Source: Xinhua Published: 2024-08-11

By huaxia

By further deepening the comprehensive reform and developing new quality productive forces, China will be able to help unleash the productive forces of 'Global South' countries and facilitate the transition of the world economy, said Wang Yiwei, a professor at China's Renmin University in Beijing.

BEIJING, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- China's development and peaceful rise have been widely hailed as a miracle, and the key to this feat that human history has never seen before is Chinese modernization.

China has found a unique and sustainable path to success, which has not only made itself one of the world's major economic and innovative powerhouses but also provided a fresh perspective on human modernization, said Wang Yiwei, a professor at China's Renmin University in Beijing.

STRONG APPEAL TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

'If you want to get rich, build roads,' Wang quoted in a recent interview with Xinhua the Chinese slogan that was very popular in the first several decades since China implemented reform and opening up.

'This saying is now famous worldwide,' he said, 'because many countries have seen China's success and the power of Chinese modernization' and that China is willing to share its results and experience with those in need.

Wang made his point with the case of the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway, which has not only reduced the travel time between Jakarta and Bandung but also saved around 198 million U.S. dollars in fuel costs annually by utilizing electrical energy.

'Indonesians were very excited,' the Chinese pundit, who took the bullet train last year to have a firsthand experience, observed. 'In today's world, no country except China would help Indonesia build the high-speed railway,' he said.

The Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway is a landmark project of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which has delivered real gains to participating countries over the past decade and opened up a new path for all humanity to realize modernization.

As the successes and tangible results have boosted both regional and global modernization drives, 'Chinese modernization has particularly a strong appeal to the developing world,' Wang said.

ILL-FOUNDED, ILL-INTENDED WESTERN BIAS

Since modernization began in Western capitalist states, some countries tend to believe that Western modernization is the only model of modernization.

But after decades of efforts, China has successfully explored a path of modernization distinct from that of the West by focusing on summing up experience and learning lessons while continuously and comprehensively deepening reform.

Stressing that Chinese modernization is peaceful and sustainable, Wang said that China has set a good example and that its model and experience 'present a new option for those countries which seek both modernization and independence.'

The professor also pointed out that China has both the ability and willingness to help other countries achieve modernization, in contrast to the West, whose leading members resort solely to capitalism and often fail to address their own needs and problems, let alone give others a hand without any conditions attached.

However, certain countries from the West continue to throw mud at China's path to modernization as well as the BRI by hying up the 'China threat,' 'overcapacity' and 'debt trap' narratives, which have been roundly rejected by many countries and scholars as ill-founded and ill-intended.

Some in the West, whose colonist mindset remains strong today, are in no position to point the finger at China, which has been consistently 'creating and injecting blood' to promote common modernization and development rather than 'sucking out of the blood of others' for its self-interests, Wang commented.

CHINESE MODERNIZATION A BOON TO THE WORLD

The significance of the tremendous success of Chinese modernization also lies in the fact that it has shattered the Western narrative that there is only one path to modernization, and boosted other countries' confidence in seeking their paths to modernization, according to Wang.

'It is very noble,' he said, adding that it is a Chinese philosophy that all countries and civilizations should find their paths to modernization and success.

Over the past few decades, China has emancipated the productive forces and created dual miracles of rapid economic growth and long-term social stability.

Last year, China proposed the development of new quality productive forces to adjust to 'profound changes of a magnitude unseen in a century at an accelerating pace' while the West is still struggling with some of its old economic and financial woes that continue to cast a shadow over global recovery and growth.

By further deepening its comprehensive reform and developing new quality productive forces, China will be able to help unleash the productive forces of 'Global South' countries and facilitate the transition of the world economy, Wang said.

China's peaceful development and its efforts to help others embark on a sustainable path to modernization 'is a boon to the whole world,' the expert said.