‘Chinese dream’ draws int’l attention
“BIG DREAM” AND “SMALL DREAM”
Xi has described the Chinese dream as a big dream for the Chinese
nation: “History tells us that everybody has one’s future and destiny
closely connected to those of the country and nation.”
Wang Zheng, a public policy scholar of the Washington-based Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars, said China had a highly
collective culture “and that is an important feature of the Chinese
dream.”
“The charm of the Chinese dream lies in that every Chinese could at
the same time realize their own values, ideals, improve their lives and
pursue happiness as they devote themselves to the cause of national
rejuvenation,” Yao said. - XINHUA
CHINA: The “Chinese dream,” a new hot topic among Chinese, has drawn
international attention from scholars and foreign policy experts.
China's new Communist Party leader Xi Jinping said during a museum tour
last November the Chinese dream meant for him the “great renewal of the
Chinese nation.”
He has pledged to pursue the shared Chinese dream of national
rejuvenation. The initiative has drawn a positive response from experts.
“After more than three decades of steady reform, China has achieved
remarkable economic growth, but in terms of culture and ideas, there has
not been enough progress,” said Professor Zhang Taofu of China's Fudan
University.
“China now needs something else, an idea, or a common cause, to
support further development, and the Chinese dream fills the gap,” he
said.
Yao Huan, an expert on the Communist Party of China (CPC), said the
Chinese dream was “exhilarating,” as it inspired the passion of the
Chinese people to seek national rejuvenation.
Kim Jin Ho, a professor of international relations at South Korea's
Dankook University, said: “A nation without a dream will not survive in
the competition between different nations on earth.”
“If China wants to make a difference in the world, it has to have a
dream and pursue it consistently,” the professor said.
James Oruko, a development professor at Kenya's Egerton University,
said pursuing a common Chinese dream would compel individual Chinese to
embrace high aspirations and it promoted national progress.
The Chinese dream had set a common goal among the Chinese about the
country's future course, said Alejandro Simonoff, an international
studies expert at the Argentine National University of La Plata.
However, the dream of national strength, prosperity and happiness of
the people could not be realized overnight, experts said.
Li Jie, Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences,
said one way to fulfill the dream was through completing the “two
100-year” goal.
That included first finishing the building of a moderately prosperous
society in all respects by 2021, when the CPC marks its 100th founding
anniversary, and then building an affluent, strong, civilized and
harmonious socialist modern country by 2049 at the 100th founding
anniversary of new China, Li said.
“We will still find many places unsatisfactory after realization of
the ‘two 100-year’ goal. But then we will pursue a still higher degree
of modernization,” she said. |