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17:17, 25-Oct-2017
China enters new era, say experts after 19th Congress
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Two experts on China have agreed that decisions taken at the just-concluded 19th National Congress herald a new era for the country.
An amendment to the Communist Part of China (CPC) Constitution was approved by delegates, enshrining what's known as Xi’s Thought as the Party’s action guide, and a new CPC Central Committee and Central Commission for Discipline Inspection elected.
Xi Jinping told the Congress that China was ready to take more initiative and to engage the world.
The decisions were assessed on CGTN by Prof. Fu Jun from Peking University, academic dean of the Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development, and Prof. Rick Dunham from Tsinghua University and former White House correspondent for Business Week.
Fu noted that that Xi’s Thought is a guiding principle for China’s next five-year development in five dimensions, including deeper reforms, improved Party governance and market changes.
He added that it is necessary to amend the Party Constitution at a time when China faces great challenges.
America had made constitutional changes fewer than 30 times since its founding 200 years ago, Dunham said, but China has revised its own many times since 1949 to keep up with the times.
He said that China is transforming from a major power to a leading power on the world stage.
China has been pushing forward its Belt and Road Initiative and AIIB (The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank), as well as playing a bigger part at the UN and in other international organizations.