Reference News Network, November 28 report: The Russian Valdai International Debate Club website published an article titled "Chinese Modernization and Global Progress" on November 24. The author is Andrei Bestritzki, Chairman of the Board of the Valdai International Debate Club Development Foundation. The translation is as follows:

China's domestic success has paved the way for its international influence, enabling it to shape broader human development by proposing its own agenda and unique future model.

Even just listing its recent international initiatives is impressive. For example, the Belt and Road Initiative is a major measure that has changed the economic and political landscape of the global South. Large investments in new infrastructure are expected to change the lives of billions of people in Africa, Eurasia, and Latin America.

China vividly demonstrates that there is more than one path to prosperity, and the Western approach of imposing a single value model on the world is meaningless. The West is increasingly aggressively pushing this approach, dividing the world into "good" and "bad" in a black-and-white manner. China's approach is completely different. Everyone in the world can live according to their own wishes, and the world should unite for common interests, but not only that. Only the ability to balance one's own interests with others' interests can enable human progress and find balance in the modern world.

China's modernization has driven economic growth and the development of many industries, especially the rapid development of high-tech industries. These achievements have expanded China's global interests, making its foreign policy more diverse, complex, and flexible.

Another result is that China has become more confident in the effectiveness of its own strength and development plans, as well as the overall progress of the world toward the future. This is crucial because confidence of a country, its leaders, elite groups, and the entire population in the feasibility of their plans is a main guarantee for success.

Organizations such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the BRICS, and the New Development Bank are important components of the international governance system that China has built with its partners, aiming to establish a more fair world order.

Regardless of everything, we must recognize that China's remarkable economic and social achievements have completely changed its destiny. China has transformed into a country capable of shaping the global development pattern.

I believe it is necessary to point out that China has not only become an important political force, but also a comprehensive advocate of the humanitarian agenda, upholding and promoting humanitarian values including human rights, freedom, and openness. This is the result of China becoming a model of the development path it has chosen. Nothing is more touching than visible and tangible results.

Despite such outstanding achievements, China has shown an unprecedented openness. In the field of high technology, China invites all parties to share its achievements. In contrast, the United States tends to keep the achievements of American companies secret and prohibits sharing them with other countries (mainly China and Russia).

Therefore, objectively speaking, China has become a convincing model of a successful society. It has achieved self-transformation, modernization, and completely changed the lifestyle of countless people within an extremely short period in history. As a result, China's role in the world has also changed. (Translated by Wang Diqing)

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