. has been an overwhelming failure to 1980s. Deng led the nation to imperialism managed to regain “When looking for the reasons grasp the nature of the CPC. embrace the market as integral to their status as great powers. Among for China’s achievements, two From 1972 to 2016, the relation- China’s socialist system, and ulti- these few is China.” answers can be found: the determi- ship between the United States and mately, the nation was integrated In 1949, only 20 percent of Chi- nation and resilience of the Chinese China was relatively cooperative into the global economy. na’s population was literate, and people and the leadership of the and benign, as the US government The reason that China’s ruling there were only a few thousand sci- Communist Party of China,” Pires believed that as China modernized, party was able to execute that pro- entists in the country. “Today, Chi- said. it would increasingly westernize, found shift, Jacques said, was na has the most people training in The successes resulting from and if it did not, it would be econom- because it was deeply rooted in Chi- engineering, mathematics, science, China’s rapid growth have also ically and politically unstable, he nese society and culture, which in a and information technology,” he brought new challenges. Since said. way gives the CPC the self-confi- Guest speakers at the Vision China event receive portraits as presents from Zhang Bing (first left), Party secretary of Jiaxing, Zhejiang province; Zhu Guoxian (third left), head said. 2013, these include promoting a “This was an extraordinarily arro- dence that it is in step with the Chi- of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Zhejiang Provincial Committee; and Zhou Shuchun (third right), publisher and editor-in-chief of China Daily, at This achievement has enabled new type of urbanization, improv- gant and hubristic attitude, which nese people. the event in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, on Sunday. WANG ZHUANGFEI / CHINA DAILY the country to become the second- ing living standards in rural areas, resulted in a huge miscalculation,” In his view, the CPC is “the most largest economy and the largest and tackling the widening of he said. The reality was that China successful political party of modern exporter and importer globally, he income disparities, the middle-in- grew rapidly during this period, times, and it seems that it has no said, adding that China is now a come trap and others. emerging as the world’s second- peers in this respect”. Despite this, global leader in 5G and artificial “All these issues are very com- largest economy while politically he said, China has never regarded Nation’s long-term vision on track to making further progress intelligence. In 2019, China was plex, but China will overcome these remaining very different from what itself as a template for other also the first country to land a challenges with the experience characterizes the so-called Western nations. By xu wei work toward there can be no social stability, no center of eco-friendly agriculture, “Under this mechanism, if water probe on the dark side of the acquired by the millions of officials democracies, he added. He added China has long recog- [email protected] common national rejuvenation,” he said. industry and tourism. from Anhui attains a mutually Gert Johannes Grobler (right), former senior diplomat at the South African Department of International moon. and leaders of the CPC and the There is a profound belief in the nized that it is very different from prosperity aft- The event was held after Zhejiang It was also in the county where Xi agreed standard, Zhejiang would Relations and Cooperation, answers a question at the Vision China event in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, Pires said that not many coun- strong support of the Chinese peo- West that its style of democracy — every other country in terms of its Robert Kuhn still has a vivid er having was named a demonstration zone said the well-known line that “lucid pay Anhui. And if it didn’t, then on Sunday. WANG ZHUANGFEI / CHINA DAILY tries that suffered from imperialism ple,” he said. consisting of a multiparty system size, history, culture and condi- memory of his conversation with declared a for achieving common prosperity waters and lush mountains are Anhui would pay Zhejiang,” he and universal suffrage — is the high- tions, unlike that of the US and Rus- President Xi Jinping back in 2006, complete vic- through high-quality development invaluable assets”, and Kuhn said explained. est form of governance, and that sia. when Xi was the secretary of the tory in the in an official guideline released ear- Anji has proved him right. “The Chinese nation cannot be countries like China that do not fol- The CPC will celebrate the 100th Communist Party of China Zhejiang battle against lier this month. In 2012 Anji became China’s first rejuvenated if its environment South African lauds Red Boat spirit, says Party will continue to excel low this model lack legitimacy. anniversary of its founding in July. Provincial Committee. absolute pov- According to the guideline, by county to receive the UN Habitat remains massively polluted. Zhe- Jacques does not subscribe to “For a political party, 100 years is a Even though Zhejiang was one of erty in rural 2025, Zhejiang should achieve a Scroll of Honor Award for improv- jiang’s eco-compensation system this belief. He said that Western long time. But does the CPC give the China’s fastest-growing regions at areas, he not- per capita GDP of moderately ing its environment. is a novel idea — a new way of By Cao Chen in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Vision China event with the theme the people of second-largest economy.

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