BEIJING, July 1, 2022
/PRNewswire/ -- For Chinese people, the past decade has been
epic and inspirational. The country, under the leadership of the
Communist Party of China (CPC)
with Xi Jinping at its core, has made great endeavors in boosting
its economy, deepening reforms, improving the rights of its people
and acting as a responsible power globally. July 1 marks the 101st anniversary of the founding of
the ruling CPC. What role has the Party played in China's development? Why has it been able to
lead China to such great success?
And what are the advantages of China's governance model? The Global Times
collected views from five foreign leading experts, scholars and
former diplomats.
Jeffrey Sachs, director of the
Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia
University
No countries should completely follow any other country's models
because the circumstances, the culture, the history are different
in the different places. And China, as a huge civilization, an enormous
economy, an enormous population, is of course following a system
with Chinese characteristics. And this is a mixed economy with a
significant state sector, a significant private sector, and a
significant effort at industrial policy for innovation and
continuing technological development. It's a very distinctive
model. It is China's own. But I
think it gives lots of indications for how other countries,
especially those that are poor and trying to catch up rapidly, can
make advances.
I've seen that China has
changed since my first visit in 1981. This has been more than 40
years, and China's continuing
progress is absolutely remarkable. China went from a country that was filled with
poverty to a remarkably prosperous country. And I always so much
have benefited from seeing this remarkable progress and also
learning from how China succeeded
because the lessons from China are
very relevant for other regions of the world, such as Africa today which is still with great
poverty, but also with tremendous potential based on the kinds of
strategies that China used.
Ali el-Hefny, Egypt's former
ambassador to China and former
deputy foreign minister
If it wasn't for the CPC, China
would have never achieved the remarkable economic development that
you are witnessing. China is one
of the oldest civilizations in the history of mankind, and it's
very sophisticated. The society is a very rich society. So the idea
of good government has been always there and the Chinese leaders
and the CPC all work always in such a way that they improve good
governance.
I always think that as long as you have your people at the
center of your attention as the ruling party, as long as you have
the citizens at the center of all those efforts, you are destined
to succeed. You are destined to achieve your dream and to turn it
into a reality.
The CPC was instrumental. It played an instrumental role in
leading all this change: China has
become the first power worldwide as far as trade is concerned.
China has become the second most
important economic power in modern times. China is by far more advanced in the field of
scientific research compared to all the other developed nations. So
it's a country that has laid successfully the foundation for a
brighter future for the nation and for its people.
Ong Tee Keat, chairman of the
Centre for New Inclusive Asia and former transport minister of
Malaysian
From my personal observation, China's leaps and bounds in the past four
decades are wedded to its people-centric governance. The ruling
party, CPC, has been staying true to its founding role as the
custodian of the people's wellbeing. It has the gumption to
innovate its own formula of governance premised on the people's
aspirations and the nation's priorities at different times. The
CPC's bold decision to usher in the era of reform and opening-up is
a case in point. Its pragmatic corrective nature keeps the party
abreast with the changing times and challenges.
In the Chinese perspective, essence of democracy lies in the
people's involvement in the policy formulation at various tiers of
government, and not the multi-party election per se. Its mode of
governance is more result-oriented.
Patrick Mackerras, Australian
sinologist and Emeritus Professor at Griffith
University
It is the CPC that has given leadership to the country and held
it together, giving it stability that many other countries lack. I
think that has been a major contributor to China's successes, in the economic,
diplomatic, technological and other fields. Without that
leadership, I very much doubt that China could have made such great achievements
in the past century.
It is true that the CPC has always adhered to putting people
first. For example, its record in eliminating absolute poverty is
most certainly the best in the world. It has now eliminated
absolute poverty. It is true that it depends to some extent on how
one defines absolute poverty, but the government has made perfectly
clear where the boundary for absolute poverty lies.
If one compares with African countries or a big and rising
country like India, then it is
clear that China's record is
outstanding. And it's not only absolute poverty. There are many
other benchmarks that define the human condition. These include
literacy, food intakes, standards of health, maternity mortality
and infant mortality rates and gender equity.
Peter Walker, speaker on China-US
relations and author of the book Powerful, Different, Equal:
Overcoming the Misconceptions and Differences between China and the US
In China, the party is made up
especially at the most senior levels of very highly educated and
experienced people, they make long-term decisions in terms of
investment. So if you look at 2025, the investment in cutting-edge
technologies, in terms of energy and microchips and renewables -
all of those things - China has
made 10-year, 20-year commitments, and you can't do that in a
governance model where you have different parties coming in and
changing direction.
And then China is also very
good at executing policy. I spent a lot of time in my book with
people who were involved in the 5-year planning process. And it's
very thorough when that planning process is done, which is top down
and bottoms up, syndicated at every industry and syndicated in
every province, you have agreed to direction and goals and key
performance indicators that everybody follows.
So, when China sets out to
deliver strong economic growth or to make advances in science, it's
because they set out to do it. They put the resources behind it to
do it, and they delivered. I think China's progress over the last 10 years has
been nothing short of amazing. I think it's likely to continue.
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