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【China Daily】China’s remarkable transformation in four decades
China launched reform and opening-up policy in 1978 and has made remarkable achievements since then. From shortage of food, the country has turned into a food exporting nation. Today China is second-largest economy in the world just after US. China has emerged as a global power. Around 800 million people have been lifted out of poverty. Just over a period of four decades, a country has achieved so much development. It is a unique example in the history of the world.
December 20 , 2018 -
Wang Huiyao: Challenging Times, Creative Efforts
As the curtain comes down on 2018, it is a good moment to look back at the highlights and central themes of China’s diplomacy during another eventful year.
December 17 , 2018 -
Zamir Ahmed Awan: Chinese universities a big draw for foreign students
China offers thousands of scholarships to students in developing countries. It is part of Chinese strategy of reform and opening-up Almost all well-known universities are open to foreign students in all parts of the country. The number of foreign students has grown into thousands and this trend is set to increase year to year.
December 12 , 2018 -
Andy Mok: Sanya city, where beauty and intelligence go together
Like Perry Peirui Mao, Miss China, the hundreds of other contestants are vying for the 2018 Miss World title on December 8. Sanya, the venue for this year’s pageant, is blessed with a captivating abundance of physical beauty.
December 12 , 2018 -
Wang Huiyao: Growth in Parallel with Reform and Opening-up
FORTY years ago, China launched the reform and opening-up policy; but the earth-shaking transformation actually materialized in 1977 when the Gaokao System – the annual college entrance examination – was restored, since it ushered in a new era in which both knowledge and talents would be respected. I was fortunate enough to be among the first batch of college graduates after the restoration, and thus my life underwent great changes in parallel with the historic 40 years of reform and opening-up.
December 10 , 2018 -
Zamir Ahmed Awan: IMF pressure won’t weaken Pakistan’s CPEC commitment
Pressure and challenges from the IMF regarding debt woes over the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) won’t compromise Pakistan’s commitment to the CPEC.
December 06 , 2018 -
Jorge Heine: A ‘make or break’ G20 summit in Buenos Aires
Much, if not most, of the media attention at the 13th G20 summit in Buenos Aires this weekend will not be on the meeting itself, but rather on a dinner held on the sidelines of it, that is, the one between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Admittedly, much is at stake in the latter, and not just on matters of trade and global economic governance. As the world economy tatters, expectations are that some kind of truce in the trade war between the planet’s two largest economies will be declared.
December 06 , 2018