Vision China: Journalists and experts share thoughts on China's new era

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Journalists and experts have gathered in Beijing to discuss the meaning behind China's "new era". At the event hosted by China Daily, the country's national English newspaper, experts expressed their thoughts on the concept, saying the new development approach is not without challenges. Omar Khan tells us more.

ROBERT LAWRENCE KUHN INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIST "The problems and challenges facing China today domestically and internationally are more complex than ever before, the complexity adds to what this new era is"

Robert Kuhn, an international scholar with nearly 30 years of experience covering China, defines these complexities as a combination of economic, social and territorial challenges.

ROBERT LAWRENCE KUHN INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIST "The key concept is between the unbalanced adequate development and people's every growing expectation for better life new era contradiction what it does is it drives towards qualitative growth, rather than quantitative growth…policy energizing concept."

Such an approach termed by leaders as development with "Chinese characteristics" is, in the opinion of experts, a result of China's political and social progress.

ANDREW MOODY SENIOR CORRESPONDENT, CHINA DAILY "In the West, we're very used to the idea that western modernity is the finished product western modernity is not the eternal context and far from a universal model. The new era is a beginning of representation of a Chinese modernity and the benefit it can bring."

As China enters the new era, experts argue the country should take on a more direct approach to share its development experiences with the world.

LIU XIN CGTN ANCHOR "I think there's a kind of excitement surrounding the New Era, of course I think it's a good thing that people are more confident. But let us not get carried away. China is entering a New Ear, we're not at the center of the world stage yet and not to dress it up and just be brave to say we're not perfect but we're trying."

The event dubbed "Vision China" is the first of its kind of many discussion seminars organized and hosted by China Daily. The seminar aims to expand discussions on China-related topics through different perspectives. Some 500 people attended the event. Omar Khan, CGTN, Beijing.