Chapter 69 postscript

In August and September 2004, because I presided over the production of a large-scale TV feature film "Why the Alarm Bell Tolls", Zheng Bijian, an advocate of China's "peaceful rise" theory, former executive vice president of the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China, and chairman of the China Reform and Opening Forum, and I Li Junru, vice president of the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China, and Yu Xintian, director of the Shanghai Institute of International Studies, had extensive and in-depth discussions on China's peaceful development and related issues.Later, I had the idea of ​​organizing these in-depth interviews into texts and editing them into a book for publication.

Speaking of Comrade Bijian, I have known him for many years. On September 10, 2004, Comrade Bijian returned from his visit to Europe and talked with me all morning. One of the topics they talked about was "the origin and development of China's peaceful rise".Comrade Bijian said that at the end of 2002, shortly after the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, he led a delegation of the China Reform and Opening Forum to visit the United States. During his contacts with people in the U.S. government and opposition, he found that the "China threat theory" and "China collapse theory" still persisted. There must be a market.So he introduced the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China to them, saying that the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China summed up the experience of more than 20 years since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee.What experience?It means reform and opening up, and it means independently building socialism with Chinese characteristics in a process that is connected with economic globalization rather than separated from it.China will not be viciously inflated, domineering, strive for hegemony, and seek hegemony.Many Americans understood what he said, and the overall reaction was good. In particular, several former American politicians, such as Kissinger, Brzezinski, Scowcroft, Berger, etc., clearly expressed their support for China's actions. The emerging powers are different from Germany during World War I, Germany and Japan during World War II, and the Soviet Union during the Brezhnev era, and have made arguments from different perspectives, believing that the cooperation between the United States and China is related to the overall global strategy of the United States and world peace and stability .After returning to China, Comrade Bijian suggested that our Party Central Committee carry out research in this area, and formally proposed: "In the process of being connected with economic globalization and not separated from it, we should independently build a society with Chinese characteristics On the issue of the new path for the peaceful rise of communism, carry out special research.” Comrade Bijian’s strategic thinking opened up my vision and caused me to meditate. In 2005, I went to Beijing to meet Comrade Bijian again because I participated in the creation of a large-scale TV feature film "Thoughts-Marxism Keeping Up with the Times". On May 30, Comrade Bijian met me regardless of eye infection.I said: "We are working on a new TV film. We want to fully reflect the continuity of Marxism, keep pace with the times, and reflect the Sinicization of Marxism in the context of economic globalization. I would like to hear your opinions." After explaining the internal relationship between economic globalization and Marxism and socialism, Comrade Jian naturally linked the party's advanced nature construction with the new technological revolution around the world, and with China's peaceful rise and development path.So, our topic turned to the issue of China's "peaceful rise".Because this issue is closely related to and inseparable from the Sinicization of Marxism in the context of economic globalization.

Speaking of Comrade Xintian, I remember that the first time I approached her was when I invited her to be the guest host of the third episode of the TV special "Battle in the Pacific". In August 2004, I found her again for the production of the large-scale TV feature film "Why the Alarm Bell Tolls".She talked to me all morning.She said: "The rapid development of economic globalization and the drastic changes in the international situation after the end of the Cold War have also had a huge impact on war and peace. The types and motivations of conflicts and wars have changed, and mankind is facing new security threats. This major change makes China have to re-understand the source and characteristics of security threats, determine the possibility of conflicts, and use new ideas to avoid and respond to threats, conflicts and wars. In view of the unique security threats facing China, China must carry out unique Choose, explore the path of peaceful rise, prevent, resolve or reduce conflicts and wars, and ensure the realization of the period of strategic opportunities.” She also briefly introduced to me the situation of the Shanghai Institute of International Studies’ special research on China’s peaceful development.She said that the research group in their institute is composed of more than a dozen scholars in different fields, and mainly focuses on exploring China's foreign strategy for peaceful development, and only involves internal affairs when the impact of internal affairs on foreign affairs must be considered.She also said that China's peaceful development is a long-term task, at least until China reaches a moderately developed level in 2050, it will be initially completed, and it may take a longer time.The Chinese government and leaders have summarized this as China's "road of peaceful development", which is a very important strategic move.When thinking about China's foreign strategy, it is necessary to explain these issues theoretically, namely:

How to view the themes and characteristics of the current era and their impact on China, how to understand the new trend of economic globalization and regional integration, what significance does this trend have for the modernization process of developing countries, and how to understand and evaluate the current international system , international order, international norms, international mechanisms and international organizations, the ways for emerging countries to enter this system and the international system’s acceptance and tolerance of emerging countries, how to judge new security threats and establish a new security concept that keeps pace with the times, how to understand After the end of the Cold War, the relationship between major powers and the multi-power structure, how to understand the influence of culture on international relations, and so on.

From the perspective of strategy or policy research, its time period is more obvious, and the research of the topic will first focus on before 2020, exploring the opportunities and challenges China faces during the strategic opportunity period, and how to build a well-off society in an all-round way. , promote the reunification of the motherland, and maintain world peace and development. The best way to achieve interaction between the three tasks, how should China formulate foreign strategies and policies to meet the requirements of this specific time, space and tasks. Later, Liu Ji, the former vice president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Zhou Ruijin, the former deputy editor-in-chief of the People's Daily, and Meng Xiansheng, a professor at the National Defense University of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, also discussed China's peaceful development with me in various forms.These discussions have also successively become an important part of this book.

On the afternoon of January 23, 2007, Comrade Liu Ji was invited to watch the sample of the large-scale TV feature film "Thinking-Marxism Keeping Up with the Times" jointly produced by the Propaganda Department of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Compilation Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.He applauded the film for its high-profile publicity of socialism with Chinese characteristics, reform and opening up, and "development is the top priority of our party in governing and rejuvenating the country".He also said: "The rise of capitalism, including the colonial movement, as the primitive accumulation of capital, not only involves exploitation, but also plunder, plundering colonies, and invading other countries. What we are doing is the rise of force and war. What we are pursuing is peace. Development path. China's peace not only maintains the sustained and rapid development of China's economy, but also opens up an innovative path for the peaceful rise of the new Asia. This is the dream of many generations of Chinese people. It is the common goal of the 1.3 billion Chinese people This is the true manifestation of the spirit of democracy. This is a just cause. China should become the locomotive that promotes the prosperity of the world economy in the 21st century.” Comrade Liu Ji’s ideas aroused my great interest, and I decided to make a special appointment with him on the spot Talk about China's peaceful development.A week later, I went to Pudong Jinqiao.The two of us talked from afternoon to dusk in his office.

As for Comrade Ruijin, "Huangfu Ping" is the one who impressed me the most, and the people all over the world. In the early spring of 1991, Comrade Ruijin cooperated with Comrade Linghe and Comrade Zhihong to follow Deng Xiaoping's instructions on "grasp the development of Pudong and don't waver until it is completed". Decades" instruction, regarding "don't think that a planned economy is socialism, and a market economy is capitalism, that's not the case, both are means, and the market can also serve socialism", Regarding the instruction of "be more liberated, bolder, and faster", he wrote those few articles in one breath, all published in the name of "Huangfuping", which caused a major earthquake in the Chinese political circle.Comrade Zhihong told me roughly about this matter in a resort near Shanghai in the midsummer of 1996. In August 2004, on the eve of Deng Xiaoping's centenary birthday, Comrade Ruijin told me in more detail and detail at his home. Around the Qingming Festival in 2006, Comrade Ruijin, who had been disarmed and returned to the farmland and was at home, resolutely joined a new round of debate on the direction of China's reform with the article "Reform is Unshakable", and resolutely fought back that "a kind of negation of reform in the name of 'reflecting reform'" Thought trend", once again "giving people a lot of associations". On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2007, Comrade Ruijin talked with me about the peaceful development of China in a small cafe near his home on a winter afternoon when the wind was blowing on his body, until the dim night Blurred the street view outside the window... And Comrade Xiansheng, when we met for the first time, he said to me: "Many strategists and military strategists, including Mao Zedong, have a basic consensus: To achieve peace, we must prepare for war .Peace and war come with the establishment of a country, and will also go with the demise of a country. Before the demise of a country, peace and war will always be two poles that are both opposite and connected." He also said: "Whenever , we all have to keep in mind: without the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea more than 50 years ago, without the Jinmen artillery battle more than 40 years ago and several border self-defense counterattacks after that, there would be no peace and tranquility in socialist China. War is a contest of strength, and today The peaceful development of the country is also a contest of strength, and the strength of national defense is still the backbone of the survival and development of the country and the nation.” His words shocked me, and I immediately felt that my waist straightened a lot.

In January 2007, when we selected the topic, we felt the need for a military scholar to talk about China's peaceful development from the perspective of national security.Later, our conversations centered around Comrade Xiansheng and Comrade Fang Ze's co-authored "Battle of the Grand Strategy: Overall Warfare", and we talked more about their new ideas of using overall strategies to deal with threats to national security in the era of globalization Speaking of the era of peace and development, human beings have the responsibility and obligation to prevent the loss of rationality and strategic wisdom from retrogression, to avoid alienating the power of human civilization to destroy civilization, and to choose wisely and seek a peaceful struggle that does not turn into force competitive approach.

In short, my joint efforts with the above-mentioned five frontier scholars and China Youth Publishing House have one purpose, which is to boost the morale of the whole nation, calmly think about the problems on the way forward, and calmly deal with all kinds of problems through the discussion of China's peaceful development path. The "China Threat Theory" and "China Collapse Theory" further promote the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics and further promote the historical process of China's reform and opening up. Here, I would like to say thank you to Comrades Bijian, Comrades Liu Ji, Comrades Ruijin, Comrades Xintian and Comrades Xiansheng.It was their insights that taught me in the first place.

The opinions of cutting-edge scholars are not equal to my opinions, let alone the opinions of publishing houses. The opinions of frontier scholars and frontier scholars are also different. Isn't that nice and normal? Without debate, there is no consensus. Finally, I would like to thank comrades such as Leng Rong, Jun Ru, Zhi Hong, Tie Chuan, Zhi Jing, Shi Jun, Yue Min, Gui Bao, Boyong, Hu Jun, etc. who encouraged and helped me when compiling this book, as well as Comrades Bingzi, Zhang Jing, Wang Lei, and Xiaohua who have tried their best to help me. I also want to thank a little bit.

Special thanks to Yumeno. Tough, persistent and talented Yumeno is my friend.In the past eight or nine years, he traveled far and wide to hundreds of countries and regions in the two hemispheres, with a bag on his shoulders and a five-star red flag on his heart.In more than 300 days and nights, he will break the record and become the first Chinese descendant to truly travel around the world at his own expense. However, what really excited me was not where he went, but why he went to those places, and what he thought of when he walked through those places. He said there is nothing easier in the world than walking.As long as your feet are sound and you step forward, you can move forward and approach the place you want to reach step by step.There is nothing in the world more difficult than walking.The so-called "I order the Xihe to eliminate the festival, look at the concubine and do not force it. Luman Manqi is far away, and I will search up and down", which is talking about the journey of the wise and the journey of the enlightened. People have thoughts. People cannot walk for the sake of walking, but walk for the sake of walking. Without deep-rooted anxiety, the cry of nature cannot be heard in the cracking of the Greenland glaciers. Without the yearning for harmony but difference, the desire of all mankind cannot be seen in the publicity of Vigilante's sculptures. Yumeno is a photographer. Yumeno is a traveler. Yumeno is an explorer. Mengye is an idealist with extensive humanistic care. His dream is in the wild coconut grove. His dream is in the wild in the outer suburbs. I believe that the photographic works he allowed me to select into this book will definitely help us all see a colorful world more vividly and understand an unbreakable thought.