All these scenarios are inseparable from China's reform and opening up that started 30 years ago. It can be said that without the reform and opening up that began 30 years ago, there would be no development and changes in China today; and even if there were, they would not be so fast and profound.
Since 30 years ago, the Chinese people started the reform from "crossing the river by feeling the stones" to the current formation of China's all-round, wide-open pattern, China's reform and opening up the road is not smooth sailing, which is full of hesitation and repetition, difficulties and hardships, which can be described as "All the way through wind and rain with rainbows".
You can't imagine that when the economies of China's neighbors Japan and South Korea, as well as many other countries in the world, were booming 30 years ago, China had only just emerged from the shadow of the decade-long "Cultural Revolution.
In 1978, 20 percent of the world's population had a gross domestic product (GDP) of only about 1.8 percent of the world's, and per capita GDP was even less than that.
Poverty and backwardness were the true portrayal of Chinese society at that time, and the urgent desire of the Chinese people to seek change and development.
In December 1978, the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Chinese ****producing Party, which is of great historical significance to the development of contemporary China, was held. It was at this meeting that the second generation of the leadership of the new China, represented by Deng Xiaoping, stood at the forefront of the development trend of the times and the world, and from the perspective of the future and the destiny of the Chinese nation, made the major decision to carry out the reform and opening up in China.
According to the resolution made at the conference, China would abandon the concept of "class struggle as an outline" that it had previously practiced, and emphasize shifting the focus of national development to socialist modernization and making economic construction the central work of national development. At this point, China officially entered a new era of reform and opening up.
In 1978, 18 peasants in Xiaogang Village, Fengyang County, Anhui Province, took the lead to organize production to households, a move that ignited the spark of China's reform. Since then, the reform and opening up of the star fire quickly became a prairie fire on the Chinese mainland.
In 1980, China set up special economic zones in Shenzhen, Xiamen, Zhuhai, and Shantou, introducing western capital, technology, and management; in the same year, the first Chinese-foreign joint venture after the reform and opening up, Beijing Aviation Foods Ltd. was formally established.
In 1992, the 14th National Congress of the People's Republic of China (PRC) clearly pointed out that the goal of China's economic reform was to establish a socialist market economy. By then, the planned economic system, which had played an important role in the construction of new China, finally faded out of the stage of China's economy because it was no longer adapted to the needs of economic development.
In 2001, China succeeded in joining the World Trade Organization, and the reform and opening-up entered a new stage of historical development ......
A series of reform and opening-up initiatives have gradually liberated China from the rigid system of the past, and the vitality and creativity of people have been given great play to, and China's economic and social face of China's economy and society has changed dramatically as a result.
When the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (SEZ), adjacent to Hong Kong, was established in 1980, it was just a small fishing village, but now it is one of China's most competitive cities with a population of more than 10 million.
In the 1920s and 1930s, China's eastern city of Shanghai was once a glittering, bustling Oriental metropolis, known to Westerners as the "adventurer's paradise"; after years of war and the establishment of the new China's embargo on the West to the end of the seventies of the last century, Shanghai's popularity and influence on the world has been very weak. By the end of the 1970s, Shanghai's popularity and influence in the world was already very weak. After 30 years of development since the reform and opening up, Shanghai has regained its former elegance. Not only have world-class financial institutions such as Citibank, Standard Chartered Bank and HSBC returned to Shanghai, but many of the world's top 500 companies have moved their headquarters or R&D centers to Shanghai.
Today, China's landmarks are not only the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda and Suzhou Garden, but also the National Theatre Park in Beijing, the Bird's Nest at the National Stadium, the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai and the Diwang Mansion in Shenzhen, all of which are new landmarks in the modernization of China.
When world-famous fashion designer Pierre Cardin walked the streets of Beijing in 1979, Beijingers were surveying the tall, fair-skinned, chic Frenchman with fresh and curious eyes. Today, not only are fashion shows and designs commonplace in China, but uniquely Chinese weaving silk, Peking Opera face painting and Chinese red have appeared in world-class fashion weeks in New York, Milan and Paris.
Of course, the reform and opening up to China has brought more changes than these. 30 years ago, China's gross domestic product only ranked about the world's tenth, and now has jumped to fourth; 30 years ago, China has a poverty-stricken population of more than 250 million people, and now, this number has been reduced to about 20 million. 30 years, the Chinese people's standard of living, the level of education, the level of medical security, as well as the awareness of democracy and the rule of law, etc., have also been the most common in China. and the awareness of democracy and the rule of law have also been greatly improved and developed.
While opening up to the outside world has promoted China's economic and social development, it has also enhanced mutual understanding between the Chinese people and the people of the world, and increased exchanges and cooperation between China and other countries in the fields of economy, politics, culture, science and technology. Today, China is also increasingly playing an active and important role as a responsible great power in areas such as climate, security and UN reform.
However, we should also see that China has encountered many dangers and difficulties in the process of reform and opening up, and in 1978, when farmers in Xiaogang village in Fengyang, Anhui province, were divided into farms, they risked "imprisonment" in an environment in which China had not yet completely broken away from the "class struggle as a program". They risked "imprisonment", while China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) took 15 long and arduous years of negotiation.
China in the process of opening up to the outside world, there have been big and small twists and turns, Chinese enterprises to introduce are not always advanced technology and equipment, but also have been deceived, the introduction of some obsolete equipment, and even scrap metal. While foreign automobile, retail and banking industries have entered China and brought fresh vigor to the country's economic development, they have also dealt a blow to China's fragile industries and services.
Reform and opening up have also brought China a number of new social problems and challenges, such as a widening gap between the rich and the poor, an imbalance between urban and rural development, resource constraints, environmental pollution, and so on. There are also many questions about whether China's future development path will be smooth.
It is worth mentioning that although the Chinese people know that the road of reform and opening up will not be smooth, there is no turning back, and the Chinese people's determination to stick to the road of reform and opening up will not change. Because the Chinese people have benefited from the reform and opening up, Chinese society has developed and progressed in the reform and opening up, and the ancient Chinese nation has realized a new take-off in the reform and opening up. The Chinese people know, not through the storm, where is the rainbow?