A two-day international dialogue seminar on the "Chinese dream" was held in Shanghai this weekend, attended by authorities and scholars from more than 20 countries (including the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, Egypt, Japan and India) and was divided into three round tables on the topics of "Chinese dream and Chinese road to economic and political development", "Chinese dream and world prosperity", "Chinese dream and promotion of peace".
The expression "Chinese dream" has established itself as a national slogan under the leadership, first as secretary of the Communist Party of China, then as president of the People's Republic, of Xi Jinping. The "Chinese dream" aspires to achieve, in the words of the president, a prosperous society, a renewal of the country and - last but not least - the happiness of the Chinese. "The Chinese dream" says Cai Mingzhao, minister of China's State Council Information Office, "exerts an extraordinary attraction because it reflects the wishes and aspirations of hundreds of millions of Chinese for a better future".
"At the 5th Communist Party Congress", the minister added, "then general secretary Xi Jinping introduced reforms in various fields, launched a new concept of work and adopted measures to fight corruption within the party itself" . Responding to critics, especially foreigners, of the Chinese dream, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, journalist, writer and political scientist, as well as president of the Kuhn Foundation, in his opening speech at the seminar declared that "the Chinese dream has XNUMX dimensions: national, personal, historical , global and antithetical".
All these dimensions have highly innovative aspects, "for example" Kuhn observes again "the personal dimension of the Chinese dream focuses on individual well-being, overturning the traditional concept of the primacy of the community over the individual". Kenneth Lieberthal, on the other hand, chief researcher at the Brookings Institution, played the devil's advocate, highlighting the wide range of obstacles that stand between the Chinese and the realization of the Chinese dream.
Hurdles ranging from the rapid demographic transition, which is producing a largely elderly population before the country has become rich enough to significantly raise per capita income, to the endemic water shortage, dramatically evident in the North China Plain. “It's not to be pessimistic” she concluded “but we need someone who puts his finger on the problems. On the other hand, the Chinese system has proven to be highly adaptable and pragmatic, and has faced greater challenges than this in the past”.
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