December 7 to 8, “International Dialogue on the Chinese Dream” was held in Shanghai discussing the Chinese Dream and Chinese Road, Chinese Dream and its relation to world prosperity and peace development. Nearly 100 scholars and experts from more than 20 countries attended the symposium.

In embodying the people’s longing for national rejuvenation and aspirations for a good and wonderful life, the Chinese Dream has been a source of tremendous cohesion and unleashed an extraordinary amount of positive energy among Chinese citizens, said Cai Mingzhao, director of the State Council Information Office. As a collective aspiration and spiritual emblem of all the Chinese people, the Chinese Dream lends active and dynamic guiding force to China’s progress and development, said Yang Xiong, mayor of Shanghai and deputy secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the CPC.

Comrade Xi Jinping ’s view of the Chinese Dream is the result of combing fundamental Marxist principles and China’s reality of the times, asserted Wang Weiguang, president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in a speech entitled “The Chinese Dream is the Spiritual Banner for China’s Progress and Development”.  He iterated that the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics is the only approach to achieving the Chinese Dream, and that embarking on it is the fundamental reason why the Party has united and led all the Chinese people to succeed in the New Democratic Revolution and Socialist Revolution, making the China miracle that has attracted the world’s attention. In the process of realizing the Chinese Dream, he noted, the Chinese people can contribute to humankind’s development and progress. The realization of the Chinese Dream will galvanize the common dream of humankind.

Speaking on the significance of the Chinese Dream for the world, Rup Narayan Das, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) in New Delhi, asserted  that China has a prestigious history, a dynamic present, and a promising future. The Chinese Dream, as both an aspiration and a concept, will demonstrate to the world that the Chinese people do not only excel in creating wealth, facilitating entrepreneurship, governing the state and conducting diplomacy, but also in pursuing art, culture and knowledge.  He believes the world sees the Chinese Dream as a symbol of opportunity and hope.

Ken Lieberthal, director of the John L. Thornton China Center and senior fellow in Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development at Brookings, Martin Jacques, senior fellow of Politics and International Relations at the University of Cambridge and Pan Shiwei, secretary of CPC committee at Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, were also among the participants.

The Chinese version appeared in the Chinese Social Sciences Today, No. 534, December 9, 2013

Translated by Jiang Hong

Revised by Charles Horne

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