What do you think of the development of China?
What do you think of the rise of China?
-How do you view the rise of China and China-EU relations?
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The first aspect is how to look at the development of China.
Over the past 25 years of reform and opening up, China has made a series of new and significant progress and development. However, China is still a developing country, which is facing a series of large-scale development problems.
What is the "large-scale development problem"?
This can be illustrated by two simplest math problems. A multiplication problem, a division problem.
The problem of multiplication is: no matter how small or even negligible the difficulties in economic and social development seem, as long as it is multiplied by 65.438+0.3 billion (here I mean the population of China), it will become a large-scale or even super-large-scale problem.
The problem of division is that no matter how considerable the absolute amount of financial and material resources is, as long as it is divided by 654.38+0.3 billion, it will become a very low or even a very low per capita level.
Of course, there is another side to the story. Practice has proved that when China becomes active and fully mobilizes all the positive factors that can be mobilized, China people's labor force, innovation and purchasing power, China's cohesion and growth momentum, and the resulting growth momentum for the world, are another math problem related to 65.438+0.3 billion yuan.
In a word, all China's efforts to solve the development problems are, in the final analysis, aimed at enabling our people to live a well-off life and reach the level of moderately developed countries by the middle of this century.
I think this is the common aspiration of our contemporary China people, from the leadership to the whole people.
That's enough for two or three generations of China people to be as busy as a bee from now on!
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The second aspect is how to view the rising road of China.
The fundamental point here is that China has created a strategic road suitable for China's national conditions and characteristics of the times since the implementation of reform and opening up for 25 years. That is, it is a new road of peaceful rise to build Socialism with Chinese characteristics independently in the process of connecting with economic globalization rather than separating from it.
With regard to this road, I would like to emphasize at first that it is an important historical and strategic choice for the people of China to integrate with economic globalization rather than separate from it.
This is the choice made by China people in the late 1970s. At that time, a new scientific and technological revolution and a new wave of economic globalization flourished around the world. China's leaders seized this historic opportunity and turned all their work to the track centered on economic construction, thus opening a new era of China's reform and opening up.
In 1990s, China faced another historic strategic choice. This is the confrontation between economic globalization and anti-globalization, and it is also the occurrence of the Asian financial crisis. China's leaders decisively determined the strategic policy of "pursuing advantages and avoiding disadvantages" and further actively participating in economic globalization, which pushed China's reform and opening up to a new level.
On this road, secondly, I want to emphasize that we should take the road of independent development while actively participating in economic globalization.
A developing country with a population of over one billion like China should not and cannot imagine relying on any other country, but must and can only concentrate on developing itself.
In other words, we should fully and consciously rely on our own institutional innovation, industrial structure adjustment, domestic demand and domestic market development, turn huge household savings into investment, improve national quality and scientific and technological progress to solve our "super-large-scale development problem" and realize our development goals.
Regarding this road, I also want to emphasize that it is a road that strives to rise but insists on peace and does not seek hegemony.
The history of great powers' hegemony in modern times has repeatedly shown that the rise of a great power will often lead to drastic changes in the international pattern and world order, and even lead to war. An important reason here is that they have taken a road of relying on launching a war of aggression and implementing external expansion. And such a road always ends in failure.
Therefore, our choice can only be: peaceful rise. That is, strive for a peaceful international environment to develop itself and safeguard world peace with its own development.
Around this road, there are three most important strategic policies: first, resolutely promote the reform of the economic and political system with the socialist market economy and socialist democratic politics as the basic connotation, and form an institutional guarantee for the peaceful rise; Second, while persisting in carrying forward Chinese civilization, we should boldly learn from and absorb the achievements of human civilization and form a spiritual pillar to achieve peaceful rise; Third, give consideration to various interests, including urban and rural development, regional development, economic and social development, harmonious development between man and nature, domestic development and opening up, and form a social environment of peaceful rise.
Finally, I want to emphasize that it is the mission of China people in the 2 1 century to adhere to and develop this new road of China's peaceful rise without hesitation.
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What does the peaceful rise of China mean to Europe? This is the third aspect I want to talk about.
I believe that the peaceful rise of China will bring new development opportunities to Europe and China-EU relations. I say this for three main reasons: First, on the issue of development, Europe, like China, is in the process of peaceful rise.
Historical experience is worth noting. Both Europe and China paid a heavy price of blood in the two world wars, so they are more aware of the preciousness of peace. Europe is moving towards union and unification, and the European Union has become a national union with the highest degree of integration and the strongest comprehensive strength in the world today. China hopes that a peaceful and unified new Europe, especially the European Union, will play an increasingly important role in regional and international affairs.
Secondly, in terms of international strategy, Europe and China have many similarities.
Both Europe and China want to create an international environment featuring peaceful development, mutual trust and mutual benefit, and benefiting mankind. We all support multilateralism, respect cultural diversity, safeguard the democratization of international relations, reform unreasonable factors in the existing international order with the spirit of the rule of law, and promote mature strategic partnership with long-term vision.
Third, the peaceful rise of China is conducive to mutually beneficial cooperation between China and Europe.
I believe that the peaceful rise of China provides a historic opportunity for China-EU cooperation. In recent years, with the strengthening of China's national strength, EU countries' investment in China has also been expanding, and China-EU trade has developed rapidly. The economic complementarity and cooperation potential between China and Europe have become the most important link and cornerstone of bilateral relations.
Developing a long-term and stable partnership between China and Europe is absolutely indispensable for the peaceful rise of China and the process of European integration. I believe that Chinese civilization and European civilization will not conflict, but will complement each other and shine together.