Second, China is fortunate to have completed the construction of a modern nation-state. Although nationalism has been badly hacked, it is impossible to build a country into a destiny without nationalism. The construction of China's modern nation-state is firstly due to its strong cultural and political traditions, but the final decisive battle comes from the Korean War. This war established the legitimacy of the Republic, constituted the source of national cohesion, and also established the confidence of the country's rise. It is extremely rare that a multi-ethnic country in the world can successfully build a modern nation-state. A typical failure is Brazil, which is still a divided country. Another strange and partially successful country is India, which still has 15 official languages. Such a society can't have enough cohesion, can't fully mobilize and go all out to do one thing. However, India's partial success is due to its arch-enemy China, but it is not completely successful, because it has never had a chance to win its arch-enemy China. However, they have missed the best opportunity to build a common destiny at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Up to now, domestic contradictions have been fully accumulated and have been divided for too long, which is difficult to bridge.
Third, the Soviet Union's assistance to China in the early days of the People's Republic of China. Because of its role in the Korean War and its position in the international capitalist movement, China won the full support of a superpower. This later became the basis of China's industrialization. Now it is difficult for people to understand that China's industrial technology level in the 1960s and 1970s was beyond the reach of more than 80% countries in the world.
Fourth, institutional advantages. China's current system has been formed through repeated reforms.
1, the executive power at the administrative level is super strong and recognized by the world. Although there are situations in China where there are policies and countermeasures, that's something you haven't seen abroad. Russia has a joke; China Railway was corrupt, and as a result, the railway was built in Lhasa. Russian railways are ten times more corrupt than China. As a result, the railway from St. Petersburg to Moscow has not been built.
2. The communication of opinions at the decision-making level and the balance of interests in all aspects are fully done, and there is basically no serious social division caused by a certain policy. This is in stark contrast to the current populist trend in the West. This is a very ridiculous situation, because in the views of western political philosophers (from Aristotle to Montesquieu), it is agreed that "one person, one vote" is oligarchy and is anti-democratic in nature. It's better to draw lots to guess than to vote. The real essence of democracy is consensus, which is what China is doing now. In other words, from the perspective of western classical political science, China is a democratic country, but the United States is not. In the west, "one person, one vote" has become synonymous with democracy, which was only established during World War II and really realized in the late 1960s.
3. China is actually an elite bureaucratic governance system, and the mechanism of talent selection, training and power replacement is relatively mature. In China's bureaucratic system, people with mediocre abilities are very few. National leaders are tempered politicians, at least they have nothing to say about their abilities. There will never be a situation in which you become a president after doing business for several years. Although people often scold the China government on the Internet, there is no such card game in the world: one person loses all the chips, and the other person wins all the chips and loses all the chips. China finally stood out with so little capital in such a sinister environment, which only shows that China is actually correct in most decisions and a winner in most games. As for always winning, which country is actually losing the game? Might as well look at Japan!
4. Many people don't notice the balance of power in China's political system. Legally speaking, China's president is actually a ceremonial head of state, and president's order needs the approval of the National People's Congress. The real power in law is the Prime Minister, and the the State Council Order only needs the signature of the Prime Minister. The present dual-headed system is actually the result of checks and balances. The president checks and balances the heads of state and government as the leader of the parliamentary group. China's political decision-making system is not centralized or so-called dictatorship, but decisions are made by several key committees. Such as the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC), the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, the State Council and the Central Military Commission. Even if disputes arise in the decision-making stage, they will be resolved through consultation before being sent to the implementation stage, and will not affect the smooth administration. Therefore, there will be no serious confrontation between the government and the parliament, and the government will not be split because of factional disputes. For example, in the United States, shutting down the government is excessive checks and balances, while in Japan, the reformist prime minister was abolished by conservatives, the conservative prime minister was abolished by reformists, and the fence-sitter prime minister was abolished by two factions. It's simply too poisonous.
Fifth, China has seized the opportunity of economic globalization. After World War II, in order to develop themselves, most developing countries chose the road of developing heavy industry first and promoting light industry with heavy industry. However, for capital and technology-intensive heavy industries, developing countries are not as competitive as developed countries in overall cost and must rely on state financial support. As a result, it has developed for decades and suffered serious losses. At this time, I was bewitched by western economists: your system is not working, and you want to privatize. As a result of privatization, the achievements of industrial development in previous decades naturally collapsed. Heavy industry collapsed, and light industry could not develop for a while, so we had to rely on selling resources. When the world economy fluctuates, bulk trade falls, the whole economy collapses, a large number of workers lose their jobs, social contradictions erupt and the country falls into crisis. Since 1980s, China has been vigorously developing light industry with strong competitive advantages, but it has not given up heavy industry and high-tech industry. Results Compared with developed countries, China has the advantage of low labor cost. Compared with developing countries, it has the advantages of complete industrial chain and high labor productivity. So China's light industry swept the world in a short time, not only completed the accumulation of capital, the cultivation of market and the development of technology, but also the rapid development of heavy industry and high-tech industry. Many people think that China only earns a few dollars by selling a shirt, or tens of dollars by selling an Iphone, so how can China earn trillions? By selling 1 trillion shirts or 1000 billion iphone? Of course not. China's export products occupy a huge share in all industrial categories in the world.
Although the conditions for China to join the WTO are extremely harsh, there is no doubt that China is the biggest winner of this round of globalization, and to some extent, it is also the only winner. The rise of China blocked the rising channel of other countries. In the era of Industry 4.0, China is in the forefront, because China has talents, money and needs. And this revolution is likely to completely block the industrialization road of all countries in the world that have not yet completed industrialization.