Viewing China’s external relations from Shenzhen’s experience

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Viewing China’s external relations from Shenzhen’s experience

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The development process of Shenzhen, an open city in south China’s Guangdong province, in the past three decades displays the innovative spirit of the Chinese nation, represents a great strategic choice, and has helped to bring historic changes to China’s ties with the outside world.

The three-decade development of Shenzhen city is of vital importance in getting to know China’s policy of opening to the outside world and relations with other countries the world over. Without acquiring an adequate understanding of the city’s strategic choice, it is hard to accurately grasp the future trend of China’s external relations.

Late senior leader Deng Xiaoping, who was the architect of China’s reform and opening up program, once said in Shenzhen and Shanghai, southern China, that the world had given China few opportunities but“history again offers us a real opportunity”this time. If we fail to seize this opportunity, we would unfair to our descendants and disappoint or let down our country.

The opportunity he referred to means precisely the strategic opportunity we have been talking about continuously. Shenzhen was designated as one of China’s special economic zones some 30 years ago. When the international environment offered China a rare, unprecedented opportunity for development, Chinese leaders then took firm hold of it and made the first significant step forward in the reform and opening-up endeavor.

According to Deng’s tentative idea, China’s per-capital gross national product (GNP) will reach the level of the medium-developed countries by 2050, at which point, the Chinese people will be fairly well-off and modernization will be basically realized. To attain this goal, we must make great efforts to serve the central task of economic construction while persevering in the reform and opening up at the same time, and all this needs a relatively stable opportune time.

To date, there are only 40 years to go before 2050. How we would deal with China’s relations with the world, how we would participate or get involved in the settlement of major global “hot spots” and other major issues, and all this is related closely to the issue of whether we are able to have inseparable ties with this rare strategic opportunity.

The establishment of economic zones is designed to seize the rare opportunity and conduct reform and opening-up in a voluntary manner. Deng Xiaoping’s remarks during his tour of southern China in 1992 not only seized the opportunity but also advanced the reform and opening-up and create the opportunity while some others were making an attempted encirclement or looking on from behind with cold eyesight.

Along with the growth of China’s national strength, quite a few figures overseas felt more worried for China and some were even held in fear or despair. Moreover, some people even thought of how to contain or encircle China and add trouble to it for fear that its development will negatively affect their hegemony status. This kind of global environment, however, does not matter much nowadays as compared to the situation during the cold war era.

What we really need in our assiduous study today is to learn how to balance or counter hegemony, to break the hostile containment and to shun the brunt through the use of tactical adjustment, so as to lengthen our strategic opportunity duration.

With regard to the attempts to dash the“red line”or our "core" national interests, we must give out warnings and this is a must for the maintenance of China’s status and national security and stability, but the ways and means of response should be rational, to our advantages and be restrained, and on no account should we be swayed by whimsical feelings.

China today is no longer the nation of yesterday that had been contained or encircled easily. China has opened up and moved toward the outside world; its new outbound journey and the process of influencing the world is the process for the nation to portray the duration of its strategic opportunity. In order to shun the brunt and find out the right way to dissolve contradictions, we need all the more a flexible diplomacy and need public opinions to acquire a definite and clear-cut understanding of China’s national objective.

By People’s Daily Online and its author is PD desk editor Ding Gang

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