China to make greater contributions to human development, progress

For the international community, the Communist Party of China (CPC)'s development path and governance experience have long offered a crucial window into contemporary China.

Throughout its 105-year history, the CPC has remained unwaveringly committed to pursuing happiness for the Chinese people, dedicated itself more deeply to the common good of humanity, and stood firmer in shouldering its responsibility for human progress.

Over the past 105 years, the CPC has led the Chinese people through arduous struggle and persistent exploration, enabling the Chinese nation to achieve the great transformation -- from standing up and growing prosperous to becoming strong.

China achieved the poverty reduction target set by the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development ahead of schedule; its per capita GDP has exceeded $13,000 for three consecutive years; its economy has grown at an average annual growth rate of 5.4 percent over the past five years, contributing around 30 percent of global economic growth; and the country has established the world's largest education, social security, and healthcare system.

Today, China continues to boost its economic strength, make booming advances in scientific and technological innovation, and the ecological environment is steadily improving. Amid an increasingly complex and volatile international landscape where world peace faces grave risks and global development encounters bottlenecks, China has become a pillar of global stability, a pivotal force shaping the new international order, a major engine driving global development, and a reliable defender of international justice.

China's remarkable achievements are fundamentally attributable to the strong leadership of the CPC. In May this year, after visiting the Museum of the Communist Party of China, Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov wrote: "All the brilliant achievements and great victories are the result of the Chinese people's efforts for the future of their country under the strong leadership of the CPC."

An increasing number of international observers have come to recognize that China's development miracle is no accident; it is underpinned by the CPC's strong political leadership.

From implementing the 1st Five-Year Plan and establishing the basic system of socialism in the early years of the People's Republic of China, to launching reform and opening-up and continuously unleashing and developing productive forces, and then to overcoming challenges and forging ahead in the new era, the CPC has consistently pursued long-term goals with unwavering determination, steadily advancing the most extensive and profound process of modernization in human history.

Across the world, improving people's well-being is a universal goal for all governments and a key measure of a ruling party's governance capacity. Based on China's national conditions, the CPC has led the Chinese people in forging a path to modernization that differs from the Western model and in creating a new form of human advancement.

Chinese modernization has shattered the long-held stereotype that modernization equates to Westernization. It has offered developing countries a new option for independently pursuing modernization and provided a Chinese approach to humanity's search for better social systems.

The CPC's long-term, stable governance, and sustained commitment to national development, have delivered valuable experience for political parties around the world.

As Montenegrin Deputy Prime Minister Budimir Aleksic observed, Chinese modernization offers the world a new development model and proves that modernization does not have to come at the expense of a country's own characteristics.

The CPC's more than a century of endeavor is not only a journey of China's own development but also a path of win-win cooperation that benefits the world. The CPC has always viewed China's development within the broader context of human progress and closely linked China's future with that of people around the globe.

China initiated the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence and has enshrined the path of peaceful development in both its Constitution and the Constitution of the CPC. It advocates building a new type of international relations and a community with a shared future for humanity, while unswervingly championing the common values of humanity. It works with its partners to advance high-quality Belt and Road cooperation and takes an active part in reforming the global governance system.

Thongloun Sisoulith, general secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Central Committee and Lao president, noted, "China has become a banner that leads the development of the socialist system and developing countries, and a pillar for maintaining global peace and promoting a multipolar world. China's development provides valuable experience for developing countries, including Laos."

On the new journey ahead, in the face of global, epoch-making and historical changes, the CPC will continue to lead China in pursuing the building of a community with a shared future for humanity as its goal. China will remain a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, and a defender of the international order, working hand in hand with all countries to achieve cooperation and mutual benefit.