China has been taken as a vital motive force for world economy and regarded in an entirely new light, and the international community has also acquired a new, better understanding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) as the force leading the Chinese nation forward against the backdrop of global financial crisis.
China has spent only 30 years to finish the mission that took Britain and the United States a full century to complete during the Industrial Revolution, and greatly improved the livelihood of the Chinese people, said former senior CNN correspondent Michael (Mike) Chinoy. And he said he would give the CPC high scores on account of this point alone.
China's gross domestic product (GDP) grew at an annual average rate of 9.8 percent from 1979 to 2008, noted the"Observatorio de la Politica China"website in Spain. Fast economic growth over the last 30 years has lifted China's GDP ranking in the world from 10th in 1978 to the present 3rd only after the United States and Japan, and the country's import and export volume reported an increase of over 100-fold during the past three decades.
China contributed to 13.8 percent of the world economic growth during the 2003-2005 period, according to an NBS calculation based on World Bank statistics. With the deteriorating global financial crisis as its background, Chinese economy is deemed as an important impetus to the recovery and development of the world economy.
With regard to the role the CPC has played in the course of China's development and construction, Johan Lagerkvist, an ace expert from the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, acknowledged that the governing capacity of CPC can even be said the best to a certain extent.
For decades, the CPC has brought a relatively affluent and comfortable life to ordinary Chinese through economic development and helped improve their livelihood to the maximum, and this has endowed the CPC with a vital, important magic weapon to win the popular support.
China has a vast population but with insufficient arable land. So, it is no easy job for all people to have enough to eat and wear. To date, however, the Chinese people have already crossed the threshold of "Xiaokang", or a better-off life, and they are now enjoying a well-to-do, dignified and respected life.
China's implementation of reform and opening-up is a critical juncture for the humanity at large, noted the "Sydney Morning Herald" newspaper. Since then, one fifth of the global population has begun to rid itself of poverty and head for prosperity, it added.
For decades, the CPC has brought democracy and the rule of law to China through political reform, and this has precisely provided a guarantee for Chinese society to maintain its stability and healthy development. Hence, it has always been the governing concept of the CPC to understand, comply with and represent popular will or sentiments.
In his popular book titled "The Powers of the Future Winners and Losers in Tomorrow", former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt acknowledged that the political stability guaranteed by the Chinese existing (political) system is necessary… So, the Chinese people today enjoy more freedom in their own country than ever before.
For decades, another change the CPC has brought China is a profound self-confidence and pride deep-rooted among Chinese citizens, which has made the Chinese nation full of vigor and vitality. "Have the Chinese people really lost their self-confidence, the late eminent revolutionary writer Lu Xun (1882-1936) once asked in an article he wrote in the early 1930s. People of that era were undoubtedly short of self-confidence on the whole. Today, a 26-year-old girl employed in a foreign transnational firm in Beijing said however that she joined the CPC out of a sense of pride and the sense of belonging when asked by an AFP reporter recently. Meanwhile, British "Observer" newspaper also exclaims in its reportage that China seems to have a strutting mood of self-confidence anywhere.
The inherent reason why Chinese economy has retained its strong capacity and potential for growth despite an adverse impact of the spreading global financial crisis, indicate economic insiders, is that the people in China are more self-confident than ever before and, to date, they have plunged into the enthusing activity to expand domestic demand and consumption. So Premier Wen Jiabao said on a couple of occasions that "confidence is even more precious than gold or any currencies".
By People's Daily Online
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