China's rapid rise in a model that the West does not recognize has brought considerable shock to the world. The West first predicted that China would collapse after the political turmoil at the turn of spring and summer in 1989; after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, they predicted that China would follow in the footsteps of the Soviet Union; before and after the death of Deng Xiaoping, they predicted that China would be in chaos; The prosperity of China will be gone forever; the outbreak of "SARS" was portrayed as China's Chernobyl; China joined the WTO, and some people predicted that China would collapse; There was going to be chaos, and it all turned into a joke.In a word, the China collapse theory collapsed.

But in China, due to various reasons, many people still have doubts about the rise of their own country; some people who only agree with the Western model even think that if China does not evolve towards the Western model, it can only be a dead end.In fact, anyone with a little international vision will find that despite China's many problems, China's rise is an indisputable fact.The Chinese model is not perfect, but its overall success has left non-Western countries that have adopted the Western model in the dust, and Western countries themselves have been shocked by it.The Chinese model was formed in the turmoil and competition around the world, and what comes out of competition is powerful, so this model will not collapse, but will only be further improved and lead to greater glory.From a longer-term historical perspective, the rise of China is not the rise of an ordinary country, but the revival of a great civilization that has lasted for five thousand years. rise.

If the ancient Egyptian civilization, the ancient Mesopotamia civilization, the ancient Indian civilization, and the ancient Greek civilization in history could continue to this day and realize the transformation of modern countries, then they may also be "civilized countries" today, but this opportunity has already passed. no longer exists.If the ancient Roman Empire had not been torn apart and completed the transformation of a modern country, then Europe may also have been a "civilized country" of considerable scale, but this can only be a deduction and assumption.If the Islamic world composed of dozens of countries can complete the combination of tradition and modernity and integrate into a unified country to rise, then it may also be a "civilized country" with a population of one billion. It is also an unattainable vision.Looking around the world today, there is only one country with thousands of years of ancient civilization and modern state that almost completely overlaps, and that is China.

This kind of "civilized country" has a strong historical and cultural background, and will not follow others, will not copy the West or any other model, it will only continue to evolve and develop along its own unique track and logic; It may also experience bumps and bumps on the road, but the momentum of its rise is irresistible, and the direction of its rise is irreversible; this kind of "civilized country" has the ability to absorb all the advantages of other civilizations without losing itself, and has a positive impact on the world. Civilization makes original contributions because it is an endogenous subject civilization that constantly produces new coordinates.

This kind of "civilized country" can exist and develop independently without the approval of others. Its political and economic model is different from others in many ways. It was different in the past, and it is different now.It's like Chinese expands its influence without the approval of English; it's like "Sun Tzu's Art of War" doesn't need Clausewitz's approval; it's like Confucius doesn't need Plato's approval; it's like China's macro-control does not need Approved by the Fed.What is more likely to happen is that the former will gradually affect the latter: Chinese may gradually affect the development of English, "Sun Tzu's Art of War" has and will continue to affect the development of Western military thought; both Confucius and Plato have provided valuable lessons for human society. Wisdom; China's macro-control has brought many lessons for the United States.

The first batch of countries that rose in the 18th and 19th centuries, such as Britain and France, had a population of tens of millions; the second batch of countries that rose in the 20th century, such as the United States and Japan, had a population of hundreds of millions ; and the rise of China in the 21st century today has a population of one billion, which exceeds the combined population of the previous two batches of countries.This is not a simple increase in population, but the rise of a country with different qualities, the rise of a "civilized country" where five thousand years of civilization overlaps with a modern country, the rise of a new development model, and a The rise of independent political discourse may bring a new round of "great changes unseen in a millennium" to the world.