China’s development in space technology has witnessed progress, and Zhurong is just one of many things right now following on from the success of the Chang’e programs on the Moon and the Tiangong space station under construction.
The International Forum on Poverty Governance and Development Towards Modernization is held in Nujiang, southwest China’s Yunnan province on May 18, 2021.
It is high time that we embrace a multilateral approach to create a united world capable of containing the pandemic and building strong firewalls to forestall similar health problems in future.
It is a common cause for humanity to combat climate change. The global efforts in this regard can be taken as a mirror for humans to reflect on what models are suitable for future global governance and how to build a community of a shared future for all humanity.
The global vaccination cooperation ultimately is not a competition for “dominance” or “politics,” nor is it about the profits of big companies. First and foremost it is about saving lives, and only if countries are prepared to work together and put their differences aside does the world stand a chance of returning to normality.
It will be interesting to see how much the micro-credential movement will disrupt and change the landscape of traditional tertiary education or be integrated with them and become part of a less linear, more flexible, cost effective and tailored form of lifelong learning better designed to meet the needs for constant re-skilling of the workforce for a Fourth Industrial Revolution and Information Age.
As the world’s largest developing country, and at a critical stage in its own development, China is committed to completing the world’s most dramatic reduction in carbon emissions and realizing carbon neutrality in the shortest time ever recorded.
The more we understand about space, the more we understand about our own planet. Subsequently, as we develop technologies aimed at solving the problems and challenges of space, this in turn contributes to innovation and development on Earth too.
China’s immediate goals have always concerned advocating a “peaceful rise” aimed at securing its own prosperity and development, and subsequently is now lending that opportunity to other countries too as a multilateral initiative.
China’s digitization drive aims to build a digital culture and should not be seen in isolation. It is part of a holistic and gigantic effort to achieve the second centenary goal of building a modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced and harmonious by 2049.
This is thus not a politics of “blame” or “shaming” but it is an invitation to work together as an international community on a set of common goals and standards.
Beijing has pulled itself out of a COVID-19 global slump with immense efficiency and has done so without having to pump trillions in stimulus into the economy in the way the EU, the U.K. and the U.S. have done.
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