Xinhua News Agency, Guangzhou, December 3 (Reporter Zhang Dailei Jin Bowen) Martin Jacques, a well-known British scholar, said during the Fifth World Summit on December 3 that Chinese modernization is different from Western modernization, and is a new type of modernization that is people-oriented and future-oriented, which fully reflects China's self-confidence as a great power.
Jacques said in a speech at the launch of the think tank report and seminar of the "Humanistic Economics in the New Era" of the World ** Summit on the same day that Chinese modernization is completely different from Western modernization, which puts the needs and interests of the people before material interests, and puts spiritual needs above narrow consumerism.
China seeks to give modernization more than economic data such as gross domestic product, and is not afraid of experimentation and imagination to explore the construction of a new type of modernization that puts people first. He said that China's successful modernization process has proved that modernization is by no means a single model, and that each country should choose its own path to modernization.
Jacques believes that Chinese-style modernization fully reflects China's self-confidence as a great power, which stems not only from China's rise and take-off in the political, economic, cultural, diplomatic and other fields in the past few decades, but also from the world's feelings and worldview inherited from Chinese civilization to the present.
In the view of the British scholar, China has always attached importance to its relations with developing countries, recognized the rich diversity of world civilizations, and believed that mutual respect and mutual learning among different civilizations can build a better future for mankind. (ENDS).