* 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 conversations with Xinhua, foreign observers viewed China’s reform projects and modernization process as valuable lessons for the emerging world.
BEIJING — “Today, the Chinese people can say with wonderful pride that reform and opening up, China’s second revolution, so to speak, have not only profoundly replaced the country but also wonderfully influenced the entire world “said Chinese President Xi Jinping. he said at a press conference at the opening rite of the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 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 perspectives 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
Pushing for 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 finished to everyone’s satisfaction. What remains are hard, hard-to-chew bones. This demands that we act boldly and make steady progress,” Xi said in an interview with the foreign media. media in 2014.
Reform is driven through the disorders and deepened through the resolution of those disorders, said Hwang Jaeho, director of the South Korea Institute for Global Strategy and Cooperation.
The fact that Xi “acted bravely and made stable progress” to confront new disruptions in the reform procedure “inspired 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 understand the opportunities and demanding situations in the society.
In this regard, he said, Xi not only seizes the opportunities presented through reforms, but also skillfully manages the related dangers and challenges by taking measures.
For more than a decade, Xi has led more than 3,000 reform plans in sectors, including economy, politics, culture, society, ecology, party building, national defense and the military.
Paul Frimpong, executive director of the China-Africa Policy and Advisory Center, noted that Xi’s reforms have covered a wide diversity of spaces and responded in a timely and effective manner to the demanding internal and external situations facing China.
In recent years, China’s reform has made solid progress and continuous progress in various fields. Erik Solheim, co-chairman of the Europe-Asia Center and former deputy secretary-general of the United Nations, praised 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 that seek 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 National Congress of the CPC, the comprehensive deepening of reforms in China has advanced with an objective 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.
Humanity is reflected in the institutional arrangement of fairness and justice and the practical taste of hard work, said Chea Munyrith, president of the Cambodian Association of Chinese Evolution Scholars.
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.
“If President Xi’s other people are the other Chinese people, they are also the other people in the world,” said Stephen Perry, honorary president of Britain’s 48 Group Club.
Xi understands “dialectics and contradiction” and must “find 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 efforts towards connectivity.
Xi first proposed the Silk Road Economic Belt initiative, a key part of 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 Center for an Inclusive New Asia in Malaysia, 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 perceived 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 the concept transcends national boundaries and approaches the formula from a universal human perspective.