Entering ChinaI saw that some foreign people said that many delegations from the Global South countries visited China’s cities and villages to learn from China’s development experience, and China’s new development concept is becoming a popular international public good. Can a country’s development concept also become an international public good?
——People’s Daily Online netizen 15****9
This netizen’s observation is very careful. Indeed, more and more foreign friends are visiting China to learn from China’s new development concept and experience.
In Shenzhen, the capital of innovation, more than 10 foreign heads of state and government came to visit science and technology companies last year; Anji, Zhejiang Province, where the concept of lucid waters and lush mountains is invaluable assets, was selected as a “Charming City for Biodiversity” by the United Nations, attracting many foreign friends. In addition, Ningde, Fujian, Hunan’s Shibadong Village, and other places have been visited and inspected by foreign leaders. The vast number of friends from developing countries have enthusiastically signed up for various development training courses held in China.
Why are these countries optimistic about China?
Because China has embarked on a path of modernization that is completely different from that of the West, it has demonstrated a new “way of playing” on the road of development by “upgrading and fighting monsters”, allowing countries to see a different picture of the future.
All 800 million poor people have been lifted out of poverty, which is not only shocking in numbers, but also allows more countries to see the possibility of “counterattack”; The construction of the Pinglu Canal in Guangxi is in full swing, and the aerial photos of the construction of the project have been uploaded to the Internet, and foreign netizens have exclaimed that this is a “science fiction project”, hoping that their own country will also have such construction capabilities; Electric vehicles are “fans” around the world, electronic payment is going global, artificial intelligence model DeepSeek has staged an “oriental miracle”, and many countries have lamented that “the future has come……
Does China’s new development philosophy work for other countries?
Not to mention, there are a lot of successful practices.
Tingsong Village in Laos benchmarks against Shibadong Village in Hunan Province to create a sample of sustainable development in rural Laos; Uzbekistan has piloted the promotion of China’s experience in poverty alleviation in all regions and cities across the country, and the number of poor people in the country has been decreasing year by year. Rwanda learns from China’s e-commerce experience to boost its economic development……
China’s experience, based on its own national conditions, has both emotional resonance and practical feasibility for the vast number of developing countries. As Peruvian President Boluarte said, “We have learned from China that nothing is impossible.” ”
From the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway and the Golden Port Expressway to Lagos International Airport and Chankai Port, in recent years, China, known as the “infrastructure madman”, has been constantly “new” around the world. These projects themselves are not only reinforced concrete and hard-core technology, but also China’s deep participation in global development, and a global expression of China’s new development concept.
This “home-grown” China’s development experience has come from the wave of reform and opening up, has been tested by the practice of poverty alleviation, and now it has become a “super strategy” for developing countries to eliminate poverty and improve people’s livelihood with the footsteps of high-quality Belt and Road cooperation.
During their visit to China, many political leaders from various countries squeezed out time to “go to the countryside” and “go to the villages” from their intense schedules, hoping to hear more stories of China’s development and have a deeper understanding of China’s road, China’s governance, and China’s principles. When they returned to their own countries, they took “Xi Jinping on Governing the Country”, “Excerpts from Xi Jinping’s Discourses on Poverty Alleviation”, “Getting Rid of Poverty” and other works as desk books, and studied and thought in combination with the actual situation in their countries.
So, can a country’s development concept also become an international public good?
Traditionally, when people talk about international public goods, they mainly refer to mechanisms and actions related to global security, economic stability, environmental protection, etc., which require the coordination and cooperation of the international community, and are aimed at benefiting many countries and even the world, such as the well-known United Nations peacekeeping operations, the Paris Agreement on climate change, etc. Large countries play an important role in the provision of international public goods. But in fact, this is a narrow understanding of international public goods. The concept of universal value can also promote the international community to reach consensus on issues of common concern and promote global cooperation and development.
In recent years, whether it is the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind, the Belt and Road Initiative, the three global initiatives, or the people-centered development philosophy, sustainable development concept and win-win cooperation concept, these Chinese ideas and initiatives have been widely disseminated and shared, not only guiding China’s own development, but also providing experience and wisdom for the international community. Whether from the ideological or practical level, these ideas and initiatives have the attributes of international public goods.
China is willing to share its good development experience with other countries to achieve common development. Currently, only about 1 billion people in the world have modernized, and more than 700 million people face hunger. China has always believed that only when everyone develops together can we develop well, and that countries that are ahead of us should pull a hand of countries that are temporarily behind them, and only by making the cake of development bigger together can we be good, good for you, and good for everyone.
In this sense, it is only natural that since the new era, more China’s new development concept of “bringing its own traffic” has gone global, gained attention and put into practice around the world, especially in developing countries, and has become a popular international public good.
