Chinese modernization presents new perspective on global development, expert says

This aerial photo taken on May 13, 2022, shows a wind power station in Xinglongshan Town, Baicheng City, northeast China's Jilin Province. (Photo by Zhang Yubo/Xinhua)

To many observers, the Chinese modernization illustrates an innovative approach to dealing with humanity's most pressing challenges, such as achieving a symbiosis of economic development and environmental protection.

BEIJING, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- China's path to modernization presented a new perspective on global development, and has offered insights and solutions to building a community with a shared future for humanity, an expert said.

China regards the legitimate concerns of humankind, promoting world peace and development "as essential to modernization," Yin Jun, deputy director of the Modernization Research Center at Peking University, told Xinhua in a recent interview.

China's modernization drive is "turning the blueprint of building a community with a shared future for humankind into reality," said the expert.

He noted that the Chinese modernization emphasizes the importance of "people first over capital, common prosperity over polarization, cooperation and coexistence transcending the law of the jungle, and peaceful development transcending hegemonism."

The Chinese wisdom behind its pursuit of modernization, Yin said, is increasingly gaining understanding, support, and responses from overseas.

For example, Cambodian Ministry of Commerce's Secretary of State and spokesperson Penn Sovicheat recently noted that China has always shared its development dividends with the rest of the world through several global initiatives such as the BRI, Global Development Initiative, Global Security Initiative and Global Civilization Initiative.

Chinese driver Wang Aofei (rear) and a local driver co-drive a train of the Lagos Rail Mass Transit Blue Line in Lagos, Nigeria, March 2, 2024. (Xinhua/Han Xu)

In his recent article titled "Building a Community of a Shared Future in Nigeria -- A Policy of Win-Win Initiatives," Nigerian scholar Adetoro Banwo wrote that the China-Africa relations are built on the idea of win-win cooperation, aiming to build a future that benefits all mankind.

Yin said that to many observers, the Chinese modernization illustrates an innovative approach to dealing with humanity's most pressing challenges, such as achieving a symbiosis of economic development and environmental protection.

Photo taken on Jan. 4, 2020, shows the construction site of the Central Business District (CBD) in Egypt's new administrative capital, some 50 km east of Cairo. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa)

Diaa Helmy, secretary-general of the Egyptian-Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Cairo, pointed out that China's approach to modernization is not solely materialistic but also rooted in its spiritual civilization and the pursuit of harmony between humans and nature.

Yin said he regards the Chinese modernization as "a new form of socialist civilization," with the coordinated development of material, political, spiritual, social and ecological civilization.

Looking forward, he expressed confidence that as the Chinese modernization deepens, the Chinese civilization will continue to shine on the global stage and help advance human civilization as a whole.■