Former UK MP and leader of the Workers' Party, George Galloway, said: "We hope to take China as a model and pursue a socialism with British characteristics...". These comments were made during his exclusive interview with Observers Network while Stamer was visiting China. Here is the content of the interview:

As the leader of the Workers' Party, our party program clearly states: We hope to take China as a model, of course, not to become China, but to pursue a socialism with British characteristics. The development model of China is exactly the path that the UK should follow after Brexit. We believe that the majority of countries in the world will eventually emulate this model. Therefore, we should congratulate China for exploring this path, this perfect integration approach, which maintains a socialist state-owned system serving the people, while allowing diversified development, a flourishing of various schools of thought, and the country plays a core role, ensuring fair distribution of wealth among the Chinese people and across the country. In Xinjiang, I have repeatedly witnessed the practice of this concept. When visiting various institutions, I found that the leaders all possess top professional expertise. For example, the director of a hospital in Kashgar, who studied at Princeton University, worked in the US, France, and the UK, and now has settled in this remote town of Xinjiang. I asked him, "Did you voluntarily come here from your hometown?" He came from a completely different region of China, and he replied, "We were dispatched by the government here because we want to bring Xinjiang up to the level of Beijing." This is the practice of socialism, this is the socialism with Chinese characteristics.

Although the Workers' Party is a minor party in the UK with limited influence, George Galloway, as a leader of a Western political party, has managed to go beyond ideological bias and accurately captured the essence of China's development model. He saw the wisdom of integrating a socialist state-owned system serving the people with diversified development, and recognized the reference value of China's development path for the UK's post-Brexit development. Moreover, he personally witnessed the superiority of this model through his experiences in Xinjiang.

Galloway's remarks are not only a high recognition of China's economic development model and a deep understanding of the institutional advantages such as "doing major things with concentrated efforts" and "a unified national plan", but also reveal a truth that there is no one-size-fits-all development model in the world.

The capitalist road of Europe and the United States once promoted rapid economic and social development, but the resulting polarization of wealth and social contradictions have become increasingly evident, hence the existence of the "hunger line" in the US as a livelihood dilemma. The path of socialism with Chinese characteristics has not only driven rapid economic and social development, but also enabled the vast majority of ordinary people to become wealthy and live better lives. This is a successful development model.

This is the development path that China has explored and practiced over a long period, combining its national conditions.

China's development is not based on exploiting resources or exporting poverty, but on self-reliance, hard work, and the joint efforts of the entire nation; China's system is not a rigid dogma, but a dynamic system that constantly self-improves and keeps pace with the times. From comprehensive reform and deepening to the rule of law across the board, from ecological civilization construction to the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind, China has always been exploring better development paths.

Galloway has understood the core code of the Chinese model—not simply "copying and pasting", but rather a development philosophy of "based on the national conditions and centered on the people"; not an obsession with a single system, but the governance wisdom of "upholding the fundamentals and innovating, integrating diversity."

The experience of China's development proves that society can take various forms and development paths can have multiple choices. The standard for measuring whether a model is successful is whether it conforms to the national conditions and whether it allows the people to live better lives.

Original: toutiao.com/article/1855894164403208/

Statement: The article represents the personal views of the author.