"The key to understanding China is to understand Chinese modernization. Today, China is comprehensively promoting the great cause of building a great country and national rejuvenation with Chinese-style modernization, and promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind. On December 2, ** sent a congratulatory letter to the 2023 "Understanding China" International Conference (Guangzhou). **In the congratulatory letter, he brilliantly summarized the rich connotation of Chinese-style modernization, pointed out the importance of strengthening communication, enhancing understanding and jointly addressing various global challenges among countries, once again demonstrated China's determination and actions to expand high-level opening-up and move forward hand in hand with the world, and demonstrated China's responsibility to promote the realization of world modernization, which aroused enthusiastic responses from guests from all over the world.
In 2013, the first "Understanding China" International Conference was held in Beijing. Over the past decade, this international conference has attracted the participation of many well-known figures from foreign political, business, academic and international organizations, and has attracted wide attention from the world. This is another powerful illustration of the significant increase in China's economic strength, comprehensive national strength and international influence. Since the beginning of the new era, China's achievements have been obvious to all, and China's path, China's plan and China's concept have produced strong influence and appeal. The world expects China to play a key role in addressing global challenges and building a new international order. It has become a broad consensus that the world needs to understand China and Chinese modernization.
At present, China is comprehensively promoting the great cause of national rejuvenation with Chinese-style modernization, and many countries are also exploring their own modernization development paths. In the face of the sluggish recovery of the world economy and the intensifying geopolitical conflicts, all countries need to enhance their understanding of development paths, models and concepts, and work together to modernize the world. Mutual understanding and understanding are fundamental projects for resolving conflicts and promoting the development of state-to-state relations. The more we know and the deeper our understanding, the more solid and extensive the foundation for exchanges and cooperation among countries, and the more we will be able to respect each other, seek common ground while reserving differences, and find points where interests converge.
**In his congratulatory letter, the President once again made a clear statement on "promoting high-quality development through high-level opening-up", and profoundly explained the global value of Chinese-style modernization with China's actions: Chinese-style modernization is modernization that follows the path of peaceful development, seeks its own development while firmly safeguarding world peace and development, and better safeguards world peace and development with its own development. We will continue to expand high-level opening-up, and hope that the international community can understand the concept of peaceful development, mutually beneficial cooperation and common prosperity embodied in China's modernization, the sincerity of cooperation, and new opportunities for development, so as to jointly create a better future.
To let the world understand Chinese modernization, we need to further innovate communication concepts, methods and platforms, and interpret Chinese modernization with the fiery practice of the Chinese people in the new era. It is necessary to clearly explain the historical context, cultural genes, and world mind behind China's crooked path of national strength and hegemony. It is necessary to spread the excellent traditional Chinese culture, meet friends and make friends with literature. Invite friends from all over the world to come to China to take a walk and have a look, understand the real situation, and eliminate estrangement and misunderstanding. Give full play to the role of people of insight and strengthen the voice of reason in the international community.
The most important thing is to know each other. In 2019, the "Understanding China" International Conference was permanently located in Guangzhou. Guangzhou is China's "southern gate" to the world, and it is also one of the samples for the world to understand China. We hope that the guests will experience the great changes brought to China by reform and opening up from the "Guangzhou practice" of Chinese-style modernization, experience the style of Chinese civilization through the window of Lingnan culture, further deepen mutual understanding, strengthen practical cooperation, and contribute cultural strength to promoting exchanges and cooperation between China and the world, achieving common development and prosperity, and promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.
CCTV commentator.