“China always considers its own growth in the context of the common development of all
humanity and binds the interests of its people to the common interests of all peoples across the
world,” said a white paper issued by China’s State Council Information Office recently.
The white paper titled “China’s Epic Journey from Poverty to Prosperity” expounded on how the
realization of moderate prosperity in all respects marks a critical step toward China’s national
rejuvenation and represents China’s contribution to building a community with a shared future for
mankind.
The country will continue its efforts to safeguard world peace, contribute to global prosperity,
uphold the international order, and provide public goods to the whole world, according to the
document.
China cannot develop in isolation from the rest of the world, nor can the world achieve prosperity
without China. As the world’s most populous and largest developing country, China has
contributed significantly to world peace and development by achieving moderate prosperity in all
respects.
From 1979 to 2020, the country saw its GDP grow by 9.2 percent on average annually, becoming
an important engine of world economic growth. Since 2006, China has been the largest contributor
to global economic growth for 15 consecutive years, with an average annual contribution of more
than 30 percent.
Foreign media observed that China’s brilliant achievements, including the realization of moderate
prosperity, signify that the country makes big strides on the path of prosperity and development
and that the world can benefit from China’s development.
By building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, the country has set an example of
poverty reduction for the rest of the world and greatly accelerated global poverty alleviation.
Since the introduction of the reform and opening-up policy in 1978, China has lifted 770 million
rural residents living under its current poverty line out of poverty. According to the World Bank’s
international poverty line, the number of people lifted out of poverty in China accounts for more
than 70 percent of the world’s total during the same period. China has met the poverty eradication
target set in the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 10 years ahead of schedule.
After realizing the goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, the more than
1.4 billion Chinese people, who account for nearly 20 percent of the world’s population, have set
out on a new journey toward socialist modernization, which marks an unprecedented
transformation and milestone in human history.
By building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and constantly stimulating the driving
forces for development, China has provided new opportunities for world development.
China’s realization of moderate prosperity in all aspects has benefitted from its continuous efforts
to expand opening-up, which has effectively promoted win-win cooperation.
Faced with headwinds against globalization, China has remained steadfast in upholding its
mutually beneficial opening-up policy and building an even more open economy in recent years,
trying to break new ground in pursuing all-round opening-up.
By steadily improving its business environment and introducing high-standard policies to facilitate
free trade and investment, China has become the largest trading partner of more than 50 countries
and regions and one of the top three trading partners of over 120 countries and regions, playing a
more significant role in the dynamics of the international economy.
The country, which is opening its doors wider and wider to the rest of the world, provides other
countries with more opportunities in markets, investment and growth.
In building a moderately prosperous society, China has gained new experience of modernization
for humanity. Well grasping the laws of economic and social development, the Communist Party
of China (CPC) has opened a new and distinctive path to modernization based on China’s actual
conditions, and created a new model for human progress.
China’s modernization – featuring common prosperity, balanced material and cultural progress,
harmonious coexistence between humans and nature, and peaceful development – is shared by a
huge population.
As the world is still on a rocky path to development, China’s experience in and approaches to
development have not only helped the vast number of developing countries deepen their
understanding of state governance and modernization, but also offer a new option for those
countries and peoples who are looking for both rapid growth and independence, thus exerting a
profound influence on the development of human society.
China’s success in poverty alleviation has proven that the governance of a country starts with the
needs of the people, and that their prosperity is the responsibility of the government.
With pragmatic and steady efforts, the country is marching towards its goal of common prosperity
for all. While forging ahead with its new undertakings, the country will continue to make new
contributions to safeguarding world peace and promoting common development, and create new
chapters of building a community with a shared future for mankind.
