How does people-centered philosophy navigate China's society?

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How does people-centered philosophy navigate China's society? Michael Schumann, a veteran businessman from Germany, has just wrapped up his visit to 21 cities in China over the past 6 weeks. Check out Schumann's new insights on China!

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Michael Schumann: If you look at recent polls, 78% of the German population are dissatisfied with the current government.
69% of the German population does not believe that the state is fit to solve the problems at hand.
And if you would ask around on German streets, the majority of people will probably tell you that they don't believe that their interests lie at the heart of current politics, so they don't feel represented by the state anymore. I think that's a very dangerous development.

And here, if you look at how Chinese society was organized, there are bright and dark sides, like everywhere.
You see that people are at the center of governance in many, many aspects, with larger policies, but down to the everyday.
I give you an example. When I arrived at a Beijing airport changing flights, I walked through the gates and I saw that in the middle of the airport, there was a lounge for the elderly, the disabled, pregnant women, first-time flyers scared of flying. And you could just access it.
I don't know of one German airport having that. So, I thought, how considerate. Many of these small observations add up to a picture of a society that puts people first.
And I think that is something that we can learn from in the West, and we should learn from. We need to rediscover putting people's interests first.

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