-Over the past century, CPC has transformed the once shattered and impoverished country into the world’s 2nd-largest economy
-The CPC has led China to achieve miracles of rapid economic growth
BEIJING: At an altitude of 3,300 meters, Sonam Tsering offered a hada, a traditional Tibetan silk scarf that symbolizes purity and auspiciousness, to a guest who had come from afar — Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.
The Tibetan herdsman, whose family previously struggled to make ends meet in a mountainous rural village in northwest China’s Qinghai Province, now owns 80 sheep and 20 cattle thanks to poverty-alleviation subsidies and loans from the government.
Sonam Tsering, who had bid farewell to his former home, a dilapidated adobe structure surrounded by uneven stone walls, welcomed Xi outside his new house that is equipped with a flush toilet and a driveway that leads up to the front door.
“Thanks to the Party’s favorable policies, the lives of us herders are getting better every day,” Sonam Tsering said. The visit of Xi came less than a month before the world’s largest Marxist party, which has seen its membership explode from 50-plus individuals to more than 91 million, celebrates its centennial.
Over the past century, the Party has transformed the once shattered and impoverished country into the world’s second-largest economy. The CPC has led China to achieve miracles of rapid economic growth and long-term social stability, which has had profound global implications.
Under the CPC’s leadership, the modernization goal that the Chinese people, such as Sonam Tsering, have been striving toward is no longer out of reach.
Western political theories fall short in explaining the CPC’s success. For a party that has remained committed to serving the people, the country’s 1.4 billion citizens are an inexhaustible source of strength. – Agencies
