Chapter 11 Double challenge, double opportunity

Although the proposal of "Peaceful Rise" is related to your visit to the United States at the end of 2002; but I always feel that it is also inseparable from the fact that you have attached great importance to and repeatedly strengthened the construction of the "Strategic Thinking" course at the Central Party School in the past few years .I also noticed that you emphasized a few years ago that under the conditions of the third round of economic globalization in the early 21st century, we are faced with the dual mission of realizing industrialization and realizing informatization. This is a double challenge. Another double chance.You call this "triple double".Later, the Political Report of the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China stated that "looking at the overall situation, the first two decades of the 21st century are an important period of strategic opportunity for our country that must be firmly grasped and can make a lot of difference." Raised even higher!

Good question.Emphasis on seizing opportunities is a very important feature of Deng Xiaoping's strategic thinking.Especially in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Deng Xiaoping repeatedly emphasized this point.He said that we must seize the opportunity and accelerate development.He also said, I am worried about losing the opportunity! I also noticed that when you talked about seizing opportunities at the party school, you also emphasized paying attention to risks: "Such as whether economic globalization will get out of control again or even worse, what serious consequences will be caused by the serious expansion of the gap between the North and the South, and the Cold War mentality. And various other security threats, as well as various difficulties in our domestic development, there are many unpredictable factors, we must carefully observe and pay attention to risks.”

This question is also a good one.In Deng Xiaoping's strategic thinking, seizing opportunities is closely related to clearly appraising the situation and consciously enhancing the ability to resist and bear risks.Please note that the important strategic concept of "risk tolerance" was emphasized by Deng Xiaoping in May 1988, and has been emphasized more than once since then. Of course, the focus of Deng Xiaoping's strategic thinking has always been on "seizing opportunities without losing opportunities." For example, his conversations with comrades in Shanghai and Jiangsu and Zhejiang were all in the early 1990s. They all emphasized seizing opportunities, saying that the last 10 years of the 20th century were very rare opportunities.

For the 100th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping’s birth, we in Shanghai cooperated with the Literature Research Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to produce a large-scale documentary documentary "Deng Xiaoping and Shanghai". On the day of leaving, he was already on the special train, and even the temporary footboard for him to get on the train was taken away. He let Wu Bangguo and Huang Ju get on the train for ten minutes to talk. The last chance, we must seize the tail of the 20th century.The key point of Deng Xiaoping's strategic thinking you mentioned is "seizing opportunities", which is indeed very important!