Chongyang Institute report  ‘Chinese and Foreign Scholars views on the Centenary of the Communist Party of China’ was released by Wang Wen, Executive Dean of RDCY at The Past 100 Years: China, the West and the World Online International Forum on 21 July.

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Thank you, John. I miss you very much, I appreciate your introduction. And also today very thank No Cold War for cooperating with us again. I’m very glad to see a lot of old friends, Martin, Vijay, Margaret, Yury. I miss you very much. And also, today we have a top TV star, Ms. Liu Xin. I know you have a lot of fans online now.

As we all know, three weeks ago，it was the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party of China (CPC). And one month ago, five scholars from China, US, UK, Russia and Swiss, published a series of articles in a leading journal SOCIAL SCIENCES ABROAD, which is one of the top academic journals in China. The 5 scholars include Mr. John Ross and Mr. Yury Tavrovsky. In this journal, we discuss about the 100th anniversary of the CPC.

As we all know, the 100th anniversary of the funding of the CPC is not only a big day for the CPC itself, it is also a very important milestone for all Chinese people and for the development of China .And these five articles we wrote, will release today both in English and in Chinese. Just aims to share with all the friends the significance of the CPC's 100 years from a global perspective.

As Mr. John Ross said, in the past 100 years, especially in the past 20 years，there existed a huge competition among the big powers. But I just want to share with you what happened in the past 100 years, and also what’s the global significance of the CPC’s 100 years. I just want to share 3 viewpoints with everyone:

First, from the viewpoint of the evolution of civilization, the 100th anniversary is a continuation of the progressive logic of humanity. While most countries and regions experience regression recent years, especially seen in the 21st century, when faced with rising protectionism, populism, extremism and worsening ecology. But China, under the leadership of the CPC, keeps on making progress. The 100 years of the grand history of the CPC is a century when the CPC lead its people to make one point of progress after another. We all know that’s why the CPC in China now has a very high supporting percentage. So that’s the first point.

The second point I want to share is from the viewpoint of national development. The 100th anniversary of the CPC offers an optional promising path of development that other developing countries can learn from. We all know since the end of World War II, more than 100 economies have achieved national independence. However, only two developing economies in the past half century, grew from the low-income stage to the middle-income stage and eventually to the high-income stage. They are South Korea and the island of Taiwan. And now China might be the third one from the low-income stage to the middle-income stage and into the high-income stage by the year 2025. I think it is a huge significance. For most of the world's developing and less developed countries, China's major moves in development have made them eschew Western models. That’s the second point I want to share.

Thirdly, from the viewpoint of political party organizations, the 100th anniversary of the CPC has promoted a breakthrough and theoretical innovation in political party systems all over the world. Many political parties have been continuously in power for decades. But few of them are like the CPC, one with a century-long history and one that is still capable of innovation. And such a party is rare, if any, in the West. Compared to Western political parties, the CPC has shown great differences in member composition, organizational structure, functions, mode of operations, and so on. So, it has also provided an effective reference for the construction of party organizations in developing countries. So, what gives the CPC life and energy is its political cognition and strategic determination that are highly self-aware, self-reflective, and self-confident. So, it takes stock of its political traditions and cultural temperament, something like “实事求是” in Chinese, put theory into practice and taking root in reality. So, it provides important lessons to explore innovation and breakthroughs that exist in paradigms of political parties across the world at present.

Under such new conditions, it is especially important to study the global significance of the CPC's 100th anniversary. We will send this report to the official website of RDCY for your reference. So more importantly, I hope to hear and learn from your views.

Thank you, John.

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