The changes in the world order have probably just begun. The Chinese people should remain calm, and we will witness many changes that are hard to believe today. China's supply chain is very strong, and China has completely taken the lead in the field of new energy, far surpassing the United States and the West. In addition, China has become the center for the implementation and fermentation of almost every advanced technology in the world. Although the United States has many good inventions and ideas, they need to be realized in China to achieve true industrialization. Moreover, China's total power generation capacity is already nearly three times that of the United States.
These current changes are still considered quantitative, but these quantitative changes will eventually lead to a revolutionary wave. Many things that we take for granted today may change, including many standards and rules in the economic field, as well as people's value judgments regarding the differences between the East and the West, and the ideological tone.
If China's supply chain continues to strengthen and becomes further deeply embedded in global trade, the US dollar's hegemony will eventually be lost, and the RMB and RMB assets will appreciate worldwide. Such appreciation will be systemic, greatly enhancing China's position in the global value chain, benefiting all Chinese people.
Therefore, China is currently in a critical phase of climbing. The decline in real estate has added some temporary difficulties, but China's hard power is still accelerating. The transition from old to new driving forces in China is generally smooth, and we are certainly able to get through this period.
China's development is comprehensive. In the past, the United States could "control" China. Last year's trade war showed that the US and China can "control" each other, and the trend is that China can "control" the US more and more. China's military strength has grown significantly, and its nuclear deterrence is becoming increasingly strong, so no one dares to interfere with China's national path. We may become a great power that truly achieves peaceful rise in human history.
The most important thing for the Chinese people now is to focus entirely on doing their own things. What does it mean to do one's own things? Personally, I think there are two aspects.
First, development, continued development, and high-quality development. We are doing quite well in this aspect. As mentioned above, whenever a new industry emerges in the world, China can quickly respond and form a prominent advantage. In almost all branches of new energy, China has become the world leader. In the future, we must not fall asleep on the issue of development. The big machine of China's manufacturing needs to keep accelerating, continue to create and consolidate advantages. I believe we have the ability to do so.
Second, we need to carefully solve some of our own problems. These problems are not necessarily because China is doing poorly; some are because people's expectations and demands exceed our continuous progress.
First, China needs to accelerate the construction of a welfare system for all citizens. In recent years, China has made great efforts to fight poverty in rural areas and achieved remarkable achievements. However, as China's overall national strength increases, people's expectations are also rising. Issues such as the low pension for elderly people in rural areas, the heavy burden of raising children in urban families, and how to help disadvantaged families have gradually emerged. People have strong opinions about these issues, and in the context of China's role as a major player on the international stage, they appear extremely uncoordinated.
Personally, I believe that building a welfare system for 1.4 billion people is an unprecedented task for human society. Perhaps we have a way to turn this difficult mission into real domestic demand for China, making it not just a burden on the national budget. How to achieve this transformation requires creative exploration by China as a socialist country.
Second, the decline in real estate has had a wide impact on the economy. The new economic momentum brought by high-tech progress is difficult to fill the growth gap lost due to the decline in real estate in the short term. To solve this problem quickly, in addition to creating market tools, we may also need to draw on the strengths of China's socialist system.
A clear situation is that the Chinese people are not really living well. In big cities, there are still many old and small houses, and many people are dissatisfied with the size and living environment of their housing. In addition, China has vast territory with significant climate differences between the north and south. Having a house in another place is a wish for many families.
I believe that the real estate sector in China has not reached its end. It's just that the expansion was too fast in recent years, and the purchasing power of the people cannot keep up. We need to reorganize social demand and achieve a new match.
Another issue is maintaining the advantages of China's collectivist values and social cohesion while maintaining a relaxed and free atmosphere under the party's leadership of the constitutional order. This issue must be resolved properly. Most of the attacks from the West against China occur in this area, and we indeed have some problems here.
Due to the overwhelming strength of the US and Western countries in the past, China faced many real pressures from their attempts at political subversion. They were the absolute aggressors, and we were the defenders. In order to defend ourselves, some measures were inevitably strict.
However, a new situation is that China's rapid rise has strongly impacted the US and Western countries' offensive power and their confidence. China's social confidence has risen comprehensively. Now, the external ability to impose military pressure on China has been dismantled, and the ability to incite internal unrest through ideological means has also been greatly weakened. China's society has begun to look at the US and Western countries equally, and we are constantly discovering their weaknesses and flaws. For example, recently, discussions on the "killing line" in China's internet were completely spontaneous. At the beginning of last year, Chinese and American netizens on Xiaohongshu (Little Red Book) did a detailed comparison, which also reflected more confidence among the Chinese people.
In this situation, I believe that there is an important strategic opportunity to explore the construction of a relaxed and free atmosphere under the party's leadership of the constitutional order. By canceling or reducing excessive control at the grassroots level, we can increase the natural resilience of society towards certain issues, or ecological digestion capacity. This will make our society more resilient and reduce potential fragility caused by excessive management.
The above-mentioned issues, I believe, can all be solved with the tools in China's hands, and external forces are basically unable to dismantle them. As long as we do them seriously, we can all achieve improvement. China is already very strong. If we can gradually solve these issues over a period of time, China will surely become the "new lighthouse" of the entire world. The ideological landscape of China and the world will undergo a great change, and many of today's troubles will be easily resolved.
Original: toutiao.com/article/1855266152123468/
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