China is the 21st century's greatest success story, rising from poverty to become a leading force for change in the world. In these essays, learn how China is transforming social and economic life.
• China's Targeted Poverty Alleviation program has helped half its population - 800 million people - overcome extreme poverty.
• With free education from pre-school through graduate school, China's youth are pursuing their dreams, making new breakthroughs in science and technology, and learning to lead for common prosperity and hope for a shared future.
• China's leading the world in efforts to save the planet from climate change disaster, rapidly producing solar panels, wind turbines and hydro power, replacing fossil fuels.
• Electric cars, high speed rail, clean and quiet metro subways in all major cities are setting an example for the world.
• With the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) China is extending its own infrastructure revolution to friends in the Global South: ports, highways, schools and hospitals, power grids, communication and industrialization, instead of debt traps and neo-colonial dependency.
• The BRICS platform of geo-economic cooperation is forging a path to peaceful common prosperity for a shared future, instead of endless war.
• In numerous global conflicts, China plays a role of mediator and peacemaker, recently achieving rapprochement between Iran and Saudi Arabia, and helped mediate ceasefire between Pakistan and India.
Contributors include Gerald Horne, Jacqueline Luqman, Margaret Kimberley, K.J. Noh, Paweł Wargan, Kenneth Hammond, Radhika Desai, Megan Russell, Danny Haiphong, and recent visitors to China from Friends of Socialist China: Carlos Martinez, Keith Bennett, Arnold August, Syd Loving, Kyle Ferrana, Dee Knight, Che Marino, Lee Siu Hin, Roger Harris, Judith Bello
