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Friday, February 9, 2024

In the Year of the Dragon, worldwide Chinese and China prospers via hard work

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The Chinese Lunar New Year is coming. Recently, there has been heavy snowfall in the south, but the bad weather won't stop people from rushing home. According to estimates from the Ministry of Transport, the number of cross-regional trips around the country during this year's Spring Festival will reach a record high of about 9 billion. The desire for reunion and the nostalgia for the hometown are concepts engraved in the bones of the Chinese people. Reunion with relatives and the steaming New Year's Eve dinner are rewards and comforts for a year of hard work and hardship. New hope is born on the New Year's Eve.

This year's Spring Festival has two special features compared to the past, which add more joy to the festival. First, the UN recognized the Lunar New Year as one of its optional holidays. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres recently thanked China and the Chinese people on behalf of the UN for their unwavering support to the UN, multilateralism and global progress. Second, this year will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. This is dual happiness. The Chinese people's expectations for family happiness and their confidence in the country's prosperity are deeply integrated.

From a global perspective, the Spring Festival's influence is growing. Nearly 20 countries have designated the Spring Festival as a legal holiday. About one-fifth of the world's population celebrate the Spring Festival in different forms. The "Chinese New Year" has truly transformed into the "Global New Year." This is not only driven by the increasing global influence of Chinese culture, but also the result of the charm of the Spring Festival itself being recognized and shared by more and more people. The meaning of the Spring Festival is very good. "The new year begins again and everything is renewed." The expectation for the warmth of spring and the recovery of all things is shared by all mankind. The forms of celebrating the Spring Festival - writing Spring Festival couplets, decorating windows with paper cuts, lion and dragon dances - have a vitality that invigorates people. The connotation of the Spring Festival - joy, harmony and reunion - contains profound humanistic care. The Spring Festival is closely connected with Chinese culture, and it is the most condensed expression of Chinese culture. The charm and spirit of the Spring Festival are the charm and spirit of Chinese culture.

2024 is the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese lunar calendar. The dragon embodies the aspiration for soaring ambition, strength without dominance, and benevolence toward all beings. It serves as the totem and distinctive cultural symbol of the Chinese nation. UN Secretary-General Guterres remarked that "we need these qualities [of the dragon] to rise to today's global challenges." This is a statement of truth. As the world once again stands at the crossroads of history, enlightened individuals consciously seek courage, wisdom, and strength from the Chinese nation, an ancient nation that has gone through many storms and tribulations.

Over the past year, facing various risks and challenges at home and abroad, China has endured significant pressure and experienced numerous trials. However, amid the storms, we have strengthened our physique and fortified our resilience. It is undeniable that present-day China plays a pivotal role globally. Yet, with the Chinese people's vision of a world where self-improvement benefits all, they consistently contribute certainty and positive energy to the complex and changing world.

Just as General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee Xi Jinping pointed out in his Spring Festival greetings to all Chinese, looking back at all the hard work over the past year, we have more deeply realized that building a strong country and realizing national rejuvenation on all fronts through the Chinese path to modernization is not only a bright road for the Chinese people to pursue a better and happy life, but also a just way to promote world peace and development. Chinese people do not expect free lunch; they believe that happiness is achieved through hard work. Whether weak or strong, poor or prosperous, the Chinese adhere to benevolence, mutual prosperity, and view plunder and aggression as great evils. The Spring Festival, the oldest, grandest, and most significant traditional festival in China, embodies the most authentic spiritual and cultural essence of the Chinese nation. It represents a spirit that is peaceful, harmonious, positive, and resilient.

A dragon soars in the sky, but China's development must remain grounded, a truth deeply understood by all Chinese people. 2024 marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and is a crucial year for achieving the goals and tasks of the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25). The challenges and difficulties facing China in the Year of the Dragon may not be fewer than in previous years, but we also believe in the auspiciousness of the "Dragon Year." The Chinese economy has stabilized and rebounded, with signs of a rising trend in the new qualitative productive forces during the Year of the Dragon. Our confidence is not mere rhetoric but stems from the fundamental lessons learned over the 75-year development journey of the People's Republic of China. It also draws from the immense strength embodied in the Chinese nation during the Spring Festival and the spirit of continuous self-improvement.

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Sunday, May 14, 2023

Chinese modernization leads to Age of Great Majority: Martin Jacques

Martin Jacques: China has achieved a great deal in the past years

We are at a historic moment. Until very recently, modernity was virtually synonymous with the West. Indeed, the West believed - and still does - that there was only one form of modernity and that was Western modernity. There was just one path: modernization was a process of westernization. This story has a long history. Modernization starts with Britain's Industrial Revolution in the first half of the 19th century. It provided the wherewithal for Britain's vast colonial empire, which came to embrace a quarter of the world's population, in the second half of the 19th century. By 1900, modernization had spread to the US and much of Europe. Apart from Japan, it was an exclusively Western phenomenon. Western-style modernization divided the world into two: the rich world, that was the West; and the great majority, most of whom were colonized. The turning-point came in the second half of the 20th century. The Chinese Revolution in 1949 and decolonization created the possibility for modernization to spread to the great majority of the world's population.

China was to prove the decisive factor in this new possibility. Its demographic size, its sense of independence and identity, its rich historical inheritance, and a remarkable political leadership enabled it to achieve a Chinese path to modernization. It was not the first East Asian country to do so, but it was by far the most important. And its success has greatly enhanced the ability of other developing countries to undertake the process of modernization. We now find ourselves at a great historical juncture. Hitherto modernization was the preserve of a small minority of privileged countries in the world, with the great majority of the world excluded. Now modernization is no longer for a tiny sliver of humanity but is increasingly accessible to the great majority.

We stand on the eve of a very different kind of world. China has been the author and architect of this possibility. It has been the exemplar of what it is possible for the developing world to achieve - huge reduction in poverty, extraordinary economic growth, the transformation of the lives of the people, an economy to match that of America - who would have thought in 1950 that the economy of a former semi-colony, virtually stagnant for the best part of two centuries, could have reached such a point in, historically speaking, the blink of an eye?

When we think of modernization, we think, probably more than anything else, of technology. When we recall Britain's Industrial Revolution, we remember the steam engine and railways. China's remarkable technological advances - WeChat, high-speed rail, 5G, space exploration, quantum computing, AI and its electric cars that are about to take the world by storm - are a source of great pride not only for China but the whole developing world, a demonstration of what can be achieved. And, of course, they are the compelling evidence that China now stands on the verge of becoming the world's technological leader.

But modernization is about much more than economics and technology. Let us return to what Western modernization meant for the world. It paved the way for colonialism, it divided the world into two, one part very small and rich, the other very large and poor. Chinese modernization promises something very different. While the West colonized large tracts of the world, China, in contrast, offers them a win-win relationship and the Belt and Road Initiative. Or take global governance. The Western-made world is a minoritarian world, a global order dominated by a small oligarchy of rich countries in the G7 representing little more than 12 percent of the world's population. For the first time in modern history, we can now see the possibility of a majoritarian form of global governance based first and foremost on the peoples of the developing countries, including, of course, China, which together account for over 85 percent of the world's population. Such a prospect would have been unimaginable in 1950, let alone 1900. While the Age of the West was the Age of the Small Minority, the Age of China will be the Age of the Great Majority. The whole world will be enfranchised.

But it will mean much more than that. There will be a new kind of respect for countries and cultures. Countries will be encouraged to pursue their own path based on their own distinctive history. Western modernization required them to follow a Western path and pursue a Western-style modernity. One of the tragedies of colonialism (and neo-colonialism, indeed) was that it sought to undermine, eliminate, and destroy the indigenous traditions, customs, and practices of those who were colonized. In the process, much of the history and continuity of these societies was lost. The present-day Western hostility to the idea of civilization is because the very term is testament to, and an acknowledgement of, independence and difference, which the West sought to excise in the name of modernization and Westernization. On the contrary, civilizations and civilizational difference need to be recognized, honored, and respected in the manner articulated in China's Global Civilization Initiative. China as a civilization-state has a deep understanding of the value of civilizational difference.

It seems highly likely that the era of Chinese modernization will coincide with a dramatic new phase of technological innovation which will transform the world in ways far greater than anything we have ever seen in the past across a range of fields from artificial intelligence to medical science. While the potential dangers and pitfalls are many, the future holds huge hope for humanity.

The author is a visiting professor at the Institute of Modern International Relations at Tsinghua University and a senior fellow at the China Institute, Fudan University. Follow him on Twitter @martjacques. opinion@globaltimes.com.cn

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Wednesday, February 8, 2023

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SHANGHAI: Chinese tech companies are upping the ante in the fast-growing artificial intelligence (AI)-generated content sector as ChatGPT, the latest chatbot launched by US-based artificial intelligence research company OpenAI, gains wide popularity since its November debut and revolutionises the field due to its advanced conversational capabilities.

Leveraging machine learning algorithms, ChatGPT is able to mimic humanlike responses with AI-generated content (AIGC) and assist people with tasks such as writing essays and scripts, making business proposals and even checking programme bugs, which it does within seconds.

AIGC-related stocks continued to rally in the A-share market, with Chinese AI companies, such as Cloudwalk Technology and Speechocean, seeing their shares surge by the daily limit of 20% on the science and technology innovation board on Monday.

Experts said that AIGC is likely to become a new engine driving innovation in digital content production and freeing human creators from tedious tasks, with a wide range of commercial applications in fields such as culture, media, entertainment and education.

Chinese tech heavyweight Baidu Inc announced yesterday that it will complete internal testing of its AI chatbot service, similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, called “Ernie Bot” in March.

The Beijing-based company has invested large sums of money in developing its Ernie system, a large-scale machine-learning model that has been trained on massive data over several years and possesses in-depth semantic comprehension and generation capabilities.

Robin Li, co-founder and chief executive officer of Baidu, said in January that AIGC will subvert existing content production models in the next decade, and AI has the potential to meet massive demand for content at a 10th of the cost and a hundred or thousand times faster.

Jianying, an AI-powered short-video editing app launched by Chinese tech company Byte-Dance, allows users to generate creative videos by simply putting in a few keywords or a paragraph of text.

Online gaming company Net-Ease has released its AI music creation platform, Tianyin, where users can customise a song by entering lyrics.

Pan Helin, co-director of the Digital Economy and Financial Innovation Research Centre at Zhejiang University’s International Business School, said that ChatGPT, as a milestone in AIGC-related technologies, uses reinforcement learning from human feedback to train the data model, with significant enhancements in natural language processing capacities that improve the logic of responses.

Chinese enterprises should step up efforts to roll out indigenous versions of the AI-powered chatbot and increase investments to improve related algorithms and computing power, Pan said.

Chen Jia, an independent strategy analyst, said: “Chinese tech enterprises have unique advantages in expanding AI application scenarios globally.”

China has made significant progress in developing the AI industry.

A Stanford University report showed that China filed more than half the world’s AI patent applications in 2021 and continued to lead the world in the number of AI journals, conference papers and related publications.

Baidu, Tencent and Alibaba have invested heavily in promoting the commercial use of AI, and some Chinese AI unicorns have grown rapidly in recent years, Chen said.

But he noted that Chinese tech companies lag behind top-notch foreign competitors in fundamental research and development input and comprehensive innovation abilities.

“AIGC is in the initial stage of development, and there is still a long way to go to realise large-scale commercialisation, as the application scenarios and related laws and regulations are far from mature,” said Guo Tao, deputy head of the China Electronic Commerce Expert Service Centre.

Meanwhile, the use of AIGC-related technologies raises concerns about ethics, copyright protection and privacy, he added.— China Daily/ANN