* Many foreign observers have noted that under the leadership of Chinese President Xi Jinping, China will continue to navigate with a reaffirmed commitment to reform and opening up.
* In their interviews with Xinhua, foreign observers saw China’s reform projects and modernization path as valuable lessons for the emerging world.
BEIJING, July 17 (Xinhua) — “Today, fellow Chinese can say with wonderful pride that the reform and opening-up, China’s second revolution, so to speak, have not only profoundly replaced the country, but also wonderfully influenced the country’s overall evolution. world,” Chinese President Xi Jinping said at the opening rite of the Boao Forum for Asia’s annual convention in 2018.
This came as China marked the 40th anniversary of its reform and opening-up, which has long been described as a “crucial step” that made China what it is.
With the third plenary consultation of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) to be held in Beijing from Monday to Thursday, observers are keen to glimpse Xi’s prospects on deepening reforms.
Many foreign observers have noted that under Xi’s leadership, China will continue to navigate with a reaffirmed commitment to reform and opening up.
ACT WITH VALIDITY and PROGRESS REGULARLY
Promoting reforms in a country of 1. 4 billion people is incredibly difficult.
“It can be said that the simple component of the paintings has been completed to everyone’s satisfaction. What remains are hard bones that are difficult to chew. This demands that we act boldly and make steady progress,” Xi said in an interview. with foreign media in 2014.
Reform is problem-driven and deepened by solving those problems, said Hwang Jaeho, director of South Korea’s Institute for Global Strategy and Cooperation.
The fact that Xi “acted boldly and made steady progress” in dealing with the new disruptions of the reform procedure “impressed me deeply,” Hwang said. He also noted that in the same interview with foreign media, Xi expressed “full confidence in China’s prospects for progress. “”.
Charles Onunaiju, director of the Center for Chinese Studies in Nigeria, said a visionary leader will have to have the foresight and knowledge to see opportunities and demanding situations for the society.
In this regard, he said, Xi is not only seizing the opportunities presented through reforms, but is also skillfully managing the related dangers and challenges by taking action.
For more than a decade, Xi has spearheaded more than 3,000 reform plans in sectors including economy, politics, culture, society, ecology, party building, national defense and military.
Paul Frimpong, executive director of the China-Africa Policy and Advice Center, said Xi’s reforms covered a wide range of spaces and responded in a timely and appropriate manner to the demanding domestic and external situations facing China.
In recent years, China’s reform has made solid progress and continuous progress in various fields. Erik Solheim, co-chair of the Europe-Asia Center and former UN under-secretary-general, hailed China’s achievements in green development.
“China is now at the center of global green progress and an indispensable force in global green transformation,” Solheim said, noting that countries pursuing green progress by cooperating with China “pay more time and money. “
CHINESE WISDOM, VALUABLE LESSONS
In their interviews with Xinhua, foreign observers saw China’s reform projects and modernization process as valuable lessons for the emerging world.
Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the comprehensive deepening of reforms in China has advanced with a focus on the well-being of the people. Xi, under pressure that the ultimate purpose of the reform is the well-being of the people, pledged to take charge of the people’s priorities and act in accordance with their wishes.
The human-centeredness is reflected in the institutional arrangement of equity and justice and the practical flavor of hard work, said Chea Munyrith, president of the Cambodian Association of Chinese Evolution Researchers.
Humphrey Moshi, director of the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, said the concept of people-centered progression has achieved notable effects in fields such as healthcare, education, poverty alleviation and rural progress in China. Training
“If President Xi’s other people are the other people of China, they are also the other people of the world,” said Stephen Perry, honorary president of Britain’s 48 Group Club.
Xi understands “the dialectic and the contradiction” and must “find the paths through the labyrinth of Marxism” for China’s development, Perry said.
During his state stop in Kazakhstan earlier this month, Xi and Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev presided over the opening rite of a road shipping route to a Caspian Sea port via video link, strengthening Kazakhstan’s connectivity efforts.
Xi first proposed the Silk Road Economic Belt Initiative, a key to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), in September 2013 in Kazakhstan.
So far, China has signed Belt and Road cooperation agreements with more than 150 countries and more than 30 organizations.
International observers have praised President Xi’s vision of building a network with a shared long-term for mankind. They said China’s proposed initiatives, adding the BRI, the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative and the World Civilization Initiative, reflect China’s wisdom in responding to demanding global situations and its plan to advance human civilization.
Former Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso pointed out that by proposing these initiatives, China demonstrated its role as the primary guilty country and encouraged countries to interact in the discussion on an equal footing and in peace and development.
Koh King Kee, president of the Malaysia Center for an Inclusive New Asia, presented a critique of the post-World War II global governance formula, which he said had been established and governed through the West to safeguard its own interests. Koh said nations have been forced to align with Western rules or risk being noticed as adversaries.
In contrast, Koh China’s vision of building a network with a shared long-term for humanity as an inclusive alternative.
Koh said this concept transcends national barriers and approaches the formula from a universal human perspective. ■
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